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Psychedelic icon Owsley Stanley dies in Australia
#14114363 - 03/13/11 02:00 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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LOS ANGELES – Owsley “Bear” Stanley, a 1960s counterculture figure who flooded the flower power scene with LSD and was an early benefactor of the Grateful Dead, died in a car crash in his adopted home country of Australia on Sunday, his family said. He was believed to be 76.
The renegade grandson of a former governor of Kentucky, Stanley helped lay the foundation for the psychedelic era by producing more than a million doses of LSD at his labs in San Francisco’s Bay Area.
“He made acid so pure and wonderful that people like Jimi Hendrix wrote hit songs about it and others named their band in its honor,” former rock ‘n’ roll tour manager Sam Cutler wrote in his 2008 memoirs “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.”
Hendrix’s song “Purple Haze” was reputedly inspired by a batch of Stanley’s product, though the guitarist denied any drug link. The ear-splitting blues-psychedelic combo Blue Cheer took its named from another batch.
Stanley briefly managed the Grateful Dead, and oversaw every aspect of their live sound at a time when little thought was given to amplification in public venues. His tape recordings of Dead concerts were turned into live albums.
The Dead wrote about him in their song “Alice D. Millionaire” after a 1967 arrest prompted a newspaper to describe Stanley as an “LSD millionaire.” Steely Dan’s 1976 single “Kid Charlemagne” was loosely inspired by Stanley’s exploits.
According to a 2007 profile in the San Francisco Chronicle, Stanley started cooking LSD after discovering the recipe in a chemistry journal at the University of California, Berkeley.
The police raided his first lab in 1966, but Stanley successfully sued for the return of his equipment. After a marijuana bust in 1970, he went to prison for two years.
“I wound up doing time for something I should have been rewarded for,” he told the Chronicle’s Joel Selvin. “What I did was a community service, the way I look at it. I was punished for political reasons. Absolutely meaningless. Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are different.”
He emigrated to the tropical Australian state of Queensland in the early 1980s, apparently fearful of a new ice age, and sold enamel sculptures on the Internet. He lost one of his vocal cords to cancer.
Stanley was born Augustus Owsley Stanley III in Kentucky, a state governed by his namesake grandfather from 1915 to 1919. He served in the U.S. Air Force for 18 months, studied ballet in Los Angeles, and then enrolled at UC Berkeley. In addition to being an LSD advocate, he adhered to an all-meat diet.
A statement released by Cutler on behalf of Stanley’s family said the car crash occurred near his home in far north Queensland. He is survived by his wife Sheila, four children, eight grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/03/13/psychedelic-icon-owsley-stanley-dies-in-australia/
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Re: Psychedelic icon Owsley Stanley dies in Australia [Re: muistrue]
#14114376 - 03/13/11 02:02 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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R.I.P. Bear. Thank you for helping to change the world for the better.
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Re: Psychedelic icon Owsley Stanley dies in Australia [Re: kosmic_charlie]
#14114481 - 03/13/11 02:28 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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kosmic_charlie said: R.I.P. Bear. Thank you for helping to change the world for the better. 
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Re: Psychedelic icon Owsley Stanley dies in Australia [Re: muistrue]
#14114554 - 03/13/11 02:50 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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FractalDust said: According to a 2007 profile in the San Francisco Chronicle, Stanley started cooking LSD after discovering the recipe in a chemistry journal at the University of California, Berkeley.
.”http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/03/13/psychedelic-icon-owsley-stanley-dies-in-australia/

It'd be nice to get ahold of that journal...
Sad to hear of his passing, my boss (dude in his 60's from CA) tells me all the time about how 'purple owsley' was better than anything else around at the time.
I really like his statement about providing a community service and it just being a political thing.
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Re: Psychedelic icon Owsley Stanley dies in Australia [Re: iamnotadream]
#14114563 - 03/13/11 02:53 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Edited by waves (04/21/11 11:38 PM)
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Re: Psychedelic icon Owsley Stanley dies in Australia [Re: waves]
#14114604 - 03/13/11 03:04 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I was going to write him an email soon 
r.i.p.
