Cameron Crowe

It was like, watch out.

They all would fall for some of the guys and get their hearts broken, whatever.

But Penny Trumbull was one of the ones that really opened up to me and told me what it was like emotionally to follow a band.

And to crave that experience of being in an empty arena after you'd seen the show that meant so much to you, and you could still feel the spirits in the air of that empty arena.

That's my favorite scene in Almost Famous, when Kate Hudson is dancing in the garden of trash left behind by...

where Stillwater has played.

And that's what I was left with, not trying to protect them.

I think, you know, I've written about it, and you get the emotional carnage that can happen.

That's in Almost Famous.

But I always felt that Penny Trumbull was an open book and was a friend as well as kind of a, you know, flamboyant figure who was true to her word.

She loved music.

Thank you.

Really enjoyed this.

Well, first of all, hearing that clip, it's uncanny how much Frances McDormand is my mother.

I mean, the dialogue was straight out of our family and our home.

She died in 2019.

On September 11th.

Born on the 4th of July and passed away on September 11th, two days before Almost Famous, the musical, opened in San Diego.

So it was a dramatic exit from the earth, from my mom.

Thank you so much.