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Book Title
Owsley and Me : My Lsd Family
Publication Name
Owsley and Me
Title
Owsley and Me
Subtitle
My LSD Family
Author
Rhoney Gissen Stanley, Tom Davis
Format
Trade Paperback
EAN
9780983358930
ISBN
9780983358930
Publisher
Monkfish Book Publishing Company
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Music, Psychology, Body, Mind & Spirit, History, Social Science
Topic
Entheogens & Visionary Substances, United States / 20th Century, Sociology / General, Personal Memoirs, Psychopathology / Addiction, Genres & Styles / Rock
Release Date
30/05/2013
Release Year
2013
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.7in
Item Length
8.5in
Item Weight
14 Oz
Publication Year
2013
Item Width
5.5in
Number of Pages
260 Pages

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Owsley and Me is a love story set against the background of the Psychedelic Revolution of the '60s. Owsley 'Bear' Stanley met her in Berkeley in 1965, when LSD was still legal and he was the world's largest producer and distributor of LSD. Rhoney found herself working in an LSD laboratory, and the third corner in a love triangle. We all know the stories from the 60s -- but never from the point of view of a woman finding her way through twisted trails of love, jealousy, and paranoia, all the while personally connecting to the most iconic events and people of her time. Bear supported the Grateful Dead in their early years and gave away as much LSD as he sold -- millions of hits. He designed and engineered the infamous Wall of Sound system of the early '70s, just before he began his two years in prison, with Rhoney raising their infant son. He died one year ago, but the era he helped create is now being rediscovered by a new generation interested in the meaning of it all.

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Publisher
Monkfish Book Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0983358931
ISBN-13
9780983358930
eBay Product ID (ePID)
143658492

