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. Stanley first ...

Owsley Stanley, an icon of Bay Area counterculture in the 1960s and a longtime associate of the Grateful Dead, died Sunday in a car accident in his adopted home of Queensland, Australia, according to ...

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," with ...

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 final recording ...

Owsley “Bear” Stanley’s long, strange trip has ended. He was 76. Stanley was a core figure in the drug scene that underpinned hippie culture, producing an estimated one pound of pure LSD – enough for ...

Owsley "Bear" Stanley, pioneering audio engineer for the Grateful Dead, died in a car crash near his home in Australia on March 13. The sound designer, artist, and counterculture icon was perhaps best ...

In BEAR: The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III, award winning author and biographer Robert Greenfield brings readers the definitive biography of a Grateful Dead legend—Augustus Owsley ...

The original jam band, The Grateful Dead owed their huge popularity to their marathon live concerts rather than the studio recordings they made between 1965 and 1995. Much of their early success can ...

People talk about the culture wars in the United States as being at the core of what just happened in our recent election cycle drama. Among those who made a profound difference in the way a lot of ...

CANBERRA, AustraliaCANBERRA, Australia — 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 ...

Owsley Stanley was a counterculture transformer famous for the purity of two things: the LSD he cooked up and the rock 'n' roll sound system he created. He died in a car crash last week in Australia, ...