Robert Greenfield's new Book "Bear" The Life & Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III
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- Опубліковано 28 лис 2016
- Author Robert Greenfield discusses his book, "Bear" The Life & Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III , Booksmith, San Francisco, November 28, 2016
Music Critic Joel Selvin and John Perry Barlow show up
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John Barlow once told the guitarist that he was considering going “out front” to frolic among the Deadheads in the parking lot.
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“I would, man, if I could,” Garcia wistfully told Barlow.
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“He wanted to be with the Deadheads,” John revealed to writer Robert Greenfield. “He said, ‘I would, man, if I could. It looks a lot safer out there. But how would I know ?’”
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I met the Bear in Copenhagen, Denmark.The Grateful Dead were doing the European Tour in the Fall of 1990.The train timetable (big Thomas Cook) showed a passenger car going out with freight.Got to the track and one person was there.My friend Kieth and I rode in the same compartment with Bear from Copenhagen to Amersfoort Holland.What an interesting man.TRUE stories!
good story! Thanks for sharing it
Wonderful, I could listen to this for hours… Bear was a unique character and everything I’ve read and heard about him I wish he was alive today.... we need more people with big brains that figure shit out and are not afraid of pushing the boundaries....✌️👽🕉
Writing from Nanjing, China: Bought new from a Dead show mail order ticket brochure listing, I've always worn my treasured Bear 1983 Steal Your Face serial #2 signed/numbered belt buckle including when he died which was during my two years living in Lhasa, Tibet. My first Dead show was 12/16/78 Nashville, a couple weeks prior to their Closing of Winterland.... RIP Bear WALSTIB
In 1984 a bunch of us went to see the Dead. We're chatting during the set break, and this guy comes up to my sister, who had a necklace with a small chunk of gold, which was her husbands grandmothers wedding ring melted down. The guy just reaches out and lifts it closer so he could inspect it. My brother in law was taken aback, but I immediately spotted the guy had a tour laminate on, with just Bear to identify who he was. I said to my brother in law he's cool, and it just turned out Bear was just interested in her necklace. In retrospect we should have asked him for some of his wares.
Mc Daniels good story thanks for sharing it
Great story, McD...Doesnt it seem that all the interesting people in this world are in the process of transcendence, or already have? It really makes me sad...I am sooo thankful for people such as yourself - sharing firsthand stories, and UA-cam..allowing me to research these fascinating and indelible personalities!
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cool that john perry barlow managed to be there. a perfect complement to reading the book. this youtube provides an immersive haight street literary experience. a total treat!...
Did you read the book?
Love it how he just dropped how Lennon wrote his Songs.. with Owsley's acid haha
"...Blow up your kitchen in the Salinas Valley" Lmfao! What a nice surprise too from John Perry Barlow. Bear made the best LSD. I can vouch for that. Made me a better, kinder and more loving person.
Shared a cup of koolade with the bear behind stage at Aaron Russo Russo's kinetic playground in Chicago 1966 along with the mothers of Invention those were the days
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Cool talk, thanks for sharing! He was right about the cancer and glucose. Studies are now revealing its true
i dont think psychedelics ever went away, we took lots of psychedelics all through the 80s, and there was quite a large scene on the east coast of australia.............i prefer mushrooms personaly....psychedelics are very special.......allways remember set and setting
@James Town yeah.....that too......cheers
totally agree,last spring I came across some mushrooms,first trip in 20 years,it was so beautiful,i work a high stress job that drug tests 2x a month,I'm safe with those,once a month and my stress and anger are under control,noticing the beauty in life again.
set & setting i think should also take into account our inner state, what is pressing on us, recent or long standing worries, i wouldn't recommend a trip to someone going thru a breakup, who just lost someone close to them, or is emotionally wrapped up in some turmoil.
then again, though it may not go easy, maybe it can help?
but if you take it, you have to go with it, maybe the acid can help get u through, breakthrough some stuff in unexpected ways..?
alls i know is i have ptsd from some of those trips, ones that were like living un-estimable numbers of lives←←←←⟵(o_O)
Entertaining.
What about Nick Sand at Millbrook? Didn't he make it before Bear?
I got to test some purple Owsley in '67. Amazing - we had ESP.
Bear was very secretive.
“He(Owsley)came back in 1965 with 800,000 doses” well..from where!? from Sandoz? Bear knew many of the heavy hitters getting legal Sandoz LSD back then. Guys like Oscar Janiger, Charles Savage, Nicholas Bercel, Humphrey Osmond, Abram Hoffer, Duncan Blewett, & the one & only Al Hubbard. All these guys were well outfitted with LSD. Not to say Bear couldn’t make it as it sounds like he made plenty.
That's exactly the point you're mentioning. Whether he was still getting some from those sources or not, he wanted to have his own known pure dose, in his hands - so he and Melissa synthesized it.
