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Berry, the stuff that he was doing, that's the pure — Bo Diddly — that's just the pure form of rock'n'roll. Completely cut down to the essence. And AC/DC's like that too, so I'll defend AC/DC to anybody as a great band. Of course, since they've had the new singer, they're not so good.

When you wound up in Austin, how long was it before you found yourself sucked into the scene?

The very first day I was in Austin I went walking down to the Continental Club, and it was about 9:30, I was the first person in the club, and it was a $3 cover to see the Butthole Surfers. I ended up meeting a lot of key people that are still friends of mine. Before that, though, I'd been doing my own publication. I should probably go down the history of my own writing. First was Sunbums, when I was eighteen to twenty years old. Like I said, a concert promoter owned it, and I worked as his right hand man at concerts that I wasn't reviewing. I had to pick up Rod Stewart at the airport and that was real exciting to me. All of a sudden, I was going from being a big fan to hanging out with Loggins and Messina and Paul McCartney and I actually smoked a joint with Paul McCartney when I was eighteen and . . . Peter Frampton . . . these guys would come to Hawaii a lot and they would play and then they would hang out, and it was sort of my job to take their luggage from the airport to the hotel and all sorts of other things. After Sunbums, I started to do my own publications. The first one was called Honolulu Babylon. It was like an underground fanzine. It was totally grotesque. The first issue we put out, all the gays loved it. I used to hang around with the real gay segment of Honolulu because that was where the rock'n'roll was. In Hawaii, in order to stay open until 4 am, you had to have a band play at least past midnight. One minute past midnight. So all the gay clubs had to have bands play. And so that was where the rock'n'roll scene was, it was around these gay bars. So I started putting out this publication on the rock'n'roll scene, it was really, it makes what I'm doing now seem like greeting cards. It was totally grotesque and it attacked everybody, you know, "The Ten Biggest Dildos in Town" kind of thing, and the gay crowd loved it, just loved it. All my advertisers were gay bars. This was when punk rock was happening, so then we decided, "Well, we don't want anybody to like us." So our next issue, it had a lot of gay humor, like we had "Events in the Gay Olympics," that kind of stuff, just every stereotype about putting stuff up your butt. And they loved it even more! It was just a huge success with