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Re: Psychedelic icon Owsley Stanley dies in Australia [Re: frisky_]
#14114623 - 03/13/11 03:06 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: Psychedelic icon Owsley Stanley dies in Australia [Re: muistrue]
#14114676 - 03/13/11 03:21 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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R.I.P. Bear, you were one of a kind.
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The death of a 60 style hero , hes supplying infinity now
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Re: Psychedelic icon Owsley Stanley dies in Australia [Re: Wise Toad]
#14114791 - 03/13/11 03:48 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Your ripples will continue on...
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Re: Psychedelic icon Owsley Stanley dies in Australia [Re: muistrue]
#14114830 - 03/13/11 03:57 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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R.I.P. Bear. His acid was before my time, but it was the stuff of legend, to be sure.
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Re: Psychedelic icon Owsley Stanley dies in Australia [Re: Le_Canard]
#14114956 - 03/13/11 04:31 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Bummer, not a great way to go. R.I.P.
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Re: Psychedelic icon Owsley Stanley dies in Australia [Re: muistrue]
#14114978 - 03/13/11 04:38 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Sad news indeed. He was one of the most interesting 60's era icons. RIP
Thanks for posting, FD.
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Re: Psychedelic icon Owsley Stanley dies in Australia [Re: veggie] 3
#14115259 - 03/13/11 05:31 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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On behalf of the society that jailed you, sorry. And, On behalf of humanity, thank you.
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Re: Psychedelic icon Owsley Stanley dies in Australia [Re: Moonraker]
#14115340 - 03/13/11 05:45 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: Psychedelic icon Owsley Stanley dies in Australia [Re: Taco Chef]
#14115626 - 03/13/11 06:28 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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R.I.P. Brother ! You were truly part of something extraordinary.
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Re: Psychedelic icon Owsley Stanley dies in Australia [Re: Moonraker]
#14115686 - 03/13/11 06:38 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Damn. I want one of his pieces so badly.
You have a piece of history there my friend. I envy you.
"Any time the music on the radio starts to sound like rubbish, it's time to take some LSD" - Owsley Stanley
-------------------- A human race with more highly developed spiritual capacities, with expanded consciousness of the depth and the incomprehensible wonder of being, would also have greater understanding of and better consideration for the biological and material foundation of life on this earth, Above all, for Western people with their hypertrophied rationality, the development and expansion of a direct, emotional experience of reality, unobstructed by words and concepts, would be of evolutionary significance. Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. To fall in hell or soar angelic, You need a pinch of psychedelic.
Edited by Moonraker (03/13/11 07:02 PM)
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Re: Psychedelic icon Owsley Stanley dies in Australia [Re: kosmic_charlie]
#14115938 - 03/13/11 07:22 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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According to a 2007 profile in the San Francisco Chronicle, Stanley started cooking LSD after discovering the recipe in a chemistry journal at the University of California, Berkeley
Its not like its making Meth one pot method, its really hard to make. Most advanced chemist even say its difficult. Are they trying to say that ol Stan was stupid?Or are they trying to say Lsd is easy to make? Neither is true-
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Re: Psychedelic icon Owsley Stanley dies in Australia [Re: idunno]
#14116027 - 03/13/11 07:40 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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AFAIK LSD used to be much easier to make than it is now because the precursors were readily available. These days you have to jump through a lot of chemical hoops to get the stuff you need because the precursors are closely watched and regulated by the government.
Meth will always be simple to make, it's a simple molecule. By comparison LSD is a big, weird, unstable molecule.
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Re: Psychedelic icon Owsley Stanley dies in Australia [Re: idunno]
#14116028 - 03/13/11 07:41 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I remember a tab of what was called "Purple Owsley" I took in 1970 or thereabouts. I have no idea whether it was produced by Owsley or not. But it did the job. RIP, Oz.
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