This was ten years after Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer and Michael McKean were seen as the Heavy-Metal Band Spinal Tap but eleven years before the same three guys became The Folksmen in "A Mighty Wind.
Yet, here we find The Folksmen on the concert bill to open for Spinal Tap's Reunion concert at the Royal Albert Hall! (Note MTV dreamboat Martha Quinn!)
Backstage, we find them warming up by singing "Blood On The Coal" which is a folksong about a mining disaster and a train derailment.
I wonder if this was the first appearance of The Folksmen? "Blood On The Coal" would later appear on the soundtrack album for "A Mighty Wind."
It also makes me wonder about how long a typical gestation period is for the ideas these guys come up with.
Oh, well - I thought it was interesting.
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The Folksmen also performed on an episode of SNL from 1984. When I saw a rerun of the episode I had the same thought about how long they've been working on the act.
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