It was the summer of 1985 and David Lefkowitz, then a student at Duke University had come to the Bay Area for an internship in a lab at UCSF.
His senior year would start in the fall, but – as a pre-med student – he knew he had many more years of schooling to go. His goal was to follow in the footsteps of his Nobel Prize-winning father – Dr. Robert Lefkowitz – and get his MD.
But Lefkowitz – already a major music-head — would use that summer to get immersed in the Bay Area concert scene. One particular Saturday, he had to make a choice that would help define the career he’d eventually pursue…