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 ...

Owsley Stanley was known as the foremost underground LSD chemist of the 1960s. But he was also an exacting pioneer of live concert sound, a man who helped invent both monitor systems and high ...

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 ...

Way out in the western hills of Sonoma County where no one can hear it, Owsley “Bear” Stanley’s personal speaker system is cranking Doc and Merle Watson’s version of “Tennessee Stud ...

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 his adopted home country ...

The Allman Brothers Band and the Owsley Stanley Foundation are set to release a newly restored and mastered version of “Bear” Stanley’s recording of an early ABB performance at the iconic ...

On February 23, the Owsley “Bear” Stanley Foundation will drop the 10th chapter of Bear’s Sonic Journals: Sing Out! The impending release captures the longtime Grateful Dead soundman’s ...

Among those who made a profound difference in the way a lot of people look at the politics of America, LSD chemist and 1960s counter-culture figure Augustus Owsley Stanley III, aka “Bear ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Owsley "Bear" Stanley, a 1960s counterculture icon who worked with The Grateful Dead and was a prolific LSD producer, died in a car crash in Australia, his family said.