Word: owsley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Haight Ashbury days, the Grateful Dead. Owlsley was the chemist in the Electric Kool Aid Acid Test who mixed up the best acid on the coast, and who personally mixed up the kool aid for the acid test for Kesey, the Dead, and the Merry Pranksters in 1967. Now Owsley the brilliant technician had helped design the sound system for the Grateful Dead, which had two innovations -- cross phasing and a digital delay unit. Cross phasing is the placing of two microphones aimed at the singer so that, after the sound comes out of the mixing unit, the voice...
...TIME'S Press section of Jan. 24, you reported the arrest of Courier-Journal Reporter Frank Ashley in Owsley County, Ky., on charges of impersonating a lawyer in order to interview prisoners in a jail. Ashley had earlier written several articles about nepotism in a federal job program in Owsley County. It was a clear case of a reporter being harassed by local officials who disliked his stories. Ashley came to trial, after a change of venue, in Lee County Circuit Court in June. The jury acquitted him of the charges after deliberating only 23 minutes...
...Owsley County in eastern Kentucky is one of the nation's poorest. Its 5,023 people scrape by on a per capita income of $500 a year, mostly from tobacco or moonshining. Unemployment runs at 24%. No trains or buses stop in Booneville, the county seat, and the people are largely left alone in their poverty. Then, in November, Frank Ashley of the Louisville Courier-Journal came to town...
...reporter was assigned to find out how a $50,500 federal appropriation to create jobs was being spent. Nobody argued with the need for such funds, but a few local citizens thought that County Judge Elijah Campbell, Owsley's chief administrator, had a peculiar way of parceling out the jobs. Acting on a tip, Ashley found that Judge Campbell had appointed his wife as his executive secretary at $400 a month, and his niece as secretary to the county clerk at $300 a month. Sheriff Charley Mclntosh had taken on his wife as an assistant at $227 a month...
Dead concerts, once a revered institution, underwent similar changes. The fabled rapport between the group and there fans (and Owsley) was no longer in evidence. Jerry Garcia once said, "The perfect Dead concert would be one in which everyone is onstage playing." (That, I would suggest, is much more to the heart of the notion of "Art for the People" than free, passive enjoyment of the creative efforts of a few.) Unfortunately, the People made the band into unreachable objects of adulation. They were heroes of the media, the center of as much creative energy as applause can ever represent...