[eb2]

It is shorter than it should be, but if this were any cooler, it would sh!t icecubes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ewpcZOhMVo

[Dave W]

That's the late David Martin, who cofounded the band with Sam.

[jules]

great clip - just goes to show you how a typical Thunderbird user has changed in 40 years.

Wouldn't you just love to play to that audience

[eb2]

I don't know that there is a typical Tbird user. Lots of metal guys I guess these days, but they don't play old Tbirds.

You have that guy - David Martin - and the Pharohs, and they are forever cool. Now you have maybe Nikki Sixx, who will always be uncool.

That audience looked a little strange though. I think that is from a movie, but I am not sure what.

[eb2]

Doh. It says it from When The Boys Meet The Girls. Can't say I have seen that on the shelf at Blockbuster.

[Dave W]

It was yet another dreary Connie Francis movie of the era. Sam & the Pharaohs and Herman's Hermits were the entertainment.

Not Gibson-related, but at about the 1-minute mark of this video, you can see a few seconds of Sam performing at this year's SXSW.

[eb2]

That is pretty cool that he is still out there. But he should always appear in a turban.

I should check out sxsw one of these years. I like Austin, and spent a long time in the mens room of the Driscoll hotel with a case of the grizzlin's.