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“We’re gonna salute a Jewish songwriter we were not expecting to be saluting this Hanukkah”: Yo La Tengo pay tribute to Spinal Tap creator Rob Reiner

Yo La Tengo on stage.

There have been many tributes to Rob Reiner from the great and the good over the last 48 hours. On Monday night, at their one of their annual Hanukkah shows in New York, indie stalwarts Yo La Tengo performed one that brought a smile to everyone’s face.

The band had just performed their cover of the Velvet Underground’s Heroin when guitarist Ira Kaplan addressed the audience at the Bowery Ballroom: “As if that wasn’t ragged enough, this will be the most ragged one of all,” he said.

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