Character Mouse Look on Spine

I Have a Character that i want to apply the mouse look script to his spine to make him look up and down(bending over, leaning back) if i add an empty gameObject and place all cord,rotation to zero and place the spine inside i can achieve this but then the animation wont play above the spine with AddMixingTransform, How do i get the spine to act like the empty gameObject zeroed out retaining the animations yet allowing the mouse to look up and down. Do I rotate his spine some how with script? I have searched all over and cant seem to find what to do. I would much appreciate any help and advise on this please.

In case you have not resolved this issue, or for anyone else that has a similar problem to you (or me)

Although I made my model in 3DS max, I expect this to work similarly for you. I attached an adaptation of the mouselook script to the 2nd of my 3 spine segments (it seemed to work best for the way the back bending looked). I changed it to JS from c# but it is pretty easy to convert. My solution was base on the fact that the update needs to be changed to a Late one and also the angle of rotation needs to be on the Z axis because of the orientation of the spine:

	var sensitivityZ = 15F;

	var minimumZ = -60F;
	var maximumZ = 60F;

	var rotationZ = 0F;

	function LateUpdate ()
	{

			rotationZ += Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * sensitivityZ;
			rotationZ = Mathf.Clamp (rotationZ, minimumZ, maximumZ);
			
			transform.localEulerAngles = new Vector3(0, transform.localEulerAngles.y,rotationZ);
		
	}
	
	function Start ()
	{
		// Make the rigid body not change rotation
		if (rigidbody)
			rigidbody.freezeRotation = true;
	}

@me2000

To get the Z axis you need to edit Input.GetAxis (“Mouse Y” ); to Input.GetAxis(“Mouse X”);

unity .GetAxis runs off x & y not y & z, The link down below can help.