[para. 1]: "The following interview took place at Joanne Kyger and Donald Guravich's home in Bolinas, California, on May 4, 1997. I arrived with Michael Price, Duncan McNaughton and an ancient Radio Shack tape recorder. We sat in Joanne's backyard. It was one of those perfect, cloudless NoCal days. Somehow, through a kind of rambling conversation kicked off by my novitious questions, the following words cohered."