Five basses! Spinal Tap recruit Tal Wilkenfeld and Thundercat for bottom-heavy Jimmy Kimmel performance

JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" airs every weeknight at 11:35 p.m. ET and features a diverse lineup of guests that include celebrities, athletes, musical acts, comedians and human interest subjects, along with comedy bits and a house band. The guests for Monday, September 8 included Spinal Tap (Nigel Tufnel aka Christopher Guest, David St. Hubbins aka Michael McKean and Derek Smalls aka Harry Shearer) and Marty DiBergi (aka Rob Reiner) ("Spinal Tap II: The End Continues"), and musical guest Spinal Tap. (Disney/Randy Holmes) SPINAL TAP  (Photo by Randy Holmes/Disney via Getty Images).

Spinal Tap celebrated their return with a performance on Jimmy Kimmel’s show on Monday night (8 September 8) and it featured not one but five basses. What did they play? Well, could it be anything else but Big Bottom?

All three core members – Nigel Tufnel, David St Hubbins and Derek Smalls – played bass, alongside guests Tal Wilkenfeld and Thundercat. And what a fine array of models were on display – Tufnel plays a Music Man Bongo 4, St Hubbins is on an Epiphone Jack Casady signature model, Smalls is playing a Schecter Stiletto and Wilkenfeld has a Fender Precision.