See Tom Taylor's account of his life and times published late last year in Far Out magazine. Owsley declined. The police were looking for methamphetamine but found only LSD, which was not illegal at the time. These analog reel-to-reel recordings are nearing the end of their expected shelf lives and will deteriorate and be lost forever if they are not preserved. Stanley was the first known private individual to manufacture mass quantities of LSD. Shining an LED light on them, he sprays each one with Detsol, a liquid disinfectant much like Lysol that is highly toxic to them, throws each one into a bucket, and then dumps their corpses into the woods the next day. Lenny Hart and Owsley, who had never trusted preachers anyway, got on like oil and water. [31], Notwithstanding his tour activities, Stanley made his first public appearance in decades at the Australian ethnobotanical conference Entheogenesis Australis in 2009, giving three talks during his time in Melbourne. [6], He died in a car accident in Australia (where he had taken citizenship in 1996) on March 12, 2011. It turned out that it wasnt., The senior arresting officer, aware of Owsleys status, noted that the bust would probably cause panic in the streets because to a lot of hippies, their idol has fallen. He added that Owsley was actually a psychedelic missionary who gives the impression that he feels the average person can never actually know himself without turning on with LSD., As Owsleys case dragged through the courts for the next two years, he stopped making acid and worked as the sound man at the Carousel Ballroom for three months before it was bought by Bill Graham and renamed the Fillmore West. I could leave it for up to thirty days in the bus station and I would go to it wherever it was, take out whatever I needed, take it back in, and send it to myself in the next city. . 3.83. I thought I was going to die, and I said, Fuck it. And that was good., Running out a side door during his freakout, Owsley leaped into his car, gunned the engine and promptly ran into a ditch. The photo to the right shows the source of the design of the bear motif on Bear's Choice. Served 2 years in prison at one point in his early life. This article appeared in the July 12-27, 2007 issue of Rolling Stone. They contain lovely subtleties that dont normally happen Paddy Moloney, August 2021, after listening to Bears tapes. And we are tiny reflections of the mind that is creating the universe. These performances have not been heard since the nights they were played more than 40 years ago ! [10][11] Despite his dearth of formal education, he secured a position as a test engineer with Rocketdyne in Los Angeles; in this capacity, he worked on the SM-64 Navaho supersonic cruise missile. There diet derived 75-80% of all calories from fat. Augustus Owsley Stanley III was the LSD chemist and audio maestro who not only created the Grateful Dead's "Wall of Sound" and inspired the band's dancing bear iconography, but also created the . We were officially granted 501 (c) (3) nonprofit status by the IRS in December 2012. Augustus Owsley Stanley III, 32, whose grandfather was a Kentucky governor, congressman and U.S. senator, was arrested by agents of the Federal Bureau of Drug Abuse Thursday in a raid on a fashionable two-story home in this residential community 40 miles east of San Francisco. As part of the work of the Owsley Stanley Foundation, some of the concert recordings have been released as albums: Legal trouble and continued involvement with the Grateful Dead. The alchemist Owsley "Bear" Stanley, who transformed not only the Dead's sound, but American consciousness. 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Years later, Lesh would write that Garcia once told him, Theres nothing wrong with Bear that a few billion less brain cells wouldnt cure., The bands impatience with how long it took Owsley to set up its equipment and then take it back down again soon led to a parting of the ways. Owsley Stanley (a.k.a. He was convinced that human beings were natural carnivores, not meant to eat vegetables or fiber. Owsley Stanley, a.k.a. Owsley Stanley, also known as Bear, was a key figure in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1960s and played a pivotal role in the counterculture of the 19. Born Augustus Owsley Stanley III in Kentucky on Jan. 19, 1935, he was the grandson of a Kentucky governor and son of a naval commander. Im interested in the work Ive done and the things Ive discovered and in some of my philosophical stuff, because I think its of value, but Im not into being a celebrity, because I think celebrityhood has no value to anyone, least of all to the celebrity. When you find a new live Tim Buckley recording, it's