EGA- Bear Owsley Headlining - FRI 6-MON 9 NOV - Last Tix

[RonnySimulacrum]

Entheogenesis Australis - 4 Day Outdoor Conference Gathering - Fri 6th to Mon 9th Nov 2009

Entheogenesis Australis (EGA) is a not-for-profit association that exists to create a supportive environment to foster mature, open discussion about psychoactive plants and chemicals. EGA hosts an annual conference to encourage informed dialogue on the role of such sacraments in culture, history, spirituality, art and sciences. EGA addresses many of the myths surrounding psychoactive chemicals and also examines aspects of safety, harm reduction, psychology and the law within an Australian context.

EGA 2009 will create a space for growth of the spirit, mind and body, hosting over 25 expert speakers from around Australia and abroad. The speakers make up the backbone of our event and are supported by a great host of other fantastic happenings including discussion panels/groups, workshops and performances. This will take place over 4 days in November nestled in the beautiful Strathbogie Ranges in north east Victoria, Australia.

Our aspiration is to create an active, transformative experience and cultivate a community ethos and feel, through the synergy of science, art, and ritual. We aim to create inspiring spaces that reflect and resonate with the overall philosophy of the event. The main conference space will be a work of art in its own right. Accompanying it will be the ~Mykopod~ space designed to help you 'relax ~ connect ~ integrate' during the gathering. To additionally help you tune in and play your part in the EGA experience, there will also be a healing tent, meditative crystal mandala dome and a visionary art space all connected by a very lush market area.

The event will also host a communal banquet, some ambient music and films as well as Masquerade Corroboree to keep you all on your toes.

We hope you can join us in the trees for an exploration of more than mind, body and spirit.

EGA 2009 Program

Bear (Owsley) Stanley

Talk 1 - 'The economic consequences of black markets, specifically in reference to drug prohibition'.

Talk 2 - 'The effects of certain psychedelics on mind function, including interactions with electronic circuits- a possible route to mental machine control'

"By conservative estimates, Bear Research Group made more than 1.25 million doses of LSD between 1965 and 1967, essentially seeding the entire modern psychedelic movement" - Joel Selvin

Bio

Considered by many as one of the legends of the sixties counterculture, Bear Stanley denies his heroic status, and spends his days working on various sculptures and writing essays on subjects such as the importance of carbon dioxide, the primary and only ‘plant food’, to the expansion of food crops and life on earth. Fair and equitable taxation (equal and low percentage on all ‘income), a proper runoff method to determine the results of elections, and how to unify and balance lawmaking. Writing laws in ordinary language rather than legalese. Including ‘sunset clauses’ to allow change to adjust to the rapid changes in today’s world-- amongst others. He is renowned for his contribution to sound engineering, particularly working with live gig iconoclasts, the Grateful Dead, and perfecting the idea of on-stage monitors and high quality PA’s. A tireless archivist, he kept a ‘diary’ of his front-of-house mixes, including hundreds of Grateful Dead performances, and has seen the release of a number of albums from his “sonic journal” tapes of PA mixes. Bear was a minor participant in the Acid Tests of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. He was the first underground cook to produce high-purity LSD in the 1960s, when it was legal, including the famous White Lightning and Monterey Purple. Bear Stanley now lives in Australia.

http://www.thebear.org/

Robert Jesse

Talk 1 - 'Psilocybin and Spirituality:Notes from the Johns Hopkins Study'

Talk 2 -'(Entheogens), Awakening, and Spiritual Development'

Bio

Bob Jesse is organizer of the Council on Spiritual Practices (csp.org/about), which aims to shift modernity's awareness and practices with respect to primary religious experience (csp.org/PRE). CSP also encourages people to imagine and develop social contexts to contain such experiences and help them yield lasting benefit.

Through CSP, Bob and his colleagues initiated a study, conducted at Johns Hopkins (http://csp.org/psilocybin/) and reported around the world, of the psychospiritual effects of psilocybin in healthy volunteers (csp.org/psilocybin). This expands the emphasis in hallucinogen research beyond the medical treatment of ill people to include the betterment of well people, contributing to a science of pro-social development.

