What was it like to visit the California state senate on a lobbying trip earlier this year?
BECK: The senators were sort of shocked at first to find out we weren’t these drug-addled degenerates, that we actually didn’t speak in monosyllabic sentences. It’s amusing to come face to face with government officials and change their perspective, to shatter the myth of the musician as this dissipated entertainment for all to behold. We are actually working people who have bills to pay like everyone else and all that nonsense. HOLLAND: That’s the only time that I’ve been involved in the whole group getting together. And we did all get together in a room and talk about the important parts of the issue, and we split up into a few different groups and basically walked around — it was like walking around a high school and meeting some of your teachers. It was amazing and surreal and very crazy but it was very exciting, too. I was in a room with Don Henley, Stevie Nicks, and John Fogerty, who’s one of my idols. It’s really interesting because artists typically have a lot of rivalry with
