Austin Confidential

there, and I went down there that night and met up with them and I just left my job. I never went back. It was basically one of those true Subgenius kind of tacks, you know, "Quit your job for Bob." I just new that I never wanted to work in the real world again, so I quit and I found myself without anything to do and I picked up the Sun the next Monday and I was looking through their, like, five classified ads and one of them said they they were looking for someone to come clean the office and I thought, "That's me!," so I presented myself to the editor and I said, "I'll clean the office and answer the phones," because I noticed there wasn't anybody doing that. And the editor was Jeff Nightbyrd and he hired me to do that and I immediately made myself an office by the music editor who was Bill Bentley who is now one of the vice presidents at Warner Brothers and [laughts] he hated me. So there was this little column in the paper called "Backstage" and it had only been run, like, three or four times before I started working there and one day I heard them say that they didn't have anything for the column and so I sort of sauntered into the editor's office and said, "By the way, um, I know Randy California from Spirit and they're playing at the Armadillo tonight, would you like an interview for 'Backstage'?" Well, I didn't just know Randy California. But the editor said sure, so I went and saw Randy again, spent the night with him at the Driskill and got an interview. And I took it back to them and they printed it and it was terrible! There was a great photo that went along with it, but the interview was hideous!

Pic insert of: Margaret Moser

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