Owsley “Bear” Stanely, the guy credited with making around five million tabs of the purest, bestest acid anywhere during the 60s, died yesterday in a car accident in Australia.
In addition to being the best drug dealer/producer of the hippie era, he was also the sound engineer for The Dead, and everyone from Jimi Hendrix to Frank Zappa made references to him or his drugs in their songs (rumor has it that Purple Haze was written about his acid).
