Mystery Man

"I'd never want any of my songs to inspire someone to hurt or kill anyone," he says. "I'd rather hang it up and not even be a singer if I knew that something like that caused the death of someone. But I know that a lot of younger people are exposed to a lot of violence in contemporary music. It's kind of weird to be liked for that kind of thing. But after all I've been through, it's just nice to be liked at all."

Ralph Gean. 10 p.m. Monday, September 16, Lion's Lair, 2022 East Colfax, $2, 320-9200.