Cameron Crowe

But then, you know, somebody like Chris Christopherson...

deigns to give me an interview and tries to sneak me into a bar where I'm underage.

And then when we get caught, he says, well, I'll sit out here in this big red leatherette chair and I'll do my interview with you as fans and people stream by.

He treated me like an adult.

and talk to me about the power of movies and music and all this stuff that ended up speaking to me so strongly later.

But as a young guy, you're kind of in this position where, you know, this person is allowing me to ask them whatever I want to about music that I love.

It was a blissful time, and I still love writing about it.

I'm just laughing because so much of it was just where I lived.

We lived in San Diego, and San Diego is not a primary market.

San Diego usually happens at the end of a tour after a band or an artist has been in, you know, San Francisco, L.A., New York.

Big reviews they had to worry about.

San Diego, it's like, it's surfers, you know, so...

They would just be partying early for the end of their tour a lot of times.

And so here's a kid that comes to the door with a notebook full of questions based on the music that nobody was really asking them about in the hands of an older journalist.

Here's some guy with an orange bag full of cassettes, like, ready to talk to you about your album Aqualung.

You know, they're like, get that kid in here.

Come on, we're bored.

Let him ask us those questions.

And so many of the bands...

were just nice to me because they were bored in San Diego.