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Great show!  I was there 4 days after my 18th birthday, just a month before starting at the University of Oregon.  I had to beg my mother to let me go to Vortex under the guise of working in the Mt. Hood Ski Patrol medical tent for Dr. Cameron Bangs.  While I did work my shifts in the tent, the experience outside the tent was even more intense for a conservative kid from Milwaukie.  A couple weeks later, my best buddy and I took a van on a trip to San Francisco to expand on our experience at Vortex.   What a long strange ride it's been since then.

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