One hot humid late August evening in 1979 I was sitting on the curb with my friend Jeff and our friend Roger was standing in front of us with a boombox and he said first let's smoke this joint of Hawaiian reefer and then I will play you a song. So we sat in silence on a curb in a nice quiet tree-lined residential suburban neighborhood in quiet in the hot humid summer night about 9 p.m. Roger lit the joint which was rather fat and long. I was about 16 years old gf was 15 and Roger was 17. As we smoke the joint and had a very strange sweet flavor to it and he kept saying Hawaiian Hawaiian Hawaiian and we started to get more and more high. By the time we made it three quarters through that joint we were so stoned that I don't remember if I had my eyes open or not. Jeff had the final bit of joint between his fingers and he forgot to take a hit and we all forgot to continue smoking that's how stoned we were. So we sat in silence for about 5 minutes unable to speak or move. The neighborhood was quiet as hell you could hear a pin drop from 200 feet away. There was not even the sound of crickets only the occasional flashing of fireflies or what we call in New Jersey lightning bugs. Suddenly 100 million miles in the distance I heard the faint sound of violins slowly slowly approaching a long single drawn out note quite similar two violins in unison the fade in of the sound seem to take an eternity and it went from barely audible over the course of one or two minutes to slightly detectable and it grabbed our ears like some kind of a religious epiphany although it was a single note of a violin or violence slowly coming from 100 million miles away little by little little by little slowly fading in a little bit louder a little bit louder and then after 15 or 20 seconds a little bit louder. What me and Jeff didn't realize was that Roger had hit the play button on his boombox and the very long extended fade in of shine on you crazy diamond had begun playing. It was absolutely mind-blowing I will never forget it it seems the violin introduction last in two or three or four minutes and our mouths were hanging open in stone Hawaiian amazement as the fading of the song got louder and louder in a crescendo and then when the first for guitar notes came in we felt we were before the altar of God and we were worshipping at the altar of God in complete stoned out Hawaiian bliss out of our minds. That song blew our minds through the universe and back.