The Trogg TapesThe legendary Troggs tapes, which are said to have inspired the argument between Nigel Tufnel and Michael St Hubbins at the Rainbow Trout Recording Studio in the movie Spinal Tap, can now be downloaded from here in all their original glory.

The Troggs are (and still are, despite their studio bickering) according to Wikipedia, are a British band whose most famous hit is that learner guitarist's standby 'Wild Thing'.

As the Penguin Encyclopaedia of Popular Music pointed out about the recording, it features "instrumental incompetence, mutual recrimination and much foul language".

Here's a typical bit...

Engineer: "Just play the beginning again."
ACOUSTIC GUITAR
Engineer: "Yeah!!"
ACOUSTIC GUITAR, then...
Engineer: "No! you had it there at the beginning Ron. It was sounding good! But just...Ron, Ronny, just listen for a sec..."
Presumably Ron, muffled through the microphone: "...all fuckin' night! I just cannot feel it any other way than the what I've been fuckin' doin' it!"
Engineer: "You have played it tonight."
Ron: "Well you'd be better fucking forget about it, cos' I ain't going to be able to do it tonight. I can tell you that fucking now. I cannot fucking do it."
Reg(?): "Well I'm going home. if that's the case then we should find out before we get to the fucking studio. We fucking wanna do that, that and that, 'cos..."
DOOR SLAMS.

and so on.
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