This week’s SFist Memoirs takes us to the East Bay in the early 1990s, as contributor Rene Becker shares some coming-of-age stories from her time spent as a teenager throwing spaghetti at Blatz at the 924 Gilman, smoking weed on Telegraph Avenue, and most importantly, giving Mr. Bungle’s Mike Patton a piggy-back ride on stage. Rene moved to Albany from Sacramento at age twelve and lives in San Francisco now. Take it away, Rene!

Mr. Bungle:

We went to this Mr. Bungle concert at the Warfield in ‘92 or ‘93, and everyone we knew was there. I see these three girls stage-diving, and I was like, “They are stage-diving at a Mr. Bungle concert? I will not be one-upped!” I was taking it personally for some reason, and I was like, “I gotta do it. I gotta get on the stage.”

Somehow — I don’t know how, it feels like a dream — I got up on stage and was getting ready to jump. Then all of a sudden Mike Patton comes swinging at me while hanging on the curtains, lands on my shoulders, and I’m thinking, “This is not happening.” I was really embarrassed and super shocked.

He somehow gets off me, and I looked around and thought, “Alright, time to do what I came here to do.” I jumped off and was standing there afterwards, thinking, “Did that just really happen or did I dream it?”