Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John is sharing selections from the Off-Ramp vault to help you explore this imperfect paradise.
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Owsley Stanley died Sunday in Australia. He designed the Grateful Dead's logo, was their sound man, and was the inspiration for their "dancing bear" logo. He was Steely Dan's "Kid Charlemagne," with artistic license, because he was the main LSD manufacturer in the drug's early days in San Francisco ("every A-Frame had your number on the wall...").
And he was friend and roommate to Charles Perry, longtime LA Times food writer, who took his first acid trip courtesy Stanley. Perry told us about Stanley in 2008. Listen here and CLICK THROUGH for his remembrance of Stanley for LA Observed.