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In 1975, I was eighteen and I had a lot less common sense, and fewer inhibitions. Although Lisa and I had not yet met, we did live in the same college town.

Being a less than intelligent teen, and being in a rock band was not necessarily a good combination. One night we played a house party at a fairly secluded property in town. Even back then we did house concerts.

After we finished playing, most everyone including myself, were drunk and stoned. Someone had built a fire pit, and the remaining people sat around the fire, and then paired into couples and left. Except me. I was so drunk, stoned, and tired that I passed out by the fire. When I woke up, I was cold, alone, and it was drizzling rain and around 3 AM. The fire was embers, and the last people had abandoned me on the cold ground in the rain.

I stumbled in the dark to my beat up 1962 Ford Falcon, vomited on the ground, and climbed into the back seat where I passed out again. Waking up at dawn with a terrible hangover.

While not really embarrassing, this next story is very true. In the previous story, I mentioned that I lived in a small college town. However, the college was a state university, not a small private college. So they also had major rock concerts, attracting the big names of the time in 1975.

One of those big names was Rush, on their first major North American tour with Neil Peart. The roadies pulled Peart's drums from a truck, already set up on plywood, and four of them carried it up to the stage. There was a lot of people milling around, so no one noticed that I had climbed up on the stage and just hung out, staying unnoticed.

Then when it was time, Rush took the stage and started their set. I was on the side sitting on a box about ten feet from Geddy Lee. I had the best seat of the show. That is until a roadie finally noticed me, and told me to get off the stage, which I did. But for just a little while in 1975, I shared the stage with Rush.

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