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. He was the key supplier of LSD during the 60s Hippie movem. Frequently attributive, esp. His nickname, Bear, reputedly was inspired by the profuse . A Pegasus. 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. Every single note is separately placed in space as well as in time. Until then, the drug had been available in America only to those conducting serious medical research. It was brilliant and it worked, McNally says. 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We want to hear it. Had it not been for Sheilah, he says, I dont think I would have survived. These two men both ate an average of 100-140 gm of protein and 200-300 gm of fat, totally 2100-3000 calories per day. That amount of protein equals about 14-20 oz of meat (lean portion) per day. He thought it would look cool if the logo was red and blue with a white lightning bolt through it, so he had someone spray-paint a basic version of it on the Deads equipment. He had this stuff, and we thought it might be good, Owsley says. 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. 631 ratings55 reviews. 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. His defense was that the illegal substances were for personal use, but he was found guilty and sentenced to three years in prison. By then, most of the money Owsley had amassed during his days as the worlds reigning acid chemist was gone. 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 . [29] Following the hiatus, Stanley returned as Lesh's personal roadie for "a couple of tours" in the late 1970s, although personality conflicts with other crew members once again precipitated his departure. There were no greens or anything he called it rabbit food. , Nor was there any point in trying to argue with Owsley about it. There are titles here never heard before [on a release] and seldom played. Adopt-A-Reel Program: The Grateful Dead were not just good they were magic personified. Then and there, he decided to work for the most amazing group ever, have a fabulous time of it and try to make a positive contribution. Though Grateful Dead bass player Phil Lesh was the band member with whom Owsley would forge the closest ties, he saw Jerry Garcia as the sun in the center of the solar system. He has parlayed this talent into a career, crafting belt buckles and pendants for everyone from KeithRichards to Jackson Browne that sell for as much as $20,000. Concise Comments. 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. Around this time Owsley also began studying The Kybalion, a book of purported ancient wisdom that elucidates the seven basic principles of alchemy, which he describes as mental transformation, explaining,It was never about transforming substances. 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. CANBERRA, Australia (AP) Owsley "Bear" Stanley, a 1960s counterculture icon who worked with The Grateful Dead and was a prolific LSD producer, died in a car crash in . He is moving so slowly that someone from the front desk comes to the room to ask if he ever intends to leave. During his service, he secured an amateur radio license and a general radiotelephone operator license. He married and divorced twice, fathered two children and got himself arrested on a variety of charges. Youre concentrating a lot of mental energy on one package. How many people can say that? Owsley also credits his all-meat diet for keeping him alive. The original idea was to put recording studio technology into an electric guitar. At the end of Hendrixs live version of the Beatles Day Tripper, recorded at the BBC studios in 1967, he can be heard calling out, Oh, Owsley, can you hear me now? In 1976, Steely Dan burnished Owsleys myth by recording Kid Charlemagne: While the music played/You worked by candlelight/ Those San Francisco nights/You were the best in town. In every way, the briefcase reflects his mind. Owsley Stanley, an icon of Bay Area counterculture in the 1960s and a longtime associate of the Grateful Dead, died Sunday in a car . Served 2 years in prison at one point in his early life. . The Arctic and Antarctic are soaking up the moving heat and the ice caps are melting, but the cause of the heats movement is a buildup of energy as the prelude to a massive, planetary-scale cyclonic storm, which will build the new ice age glaciers., Because this is a natural cycle, Owsley believes that carbon and methane emissions from human activity have little effect on the process and do not cause the greenhouse effect. Garcia was the center. Written by WL Woodward. In 1959, the poet Allen Ginsberg took LSD for the first time, at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto. The Grateful Dead's "Wall of Sound" was a massive sound system designed by LSD chemist, Owsley Stanley. Living in Marin County, he supported himself doing sound for Jefferson Starship and Phil Lesh and selling his jewelry backstage, in arena parking lots and in hotel bars after shows whenever the Grateful Dead toured. Stanley Clarke took possession of his first Alembic bass in 1972 which brought a fair amount of interest from outside the Grateful Dead community . 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. 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. $30.00. Stanley attended the Watts Acid Test on February 12, 1966 with his new apprentice Tim Scully, and provided the LSD. As he cooks up the protein-rich soupy mixture that sustains him (composed, in part, of a thick gelatinous paste he makes by boiling down countless chicken legs), Owsley scrolls through digital photographs of his work on his laptop, burns a CD of his live mix of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and fills a tiny baggie with the Australian peppercorns he considers the finest in the world. Im not really interested in talking about myself, he says. Owsley declined. But before Owsley came along, no one could be sure that what they were taking was really even LSD. During the first week of the course, Id buy my textbooks and read them all through. as Owsley acid." Based on past evidence, the sea will rise 300 meters, and life in some places will be entirely destroyed. All donations and proceeds from the development of the recordings flow back into the effort to preserve more of Bears Sonic Journals and perpetuate Owsleys legacy, including patronage of the arts in all of its forms. Once a year by invitation only, he throws a party attended by friends, family and musicians from all over Australia who play all night long. Its something that goes from being absolutely inert to so powerful that twenty-five micrograms will cause a change in your consciousness, he says. So they never became visual, they stayed in the oral world, which is, everything is part of reality. While doing two years in federal prison in the early Seventies for manufacturing acid, Owsley taught himself how to make jewelry. 