Cameron Crowe

So that was her truth.

And that was another moment where the door swung open a little wider.

Yeah.

Really young.

Yeah.

Well, I thought they were, you know, seasoned adults at the time.

And you're right.

They were 22, for example.

Yeah.

And being 15, you know, the distance between 15 and 22 is enormous.

It's like a generation.

But really, we were all kind of young together.

And rock was young.

There wasn't video assists and all the bells and whistles and dancers and stuff.

It was really just a naked stage and people playing songs together.

The power of the songs was the power of the concert.

And what I thought as a young guy led into some of these dressing rooms to glimpse how bands prepared for a show or how they struggled to figure out, you know, who was right in an argument about how to play a song.

I started to see a dynamic that was so human that it was kind of beyond what I'd been able to see as a high school student, for example, when my mom had skipped me

two grades and later three.

I didn't have a lot of friends, but somehow... Because you were much younger than your fellow students, your classmates.