and then kerouac sat on the couch, we would get a big, tall budweiser.one their thing, you know? i are i really felt like the torch had been passed from those guys to the psychedelic generation. >> keasey was very messianic, and wathought he wanted to get many people to try lsd as they can. >> so we started renting halls. we called the thing the acid test. the band of course was known as the warlocks. as time went on, they changed their name to the grateful dead. ♪ st. stephen with a rose, in and out of the garden he goes ♪ ♪ country garden in the wind and the rain ♪ ♪ wherever he goes, the people all complain ♪ >> lsd was not an illegal drug. when keasey held these acid tests, as they were known, they'd have two vats. one was punch and one was punch with lsd. >> the acid tests were like a party. the scene is a lot of light shows and music and people dancing. when the dead were playing, it was a way to feel that acid in waves. and i looked down and i saw kids in front of me moving to the music. they looked up at me and i said, "yeah." ♪ >> the drug cultu

. >> which kerouac's book comes out, it became a revolution, defined what being beat means.ritual revolution, if everyone's trying to work for the corporation, you're losing a sense of sfl. >> i was traveling west at the junction of the state line of colorado, i saw in the clouds huge and above the golden desert of even fall, an image of god with forefinger pointed at me. go down across the ground, go moon, go grown, go grown along, go roll your bones along. [ applause ] >> jack became like a god father for the counter culture. >> the village has a life and language all its own. if you dig it, you're hip. if you don't, man you're square. coffeehouses, the neighborhood bars of bohemia, where the strongest potion is coffee. and the coffeehouse poet is the specialty of the house. >> to find a place where the eyes can rest. >> beatniks, they had these coffeehouses, they would go in and play chess and read poetry. and those same coffeehouses became a proving ground for folk singers. ♪ >> and all young kids were running out to buy guitars and ban joes. >> folk music gives me a lot

. >> jack kerouac never wanted to be a prophet. destroys people in america. >> to what extent do you believe that the beat generation is related to the hippies? >> well, they're just -- >> what do they have in common? was this an evolution from one to the other? >> they're just the older ones. i'm 46 years old. these kids are 18. the beat generation was a generation of beatitude and pleasure in life and tenderness. i believe in order and piety. >> here's the progenator of the counterculture kind of disowning his own babies and trying to make sense of a decade he didn't feel pairy to. >> a movement which i did not intend. this was pure, in my heart. >> all sorts of people have been writing various articles about the hippies, usually about the hippies as if they were animals, something to look at. thus, we've gotten hundreds and literally thousands of people coming up to haight-ashbury to watch people. it makes it an unpleasant place to be in. >> news got out about the haight-ashbury. it became overrun. >> we're now entering what is