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October 23rd, 2009 in Comedy, In Tribute by lpcoverlover | 4 Comments

The Rutles “A Hard Day’s Rut”  Parlourphone Records  A Rutles bootleg (if a parody band can have such a thing)  Originally created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes as a fictional band to be featured as part of various 1970s television programming, the group evolved into a real band that recorded and toured, debuted in the States on a couple of Saturday Night Live programs in 1975 and 1976 and was the subject of a mockumentary film “All You Need is Cash”.  The band included “Nasty” (Innes); “Stig” (Rikki Fataar); “Dirk” (Idle); and “Barry” (John Halsey).

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4 Comments

1. #1 Eric says:
   October 23rd, 2009 at 3:15 pm

   My wife and I listened to the Rutles soundtrack LP about a week ago. Brilliant.

2. #2 Ethan Tucker says:
   October 23rd, 2009 at 5:00 pm

   A fun cover.

   BTW, Stig was played in the film version (from which this cover is derived) by South African performer Rikki Fataar. He’s featured in the second row of photos above.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikki_Fataar

3. #3 lpcoverlover says:
   October 24th, 2009 at 6:08 am

   Thanks Ethan!

4. #4 Brian Phillips says:
   October 24th, 2009 at 10:07 am

   Also, “Nasty” is Ron Nasty. I believe they first appeared on the “Rutland Weekend Television” series.