1993 is when I bought my first GD album. American Beauty on tape from The Wall in Greenvale, Long Island. #shakedownstream

I came home from lacrosse camp where some kids had stealies on their helmets and asked my dad what a good Dead album was. He took me straight to the record store after dinner.

I tried marijuana soon after.

That was on a camping trip in Montauk with a friends family. There was a bonfire one night in the dunes. A girl in a tie dye offered me a beer and a joint.