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 Dead ...

But far fewer remember Owsley Stanley. Stanley, who died Saturday at age 76, was arguably as pivotal as Leary and Kesey for altering minds in the turbulent ‘60s. Among a legion of youthful ...

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 ...

On March 12th, the extended Grateful Dead family lost one of its most crucial allies and collaborators when Owsley Stanley – the band’s one-time soundman, in-house chemist, intellectual ...

The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III” (Thomas Dunne Books, $25.99), his engaging new biography of the infamous 1960s “acid king.” Calling from his office in Carmel, Greenfield ...

Owsley was horrified by the way Kesey and the Pranksters were messing with people's minds. Technological Innovation Stanley played a role in pioneering various sound systems that helped create the ...

Owsley Stanley died Sunday in Australia. He designed the Grateful Dead's logo, was their sound man, and was the inspiration for their "dancing bear" logo. He was Steely Dan's "Kid Charlemagne ...

Longtime Grateful Dead confidant Owsley “Bear” Stanley died in a car crash near his home in Australia earlier today. Though his exact age was not known, Stanley was believed to be 75.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Owsley "Bear" Stanley, a 1960s counterculture figure who flooded the flower power scene with LSD and was an early benefactor of the Grateful Dead, died in a car crash in ...