Product Key Features

Book Title
Owsley and Me : My Lsd Family
Author
Rhoney Gissen Stanley, Tom Davis
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Entheogens & Visionary Substances, United States / 20th Century, Sociology / General, Personal Memoirs, Psychopathology / Addiction, Genres & Styles / Rock
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Music, Psychology, Body, Mind & Spirit, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
260 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
14 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Hv5822.5.L9g57 2012
Reviews
"Owsley was a key 1960s figure, who some would say "turned on" a generation more so than even Tim Leary, but his own life has long been shrouded in mystery. Here's a firsthand recollection, as "intimate" as is likely to be penned...Here are firsthand backstage accounts of the Monterey Pop Festival, Woodstock, Altamont, and much more ... with various Beatles, Stones, San Francisco musicians, of course, and other famed counterculture figures popping in and out."--Huffington Post "OWSLEY AND ME is totally geared toward people who have an interest in the music of the time, but also one of the most influential characters of all of drug culture. Think of it as the real BREAKING BAD, just with more peace and love, and a whole lot less guns and dead bodies."--Bookgasm "Famous people--Timothy Leary, Jerry Garcia, Ravi Shankar, Jimi Hendrix, Ken Kesey--wander in and out of the story, which delivers a vivid, behind-the-scenes look at the 1960s counterculture. A nostalgia trip for many, to be sure, but also an involving love story that chronicles the sometimes turbulent relationship between Rhoney and Owsley."--Booklist Vanity Fair - April issue "Hot Type" "My LSD Family is an oddly sweet-hearted and heartwarming tome, while also bringing back enough memories to hopefully fuel many memories long forgotten on others' parts."--Woodstock Times "Stanley isn't preaching about redemption, salvation, or crawling out of the pits of drug abuse. She's taking us on a tour of her youth and, fortunately for us, the sights and sounds are colorful and vividly described. If you weren't there yourself, after reading this memoir, odds are, you'll wish you had been."-Blogcritics "In this wild memoir of life with the media-crowned "Acid King," she (Gissen Stanley) captures the perfectionist genius who also transformed audio technology, created jewelry, advocated a carnivorous diet and studied to be a ballet dancer."--High Times Magazine "Stanley's memoir is an impressionistic kaleidoscope of the tumultuous times that informed the birth of the Haight and the genesis of the Dead, and her reminiscences help us better understand the complex currents that made that era so iconic, powerful, and still misunderstood."--Grateful Dead Archive "Owsley and Me: My LSD Family" is a heartfelt memoir of the author's college years and her love affair with Owsley "Bear" Stanley, who was the pre-eminent producer of LSD in the United States in the 1960s."--Poughkeepsie Journal, Owsley was a key 1960s figure, who some would say "turned on" a generation more so than even Tim Leary, but his own life has long been shrouded in mystery. Here's a firsthand recollection, as "intimate" as is likely to be penned…Here are firsthand backstage accounts of the Monterey Pop Festival, Woodstock, Altamont, and much more … with various Beatles, Stones, San Francisco musicians, of course, and other famed counterculture figures popping in and out."--Huffington Post OWSLEY AND ME is totally geared toward people who have an interest in the music of the time, but also one of the most influential characters of all of drug culture. Think of it as the real BREAKING BAD, just with more peace and love, and a whole lot less guns and dead bodies."--Bookgasm Famous people—Timothy Leary, Jerry Garcia, Ravi Shankar, Jimi Hendrix, Ken Kesey—wander in and out of the story, which delivers a vivid, behind-the-scenes look at the 1960s counterculture. A nostalgia trip for many, to be sure, but also an involving love story that chronicles the sometimes turbulent relationship between Rhoney and Owsley."--Booklist Vanity Fair -- April issue Hot Type" My LSD Family is an oddly sweet-hearted and heartwarming tome, while also bringing back enough memories to hopefully fuel many memories long forgotten on others' parts."--Woodstock Times "Stanley isn't preaching about redemption, salvation, or crawling out of the pits of drug abuse. She's taking us on a tour of her youth and, fortunately for us, the sights and sounds are colorful and vividly described. If you weren't there yourself, after reading this memoir, odds are, you'll wish you had been."-Blogcritics "In this wild memoir of life with the media-crowned "Acid King," she (Gissen Stanley) captures the perfectionist genius who also transformed audio technology, created jewelry, advocated a carnivorous diet and studied to be a ballet dancer."--High Times Magazine "Stanley's memoir is an impressionistic kaleidoscope of the tumultuous times that informed the birth of the Haight and the genesis of the Dead, and her reminiscences help us better understand the complex currents that made that era so iconic, powerful, and still misunderstood."--Grateful Dead Archive "Owsley and Me: My LSD Family" is a heartfelt memoir of the author's college years and her love affair with Owsley Bear" Stanley, who was the pre-eminent producer of LSD in the United States in the 1960s."--Poughkeepsie Journal, "Owsley was a key 1960s figure, who some would say "turned on" a generation more so than even Tim Leary, but his own life has long been shrouded in mystery. Here's a firsthand recollection, as "intimate" as is likely to be penned...Here are firsthand backstage accounts of the Monterey Pop Festival, Woodstock, Altamont, and much more ... with various Beatles, Stones, San Francisco musicians, of course, and other famed counterculture figures popping in and out."--Huffington Post "OWSLEY AND ME is totally geared toward people who have an interest in the music of the time, but also one of the most influential characters of all of drug culture. Think of it as the real BREAKING BAD, just with more peace and love, and a whole lot less guns and dead bodies."--Bookgasm "Famous people--Timothy Leary, Jerry Garcia, Ravi Shankar, Jimi Hendrix, Ken Kesey--wander in and out of the story, which delivers a vivid, behind-the-scenes look at the 1960s counterculture. A nostalgia trip for many, to be sure, but also an involving love story that chronicles the sometimes turbulent relationship between Rhoney and Owsley."--Booklist Vanity Fair - April issue "Hot Type" "My LSD Family is an oddly sweet-hearted and heartwarming tome, while also bringing back enough memories to hopefully fuel many memories long forgotten on others' parts."--Woodstock Times "Stanley isn't preaching about redemption, salvation, or crawling out of the pits of drug abuse. She's taking us on a tour of her youth and, fortunately for us, the sights and sounds are colorful and vividly described. If you weren't there yourself, after reading this memoir, odds are, you'll wish you had been."-Blogcritics
Copyright Date
2012
Lccn
2013-000166
Dewey Decimal
362.294092
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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