Unfortunately, later that year, the tapes of The End Times live session were destroyed when the ground below the recording studio cracked open, forming a chasm which swallowed the entire city. Waits was out of town at the time and so survived. He reportedly toyed with the idea of re-recording the Eschatological Weather Report for a single release but this was sadly made infeasable by the eventual destruction and rebirth of the planet in fire the following year, at which time recording studios, electricity, the tennor sax and in fact Tom Waits himself were lost forever.