We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember AA saying
something like:

Reading Festival was for many years organised by a couple who rebuffed
the advances of Mr Vince Power`s Mean Fiddler organisation, Mean
Fiddler run many festivals now, including a large stake in
Glastonbury.
One year the couple announced they would again be running Reading
Festival, Mr Power also announced that he would be running that years
Reading Festival.
The couple argued that they had organised infrastructure, advertising
and booked the bands.
Mr Vince Power announced that he had taken on an exclusive lease to
the farmland that allowed access to the site.
Mean Fiddler still runs the Reading Festival.

Interesting.
This Vince Power sounds like a right ****.