- Owsley Stanley - Wikipedia
Augustus Owsley Stanley III (January 19, 1935 – March 12, 2011) was an American-Australian audio engineer and clandestine chemist He was a key figure in the San Francisco Bay Area hippie movement during the 1960s and played a pivotal role in the decade's counterculture
- About Owsley - Owsley Stanley Foundation
Owsley essentially recorded every artist that ever played through a sound system that he built His catalog is prolific – both in the quantity of recordings and the stature of the artists These historic recordings comprise what he called “Bear’s Sonic Journals ”
- Owsley Stanley LSD: From Grateful Dead Shows to Clinical Trials
It was the namesake of Augustus Owsley Stanley III, as eccentric a figure as has ever proweled the American underground Wiry, furry, and proudly carnivorous, he also answered to “Bear ” He was
- Owsley Stanley - The Allen Ginsberg Project
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 See Tom Taylor’s account of his life and times published late last year in F ar Out magazine
- Obituary: Owsley Stanley dies at 76; Acid King of the 60s . . .
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 His nickname, Bear, reputedly was inspired by the profuse
- The Trippy Life of the LSD Manufacturer Who ‘Helped Create the 60s’
Though not a household name, Augustus Owsley Stanley III, a k a Bear, was an underground hippie legend who some say is largely responsible for the zeitgeist of the 1960s counterculture movement,
- Bear: The Owsley Stanley Story, Part One – PS Audio
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 definitive biographer revisits how Augustus Owsley’s LSD turned on . . .
Stanley, better known as “Owsley,’’ aka “Bear” (because of his protuberant chest hair), was one of the world’s first private LSD manufacturers The legendary Grateful Dead soundman (part of his considerable resume) was no ordinary dope dealer, however, but a man on a mission
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