“I was never in combat. But I did jump out of planes.” He [Brand] was a “weekend hippie and weekday soldier. A girlfriend had some friends in North Beach in San Francisco, which is where the Beats were. I saw the Bohemian lifestyle and couldn’t imagine living any other way.” I ask which aspects appealed to him. “Dancing that did not involve the foxtrot. Good conversation. Lots of creativity. Interesting women. The realisation that one could live very, very well on not much money.”
