and then kerouac sat on the couch, we would get a big, tall budweiser.thing, you know? i really felt like the torch had been passed from those guys to the psychedelic generation. >> kesey was very messianic, and he started feeling that acid would allow you to see a larger truth. and he thought he wanted to get as 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 kesey held these acid tests, as they were known, california is born because more and more people want to try to experience what kesey experienced, and he kind of became the grand poobah of the carnival in san francisco in the 1960s. >> there's nothing a grown-up or sophisticated in taking an lsd trip at all. they're just being complete fools. i'm a s