like finding a whole new Tim Buckley! His nickname, Bear, reputedly was inspired by the profuse . And the band had a bunch of macho cowboys as a crew who were snorting blow and drinking a whole lot of beer, and Bear was offended by their language and by their beer., After being thrown across the room by one of the roadies during an argument, Owsley asked the band to give him the power to hire and fire the crew so they would know they were working for him. [30], In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Stanley briefly served as the live mixing engineer for Robert Hunter and Jefferson Starship. I loved it.. The Denver Post (CO.) Press & Sun . [32], Stanley believed a "thermal cataclysm" related to climate change would soon render the Northern Hemisphere largely uninhabitable, and moved to Australia in 1982. Together, they devised the Steal Your Face logo (a.k.a. The "Save The Music!" Despite maintaining a 3.4 grade point average with minimal effort, he dropped out because of his disinclination for slide rules and mechanical drawing. We were officially granted 501(c)(3) nonprofit status by the IRS in December 2012. By this time, Sandoz LSD sold under the trade-name Delysid was hard to come by, as Sandoz halted LSD production in August 1965 after growing governmental protests at its proliferation among the general populace, which meant that "Owsley Acid" had become the new standard. Two nights later, the junkies returned only to discover that Owsley had fortified the place, hired some people and armed ourselves to the teeth. A running gun battle ensued, with one of the junkies taking a bullet through his arm. Much like his theory that human beings are meant to eat only meat, Owsleys concept of climate change is at odds with most current scientific thought on global warming. His friends just knew him as The Bear. pate88. N o one did more to alter the consciousness of the generation that came of age in the 1960s than Augustus Owsley Stanley (who passed away March 13 . [1] The lightning bolt design came to him after seeing a similar design on a roadside advertisement: "One day in the rain, I looked out the side and saw a sign along the freeway which was a circle with a white bar across it. Come take a magical trip with us and find out! I said to him, You guys are fucking around with something that people have known about forever. One of my friends who was a folkie brought it in and said, Man, you gotta listen to this! And I was off and running. Bcc: this option will retain the list of addresses on the server, placing only one address per copy as it sends to each name on the list. An Amazon Best Book of November 2016: Most people with passing knowledge of San Francisco and the 60s are familiar with the main players: the Grateful Dead, Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, the Hells Angels, et al, but how many know of August Owsley Stanley III, aka Owsley, aka Bear? A legend recording a legend T. Michael Coleman, Bass. You can donate via our secure form, or send checks made out to the Owsley Stanley Foundation to: Owsley Stanley Foundation PO Box 625 Occidental, Ca 95465. Augustus Owsley Stanley III (January 19, 1935 - March 12, 2011) was an American audio engineer and clandestine chemist. How many people can say that? Owsley also credits his all-meat diet for keeping him alive. 8 Copy quote. (Blind Carbon Copy). Together, they dwell in a complex of sheds, caravans, large canvas tents, modified shipping containers and corrugated-iron structures designed and built by Owsley. Owsley Stanley (born Augustus Owsley Stanley III, January 19, 1935 - March 12, 2011) also known as Bear, was a key figure in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1960s, and played a pivotal role in the counterculture of the 1960's.As a crafts-person, Under the professional name of "Bear", he worked with the psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead's international fan "family". Throughout the summer of 1965, in a big house down in La Honda, about forty miles south of San Francisco, Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters hosted wild parties with guests that included Hunter S. Thompson, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg and various Hells Angels. Lansing State Journal (MI.) USA Today. Because he wanted to keep a sonic journal of his work, Owsley began plugging a suitcase-size Ampex 602 tape recorder into the sound board each night as the Dead played in 1966. Stanley was the Dead's audio engineer, longtime friend, and perhaps the most notable LSD chemist in the 1960s. His grandfather, also named Augustus Owsley Stanley, was a trust-busting Democratic congressman from Kentucky who spent twelve years in the