Unfortunately, I didn't have the energy to make it down to see my pal Matt's (aka Stinkbait, aka by co-conspirator in Holeworld) band open up for the Dandy Warhols at the Warfield on Saturday night, smack in the middle of Hardly Strictly weekend. A near miss. And then Datnoff (another friend from Hood River) passed through town the following week, but another near miss.

Backstage at the Warfield, Matt remembered my story about meeting King Crimson there (backstage is actually underneath the stage) and sends along this snapshot of Adrian Belew's signature. My old story goes: I was actually carrying on a conversation w/ Adrian Belew (I was guest of Tim, their lighting guy) when drummer Pat Mastelotto called out to me in excitement regarding my Bad Livers t-shirt. He told me how he had moved to Austin and wanted to join Mark Rubin's klezmer project, but was flat-out rejected. I can hear Rubin now: "NOPE, don't need a drummer!"

I asked Matt for a song for Boegerweb and he obliged... follow the link below for a remix of an Upsidedown song by a member of the Dandy Warhols, who Matt assures me is the best band in the world. Of course we know he's wrong -- Queens of the Stone Age are, hands down -- but otherwise he may be right. Go ahead and stream it or download it, stick it in your pod, listen and enjoy.