Reply #9: Found that email:

[abq e streeter]

Cool.
Did you know that Hicks was a friend of The Planets, during their last few years?
He was based out of Texas at the time and was still doing small clubs.
I recall him at a Planets gig in Lubbock....he got onstage and did his Mick Jagger imitation, while the band gimped their way through 'Satisfaction'. After the gig, Danny, Joe Don, Hicks and I went look for a party. He was a HARDCORE party favor guy. I tried my hardest to make Hicks laugh, but I just couldn't do it. He said he hated the fact that some people try to make comedians laugh.

A few months later, he put us all on a guest list to see him at a club in Austin.
He was very funny, but I just considered him a local yokel till I saw him on Letterman.