"Chicken" John Rinaldi is a showman, musician, mechanic, one-time mayoral candidate, and author living in San Francisco, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

. He is involved with the San Francisco Arts community, as well as the Burning Man

Burning Man

Burning Man is a week-long annual event held in the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada, in the United States. The event starts on the Monday before the American Labor Day holiday, and ends on the holiday itself. It takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy on Saturday evening...

 community, and was proprietor of the influential and now-closed Odeon Bar.
Rinaldi has played on several punk rock

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 albums, which include 7 albums for the band Letch Patrol and 1 for Joe Christ & Bigger Than God.