When Phil Lesh politely declined Owsley’s offer to take acid with him one night, Owsley told him, “The band is my body. You are my left leg. My left leg is asleep. You must get high.” Knowing it was useless to argue about it, Lesh complied with Owsley’s demand. Accurately, drummer Bill Kreutzmann would later write that Owsley “was as stubborn as red wine on a white carpet.”