House of Representatives. After sampling it, he changed his mind. Augustus Owsley Stanley III aka Bear was an American audio engineer and an underground drug maker. He was a key figure in the San Francisco Bay Area hippie movement during the 1960s and played a pivotal role in the decades counterculture. Ignoring the inquiry, Owsley roots through his bags for a large state-of-the-art conical burr grinder and a white funnel-shaped device to heat water so he can make coffee from beans he grew and roasted at home in Australia. And that alone gives him credibility for that scene., By the time lsd became illegal in California on October 6th, 1966, Owsley had become a mythic figure. Along with other recognition of your generous contribution, if the recording you select is viable for future release by OSF, you will receive a liner note credit. Taking acid soon became the watermark. That amount of protein equals about 14-20 oz of meat (lean portion) per day. 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Youre concentrating a lot of mental energy on one package. I was riding a magic stallion. Owsley Stanley, (Augustus Owsley Stanley III), "audio engineer and clandestine chemist", iconic figure of the counter-culture, "Acid King", "Bear"(as he was affectionately known), is our focus today. Even though Owsley had already put about $50,000 into the band and would no longer be working for them, he told the Dead to pick out new equipment and send him the bill. Technician for Grateful Dead and an LSD cook. To see Owsley in action now is to understand that forty years after the Summer of Love, the man has not really changed very much at all. The Idol: How HBOs Next Euphoria Became Twisted Torture Porn. The Owsley Foundation places full page ads in major newspapers that proclaim Christ's Second Coming. He had this stuff, and we thought it might be good, Owsley says. Augustus Owsley Stanley III, better known as "Bear," was the Grateful Dead's first live sound engineer, the group's benefactor in their early years, and arguably the most famous manufacturer and distributor of LSD the world has ever known. The Owsley Stanley Foundations Seventh release of Bears Sonic Journals: Merry-Go-Round at the Carousel features Tim Buckley at his jazzy, improvisational best, including the only known recordings of several Buckley originals and a stunning medley showcasing a version of Fred Neils, Merry-Go-Round.. Country * Photo Illustration by The New York Times; Photograph from San Francisco Chronicle, via . The 30-year-old Owsley took the 21-year-old Scully as his apprentice and they pursued their mutual interest in electronics and psychedelic synthesis. A high-school dropout of preternatural intelligence who was born from a Kentucky political dynasty and became the live sound-engineer for the Grateful Dead, his most notorious legacy is as the first Acid Millionaire. We want to hear it. OWSLEY STANLEY OBITUARY. On December 20th, 1967, the agents seized nearly 100 grams of crystalline LSD as well as a quantity of STP, a very powerful long-acting hallucinogen that caused many bad trips in the Haight. Long before global warming became an international hot-button issue, he delivered what writer David Gans described as a ninety-minute lecture on a thermal cataclysm that he said would begin with a six-week rainstorm and leave the entire Northern Hemisphere uninhabitable. Passing around Australian visa applications, Owsley then urged all those present to join him in the Southern Hemisphere. 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The 1970 Grateful Dead song "Truckin'" is based on the incident ("Busted, down on Bourbon Street / Set up, like a bowling pin / Knocked down, it gets to wearing thin / They just won't let you be"). Augustus Owsley Stanley III was born on Jan. 19, 1935, to a patrician Kentucky family. Frequently attributive, esp. I dont eat carbs. In April 1964, Owsley took LSD. The effort to preserve these historically vital recordings is estimated to cost between $300,000 $400,000. By doing so, he compiled a historic collection of live performances. Unable to swallow solid food since the cancer treatments, he laments that he can no longer enjoy dining out with friends. And if you believe, as I did, that the universe is a creation in the mind of a being that is creating time and space, then everything is mental. The Owsley Stanley Foundation is a 501c(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of Bears Sonic Journals, Owsleys archive of more than 1,300 live concert soundboard recordings from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, including recordings by Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Fleetwood Mac, Janis Joplin, and more than 80 other