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. Owsley Stanley (born Augustus Owsley Stanley III, January 19, 1935 - March 12, 2011) also known as Bear, was a figure of the San Francisco Bay counter-culture. The altercation led Stanley to request the formal codification of his perceived managerial power over the equipment staff, including unprecedented hire/fire privileges. He participated in a low carb forum where he shared his experience with and knowledge about eating a diet comprised entirely of animal foods. It is for this reason that Owsley and his wife, Sheilah, whom he first met at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley in 1985 while she was working in the ticket office for the Dead, now live in Australia forty-five minutes from anywhere on 120 acres of land he claimed by squatting on it like a pioneer. It's made of solid bronze, It's made of solid bronze, there were also some made in the mid 90's that were solid silver. I never set out to turn on the world, as has been claimed by many, Owsley says. Moon face buckles were made in solid silver in two . It is a 36 point lead type-slug of a . Greenfield's book, which is full of anecdotes and insight, tracks Stanley's life from his early days in the South through his final years in Australia. Kesey and the Pranksters called these gatherings the Acid Tests, a series of mind-blowing events at which people tripping on LSD were exposed to flashing strobe lights, tape loops and sometimes if the band was not too stoned even a set by the Grateful Dead. That was his strength and his flaw. Unlike his own father, Owsley has made every effort to be an active parent to his son Starfinder and daughter Redbird (whose mother is Cargill), born three weeks apart to two different mothers who remain good friends and raised their children as brother and sister. 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. Stanley took advantage of the opportunity there to learn the trade of metalwork and jewelry-making.[5]. If you wanted to be an idiot and do something any way but his, that was your decision. As the water boils, he packs up a Braun food mixer and the vast array of other gadgets he carries with him. By Nate Todd Jan 19, 2023 6:14 am PST. Owsley, who would only ever deal with one person at a time to distribute his product, had already gone through three or four intermediaries, dropping them as soon as he felt they were getting hot. [UPDATE 11/21/22]: In an effort to refute claims made by Steve Cabella about the origins of a pipe allegedly gifted to Jerry Garcia by Owsley "Bear" Stanley, Bear's son Starfinder Stanley . [36], After Stanley's death in 2011, his family and some close friends created a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization called the Owsley Stanley Foundation. 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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 later learned who every one of them was, Owsley says, but I did not feel I could do anything about it. Stanley's lab in Berkeley was raided in 1966 and he was arrested. The reason is that Im a total carnivore. 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. So youre Owsley,Lesh said. Owsley Stanley (a.k.a. Augustus Owsley Stanley III (later nicknamed Bear) was born on Jan. 19, 1935. Courtesy Legacy. Donations are much appreciated, and are in fact essential to our ability to preserve and release future recordings! The following excerpt explores the onset . Lexington was blown out from under Owsleys father during the Battle of the Coral Sea in World War II, he began drinking heavily and became a lifelong alcoholic. 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. 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. Owsley Stanley, a.k.a. 94tracks reflecting a broad cross-section of musical forms, including bluegrass, blues, folk, country, swing jazz, and rockabilly, among others. Another West Coastbased rock band, Jefferson Airplane, had been arrested two weeks earlier in the same situation. 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. Letting vegetable matter go through a carnivorous intestine scratches it up and scars it and causes mucus that interferes with nutrition., For the next six weeks, the Grateful Dead and their girlfriends ate meat and milk for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Since 1965 he and Melissa Cargill had distributed an . Later that year, a friend gave Owsley 400 micrograms of pure LSD manufactured by Sandoz Laboratories in Switzerland, where Dr. Albert Hofmann had first synthesized the drug in 1938. He became a naturalized Australian citizen in 1996. Written by WL Woodward. 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. The headmaster later told High Times magazine that he remembered Owsley as almost like a brainchild, a wunderkinder, tremendously interested in science. Even then, Owsley was possessed by what he calls this rogue, get-high nature of mine and was expelled in ninth grade for smuggling alcohol into school during homecoming weekend, getting virtually every student on campus blasted out of their minds., When he was fifteen, Owsley spent fifteen months as a voluntary patient in St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., where the poet Ezra Pound was also confined. The new lab was set up in the basement of a house across the street from the Denver Zoo in early 1967. 