this underground of america. when we got to new york city, which is the home of the beats, where kerouac lived, and picked him up, because we were in his presence, we were just acting as goofy as we could, playing music, putting on costumes, doing all kinds of acts and stuff like that. and then kerouac sat on the couch drinking a big, tall budweiser. you know? he was obviously not an enthusiastic guy. those beats, they had done their thing. you know? i really felt like the torch had been passed from those guys to the psychedelic generation. kesey, in many ways, was very messianic. and he started feeling that acid would allow you to see a larger truth. and they started saying, let s get as many people to try lsd as you can. and, so, we started renting halls. we called the thing the acid test. and the band, of course, was known as the warlocks. well, as time went on, they changed their name to the grateful dead.