We learned two things from catching part 3 of VH1’s “Heavy: The Story of Metal” last night:

1) The Stonehenge set piece fiasco in “This Is Spinal Tap” actually happened, only in reverse, to Black Sabbath. The band describes the incident this way in the documentary:

Tony Iommi: Did Geezer tell about the one we had with Stonehenge? Oh man, that was probably the most over the top one we’ve had.

Geezer Butler: The management we had at the time had this great idea to have Stonehenge recreated on stage with the sun rising (laughs) behind Stonehenge while we were playing.

Iommi: Months later, the set turns up. It’s Stonehenge, which is quite honestly bigger than the real Stonehenge. It was massive. And we’re looking up at this thing going, “Bloody hell! What are we going to do with this? Where’s it going to fit?”

Butler: What happened was, the dimensions that the management company had given were in feet, and the manager, by the time he did it, was in meters. So the thing was like three times bigger (laughs). And then Spinal Tap came out who just happened to have the tiny Stonehenge.

It’s hard to believe we weren’t aware of this fact earlier considering “This Is Spinal Tap” is on our shortlist of all-time favorite films and Black Sabbath is on our shortlist of all-time favorite bands, but what a story!

2) Jani Lane from Warrant is pretty bummed on his legacy: “Everything about me is ‘Cherry Pie.’ I’m the ‘Cherry Pie’ guy. I could shoot myself in the fucking head for writing that song.”

Er, um, uh… See the clip:

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