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. I dont see how anyone in the Northern Hemisphere could survive the storm. The Owsley Stanley Foundation is pleased to present an audiophile release of incendiary performances by the incomparable Doc and Merle Watson, from Bears Sonic Journals -Owsleys storied trove of live concert recordings. Not a single atmospheric scientist subscribes to the concept of greenhouse gases or global warming they all know the truth., Owsley contends there is nothing people can do to prevent the coming of an ice age storm that he describes as a kind of a gigantic hurricane, a cyclone thousands of miles in diameter, turning with winds of ultrasonic speeds that is one-half the planet in size. This is the Biblical flood of Noah, and the entire portion of the planet underneath the storm will be blown flat and buried under water. Until you had tripped, you were not part of the new culture. 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. Although no man knows the exact time, we feel that time is very near! The Owsley Stanley Foundations fifth release of Bears Sonic Journals finds lost treasures in the ozone with the launch of Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen! Owsley Stanley 1935-2011 'Bear' helped Grateful Dead, made LSD. [3], Stanley's level of access to the group's inner echelon (including complimentary food from the band's caterers) was somewhat controversial among the band's employees, with one staffer opining that "he had the sales tactics of a Mumbai street peddler"; on one occasion, Garcia and Weir were forced to intervene when Stanley provoked Chelsea Clinton's Secret Service detail as he attempted to conduct business with the then-First Daughter. When you get to 400, you just totally lose it. Together, they dwell in a complex of sheds, caravans, large canvas tents, modified shipping containers and corrugated-iron structures designed and built by Owsley. It all seemed to fit together. Ill never forget that when youd open the refrigerator, there were big slabs of beef in there, Rosie McGee, Phil Leshs girlfriend at the time, later told Garcia biographer Jackson. The thing about Owsley, Townshend said, is that when he gave you something, he would take it too. The tools of the trade, belonging to the man "most responsible for psychedlicizing the United States" (Jarnow 16). March 14, 2011. All donations to the Owsley Stanley Foundation are fully tax deductible. * Breeding so rapidly that they soon became a national nightmare, the giant toads (some of which weigh as much as two pounds and have come to be considered an environmental menace in both Hawaii and Australia) are now poisoning the baby fish in the acre-and-a-half lake Owsley created on his property. The cottage commonly known as the Troll House and located at 2321 Valley St., is for sale and . Almost forty years to the day after he blew minds at the Monterey International Pop Festival in June 1967, with a brand-new batch of Monterey Purple, Owsley is checking out of a motel in nearby Carmel. David Lindley, Multi-Instrumentalist Who Shaped the Sound of Soft Rock, Dead at 78 This article appeared in the July 12-27, 2007 issue of Rolling Stone. By doing so, he compiled a historic collection of live performances. At this point, Stanley rented a house in Point Richmond, Richmond, California. Owsley Stanley put Ron and Susan together with Rick Turner who was a guitar repairman hailing from the east coast. Dad gave what I believe to be one of the most intimate and connected shows I have ever heard. John Carter Cash. We were officially granted 501(c)(3) nonprofit status by the IRS in December 2012. The problem is'Packet-sniffer 'bots', very small programs which hackers insert by stealth into an internet router's . "The Bear," best known for the sound system he created for The Grateful Dead and manufacturing a very high quality LSD, was a Zero Carb Carnivore for 50 years. 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. . We had enough acid to blow the world apart. Owsley rented a pink stucco house in Watts, next door to a brothel, where they all lived together. And we were just musicians in this house, and we were guinea-pigging more or less continually. When Owsley was eight, his parents separated and his mother took him to Los Angeles. All in all, I was making about a dollar fifty an hour. His agricultural career came to an abrupt end when some local junkies intent on ripping off his crop put a pistol under his chin and pointed a .22-caliber rifle at his chest. They were all gone. Get the full owsleystanleyfoundation.org Analytics and market share drilldown here 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. -Jorma Kaukonen, A wicked blend of rock, jazz and R&B that created a dynamic, groundbreaking sound. John Lynskey , Hittin The Note. PremiumBlotter. In this new three-part series, you and I will explore the life and times of Owsley Stanley, who early on financed the Grateful Dead with money he made as a "cosmic chemist" and was instrumental in the design of the band's legendary "Wall of Sound" stage system. The Owsley Stanley Foundation is 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. Owsley wanted the Dead not only to be clearly heard but also in stereo, a concept so far ahead of its time that it would be ten years before such systems were installed in movie theaters. It was amazing, he told Jerry Garcia biographer Blair Jackson. . Technician for Grateful Dead and an LSD cook. Its sometimes called witchcraft, and its extremely dangerous. within a few days of it coming out. These performances have not been heard since the nights they were played more than 40 years ago ! Global warming: the panic, is based exclusively on temperate-zone land measurements and ignores the fact that the planet is seventy percent ocean. After sampling it, he changed his mind. Last note: In 2005 Bear found out The Oxford English Dictionary had added a word: "owsley, N. An extremely potent, high-quality type of LSD; a tablet of this.
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