Owsley Stanley, RIP

What a long strange trip it's been. Now you are all around us.

Purple Haze. Blue Cheer. Orange Sunshine. Just a few of Owsley's famous products. Rest In Peace Owsley Stanley. You helped to expand the minds of thousands and thousands and thousands and....

Purple Haze was in my brain, lately things don't seem the same, actin' funny but I don't know why 'sxcuse me while I kiss the sky.

- Jimi Hendrix -

While the music played you worked by candlelight, those San Francisco nights You were the best in town. Just by chance you crossed the diamond with the pearl. You turned it on the world. That's when you turned the world around. Did you feel like Jesus? Did you realize you were a champion in their eyes? On the Hill the stuff was laced with kerosene, but yours was kitchen clean. Everyone stopped to stare at your technicolor motor home. Every A-Frame had your number on the wall. You must have had it all. You'd go to LA on a dare, and you'd go it alone. Could you live forever? Could you see the day? Could you see your whole world fall apart and fade away? Get along, get along Kid Charlemagne. Get along Kid Charlemagne. Now your patrons have all left you in the red. Your low rent friends are dead. This life can be very strange. All those dayglow freaks who used to paint their face, they joined the human race. Some things will never change. Son, you were mistaken. You are obsolete. Look at all the white men on the street. Get along, get along Kid Charlemagne. Get along Kid Charlemagne. Clean this mess up else we'll all end up in jail. The test tubes and the scale, just get them all out of here. Is there gas in the car? Yes, there's gas in the car. I think the people down the hall know who you are. Careful what you carry, cause the Man is wise. You are still an outlaw in their eyes. Get along, get along Kid Charlemagne. Get along Kid Charlemagne.

- Steely Dan -

RIP Owsley Stanley.

One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small. And the ones that mother gives you don't do anything at all.

- Jefferson Airplane -