Editing This Is Spinal Tap (section)

===Background===
Michael McKean and Christopher Guest met while in college in New York City in the late 1960s, and they played music together. They worked with Harry Shearer and Rob Reiner on a TV pilot in 1978 for a sketch comedy show called ''The TV Show'', which featured a parody rock band called Spinal Tap. During production of that sketch (while being burned with oil from an on-stage effect) McKean and Guest began to improvise, inventing characters that became David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel.<ref name="ReferenceA">From the Criterion Collection DVD Commentary</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://flavorwire.com/481555/christopher-guest-on-the-real-inspiration-behind-this-is-spinal-tap |title=Christopher Guest on the Real Inspiration Behind 'This Is Spinal Tap' |date=October 9, 2014|access-date=August 10, 2018|archive-date=August 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180810144511/http://flavorwire.com/481555/christopher-guest-on-the-real-inspiration-behind-this-is-spinal-tap|url-status=live}}</ref>

Guest had previously played guitar under the name "Nigel Tufnel" on Michael McKean and [[David Lander]]'s album ''[[Lenny and the Squigtones]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/467150 |title=This Is Spinal Tap |website=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=August 10, 2018|archive-date=August 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180810141806/http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/467150%7C0/This-Is-Spinal-Tap.html|url-status=live}}</ref>