But he couldnt replicate the botanical success with other flowers.
I tried a black carnation and it just didnt work, he explains.
So I gave it up.
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Hes still bitter aboutThis Is Spinal Tap
The hatchet job?
Smalls says when the 1984 doc comes up.
He still seethes over one particular scene where Tap is shown to be unable to find the stage.
Ninety-nine-point-one-nine-nine percent of the time we found our way to the stage, he fumes.
Does he have any of those incidents in there?
Its just a matter of basic fairness.
Show us finding our way to the stage once because we did!
For Smalls, pitch in at a local elementary school.
Somebodys gotta collect the blocks, he says.
The kids do like to strew them about.
Im a relatively orderly person, so it was a natural thing for me to do.
And I left with none of the blocks on me, so I gave them back, literally.
He toyed with Christian rock
Tap dissolved and re-formed many times.
During one hiatus, Smalls joined Christian-rock band Lambsblood but went too far.
You know the fish symbol?
I got a tattoo of that when I joined.
That posed a problem when Tap reunited in 1992.
Im back in Tap with this bloody fish on my arm, Smalls recalls.
Thats as closed a door to Christian rock as you’re free to get.