There were Claims that Douglas George gave Owsley his first dose of LSD. No confirmation or evidence to say one way or another if this is a fact..…
I always wondered how many of the intelligence community were at these events......knowing ....I assume ....that they sampled the product and embraced it....yet enforced the twisted laws of the evil empire.....
A fair number!
Great talk but who the hell is the guy goin "hm" like every 20 seconds
Starfinder owsleys son is in the audience and is rhe one who asked about kids and lsd ...YOU CAN HEAR OWLSEYS VOICE IN HIS SONS VOICE AT 48:00...he asked about himself (owseleys kids) listen to starfinders voice! You can hear jewelry in his sons voice
Not correct. Starfinder was not in the audience
Owsley's all-meat diet = all the rage these days.
On the ferry from Sweden to Denmark, I headed to the restaurant.Man was several people ahead of me arguing with the order taker.Man in line wants 2 burger patties only. No bread,lettuce, etc..,patties only.He tells order taker he will pay burger price but wants only patties. Can't sell only patties, must sell complete burger.IT was Bear.
Certainly ahead of his time with such a great way of eating!
@@annettelade9479 Annette Lade? Don't expect me to step into it. Sorry. You must hear that joke all the time. LOL.
I just started his eating plan three months ago. I feel great. The benefits are true. He was a great man taken too early.
Well...what I cannot understand is why some leaders in the acid world advocated surprise dosing of people. This is not only disrespectful to the magical compound, it is one of the most inhumane things you could do to someone!!!
Damon
Do You Mean LIKE THE UNINTED STATES GOVERNMENTS AGENCYS DID!! ??????
INEXCUSABLE HUH?
WELL ROME TOO FELL BY THE WAYSIDE......
SHOOT THIS FUKKING PIG IN THE HEAD ALREADY
USA HAS RAN ITS COURSE & THEN SOME......
TIME FOR PHOENIX TO RISE FROM THIS STEAMING PILE OF SHITT.
MAY GOD BLESS & KEEP YOU A.O.S.
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Well Damon,
What people like yourself will never understand is that sometimes the situation calls for people to be dosed unknowingly and without their consent. I have been dosed unexpectedly and have done the same to others...You’re either on the bus or you’re off the bus...no exceptions
Def NOT on the bus MFR
It was one of Owsley's many failures. I tend to lean towards Shulgin's view on the matter, who was a real alchemist and practically the reason why all of this happened, whether people know it or not. You never dose the unwilling or unwitting
@@jimbarnes8190 That makes no sense. It is extremely hazardous rude and inhumane to dose someone without their knowledge. it was wrong to do it to you. What you are talking about with respect to being on or off the bus had to do with going on along with the convictions of the people who voluntarily were on the Pranksters bus.
I knew Bears East Coast guy. NYC,60's.
36:17 the gremlin looking back at the question asker xDDD
Isn't Joel a pariah in the scene?
i wish the dead had moved to australia,...........love from downunder!!
I'm so grateful that they didn't!!
Wait! Albert Hoffman took .5 (point five) milligrams of LSD for his first official experiment on the 25th synthesis. This guy is wrong. He says he took 250 milligrams. Let's see. One milligram is 1000 micro grams so he's saying Albert Hoffman took 250,000 micrograms. That's dead wrong. Albert Hoffman himself says on the LSD documentary that he took
.5 milligrams, which is 500 micrograms.
And that he said was "very very strong."
If you took 250,000 micrograms a spaceship would definitely land and aliens would grab your lifeless body and take you with them to the absolute center of space never to return 😂
It's interesting that he makes no mention of Millbrook, the Stanford trials or MKULTRA. He is also incorrect on several key points, and seems not to realize the important role Sasha Shulgin had in all this (or anything about who Shulgin was). He also doesn't realize Starfinder is in the audience talking to him about kids and LSD :D
Owsley seems to have been somewhat of an iconoclast, and harbored some bizarre and incorrect beliefs, I also suspect he might have been an Asperger's syndrome person, having such intent focus and not so good at social skills.
I agree. He sounds to be very Aspergers.. Highly focussed, intolerant of discussion, and with difficulty picking up social cues.
In my experience most highly intelligent people who are also creative have strange beliefs, often they turn out to be dead-on. It’s also a bit harder to fit in when you’re miles ahead of your peers intellectually. Not fitting in amplifies ones nervousness, and it becomes a feedback loop
@@przybyla420 yes I agree but strange and unfounded was my reference, as in owsley's strange all meat diet. He wasn't a chemist but worked with one and somehow learned enough seat if the pants, so he could direct this associate to produce some of the best acid eve made, or so the lore goes.
The all-meat diet isn’t as strange as it used to be, as I understand it the link between high cholesterol and saturated fat is somewhat shaky. Low incidences of heart disease in Italy and France where they eat a ton of saturated fat. Anecdotally, the only guy I’ve know that’s had a quadruple bi-pass surgery has been nearly vegan for forty years.