With artist Bob Thomas, Stanley designed the Dead ... one of his most important accomplishments. Born Augustus Owsley Stanley III in Kentucky on Jan. 19, 1935, he was the grandson of a Kentucky ...

For decades, a major piece of counter-culture history was wedged behind a bed in Merl Saunders’ San Francisco house. “I’ve bought party pipes from rock people before,” Cabella — owner of ...

On June 23, the Owsley Stanley Foundation ... No. 1 selling bluegrass album of all time before ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ (released in 2000) knocked it off,” says Starfinder, who was ...

On March 12th, the extended Grateful Dead family lost one of its most crucial allies and collaborators when Owsley Stanley – the ... and sometime artist – died at age 76.

Owsley "Bear" Stanley, pioneering audio engineer for the Grateful Dead, died in a car crash near his home in Australia on March 13. The sound designer, artist, and counterculture icon was perhaps ...

Longtime Grateful Dead confidant Owsley “Bear” Stanley died ... its iconic lightning bolt/skull logo with artist Bob Thomas. Though Stanley and Thomas originally created the logo in 1969 ...

Owsley Stanley was a counterculture transformer famous for the purity of two things: the LSD he cooked up and the rock 'n' roll sound system he created. He died in a car crash last week in ...

Stanley was once married to Owsley Stanley, who was considered the ... She described it like living in a work of art.” There is currently an accepted offer on the house for residential purposes.

Self-taught chemist Owsley “Bear” Stanley, a legend of the 1960s psychedelic underground who produced the LSD that fueled Ken Kesey’s “acid tests” and the Grateful Dead’s acid rock ...

But far fewer recall Owsley Stanley. Stanley, who died Saturday at age 76, was arguably as pivotal as Leary and Kesey for altering minds in the mad ’60s. Sign in or Subscribe See Offers ...