On his home front, Bob is co-founder of a spiritual community formed around ecstatic dance. His formal training is in engineering and lives in San Francisco.

http://csp.org/about.html

*** Other Speakers ***

Des Tramacchi - 'Entheogens and The Discarnate'

Michael Bock - 'Oils ain't oils: Essential oils in Australiasian flora'

Rak Razam - 'AYA: The Shamanic Resurgence'

Rob Bruce - 'Shamanism and Sorcery in South America - Andes and Amazonia'

Ray Thorpe - 'The Benefits of Herbs and Entheogens in Society'

Paul Elliott (Gonzo) - 'Psychedlic Literature Over the Years'

Faustus - 'Psychedlics and Psychosis: Dimethyltrytamine as an Endogenous Psychotogen'

Robin Rodd - 'Chemicals, not Symbols: The Chemical Ecology of Shamanism as a Healthcare System'

Dan Schreiber - 'Tryptamines at the End of Time - Birthing a spheroid awareness'

Jeremy J - 'Entheogenic Acacias of Australia: A review of known active species and an introduction to more previously unreported species'.

Killindi Lyi - 'The Interdimensional Village: The African Uses of Entheogens'

Stephen Bright - 'Legal Highs: Legal Loopholes or Harm reduction?'

Martin Williams - 'The Inaugural Drug Darwin Awards – A tribute to those who have pushed the boundaries in the name of psychedelic exploration and excitement'

Erik van Keulen - 'Drinking and The Other: Reflections on the Poetry and the Politics of Drinking Alcohol'

Greg Kasarik - 'Entheogens vs Drugs: Framing the Sacraments'

Stuart Smith - 'The Role of Ritual'

Penny Scott - 'Pleasure and Pain - A Brief Social History of Opiates and Their Use'

Mulga - 'Dreamtime or Delusion? Ways of seeing and the transfer of knowledge'

Richard King - The Archaic Revival Road - Whitefella Jump Up - Indigenising Guest

Australians (Kanyini, Deep Reconciliation, Power Plants & Continuum

Consciousness)

Anomalous - "Santo Daime: Ritualised Ayahuasca for Maximised Healing"

Colonel Kurtz - 'Conceptual Hallucinogens and the Altered Shulgin Scale'

Eugene (DJ Krusty) - 'The Entheogenic Shamanic Imperative of the Bush Doof Trance Dance Experience

is the Darkness of the Night or Why the daytime party is something else entirely.'

Darklight - ‘ High Tech Overdrive’

Julian Palmer - 'For what and why do we do This?'

Even Dawn – ‘About Time... Shift Happens!’

ORRYELLE DEFENESTRATE-BASCULE - 'ENTHEOGENS and MAGICAL RITUAL'

Chris Hansen - 'Me and Ralph.....'

*** Discussion Panels ***

Facilitator by Rak Razam - Spirits Of The Vine, Leaf & Flower

Join passionate plant heads sharing their experiences with psychoactive plants and their relationship to the Gaian matrix. Behind the chemistry are there active intelligences in the plant world, and if so how do we best interact with them? How can reclaiming our human-vegetal partnership help us become a sustainable culture?

* Why do we need to connect to the plant world?

* If plants can be teachers, can humans be students?

* What is our historical and bio-chemical relationship with plants?

* What does Nature have to teach us?

* What is the Australian plant kingdom’s place in the global entheo blossoming?

Facilitator by Rak Razam - REC-CHEMS: Language of the gods?

Pharmauscas glossalize and tantalize in their quest for the divine spark. What are ”rec-chems”, the thousands of new wave chemical compounds catalogued by bio-chemist Alexander Shulgin and others? What pathways do these compounds open up, and what do these keys say about the architecture of consciousness itself? Are rec-chems a neurochemical language of the divine, a “Neurobet” spoken only by a new wave of psychonautical translinguists?

* Is better living through chemistry possible, and what potentials does it offer us individually and as a species?

* What new maps of hyperspace do rec-chems open up?

* If rec-chems were integrated by society at large, would we be medicated or augmented? What are the dangers?

* Are rec-chems catalysts to transhumanity?

Facilitator by Rak Razam - Psy-Tribes: Entheogenic Communities Past, Present And Future

Is a psychedelic community merely a state of mind? Can meaningful change be manifested in the material world by an activated collective? From Elesius to the Haight Asbury, illuminated communities have pointed the way, but what would a 21st century psychedelic community be like? How do emerging technologies and sustainability dovetail with a psychedelic future?

