They were super cool to me. I hung out with the three founding members of the band (John Hamilton, Steven Tyler and Joey Kramer) for an entire evening back in 1988. I was in graduate school and trying to get sober. I was in a strip club (not the best place to get sober) when they came in wit their driver. They were trying to get sober too. It was just them trying to not drink.

I was a lot younger and fearless and I went up to say hi. When it turned out they were in recovery too and trying to get sober, they invited me along for the evening. And off we went. Basically looking for a better strip club although as a broke-ass student I had no clue. We ended up in a diner late that night and that's where I got them to sign the back of the menu.