Captain Gas, From Ken Kesey to Steven Spielberg

1970, There was a time I was known as Captain Gas. The gas was Nitrous Oxide, and Ken Kesey turned me on for the first time sitting in the Hog Farm bus I lived on, parked in Joyce Mitchell’s driveway in Malibu.

My card in those days, handmade by Howard Cohen. The tiny bus peeking out on the right is the one I was living on

Ken came aboard pulling the big blue tank up the stairs into our old Greyhound, settling it in the seating pit at the front. Someone found a length of garden hose, someone…