![]() ![]() On the back cover of the album the bears are seen marching in a circle. I thought the effect was pretty cool - and yes, I know, I'm very easily amused. I discovered this when I had all the images in one folder on my computer and I quickly clicked through them. If you lined them up in a flip book and flipped through them quickly they would look like they were actually marching along. The proper order is purple, green, yellow, orange, red. They are arranged in a certain order for the marching positions to flow naturally. There's five different bears - each one is a different color and drawn in a different marching position. He was inspired by a generic lead slug for a bear he found in a printer's box of fonts. In keeping with the album's theme Thomas incorporated bears in the cover art. He also recorded the music and produced the entire album. He also created the "Steal Your Face" - the Dead's well known skull and lightning bolt logo - and painted the cover for the album Live/Dead.īear's Choice was a tribute to Pigpen who had recently passed away and all the tracks were selected by Owsley. They were created by Bob Thomas - an old friend of Bear's who was an accomplished artist and musician in his own right. The first official appearance of the Grateful Dead bears as we know them was on the back cover of the album Bear's choice. There's always been a lot of mystery surrounding Augustus Owsley Stanley III. Whether any of this is true - I really don't know. Supposedly his friends dubbed it the "dancing bear" and this is where the term originates from. I've read that Owsley developed a very unique form of dancing at concerts while high on acid. The name stuck and people still refer to him as Bear to this day. He was given this moniker by his friends in his childhood because he grew a lot of body hair at a young age. It's well known that Owsley's nickname is Bear. It's said that the massive amounts of high quality acid he produced in his lab were largely responsible for the beginning of the summer of love and the whole San Francisco scene in the Sixties. A man of many talents, he was both a chemist and the sound wizard involved with the creation of the Dead's famous PA system - the "wall of sound". Owsley is, of course, the famous "LSD millionaire" who was the sound engineer for the band when they first started out. At least that's what I read somewhere, I could be wrong, probably only he knows for sure. ![]() Heart: cut grass, green rhubarb, gardenia, rose and heliotrope petalsĭrydown: butterscotch, ylang ylang and Madagascar vanillaĭimensions: Approximately 10.16 x 16.It's been said that the Grateful Dead bears first appeared as a design on Owsley's blotter acid but I was under the impression that he sold his acid in the form of pills that resembled small barrels. Top Notes: apple, wild strawberry, Indian mint, star anise, orange terpenes and clove bud Joya designs and manufactures original fragrances and scented objects in New York City. In typical fashion, they see their model (Bertha)-and the world-through bear-colored lenses: Fresh, free-spirited imagination fueled by joy and a little bad behavior and, of course, candy. Dead Heads Unite! We developed unique art candles that celebrate the Grateful Dead's legacy and iconography. Now, the iconic Dancing Bears are immortalized as Scented Wax Sculptures!Īvailable in three colorways and fragrance, the scents are familiar, mouth-watering, candy-inspired and presented as a sophisticated experience-confusing, activating and delighting your chemical senses.Inspired by the artists, ceramicists and designers we work with every day, our “Art School Kids”are represented by the iconic Dancing Bears.
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