we were cranking up the jimi hendrix and pink floyd and there may or may not have been slow in the room. i'm not at liberty to say, but we certainly were having a good time and huggie would be latched in some sort of feedback rivalry and shelby would knock on the door and say huggie, turn that racket down. i'm working on mathematics and we were like right, sure. of course he was working on mathematics and he was working on this amazing 6,000 page trilogy which took years for me to understand and absorbent commesso coming back to memphis, then this is just this extraordinary city perched on the racial fault line the capitol of the mississippi delta, the capitol of rock-and-roll and blues and of course beals street is there, of course all this, you've got to start there, but it's also one of the very few cities of any size in america that is named after african capital with all of this heavy egyptian mythology around it, so it seems as i grew up and began to think about the king assassination a seemed almost scripted by fate that he would be killed there. this is a man who traveled nonsto