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How'd the Hopefuls Lose Hope?: A Revised Interview

I did an Q & A in November 2018 with Erica Rivera for (now-defunct)  City Pages  about  The Hopefuls: Chasing a Rock 'n' Roll Dream in the Minnesota Music Scene . This was a really cool thing that I pretty much completely fucked up. I made two rookie mistakes. One was not asking to see the questions – or at least asking what the focus of the interview was to be – beforehand. The other was not being more on my guard. Erica’s questions weren’t bad, they were just hyper-focused on a somewhat negative aspect of the story I told in the book, and I just wasn’t prepared for that. As a result, my original answers were too raw and under-thought. Here's what I should have said. (If you’d like to torture me by reading my original answers, here’s a link to the original article ).   City Pages:  They say they you should never meet your idols or your heroes. In researching the Hopefuls, did your opinion of them change? Paul V. Allen:  That’s always a danger of writing about som