* What models for psychedelic community both living existing, past and potential (tribes, kibbutzes, communes etc) can we draw upon?

* What is the correct place for a workable entheogen at the core of the tribe?

* What went right and what went wrong in the 60s-70s back to the earth movement?

* Is a psychedelic sustainable community the much needed step forward?

Facilitator by Julian Raxworthy - You had to be there - Psychedelia, Representation.

Its hard to describe the psychedelic experience, because, really, you had to be there, but lots of people have tried to. Accompanied by amazing images of mind bending artwork, Julian will introduce this panel with an overview about how psychedelia represents itself in literature, but particularly in art.

Facilitator by Neil Pike - The Unbroken Chain: A Hidden History of the International Drug Trade

The British Empire was founded on the back of the opium trade and to this day the trade in so-called licit and illicit drugs is one of the largest money spinners in the world. With the 20th century adoption of the US "war on drugs" model, the trade in opium became an even larger source of money and as the sun set on the British Empire it dawned on the American one. Since WW2, opium production has faithfully traced a geographical trail of US political hotspots and military engagements from Asia to Afghanistan. A simple equation of guns for drugs has allowed dictators to flourish, illegal wars to be fought and huge profits to be netted. Paranoid as it may sound, the main orchestrators and beneficiaries of this seem to have been the CIA. In the last 40 years, other drugs have also been the basis for empire - cocaine, amphetamines, marijuana, and even good old LSD. At the heart of these empires has always been a consortium of career criminals, corrupt cops and shadowy intelligence operatives. From the CIA-funded opium armies in Laos to Ron Stark helping to flood the world with acid, from Nugan Hand to Mark Standen, this panel will examine this history.

*** Discussion Groups ***

Robert Jesse – ‘Communities of Spirit’

Margaret Cross – ‘Keeping it Real Shamanism 101’

Shane Huebner – ‘The Crazy Cactus Wisdom of Chavin-Ancient Knowledge-Hidden Truths!’

*** Workshops ***

Torsten and Brian - 'Propagation of ethnobotanicals and plant trade space'

Keith King - 'Spreading The Mycelial Love- Introduction to cultivating woodlovers'

Becca Dakini and Don Peyote - Talk & Sound Workshop -'Eternal Now – Keys To Being Present in the Moment As the Observer of the Ego'

Timothy John Payne - Dyad Workshop - 'Dichotomy – the Face and the Core'

Jewelli Dollman - 'Dropping with the Devas - Austrlian Bushflower Essences'

Kitty Forest - 'Non-violent community action'

Natasja Sproat - 'Yoga - Exploring the Physical and Energetic Body'

Even Dawn - 'The Art of Time'

Michele Maselli - 'Yoga and Consciousness'

Richard King - 'The Experience of Delightenment (A modern application of Thundernaut Shamanism. Electro Luminescent Efflluve and Sound as an Earth Sacrament)'

Helga Maria Lovejoy - 'Plants, their consciousness, healing properties and how to connect deeper to them'

* Da Masquerade Corroboree *

Dj Krustys - Da Masquerade Corroboree - An Experimental Sayonara PSY Soiree/workshop

http://www.entheo.net/KrustyMasqueradeCorroborree.pdf

**** EGArts ****

Art contributions for EGA'09 have evolved and grown enormously, everybody attending this year's event is in for a massive treat!

Featuring well over a massive 200 square metres of visionary banner arts and hand painted canvases, giant interactive luminous bionic sculptures, a labyrinth, a crystal mandala housed in a tipi, aural valve tuned hifi sound scapes, visual projections, flags, hammocks, chill lounge and live art space!

'EGArts' will be an inspirational experience for all senses and provide a vast and detailed insight into the realms of the imagination and elements intrinsic to the shamanic and visionary experience!

Contributors:

Izwoz.com.au visionary banner arts and hand painted canvases. See http://www.izwoz.com.au

Pixelogix- visionary banner arts and video projections.

