Johnny the Candyman had arrived in San Francisco in the early spring of 1965. Even out in the wilds of Long Island, he heard that there was a Beat revival going on, led by the likes of Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady and Marty Balin. Johnny was an aspiring folksinger who read The Catcher in the Rye and On the Road in high school and became enthralled with the concepts of alienation, teenage angst, and rebellion. His father, a successful businessman, was never around much, and after Johnny found out about the mistresses his dad kept in two different cities, he shut his father out of his life.
His mother solved her anger issues with martinis and garden-club meetings and more martinis, so Johnny was on his own for most of his teen years. When President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, Johnny felt t
