Owsley Stanley: The King of LSDNo one did more to alter the consciousness of the generation that came of age in the 1. Augustus Owsley Stanley (who passed away March 1.

Owsley Stanley: The King of LSD. Would the Summer of Love have ever happened without Stanley, the reclusive acid impresario who turned on the world? Stanley Kubrick (/ ˈ k uː b r ɪ k /; July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, and photographer.

Long before the Summer of Love drew thousands of hippies to Haight- Ashbury, Owsley was already an authentic underground folk hero, revered throughout the counterculture for making the purest form of LSD ever to hit the street. Yet today, at seventy- two, he is all but forgotten. Almost forty years to the day after he blew minds at the Monterey International Pop Festival in June 1. Monterey Purple," Owsley is checking out of a motel in nearby Carmel. Three years ago, he underwent extensive radiation for throat cancer, losing thirty pounds in the process. He is moving so slowly that someone from the front desk comes to the room to ask if he ever intends to leave. Ignoring the inquiry, Owsley roots through his bags for a large state- of- the- art conical burr grinder and a white funnel- shaped device to heat water so he can make coffee from beans he grew and roasted at home in Australia.

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As the water boils, he packs up a Braun food mixer and the vast array of other gadgets he carries with him. This article appeared in the July 1. Rolling Stone. The issue is available in the online archive.

He puts on a pair of old bluejeans that are now several sizes too big and places a brown Thinsulate stocking cap on his head. With his dark- brown goatee and a gold hoop dangling from his left ear, he looks like an older, careworn version of the Edge from U2. Unable to swallow solid food since the cancer treatments, he laments that he can no longer enjoy dining out with friends. Suddenly, his eyes redden and he is nearly reduced to tears.

Quickly regaining control, he says, "But, hey, I'm alive, right?" Without waiting for an answer, he stalks out the motel- room door. Gallery: Random Notes, Rock's Hottest Photos. In the Oxford English dictionary, the word "Owsley" is listed as a noun describing a particularly pure form of LSD. But manufacturing acid is not the only accomplishment on Owsley's résumé. He was the Grateful Dead's original sound man and their initial financial benefactor.

Without his technical innovations — he was one of the first people to mix concerts live and in stereo — the band might never have emerged from the San Francisco scene. And because he had the foresight to plug a tape recorder directly into the sound board during Dead shows, the music the band made at the peak of its power has been gloriously preserved in recordings still being issued in the series titled Dick's Picks, for which Owsley continues to receive royalties. Grateful Dead Archivist Discusses "Dick's Picks" Series.

While doing two years in federal prison in the early Seventies for manufacturing acid, Owsley taught himself how to make jewelry. He has parlayed this talent into a career, crafting belt buckles and pendants for everyone from Keith.

Richards to Jackson Browne that sell for as much as $2. Grateful Dead Artist Page: Photos, Videos and More. For the past twenty years, Owsley has lived off the grid in a remote section of Australian rain forest. Until now, he has never been willing to speak extensively about his life. He has also never willingly allowed his photograph to be taken.) "I'm not really interested in talking about myself," he says. I don't want my life exposed publicly. I'm interested in the work I've done and the things I've discovered and in some of my philosophical stuff, because I think it's of value, but I'm not into being a celebrity, because I think celebrityhood has no value to anyone, least of all to the celebrity.

I've watched wonderful people get destroyed by it."From the time he was a child, what made Owsley unique was his extraordinary family background and the power of his mind. The Place Promised In Our Early Days Watch Online there. His grandfather, also named Augustus Owsley Stanley, was a trust- busting Democratic congressman from Kentucky who spent twelve years in the House of Representatives. Elected governor in 1. United States senator and served on the commission that oversaw construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Owsley adored his grandfather, but his relationship with his parents was difficult.

Neither one of them really wanted to be parents," he says. They had no skills at it. If you feel you can't love someone and you are universally told that you must love, you become very guilty."After the aircraft carrier U. S. S. Lexington was blown out from under Owsley's father during the Battle of the Coral Sea in World War II, he began drinking heavily and became a lifelong alcoholic.

When Owsley was eight, his parents separated and his mother took him to Los Angeles. Three years later, she sent him back to Virginia to live with his father. Owsley says that psychological problems made him "unmanageable in the public- school system," so his father enrolled him in Charlotte Hall, a military prep school in Maryland. The headmaster later told High Times magazine that he remembered Owsley as "almost like a brainchild, a wunderkinder, tremendously interested in science." Even then, Owsley was possessed by what he calls "this rogue, get- high nature of mine" and was expelled in ninth grade for smuggling alcohol into school during homecoming weekend, getting virtually every student on campus "blasted out of their minds."When he was fifteen, Owsley spent fifteen months as a voluntary patient in St.

Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D. C., where the poet Ezra Pound was also confined. I was just a neurotic kid," he says.

My mother died a few months into the experience, but it was there I sorted out my guilt problems about not being able to love my parents, and I came out of it pretty clear." After leaving the public high school, where his physics teacher gave him a D for pointing out that she had contradicted the textbook, he attended the University of Virginia for a year. I never took notes when I was in college," he says. During the first week of the course, I'd buy my textbooks and read them all through. Then I'd sell them all back to the bookstore at full price as if I'd changed classes, because I never needed to look at them again."Over the course of the next fourteen years, Owsley — known to his friends as "Bear" because of his prematurely hairy chest as a teenager — enlisted in the Air Force, became a ham- radio operator, obtained a first- class radiotelephone operator's license, worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and served as a summer- relief broadcast engineer at TV and radio stations in Los Angeles. He married and divorced twice, fathered two children and got himself arrested on a variety of charges.

He also studied ballet, Russian and French. In 1. 96. 3, Owsley moved to Berkeley so he could take classes at the university, where the student protest movement was growing. A year later, Mario Savio made his historic Free Speech Movement address from atop a police car to student protesters gathered outside Sproul Hall. In Berkeley, as well as across the bay in Palo Alto, young people seeking a new way to live had begun using LSD to break down conventional social barriers. Until then, the drug had been available in America only to those conducting serious medical research. In 1. 95. 9, the poet Allen Ginsberg took LSD for the first time, at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto.

A year later, the novelist Ken Kesey was given acid at the Veterans Hospital in Menlo Park as part of a federally funded program in which volunteers were paid twenty dollars a session to ingest hallucinogens. Taking acid soon became the watermark. Until you had tripped, you were not part of the new culture. But before Owsley came along, no one could be sure that what they were taking was really even LSD.

In Berkeley, Owsley began smoking pot and selling "Heavenly Blue" morning- glory seeds (2. In April 1. 96. 4, Owsley took LSD.

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