{"id":787,"date":"2025-08-10T17:52:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/?p=787"},"modified":"2025-08-11T08:58:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T12:58:58","slug":"the-rocklopedia-fakebandica-podcast-spinal-taps-opening-act-the-folksmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"The Rocklopedia Fakebandica Podcast: Spinal Tap&#8217;s Opening Act: The Folksmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:85% auto\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Episode73-1.mov\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Just after inventing the fake band legend that is Spinal Tap, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer invented The Folksmen, a parody of early 1960s folk music groups. They first appeared on <em>Saturday Night Live <\/em>in 1984, and finally appeared in a feature length film in 2003, <em>A Mighty Wind.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/1NlY6PFy0V71h2dgCnlyxz\">Spotify<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/a-mighty-wind-kicks-off-our-countdown-to-spinal-tap-ii\/id1738865725?i=1000721450682\">Apple Podcasts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/rocklopedia\">Everything else<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just after inventing the fake band legend that is Spinal Tap, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer invented The Folksmen, a parody of early 1960s folk music groups. They first appeared on Saturday Night Live in 1984, and finally appeared in a feature length film in 2003, A Mighty Wind. On Spotify On Apple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paCRfe-cH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}