Owsley 'Bear' Stanley Dies in Australian Car Crash

[Fansome]

Among other things, he was the man behind the "Acid" in "The Electric Koolaid Acid Test".

March 13, 2011
Owsley 'Bear' Stanley Dies in Australian Car Crash
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — 1960s counterculture icon and once prolific LSD producer Owsley "Bear" Stanley has died in a car crash in his adoptive country of Australia.

A police statement said a man in his 70s died Saturday when a car he was driving left a highway and hit trees near the town of Mareeba in northern Queensland state.

Police would not confirm the driver's identity. But Oswald's family issued a statement to The Associated Press on Monday confirming his death in the car wreck. He was 76.

Stanley was a major producer of the hallucinogenic drug LSD in San Francisco in the mid-1960s. He also was an accomplished sound engineer who worked with the psychedelic rock band The Grateful Dead.

[Pigmeat]

Yep,Alembic Studios and instruments.


"Man,no way it's the real Owsley." Last legible statement by the late Al Fansome, circa 1968.

[Zoidberg]

Back in the early '70s I was a big admirer of his work.  I had no idea Owsley was a sound engineer.  The things you learn from the Grim Fansome's obits.

[syfr]

...musta been a flashback...