Setlist from last night (11/12 August)

My old college pal Jerry selected the three Joe Jackson songs I played to commemmorate JJ's 60th birthday. The show also included a tribute block to the late Dick Wagner, as well as several other birthday tributes and a block honoring Clem Burke, because, well, he's Clem Burke.

"I Was a Kamikaze Pilot" - The Hoodoo Gurus
"In and Out of My Life in a Day" - The Pandoras
"Hard to Get Over a Heartbreak" - The Raspberries (for Eric Carmen's birthday)
"Me and You Against the World" - Joe Jackson

"90 Miles an Hour Down a Dead End Street" - The Empty Hearts
"Now Hear This" - The Split Squad
"Tonight and Every Night" - Chequered Past
"Dreaming" - Blondie

"Inside Doubt" - Bonnie Hayes with the Wild Combo
"Happy Loving Couples" - Joe Jackson
"Suspect Device" - Stiff Little Fingers
"Necessary Spinning" - Translator

"Big Apple Dreamin'" - Alice Cooper
"King of the Night Time World" - Kiss
"How Do You Think It Feels" - Lou Reed
"Billion Dollar Babies" - Alice Cooper

"Way of Love" - The Wipers
"Follow That Car" - MX-80 Sound
"Graveyard" - Public Image Ltd. (for Jah Wobble's birthday)
"Uncontrollable Urge" (live) - Devo (for Bob 1's birthday)

"Cath" - Death Cab for Cutie (for Ben Gibbard's birthday)
"Having an Average Weekend" - Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
"The Anti-Midas Touch" - The Wolfhounds
"I'm the Man" (live) - Joe Jackson

"Down to the Waterline" (live) - Dire Straits (for Mark Knopfler's birthday)
"Forget and Not Slow Down" - Relient K (for singer/guitarist Matt Thiessen's birthday)
"Whirlpool Vision of Shame"- Felt (for Lawrence Hayward's birthday)
"I Predict" - Sparks (for Ron Mael's birthday)

"2wice" - Mission of Burma
"The War" - Bob Mould
"The Factory Gates" - Kaiser Chiefs
"D.J." - David Bowie

Wow...particularly good set. I'd forgotten that Burke was in Chequered Past. I'm working on a short supergroup piece for Blurt that includes the Empty Hearts and the Split Squad - I'll have to bring CP up as well.

Bonnie Hayes! I discovered her fairly recently, mainly due to this site. Really talented. Whatever happened to her?

Well, Bonnie Raitt ended up recording two of her songs ("Love Letter" and "Have a Heart") on Nick of Time. The latter was quite a big hit, so hopefully Ms Hayes earned some good royalties from those songs, as well as her songs that Bette Midler, Robert Cray, Cher, David Crosby and others have recorded. According to her web site, she still teaches songwriting workshops in California.

I know she's related to Chris Hayes from Huey Lewis & the News - is Kevin Hayes (former drummer for Cray, co-writer of one of her Cray songs) another brother? I wonder if there's a Hayes family band.

"Everywhere That I'm Not" by Translator has been occasional bumper music on "Coast to Cast AM" (yes, I'll openly admit I still dig the show, even though their fill-in hosts are no Art Bell) for so long that I forget they do have other songs.