
“Boppy Doodle.”
What now?
“The, uh, Scooby Babble. That band you like now.”
Mott The Hoople.
“Sure, okay. Punkers?”
No.
“Heavy mental?”
How have you not heard of Mott The Hoople? You’re in the same business as them.
“Well, no one opens for us, so we don’t get to meet a lot of the other groups on the road. And, uh, we don’t hang out at the Rainbow.”
You guys never did.
“Can you keep a secret?”
Sure.
“They wouldn’t let us in.”
The Rainbow wouldn’t let the Grateful Dead in?
“They said we were the wrong type of Rock Star. Lemmy gave us the finger.”
I’m sorry you had to go through that.
“It hurt a little bit. Phil really wanted to hang out with Harry Nilsson.”
Tough one.
“Right. So, yeah, we were in a bit of a bubble when it came to our peers in the music industry. Also, you know, a lot of people stayed the hell away from us.”
Because you used to drug strangers.
“Yeah. We did that a lot.”
I think Bobby is jealous.
Is there a Jerriel Bender joke in here somewhere?