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Cutelr is quoted

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 Australia, his family said Monday. He was 76.

Lyrics by The Grateful Dead, Jim Hendricks and Frank Zappa reference Stanley's name and brushes with the law, underlining his influence.

Stanley produced an estimated pound (half a kilogram) of pure LSD, or roughly 5 million "trips" of normal potency of the hallucinogenic drug, after enrolling in 1963 at the University of California at Berkeley and becoming involved in the drug scene that underpinned the hippie movement, according to the BookRags.com website.

He was an accomplished sound engineer for the psychedelic rock band The Grateful Dead.

Sam Cutler, a firm friend of Stanley since 1970 when Cutler became the band's tour manager, described him as was "a wonderful man and a great teacher."

Would have loved to have had an Owlsley tab. A friend of mind said he had one once, and it had a winking owl pressed into it.

In the immortal words of the Jefferson Airplane, "you're a legend Owsley, for your righteous dope." RIP. Here's the airplane performing the above-mentioned song, "Mexico":

RIP Owsley

RIP Bear.

Owsley graduated from my high school. RIP Bear

I am amazed he lived this long. RIP.

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I am amazed he lived this long. RIP.

That makes two of us!

CBII

RIP Bear: I had only the crap street acid never the pure he made.

In quite a few cases in Australia when a car swerves off the road just like Owsley Stanleys did Kangaroos can be the cause of it..if ya' ever tried to avoid a Koo thats just appeared from nowhere in front of ya' and jumping all over the place while ya' getting down the motorway doing the ton..its like trying to avoid a ricoheting bullet especially whose big Reds from W.A.It certainly takes some good driving skills to get ya' self outta that one especially if ya' on a motorcycle yea'..ya' hit one of those things ya' soon know all about it..its like driving into a brick wall head on. Owsley RIP



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"Drugs are bad, M'kay?"
-Mr. Mackey, school counselor, South Park Elementary

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"Drugs are bad, M'kay?"
-Mr. Mackey, school counselor, South Park Elementary

Haha!

Yeah, we know. But they sure are fun.

>>In quite a few cases in Australia when a car swerves off the road just like Owsley Stanleys did Kangaroos can be the cause of it..if ya' ever tried to avoid a Koo thats just appeared from nowhere in front of ya' and jumping all over the place while ya' getting down the motorway doing the ton..its like trying to avoid a ricoheting bullet especially whose big Reds from W.A.It certainly takes some good driving skills to get ya' self outta that one especially if ya' on a motorcycle yea'..ya' hit one of those things ya' soon know all about it..its like driving into a brick wall head on.

Or it could be that he was 84 years old, had completely fried his brain on a gazillion acid trips, and wasn't fit to be driving a car.

I think he was 76...only eight years younger, but that can make a difference, eh?

Oops, sorry, 76...still on the high road to 80.

he was also responsible for the soundboard Altamont tape....

" What a long strange trip it's been "

RIP Owsley

Now that's what I call a bum trip!

Tasteless I know, but I think Gilbert Gottfried cornered the market on bad taste this week.