Futurelic- an installation of interactive botanic organisms sculpture. The self illuminated sacred deity organisms are made from redundant machines and industrial waste reanimated into new botanic life. See http://www.futurelic.va.com.au/

Carla and Barbi- exhibiting a large collection of banner arts from Australian and international visionary artists to create a high quality visually aesthetic experience.

Pixie lou- providing a range of sculptured lighting installations, as well as a range of handmade vines and leaves to decorate the space and suit the organic plant theme of EGA.

Kylie Robinson- creating a crystal and sacred object mandala, displayed inside an 18foot tipi. the space will be similar to the one at RSF ’09 – a plant/crystal/symbolic space that all can enjoy and contribute to. please bring objects along!

Tony- Djalu -an ongoing informal workshop with the aim of completing a series of large scale mosaic murals. The murals will relate intrinsically to EGA – the people, the country, the ideology, the energy, the community – and will be a representation of rainbow fella. Contribution from as many people as possible will be encouraged. The completed murals will be added to the prizes in the EGA fund raising raffle.

Imogen- creating a sculptural and poetic labyrinth created primarily of surrounding natural materials.

Pussy cat lounge- an ultra comfy chill space, bringing a bunch of soft and squishys to lounge around on!

Molecular Octave Sound System- a valve powered high fidelity surround sound system for a completely immersive auditory experience!

.....and not to forget the Hyper Spatial Chrysalis hammock space in the trees!

*** EGA Healing Temple ***

Space Coordinator: Becca Dakini

Structure: Bedouin tent

Hours: 9am – 5pm Saturday & Sunday

Featuring local & international healers & therapists, providing holistic services to all patrons of EGA free of charge – a space for personal development & healing

Jeremiah Abrams (USA)

Bio: JEREMIAH ABRAMS LCSW, MPC is a Jungian therapist, author, and teacher based in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Jeremiah is a popular teacher at Esalen Institute in California and Skyros in Greece. He has taught Depth Psychology in the graduate program at Sonoma State University and is considered a leading expert on the human shadow. His books include the best-selling Meeting the Shadow; The Shadow in America; and Reclaiming the Inner Child; and the new 3-CD audio program, The Dreamtime Journey: The Path of Direct Experience.

Liz Kerley - bodyworker, movement therapist and health counsellor

Rob Wilkie – I Ching diviner

Mike – massage therapist & energetic healer

Jenji San – bodywork & sound healer

Chris James – Tarot diviner

Cian – Huna bodywork & massage

*** EGA Market Space ***

FOOD STALLS :

1. Semilla's Kitchen - Organic vegetarian food: Breakfasts, Lunch, Dinner, Desserts.

2. Jerry's burger stall - Vegetarian burgers, chocolates, soft drinks and bottled water

3. PsyBusSpace - Chai tea, blended herbal teas, organic fairtrade coffee, hot choc. Lentil soup, Quesadillas (vegetarian and mexican wraps). Sweets - carrot/zuchini cake, chocolate balls and other treats.

OTHER STALLS:

1. Astrophyte - plant stall.

2. Logical Unsanity - Artworks, books, literature.

3. Leafy Creations - clothing, Artworks, leaf cushions and blankets.

4. Sycamore Stuff - Clothing, Artworks, dreamcatchers, wings and other things.

5. Earthpod - Plants, Nootropics/ "Smart drugs", Supplements, aphrodisiacs, Herbals.

6. Happy High Herbs - Plants, herbals etc etc.. (not specified, bet we know the go..)

7. Sage Dreaming - Sage, White sage (salvia apiana). Also will set up small space where he will smudge anyone who choses.

8. Tutu's N Stripes N All things nice - clothing

9. Cicada - Artworks and jewellery

10. Lil' n' Smith Trading House - Clothing, artworks, books, ritual and elemental tools.

11. Izwoz + Spiral Harmonics - Clothing, artworks, crystals etc..

OTHER:

1. Traditional Health Care Inc - Info desk mainly about acupuncture and herbalism.

+ EGA will have a pinch of sound

Entheogenic Artwork from around Oz and loads more... to be announced ... Get in Tune...EGA 2009 :happydance:

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EGA Ticket Pricing

EGA is a presale only event with strictly limited numbers.

