Dear Readers, Do you have any fond, weird, horrifying, comic or other sorts of memories from Tropical Heatwave? We're putting together a compendium of anecdotes and remembrances for next week's issue. It's the 25th anniversary Heatwave, after all. If you'd like to weigh in, don't post here. Instead, e-mail eric.snider@weeklyplanet.com or call 813.739.4853. Also, we're looking for photographs from the event. They don't have to be professional, and they dont have to be of an artist on stage, although those are welcome too. Thanks. Hope to hear from some of you…

Eric Snider is the dean of Bay area music critics. He started in the early 1980s as one of the founding members of Music magazine, a free bi-monthly. He was the pop music critic for the then-St. Petersburg...