artists across nearly every musical idiom. He lived in a picturesque Berkeley cottage filled with high-end stereo equipment where he kept an owl to which he fed live mice. He must have had the most extraordinary liver., During this period, the Dead wrote Alice D. Millionaire, a play on words from a headline about Owsley in The San Francisco Chronicle that read, LSD Millionaire Arrested. In concert, the band regularly dedicated The Other One to him from the stage. ALWAYS enter lists of addressses (greater than 2) in the Bcc: line. The Wall of Sound fulfilled Owsley's desire for a distortion-free sound system that could also serve as its own monitoring system. Vandoliers Play Tennessee Concert in Dresses to Protest State's New Drag Bill He died in a car crash last week in . Under the professional name Bear, he was the soundman for the rock band the Grateful Dead, whom he met when Ken Kesey invited them . Owsley Stanley. But he also inspired another famed rock band, Steely . Augustus Owsley Stanley III (later nicknamed Bear) was born on Jan. 19, 1935. The Owsley Stanley Foundation is a 501c(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of "Bear's Sonic Journals," Owsley's archive of more than 1,300 live concert soundboard recordings from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, including recordings by Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Fleetwood Mac . Berkeley Troll House, where the 'psychedelic elite' partied, has sold for $1.4 million. Reach out if you have questions, or to see how you can support the Owsley Stanley Foundation. Musicians plugged their instruments into amplifiers connected to single-channel speakers. Our staff is entirely comprised of volunteers, and many of the support services necessary to run the organization have been donated by generous contributors that believe in the mission to save this music before it is lost forever. When he was fifteen, Owsley spent fifteen months as a voluntary psychiatric patient in St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C.[9] Without having graduated high school, he was admitted to the University of Virginia, where he studied engineering for a year. These are the most extensive files there are of our music from this time. According to Rolling Stone,[25] everyone in the band except Ron "Pigpen" McKernan and Tom Constanten - neither of whom used psychedelic drugs - was included in the arrest, along with several members of their retinue, including Stanley and some locals. With this rock band, I can rule the world! So we ended up living with Owsley while he was tabbing up the acid in the place we lived. I was not responsible for his wings, but they did carry me to all kinds of places.. After obtaining a court order that made the police return his lab equipment, Owsley and Cargill split for Los Angeles. By his own account, between 1965 and 1967, Stanley produced no less than 500 grams of LSD, amounting to a little more . Owsley Stanley, an icon of Bay Area counterculture in the 1960s and a longtime associate of the Grateful Dead, died Sunday in a car . He also came up with the concept for what eventually became the bands logo. The Grateful Dead's "Wall of Sound" was a massive sound system designed by LSD chemist, Owsley Stanley. Stanley also developed the Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound, one of the largest mobile sound reinforcement systems ever constructed. The reason is that Im a total carnivore. Owsley also sent a photographer back to England with a telephoto lens packed with tabs of purple acid on the condition that he share them with the Beatles. Yet today, at seventy-two, he is all but forgotten. Ifeel as if Ive known you through many lifetimes., You have, Owsley replied, and you will through many more to come.. When Owsley showed up one day during the fall, he walked over to Kesey and handed him a couple of hits of acid. All of the rest of their calories came from fat. Augustus Owsley Stanley III (January 19, 1935 March 12, 2011) was an American-Australian audio engineer and clandestine chemist. Almost before I realized what was happening, the whole affair had gotten completely out of hand. Owsley Stanley put Ron and Susan together with Rick Turner who was a guitar repairman hailing from the east coast. Cancers grow on glucose. The American psychologist Timothy Leary's famous invitation to "tune in, turn on and drop out" changed a generation. AlabamaAlaskaArizonaArkansasCaliforniaColoradoConnecticutDelawareDistrict of ColumbiaFloridaGeorgiaHawaiiIdahoIllinoisIndianaIowaKansasKentuckyLouisianaMaineMarylandMassachusettsMichiganMinnesotaMississippiMissouriMontanaNebraskaNevadaNew HampshireNew JerseyNew MexicoNew YorkNorth CarolinaNorth