Here is some more information about the current Japanese tour - I have just put two audience recorded MP3 tracks (Funk Odyssey and Taking Me Higher) from the Budokan concert in Tokyo on Tuesday to the downloads page of this site. I have also put a short review of the concert on-line in the live section of the site.
Today in 1999, Canned Heat, the first single from Synkronized, had its first play on UK radio. It wasn't long after that the track was at number 1 in the airplay charts.