[I had a little too much fun doing the interview for this feature — after spending a day and an evening with the Mindfunk guys, wandering around the Bay Area, hanging out, partying and tape recording our conversations along the way — and drinking Shawn Johnson's deadly whiskey and coke concoction — I was quite loaded. So much so that when we went out to a club that evening, I tried to set a barstool on fire. (It had something to do with being pissed off at the new, tacky decor of what used to be the I-Beam.) To thank me for my company at the end of the night, singer Pat Dubar handed me a couple of tabs of acid on the way home. (I actually hung onto them because I had too much work to do for a few days to waste time tripping. With me, deadlines always came before drugs.) Funny thing about Jason Everman — he had actually played in both Nirvana and Soundgarden, but was loathe to talk about it. The Seattle community was very tight and closed-mouthed, and you just didn't discuss such things, especially not with journalists — you were supposed to be above all that. So, being someone who not only understood reverse snobbery, but also practiced it myself, I never even brought up the topic. Later on, Jason left music and joined the Army's Special Forces. There's a photo of him in uniform on the Mind Over Four album Empty Hands. Spike Xavier thought it would be fun to just throw it on there with a bogus credit. I'll let you track it down.]