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When the punk band onstage is done, some of the kids remain, lounging on the gallery's American flag-striped couches. Johnson holds up an LP and mockingly points at it; it's Charles Manson's 1970 album Lie: The Love & Terror Cult. He puts the needle down, and within two minutes, all of the remaining kids shuffle out of the gallery. Then he changes the music.

"Works every time," Johnson says.

Photo by Jennie Warren

Richard Johnson

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