The era of big spending is still with us, ... He promised everything to everybody.

Then Willie Nelson hits town and comes to see us at a double concert at Mother Earth... he sees all the music, and half the people got long hair and beards and the other half are all rednecks. Then they take him over to the Armadillo and it's the same way... The energy was just... I mean, I wish I wasn't so stoned back then and would have been able to take more advantage of the situation! Because anything could have happened!

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.