BluesDawg, refresh my memory...

I know you're a big fan, so maybe you don't remember it like I do, but in the early 80's, John Lee Hooker hadn't been "rediscovered". That Stones clip was from the 90's... I don't remember him making large appearances until the late 90's, and then he got really popular.

So in the early 80's, when he was in the Minneapolis basement, his career really was playing small venues in college towns, like you say.