Cameron Crowe

When I listen to that, it takes me right back to when I first met him.

He said almost exactly those words.

And can you imagine being 15 or 16 and somebody enters your life who speaks that kind of truth with that kind of passion and treats you like an equal?

Yeah.

Well, let me give you the context.

His stance when I met him that day was, it's over.

You know, it's gone.

That passion, that thing, that flame that is true rock, true music, it's over.

They've taken it over.

So I was like a straggler to something that was like a flying saucer and had left to him.

So he's telling me it's over.

But here you are.

And just watch out because they'll try and corrupt you, too.

And I'm warning you right now because they already ruined rock.

It was like a lot of information.

But his thing about unmerciful was you've got to fight back.

You have to fight back in the homogenization of something that is important to you.

And that's why he used that strong word.

And he was sometimes not unmerciful.

Sometimes he was very kind.