Virtual Reality: Technology that creates the illusion that a user is participating in a simulated event. After losing each of their past drummers to odd accidents, Tap suggested to an interviewer in 1992 that a VR experiment could be set up that would allow individuals to play drums for the band without risk. Derek: "You wouldn’t really be Spinal Tap’s drummer. You’d virtually be Spinal Tap’s drummer. And that might fool the curse." (TP)