My brother was one of the first guys that made tons of money doing this, playing in these ski-joints.

He ran the ski valley on a total shoestring. If we had enough money from one year, we'd add something the next.

Here I was, this good guy that played football; I was gonna go play in college but I had a bad senior year. But I played guitar in assemblies whenever I could.

I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these parties out in the cotton fields and getting so drunk. I was the champion beer drinker; suddenly I was pouring it down my throat... Insane! Insane!

The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it.

We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent.