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Owsley Stanley dies in car accident at 76
#14118853 - 03/14/11 11:17 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/03/14/2011-03-14_lsd_icon_owsley_bear_stanley_dead_at_76_killed_in_car_accident_in_australia.html
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LSD pioneer Owsley 'Bear' Stanley died in a car accident in Australia at the age of 76.
Owsley "Bear" Stanley's long, strange trip has ended.
The counterculture icon who was a major LSD producer in the 1960s and was celebrated in song by The Grateful Dead and Jimi Hendrix, has died in a car crash in Australia.
He was 76.
Stanley was a core figure in the drug scene that underpinned hippie culture, producing an estimated one pound of pure LSD - enough for roughly five million trips.
His pioneering role made the name "Owsley," a popular slang term for the drug.
Stanley stood firm in his belief that the drug was beneficial to society, despite serving two years in prison in the early 1970s.
"I wound up doing time for something I should have been rewarded for," he told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2007. "What I did was a community service."
Stanley was also a skilled audio technician who worked with The Dead creating their legendary sound system. Stanley inspired the band's bear logo - which became a fixture on the back of Volkswagen buses for decades.
"His death is grievous loss to his family and the tens of thousands of people from the '60s who were influenced by his work with the Grateful Dead," said long time friend Sam Cutler.
Stanley was the grandson of one-time Kentucky governor and senator Augustus Owsley Stanley.
The counter-culture figure moved to Australia in the 1980s after growing convinced that the northern hemisphere would be subsumed by another ice age.
He was killed when the car he was driving swerved off a highway Saturday and down an embankment into a tree. His wife, who was with him in the car, suffered minor injuries.
In announcing his death, his family called Stanley "our beloved patriarch."
He is survived by his wife, Shiela, four children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
It made me very sad to hear this news, but the man has lived a full and productive life.
RIP Bear
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Re: Owsley Stanley dies in car accident at 76 [Re: blissedout]
#14118864 - 03/14/11 11:20 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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we posted this the other day
sorry for his family i am.
in the words of hendrix
ohhh owsley can you hear me now?
-------------------- koods said: Young male going by the name "Bassfreak" entered Worcester General complaining of a sharp pain in his buttock region after attending EDM event. Attending physician considered a possible diagnosis of acute rave anus, but upon further investigation it was determined there was nothing cute about patient's anus. Life-long trip report
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Re: Owsley Stanley dies in car accident at 76 [Re: pfxtc]
#14118870 - 03/14/11 11:21 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Copied from the other thread:
Here's a song from Bear's Choice too: (It's "Wake Up Little Susie".)
http://blip.fm/profile/deadheadland/blip/65041804/Grateful+Dead%E2%80%93Wake+up+Little+Suzie
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Re: Owsley Stanley dies in car accident at 76 [Re: ifoundwaldo]
#14118882 - 03/14/11 11:24 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Damn, I didn't realize that this was old news. Sorry for the repost.
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Re: Owsley Stanley dies in car accident at 76 [Re: blissedout]
#14118890 - 03/14/11 11:25 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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-------------------- koods said: Young male going by the name "Bassfreak" entered Worcester General complaining of a sharp pain in his buttock region after attending EDM event. Attending physician considered a possible diagnosis of acute rave anus, but upon further investigation it was determined there was nothing cute about patient's anus. Life-long trip report
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Re: Owsley Stanley dies in car accident at 76 [Re: pfxtc]
#14118893 - 03/14/11 11:27 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Poor guy... On the bright side he didn't get swept away by a tsunami...
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Re: Owsley Stanley dies in car accident at 76 [Re: blissedout]
#14118897 - 03/14/11 11:28 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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It was a few pages back.
For Dead fans, I enjoyed reading his commentary/stories on the various albums he released:
http://www.thebear.org/albums.html
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Re: Owsley Stanley dies in car accident at 76 [Re: Maverick]
#14118909 - 03/14/11 11:30 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Maverick said: Poor guy... On the bright side he didn't get swept away by a tsunami...
honestly the guys 76
way past his hay day
but at the same time you gotta feel sad for him and his family in the aspect that they can no longer mingle,
just doing some reading on him I read he was prominently a family man, and losing those kind of figures and role models is always a blow to everyone.
-------------------- koods said: Young male going by the name "Bassfreak" entered Worcester General complaining of a sharp pain in his buttock region after attending EDM event. Attending physician considered a possible diagnosis of acute rave anus, but upon further investigation it was determined there was nothing cute about patient's anus. Life-long trip report
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Re: Owsley Stanley dies in car accident at 76 [Re: pfxtc]
#14119067 - 03/14/11 12:04 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Still, getting washed away in tsunami, they wouldn't be able to find him D:
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Re: Owsley Stanley dies in car accident at 76 [Re: pfxtc]
#14119075 - 03/14/11 12:06 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Re: Owsley Stanley dies in car accident at 76 [Re: blissedout]
#14119086 - 03/14/11 12:11 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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that just made my day a very bad day. Rest in peace bear!
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Re: Owsley Stanley dies in car accident at 76 [Re: blissedout]
#14119099 - 03/14/11 12:13 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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blissedout said: Damn, I didn't realize that this was old news. Sorry for the repost.
I hadnt heard yet,thanks for posting. A car acciddent... Shitty.
life is funny and death is utterly confusing
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MrJellineck said: Profits, prophets. That's all you jews think about. sheekle said: life is drugs... and music... and cat...
Edited by aNeway2sayHooray (03/14/11 12:18 PM)
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Re: Owsley Stanley dies in car accident at 76 [Re: blissedout]
#15953641 - 03/15/12 11:41 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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he was dead in Australia.i think when he was driving a car.then he was in a drugs.thats why this happens.
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Re: Owsley Stanley dies in car accident at 76 [Re: einfopedia] 2
#15953652 - 03/15/12 11:46 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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You do the craziest shit when you're in a drugs, man.
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moved to Australia in the 1980s after growing convinced that the northern hemisphere would be subsumed by another ice age.
I never new that about him before... things like that don't exactly help people to realize how beneficial psychedelics can be.
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Re: Owsley Stanley dies in car accident at 76 [Re: shadowplay]
#15953782 - 03/16/12 12:25 AM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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Onoes, he had a life outside of being a political figure and he concocted a zany excuse to move someplace nicer. What a jerk-off!
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I'm not saying it made him a bad person or anything, and he had every right to do what he wanted. I just imagine a lot of people are going to read that and think "See, that's what lsd does to you." Not that it really matters very much, because those people are going to think that anyway.
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Re: Owsley Stanley dies in car accident at 76 [Re: shadowplay]
#15953801 - 03/16/12 12:31 AM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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LSD does what to you? Makes you live until dying of a car accident at 76 in Australia where you moved for obvious bullshit reasons to make jewelry for a living? That fool knew what was up.
It's sort of like Albert Hofmann - I don't mean to get quasi-spiritual with this but LSD selected its representation to the culture very thoughtfully.
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Yeah he really moved there cause he wanted to GTFO of the US. The Feds were always sniffing around him. The man wanted to live the rest of his days in peace, far away from their prying eyes. And he deserved that. RIP Bear.
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Re: Owsley Stanley dies in car accident at 76 [Re: Dark_Star]
#15954342 - 03/16/12 06:34 AM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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Bear was an incredible polymath and a visionary dietitian. His memory still burns bright.
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