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WE CALLED HIM Dude With Headband. Later it was shortened and became Dude With, then Dude, then finally and for all time, Headband . His real name was Mick. In my vision of an adulthood filled with awesome vintage guitars and free of a soul-destroying job, he was the perfect role model. He was more than a decade older than I was--thirty-one, the summer I knew him best--and with his downward-curling Frank Zappa 'stäche and bulging biceps, he seemed even older. But like a junior-high truant, he spent his days lifting barbells, fingering Led Zeppelin riffs, and riding his Honda dirt bike in the woods outside town. He dropped acid with the casualness one pops M&M'S, cutting each tiny tab into ever-smaller pieces so he could trip five days straight. With money he'd saved up, he'd bought a small apartment building in town, where he lived in one unit and rented out the other three. The setup provided him with a modest income and a rent-and mortgage-free home. In not working, he told us, he had achieved his life's ambition. 2b1af7f3a8