Check it out — last Sunday, Michael Malice wrote:

If anyone else besides me has problems relaxing and dealing with downtime, may I suggest going to Youtube.com and searching (almost wrote “googling”) your favorite bands?

I was actually doing exactly that for the very first time, the night before. I had been to YouTube before, following some random link or other and then leaving. But this was the first time I ever actually searched their site for videos. And, since I live in Idaho now I guess it’s appropriate that I become a Tuber. I found a link to this live clip of King Crimson’s “Three of a Perfect Pair” and decided to see whether the site had any other Crimson on hand.

I found a bunch of stuff, including a couple of previously-hard-to-find 1981 performances on the TV show “Fridays,” a sketch-comedy knockoff of Saturday Night Live. First, Thela Hun Ginjeet.” Second, “Elephant Talk.” I already have an nth-generation videotape with these clips, but now I have nth-generation-videotape-quality digital clips, too! Also worth checking out, a clip of Adrian Belew playing guitar with Talking Heads in 1980. I’d love to see more live stuff from that period . . .