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Subject:Re: Owsley died
From:Rob
Date:Sat, 19 Mar 2011 13:06:46 -0700

I again disagree with you Ben, just because you don't have a
connection between Owsley and the VWs doesn't mean that it's not
there. FWIW I did think about this before I sent it.
Then again this is your list not mine. I'll stop.

Rob

At  3/19/2011 12:20 PM,BenT Syncro wrote:
>Comments best reserved for Friday. I've read the full article. He's
>an interesting fellow but nothing remotely connecting him to
>Vanagons or even VW buses. Unless you consider the Grateful Dead
>stickers as Vanagon related. Nevertheless, Friday please.
>
>
>BenT
>Mod
>
>On Mar 19, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Rob <becida@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
>
> > Some people will make the connection between Owsley and the VW bus
> > (Vanagon)....
> >
> > Rob
> > becidarob@gmail.com
> > ````````````````````````````````````
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/us/15stanley.html?_r=1
> >
> > March 14, 2011
> > Owsley Stanley, Artisan of Acid, Is Dead at 76
> > By MARGALIT FOX
> > Owsley Stanley, the prodigiously gifted applied chemist to the stars,
> > who made LSD in quantity
> > for the Grateful Dead, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Ken Kesey and other
> > avatars of the
> > psychedelic '60s, died on Sunday in a car accident in Australia. He
> > was 76 and lived in the
> > bush near Cairns, in the Australian state of Queensland.