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Vaughan gave hi hied brief grunts of recognition, then Vaughan wandered off and left me to introduce ave o I' to e area

"Are you a roadie, Tim?"

"I' on the band bus And also, callabout"

I laughed "You got a Tiny Tiotta use the full na about when you just say Ti Tim was 100 percent rock and roll, a classic Tattoos on one arlasses I was definitely with the band

Okay, maybe I wasn't with the band yet, but I ith so While I waited for ed his headphones back in and bobbed his head to the beat

When we got to his car, it didn't surprisein the back seat We drove into tohile the car's impressive sound system pounded us with music I had a million questions I wanted to ask, but it was hard to speak with the voluo by

In the silence between songs, I worked in a question "Are we going toTim turned down the volume "I'er"

"Right Jason Bartholo Tim shook his head "Not likely He hates this contest"

"He does? Then whose idea was it?"

"Beatsmind"

I understood co minds Like the people who chose me as the contest winner And the people who hated that I was the contest winner And perhaps even Big Tim Maybe they all were-I was about to find out

I started by asking about the band er's mind "Why does Mr Bartholoirl on the bus?"

"Hey, we get lots of girls on the bus But they usually only stay until they've gotten a piece of ass, then they're gone That's e don't think you'll survive a week We even got a pool going on you"