14/10/09 - Latecomers Admission -- $190.00

Ticket will sell out

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EGA Tickets may purchased in person from the following locations

Melbourne

Hippy Heaven

1/186 Barkly Street St. Kilda Vic

Phone: 03 9534 9361

The Happy Herb Shop

317 Smith Street Fitzroy Vic

Phone: 03 94191277

NSW

Nimbin - Happy High Herbs

58A Cullen Street, Nimbim

Phone: 02 6689 1365

Sydney - Newtown - Happy High Herbs

347 king st, newtown

Phone:02 9550 1345

Perth

Happy High Herbs

Shop 6/20 Elder Place, Fremantle WA 6160

Phone: 08 9430 9449

Adelaide

Happy High Herbs

28 Bank St, Adelaide SA 5000

Phone: 08 8211 8885

Brisbane

Gooble Warming

73 Vulture Street, West End, Brisbane QLD 4101

Phone: 07 3844 6006

ON LINE

http://www.entheo.net/2009tickets_1st_round.htm

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FAQ

Pleases read the FAQ before attending.

http://www.entheo.net/2009notices.htm

Market Submission

Looking to have a market space at EGA? Follow this link for more details

http://www.entheo.net/EGA09MarketsV3.doc

Support EGA with a donations to the Official Raffle

http://www.entheo.net/EGA09RaffleFAQ2009.doc

EGA Coach - Cheap and Easy

http://www.entheo.net/EGA09_Bus.doc

For More info see;

http://www.entheo.net

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Altered states of consciousness have long been a fundamental part of human culture, and as our world becomes increasingly fast-paced, alternative modes are becoming ever more significant and consciously explored.

The Entheogenesis Australis 2009 Symposium aims to address the issues relating to drug use/misuse from social, cultural and historical/traditional perspectives. EGA speakers will draw on the backgrounds of physiology, biology, pharmacology, psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, botany and more to provide a more realistic context to the role drugs and altered states play in the modern world.

If you’ve ever asked yourself “has the ‘War on Drugs’ created more problems than it tried to solve?” or “is MDMA really a more dangerous drug than alcohol?” - then EGA is for you.

Entheogenesis Australis is a collection of thinkers from all walks of life, we come together to share knowledge about sacred plants, chemical alchemy and states of consciousness.

We hope you will join us in the trees for this exploration

Edited October 26, 2009 by RonnySimulacrum

[RonnySimulacrum]

I will say this only here on SAB and EB as this community made this event what it is today, join the EGA mail list and we will be releasing 100 ticket available to mailing members first at a cheaper price than advertised above.

We respect your input and wish to keep as many of you as possible interested and involved in the event as it grows

In Plants We Trust

www.entheo.net

Edited February 23, 2009 by RonnySimulacrum

[Tlaloc]

Great work Ronny!

I'd like to make a request, if possible...

Myself & Torsten are very interested in Iboga, and what 'he' has to offer our Community, Health & Psycho-spiritual practice.

Can you please get in touch with him if you haven't already with regard to the November meet.

Cheers & congrats.

Tlk

[naja naja]

Where can we start sending donations for EGA or the Raffle?

[RonnySimulacrum]

We should have the EGA proposal form up and out over the wire this week, so if there is anyone you can think of that would make a good speaker all you have to do is get them to fill in the form that will be on our web page and email it to us, also workshops and artists too.

Opening it all up a little and hoping to capture even more of the good heads out there and round them up for this fantastic conference event

Remember, to stay in the loop be an EGA email member, just sign up at;

http://www.entheo.net

[RonnySimulacrum]

thanks for the info Tlaloc, and yes i believe Torsten will be speaking in Nov at the meet

Great work Ronny!

I'd like to make a request, if possible...

Myself & Torsten are very interested in Iboga, and what 'he' has to offer our Community, Health & Psycho-spiritual practice.

Can you please get in touch with him if you haven't already with regard to the November meet.

Cheers & congrats.

Tlk

[RonnySimulacrum]

Bookmark Sale - Raffle what ever it may be this year, we can take donations at any time thanks naja naja.

Send to;

Entheogenesis Australis,

PO Box 118,

Mitcham

VIC 3132.

but i will have someone more on to this job of collecting donations as we get closer to the event

Where can we start sending donations for EGA or the Raffle?

