Michael Dubin

Well, there you go.

that movie to you not only great movie but fairly accurate very accurate um in this book i write about how uh amy madigan ed harris's wife says to me at a party when they're shooting the oliver stone movie uh they're going to take a six-year career and cram it into two hours it's going to be an impressionistic painting don't get too crazy i was already kind of

I'd say a third of it is fiction, but it's a beautiful sort of impressionistic painting.

Well, Robbie Krieger and I, he's the guitar player, are taking then legal psychedelics, but we're realizing it's kind of shattering on the nervous system, so maybe this meditation thing would be cool.

So we go to this Maharishi meditation class two years before the Beatles.

Thank you.

And Ray is there.

And he says, oh, I hear you're a drummer.

Come down and jam.

And then I go down to his garage without Robbie, and there's this guy lurking in the corner who's so shy, it's ridiculous.

And Ray says, this is the new lead singer.

I said, okay.

And he won't even look at us.

But then he hands me a crumpled piece of paper that says, day destroys the night, night divides the day, tried to run, tried to hide, break on through to the other side.

Oh, man.

I'm going to drum to that.

I used to say that L.A.

Woman, our last album, was the first punk album because we made it in our rehearsal studio cheap and just fucked the mistakes and the feeling.

And the next album, I think, was My Aim is True by Elvis Costello for about $10,000.

constant rain and thunder, and then occasional thunderclaps right after something we wanted, a solo or whatever.