Bill Kirchen is local to the DC area now, and he and his band, "Too Much Fun", play here a lot. He's great - a brilliant guitarist and nice guy to boot. He told a story on himself the last time I heard him - seems that he and Iggy Pop were in a band together in high school. When Iggy Pop came to play a club recently in DC, Bill took his teenage son to meet him -he said that it was the first time his kid was even vaguely impressed with his dad's musical career! Oh, well, a prophet gets no honour in his own country...

Commander Cody and Bill and Andy Stein (and maybe more of the old band) all performed together on Prairie Home Companion sometime in the past year.