DakotaOhioOklahomaOregonPennsylvaniaRhode IslandSouth CarolinaSouth DakotaTennesseeTexasUtahVermontVirginiaWashingtonWest VirginiaWisconsinWyomingAmerican SamoaCanal ZoneCommonwealth of the Northern Mariana IslandsFederated States of MicronesiaGuamMarshall IslandsNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPhilippine IslandsPuerto RicoTrust Territory of the Pacific IslandsVirgin IslandsArmed Forces - AmericasArmed Forces - Europe, Canada, Middle East, AfricaArmed Forces - Pacific. After experiencing chest pains seven years ago, Owsley underwent surgery to correct a ninety percent blockage in an artery in his heart that dated back to his teenage years. I did not feel it was mine, since what I was doing was in my mind a service to my community. [12] In 1963, he enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, where he became involved in the psychoactive drug scene. A thought occurred to me: if the orange were red and the bar across were a lightning bolt cutting across at an angle, then we would have a very nice, unique and highly identifiable mark to put on the equipment. Mind, Body, Accepting. When the Dead declined to do so, Owsley found himself in what McNally calls limbo. Shifting his focus to what he knew best, the science of sound, Owsley began working on a revolutionary new system that would deliver crystal-clear audio in the big hockey arenas and indoor stadiums the Dead were now selling out. Augustus Owsley Stanley I (May 21, 1867 - August 12, 1958) was an American politician from Kentucky.A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 38th governor of Kentucky and also represented the state in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.From 1903 to 1915, Stanley represented Kentucky's 2nd congressional district in the House of Representatives, where he . All donations to the Owsley Stanley Foundation are fully tax deductible. He says his method was simple. Wherever he goes, he carries an astonishing aluminum briefcase bedecked with wrinkled rock & roll stickers and ancient Grateful Dead backstage passes stuffed to the brim with precious scraps of platinum and gold from which he has fashioned his jewelry, a jewelers loup so his pieces can be viewed at close range on black felt jewelers boards, a small metric scale, a portable memory drive, numerous rolls of tape and a plethora of tiny plastic film containers. Owsley adored his grandfather, but his relationship with his parents was difficult. Owsley Stanley, better known as the Bear, was the acid hero the 60s never knew it had. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - Millionare Augustus Owsley Stanley III, revered among hippies as the "King of Acid," finally has run into big, big trouble with the federal narcotics boys. No improvements for the sound, no new gear, nothing different on stage. Tom Sizemore, Heat and Saving Private Ryan Actor, Dead at 61 Written by WL Woodward. Trending If you feel you cant love someone and you are universally told that you must love, you become very guilty., After the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Based on past evidence, the sea will rise 300 meters, and life in some places will be entirely destroyed. And Then There Was David Lindley, See the Beths Deliver Refreshing 'Expert in a Dying Field' Mini-Set on 'CBS Mornings', The YSL Case Is Stretching Fulton County's Justice System to Its Breaking Point, NBA 'Investigating,' Team Suspends Ja Morant After Allegedly Flashing Gun on Social Media. Stanley, born Augustus Owsley Stanley III in 1935, was known to nearly all his many friends and customers as "Bear." But in a single released by Steely Dan from the 1976 album The Royal Scam . On December 11th, 1965, the Dead played at the Muir Beach Acid Test in a lodge by the sea in Marin County. After selling his Voice of the Theatre speakers and McIntosh amps to Bill Graham, who installed them in the Fillmore, Owsley donated most of the bands other gear to the Straight Theater, a hippie venue on Haight Street. On a good night, Owsley will catch as many as 225 toads. Owsley Stanley. The price I had to pay to get through the gate. Elected governor in 1915, he became a United States senator and served on the commission that oversaw construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway. He beat the charges and successfully sued for the return of his equipment. So when you had something that affects the minds of thousands and thousands of people in the palm of your hand, how could you not believe that your state of mind mattered?, By May 1965, he was back in the Bay Area with 3,600 capsules of extraordinarily pure LSD, dubbed Owsley by a pot-dealing folk guitarist friend.

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