[RonnySimulacrum]

*** EGA Contributors Proposal ***

This event has been growing and changing dramatically over the years and to keep things fresh and evolving we will be taking submission proposals for anyone who wants to speak at the event, allowing you all to help influence the programme. There are many knowledgeable and talented people out there in the EGA community and beyond who may be interested in contributing to this magnificent event. We are taking submissions in 3 areas:

1. Lecture

2.Workshop

3. Performance, art and installation [note: does not include amplified music or DJs].

http://www.entheo.net/EGA09Submission.doc

OR

http://www.entheo.net/EGA09Submission.pdf

We will be taking submissions until the 15th June and will get back to all the candidates by the 31 of July. So please consider applying and or passing on the link to others you would hope to see on the programme. Obviously the lectures most specifically have to fit in with the EGA ethos but we are much more open to interesting and diverse proposals in the area of workshops and performance, art and installation as this is an area where we wish to grow. Also keep in mind that we can only fit a limited number of people on the programme (and the event for that matter), so the more professional and relevant they are to the overall event the more likely they are to be selected (however random is good too!).

[RonnySimulacrum]

Plants away.................................................

............are u Feeling the calling

Well if you are an EGA Email member pleases cheek your email as 'that' email has gone out.......

If you do not have it cheek your junk box and then mark it as safe, and if you still can not find it email a '?' to [email protected] and i will send it on to you.

I sure hope to see you in, around and on top of the trees

In Plants We Trust

[RonnySimulacrum]

Edited July 1, 2009 by RonnySimulacrum

[RonnySimulacrum]

Just one week till EGA tickets officially go on sale, and with that the name of our first headliner will be released, So start preparing yourself for the big energy shift

[RonnySimulacrum]

ON SALE NOW

http://www.entheo.net/2009tickets_1st_round.htm

[RonnySimulacrum]

Bear Owsley Headlining EGA 2009

DO I NEED TO SAY MORE

[apothecary]

Woot! Unbelievable! Go Rak!

[RonnySimulacrum]

Rak was certainly instrumental in this, as he has his hand in many plant pies and we love him for it

We are sure set for one hell of an event Now

The Bear is more myth than man according to the internet

Woot! Unbelievable! Go Rak!

Edited July 1, 2009 by RonnySimulacrum

[strangebrew]

Is that a coup or what!

People'll be flogging tickets on Ebay.

[naja naja]

ohhhhhhhhhh yeah!

[Chiral]

Bear Owsley Headlining EGA 2009

DO I NEED TO SAY MORE

Are you serious...that is just magic...this will be my first EGA then...keeeeewl.

[RonnySimulacrum]

And 'The Bear' is not the only speaker to get excited about, We have selected 20+ speakers from all around oz and there is 5 discussion panels and loads of workshops too, then art, installation, films, the list goes on....

EGA 2009 is going to be one fat download

Edited July 2, 2009 by RonnySimulacrum

[Torsten]

Awesome scoop!

we'll probably be debundking lsd myths for the rest of the year, but it will be worth it

edit: Have just read his webpage again and it makes for entertaining reading. I think we'll have more than just LSD myths to contend with ;)

1) Global warming does not exist

2) There is no ozone hole [it's a duPont conspiracy]

3) Cars don't cause smog [it's caused by ozone]

read lots of entertaining details here:

http://www.thebear.org/essays2.html#anchor506010

[incognito]

dont expect him to be savouring the vegetarian goodness coming out of Ronnys Kitchen either ; )

vegetables and fruit are toxic??

maybee an EGA spit-roast will be in order??

Edited July 3, 2009 by incognito

[mu!]

yeh me and PD are gonna spit roast you jono

[rahli]

dont expect him to be savouring the vegetarian goodness coming out of Ronnys Kitchen either ; )

vegetables and fruit are toxic??

maybee an EGA spit-roast will be in order??

Many have emerged from STP with a sudden concern for physical health. "We have need to be strong" said one "we need protein. The macrobiotic diet is bad news

Found here

[RonnySimulacrum]

Yes we expect him to rattle some of us but it will all be worth it, harmony is for sheep.

[t st tantra]

secret agent aos3..........from 'politics of ecstasy' by t leary [not as cited in wikipedia]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley

and a 'masters apprentices' reference!.....turn up your radio!!!

t s t .