Saw Joe a couple of weeks ago and he was fine, if in pain, if that makes sense.

Hey, Corwood, I'm not hallucinating that you're Austin-based, am I? I've got a crazy-brief last-minute trip down there for work Tuesday-Wednesday.

Excellent! Wanna grab a beer & some yummy Tex-Mex? Maybe meet Li'l Sphere, who wasn't even a gleam in my eye last time I saw you?

What band do you most regret not seeing before THEY were dead and what band do you most want to see live before YOU are dead?

I was about to write Pixies as (1) but since they're not dead anymore it's a tough one. Charles Mingus? The Jam? But no, I go with Cats Laughing.

(2) is either Flaming Lips or Thea Gilmore. I can't choose.

I wish I could've seen Marvin Gaye. And Tina Turner.(Although Tina is very much alive, she gave up touring and I've got no reason to think it was a Cher/Rolling Stones fakeout thing.) I've hardly seen anybody live, but am very glad I bought those B.B. King tickets. Bruce Springsteen, without having to rob a liquor store.

You ever seen Gimme Shelter, Erika? I never got Tina Turner until I saw that.

No, I haven't. Not all of it.

The Real Behind the Music: [link]

While battling a cold and killing the world's last dragon, Danzig built the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, and the Golden Gate Bridge. When he placed the bridge in San Francisco, he started the band the Misfits, which invented rock-and-roll. They were the biggest band in the history of the world for many years, until Danzig broke up the group in 1983. He then formed the band Samhain, which instantly became the world's second-biggest band ever. Again, Danzig got bored with what he was doing, and in his spare time he discovered the cure for cancer and the meaning of life, but kept them to himself because he liked seeing people suffer.

This article in today's Tribune poses a decent Friday Music thread question. What band do you most regret not seeing before THEY were dead and what band do you most want to see live before YOU are dead?

Number one would be seeing the New York Dolls at the Oscar Wilde Room of the Mercer Arts Center before it fell down.

There was a show listed in the Punk Rock Diary book that haunted me a bit. It was very early, like 1973 or 74 and was a set by the original Modern Lovers with Suicide and Jayne County.

Would've loved to have seen Pere Ubu at the Viking in Cleveland, when Peter Laughner was in the group. Really would have liked to see one of The Electric Eels legendarily combative shows there too.

Television when Richard Hell was still in the band.

That early punk tour through the midlands of Britian with the Sex Pistols, Damned, Clash and Buzzcocks all together.

When you go to the Fillmore the old posters there sport some incredible lineups: Moby Grape and Buffalo Springfield and The Byrds; Sly and the Family Stone and Tower of Power. Stuff like that. Moby Grape was an awesome force live, and Sly even more so.

One I passed on and kind of regret? Benefit for the rape victims that Novoselic put together: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, L7 (I think - maybe Babes in Toyland) at the Cow Palace. All your grunge needs in one place.

Tom Waits tour after Raindogs with Marc Ribot in the band.

The T.A.M.I. Show. The Big TNT Show.

Tom Waits tour after Raindogs with Marc Ribot in the band.

Ha! I saw this, and it was great.

He closed with a cover of "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag". And did a long solo segment at the piano (including "Tom Traubert's Blues").

He closed with a cover of "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag".

Tom was a big R&B fan growing up (in fact his first band was a soul cover group). He saw James Brown and the Famous Flames in '62, which is another show worth regretting missing.