Gage

My boy Gage backing up Anthony Keidis whose getting hassled by some off duty cops... [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4coSDwn4rI&w=560&h=315] Gage was the first person I met in college (if you don't count orientation, in which case it would be Trey of Mr. Bungle). The taxi dropped me off at the Jolly Giant Commons parking lot, and I lugged my shit up probably 1000 stairs to where the Redwood/Sunset dorms were. Gage was sitting there, with long black hair, a leather jacket and a Ramones shirt, looking like one of the Ramones. He turned me onto a lot of good music over the years, The Stooges being one, and the best early reggae/ska/rocksteady compilation. We had a shit ton of good times over the years, until good times turned to really bad times, but he was an inspiration to turn myself around and know that there is life beyond the madness...