Cameron Crowe

She pulled out the Bookends album cover and showed us the pupils of Paul Simon and promised us that he was high on it.

And the funny thing is when the movie came out with that scene in it, I think it was on CNN, somebody was interviewing Paul Simon and they said, you know, what about this movie, Almost Famous, holding up the bookends album covers, you know, Francis McDormand saying they're on pot.

He's like, we were.

Absolutely.

So she saw clearly, and it was inevitable, I think, that music was going to come in, you know, underneath the door or through the window.

Somehow the power of rock was going to find my sister and me.

And it did.

To this day, that's our favorite language with each other, sharing music and the things that happen when music kind of takes over and transports you and gives you that feeling.

that you really can't get any other place.

Yeah.

Well, Bob Dylan, you know, we were pretty young and he was appearing at a gymnasium at the college near where we lived in Riverside, California.

And she had read something about this young protest singer that had something to say.

And so she came to us and said, let's go see this protest singer and brought a blanket for us to sit on the floor of the gymnasium.

And we did see Bob Dylan in 1964, like right after he had written Times They Are a Changing.

And he was kind of a Charlie Chaplin type figure, I remember.

Like he just kind of like was a little jaunty and these loose fitting jeans.

And he was funny and

and serious at the same time, and that affected us for sure.

But real rock,

was banned for the longest time because it was, as she said, a vehicle for sex and drugs.