He was a key figure in the San Francisco Bay Area hippie movement during the 1960s and played a pivotal role in the decade's counterculture. [1] Under the professional name Bear, he was the sound engineer for the Grateful Dead, recording many of the band's live performances.

Jan 17, 2023 · “Bear” Stanley started incorporating the bears into the blotter art for his LSD tabs, which were in heavy demand at Dead concerts. This meant that fans could trip on custom-made, artistically-inspired dancing bear acid while watching the concert.

Dec 7, 2016 · In 2007, writer Robert Greenfield interviewed Berkeley-dropout-turned-acid-cooker Owsley Stanley III – whose pure, potent LSD was favored by Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters and the Grateful...

Nov 13, 2016 · Though not a household name, Augustus Owsley Stanley III, a.k.a. Bear, was an underground hippie legend who some say is largely responsible for the zeitgeist of the 1960s counterculture...

Nov 29, 2020 · Initially designed by artist Bob Thomas to appear on the back cover of the band’s 1973 release, The History of the Grateful Dead, Volume 1 (Bear’s Choice), the bears have become deeply ingrained in the culture surrounding the Grateful Dead, and have taken on layers of symbolic meaning over the years.

It's been said that the Grateful Dead bears first appeared as a design on Owsley's blotter acid but I was under the impression that he sold his acid in the form of pills that resembled small barrels. At least that's what I read somewhere, I could be wrong, probably only he knows for sure.

Owsley Stanley, known as Bear to his friends, was a diversely talented, iconic figure of the 1960s. While perhaps most widely known as the “Acid King” for his early role manufacturing the highest quality LSD to help fuel the psychedelic revolution of the 1960s, he was a self-educated innovator, scientist, artist, and patron of the arts with ...

Mar 13, 2011 · Owsley Stanley was the first underground chemist to mass produce high-quality LSD in the 1960s. While born Augustus Owsley Stanley III, he is widely known by simply Owsley or the nickname "Bear". He served 18 months in the Air Force during the 1950s.

Nov 14, 2016 · Owsley Stanley, better known as the Bear, was the acid hero the 60s never knew it had. In a new biography, find out more about the life of this LSD preacher than ever before. His friends just knew him as The Bear.

Nov 19, 2016 · Augustus Owsley Stanley III (later nicknamed Bear) was born on Jan. 19, 1935. His grandfather, Augustus Owsley Stanley, had been a US senator and the governor of Kentucky. The...