NPR:

His father told him he’d never amount to anything but a ditch digger, a remark he still carries with him years later. “I was sort of studying sex, drugs and rock and roll in high school,” says Steltzner. It wasn’t just the long hair. “I liked to wear this strange Air Force jump suit. And my first car was a ’69 Cadillac hearse. I put a bed in the back.”

Great story.