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>Did you know that when you went up to Seattle, you were about to become part of a "scene"?

>It was interesting, because you read about San Francisco bands--Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Big Brother--or the music coming out of Britain in the mid- to late 60's, like the Who, the Kinks, and Yardbirds, and it was like, "Wow, that was a scene! Tuesday at the Marquee. What that would've been like. I wish I'd have been there." I used to think about it all the time. But it was just something you read about. And then you live in Seattle, you've been up there for a year, and you see how people are responding to it. It felt like the real thing. I was a transplant, so I didn't see the beginning, but I was like, "This is incredible." It was really exciting. Of course, the next thing you know it just got terrifying. It really felt dangerous.

>Dangerous how?

>Like fucking life threatening. It sounds bizarre, I know. I can talk about it now. When I talked about it then...I look back and it seemed like, "Fuck that asshole, complaining about having one of the best jobs in the world." Bu things got...tricky. It felt like you were gonna lose your best friend or your best girl or yourself; like something had to give. I don't know, I can't explain. The speed at which it all happened, it was a lot to navigate. It did feel like a dangerous situation. And it may seem ridiculous to think of it in those terms, but then you look at Kurt and a few others, however people navigated this extreme version of reality, there was danger involved. It was serious.

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