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Worked in Manhattan, would take the bus get off on 34th street and walk past madison square garden.

It was 80 or 84 and they were having a presidential national convention at the garden. Made a big stink about keeping all the homeless out of midtown to make a good impression. I'm walking past a hotel across the street from the garden and I spot this scruffy looking guy in beat up jeans. I laugh to myself that they wanted to keep the homeless away and here's a guy right across the street.

Took another step and realized it was Willie Nelson. He'd song the national anthem at the convention the night before