:17:08
There was only one guy that ever
came out of there, and he was out of Fargo.
:17:12
And I'd actually gone there to play with him.
He had a regional hit called Suzie Baby.
:17:16
At that point,
I was just playing triplets on the piano.
:17:19
I didn't have my own piano,
so they weren't gonna buy a piano.
:17:24
But I did play some shows with them.
:17:27
Nothing much came of it.
:17:31
He would let people know
that he was maybe Bobby Vee.
:17:36
Bob told everyone including his, like,
cousins and relatives...
:17:39
that, you know, he was Bobby Vee.
:17:41
And I guess he liked that recognition
of being famous.
:17:45
'Cause people looked at him, and say:
:17:46
"Hey, that's a pretty good song
you got out, Bobby Vee".
:17:48
I was a musical expeditionary.
:17:51
I had no past, really, to speak of,
nothing to go back to, nobody to lean on.
:17:55
I came down to Minneapolis.
I didn't go to classes.
:18:00
I was enrolled...
:18:02
but I didn't go to classes.
:18:07
I just didn't feel like it.
:18:10
We were singing and playing all night.
Sleeping most of, you know, the morning.
:18:14
I didn't really have any time for studying.
:18:17
"Praised be man
:18:19
"He is existing in milk, and living in lilies
:18:23
"And his violin music
takes place in milk and creamy emptiness
:18:27
"Praised be the unfolded inside petal
flesh of tend'rest thought
:18:31
"Praised be delusion; the ripple
:18:34
"Praised be the Holy Ocean of Eternity
:18:37
"Praised be I, writing,
dead already, and dead again"
:18:42
I fell into that atmosphere
of everything Kerouac was saying...
:18:45
about the world being completely mad.
:18:48
And the only people for him
that were interesting...
:18:52
were the mad people, the mad ones,
the ones who were, you know, mad to live...
:18:58
and mad to talk, mad to be saved,
desirous of everything at the same time...