Bear (Owsley) Stanley: Considered by many as one of the underground legends of the sixties counterculture, Bear Stanley was the best acid chemist of his generation, turning on heads from the Haight Ashbury, to the Beatles and beyond. Bear was a minor participant in the Acid Tests of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. He was the first underground cook to produce high-purity LSD in the 1960s, when it was legal, including the famous White Lightning and Monterey Purple. Nowadays Stanley denies his heroic status, and spends time in Far North Queensland working on sculptures, and writing essays on various subjects.. He is renowned for his contribution to sound engineering, particularly working with live gig iconoclasts, the Grateful Dead, and perfecting the idea of on-stage monitors and high quality PAs. A tireless archivist, he kept a 'diary' of his front-of-house mixes, including hundreds of Grateful Dead performances, and has seen the release of a number of albums from his "sonic journal" tapes of PA mixes. [www.thebear.org]
"Drunk at the matinee" is a collection of candid poetry about stupid shit that we all experience from day to day.
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