The Folksmen...from 1984!

As many of you may know, The Folksmen existed well before their appearance in A Mighty Wind. When Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer toured as Spinal Tap they would open the show as the Folksmen (and that had to have been quite a trip). This week a cool site called PCL LinkDump provided a video clip of the Folksmen on SNL...from November 3, 1984! And the wild thing is that a lot of the sketch is exacly what we'd come to know and love nineteen years later in A Mighty Wind! Blood on the Coal, Eat At Joes...even the look of the characters. Wow...I never knew!

UPDATE: It seems that NBC had this pulled. Rat bastards. :P

Too bad I didn't have a copy of the VideoDownloader add-on for Firefox when this was still up. :P