Hello Friends,
TooStonedToType, also known as Lee Bowden in the "real" world, is dead. During a welfare check, a friend found him lying in bed. Cause of death is currently unknown. I will provide information as I receive it.
Lee was my best friend. I met Lee on this board years ago and we finally met in person when I brought him his first Salvia divinorum cutting. Lee became an integral part of the Denver-area scene when he began hosting Yegge Fest at his house several years ago. Musicians and friends from all over Colorado and beyond came together for his peaceful gatherings. I met so many people and new friends through Lee. Lee could smile and laugh through anything. This world has lost one of the best.
Some of us got together last night for a little remembering time. We are considering a larger, public gathering at a location in Denver TBA. I will provide details here if/when this happens. I'm sorry to be the bearer of this news. This board was a huge part of Lee's life, as Lee was a huge part of our lives.
I hope dearly to see you again on the other side, Lee!
-Les
aka TroutMask
We will miss you, brother Lee.
Thank you spf for bringing us all together way back when.....
this is heavily sad news.
dear Lee, may your energy continue to thrive within others.
my deepest sympathy to you, les, and to you, lw, and to all friends and family of Lee.
What a loss... I always looked forward to his raging spirit and wit... 'Shine On Crazy Daimond'-------- sal
Yeah he was a good one. My love and condolences to all that share this loss.
Joe
I only got to meet him once, but he was one of the kindest, soft-hearted people I ever had the pleasure to meet. He was a sincerely nice guy, and the world is worse off for the loss of him.
i have no doubt that his energy will be reabsorbed by the universe and reconstituted in the form of another equally wonderful being.
With Love,
V~
rest in peace Lee.
Is there a place to send flowers, donations or even just a message?
I add my words of condolence. I wish I could offer more by way of comfort. Remember him with your best heart, and celebrate this memory true. :(
That's really too bad. TSTT was one of the old timers here. Does anyone know the cause of death? It seems likely that if it was someone else, no one would have known. There may be a few we haven't heard from in a while who have passed beyond.
R.I.P.
I just saw this thread pasted as a topic in the chatroom and am sitting here at my desk shocked, unable to think.
:cry:
Thank you for posting this TM, I am so sorry you have lost a friend and I am so sad Lee has left us.
Man, that's sad, TSTT was always a stand up fella, very positive vibe and great to talk with. Miss ya fella', keep the gates open for some of us who are slower to move along.
I'm really sorry to hear that. My sympathies to you and everyone in his life. He was a great contributor to SPF.
Damn, that just aint right....
Kind of at a loss for words...
You will be missed TSTT :(
I only knew toostoned from here, his thoughts enriched my life, he helped me. Thanks Lee! :cry:
dude, he just posted here the other day, this is unreal. My heartfelt condolences...
I've been told by stork that there will be a get togeher in Lee's honor on Sunday evening at Dolcineas in Denver. I'll prolly leave later today and it sounds lile Laura might have to fly out just for the funeral.
lw
please send my condolences, lw.
his MySpace still stands, a tribute to his dedication. Last updated around the first of april/07.
judih
I am sad. I hope he is happy.
I mentioned Lee on my radio show this morning. My broadcast today is in remembrance of him.
WTF? I was just popping in before heading out to see Widespread Panic. I only met Lee once, but he was one of the nicest people I have ever met in my life.
I can't make it out to Denver, so I'll try to touch with the spirit tonight. :cry:
TM thanks for letting us know, sorry about the loss.
I always noticed his interesting threads,
even though i didnt know Lee other than here,
I found him to have interesting threads and
even more so bright insights, i believe all of you
that he was and remains a great person.
Lee, whoever you might be,
wherever you might be.
be at peace and from here to infinity you stand in our hearts.
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WS
Quote from: "laughingwillow"I've been told by stork that there will be a get togeher in Lee's honor on Sunday evening at Dolcineas in Denver. I'll prolly leave later today and it sounds lile Laura might have to fly out just for the funeral.
lw
Well, I can't be there in person, but I am in spirit.
You will be missed by many, Lee.
Yeah, Lee, a stand up guy if I ever met one. Invited me into his house he did, without a second glance when I first met him. His voice was so pleasant and his mannerisms were well balanced. Easy with a smile or an ear. A refined sense of taste and a open spirit.
It's really weird yah know..... it's like he's not even gone. Alive and well in my head, that circuit will never burn out.
Love you man.
Andy
Very sad indeed! Wherever you r I hope your at peace!
See U on the other side,
ObOdAoUr
I made it back to the prairie last night. The hippies had a final send off for Lee on Sunday evening. While I'm glad I was there, I doubt we will ever return to Colorado for live music or otherwise. Saying goodbye to Lee under those circumstances meant leaving that part of my/our life behind, imo.
lw
Enjoy the journey Lee, for another threshold has been crossed. Deepest love for all still bearing the memory of his life.
wow...thats heavy news...as so many have shared, he will be missed..travel on my friend..
vb
I see visionarybear bumped this dear reminder of Lee to the top.
Lee missed the Virginia Tech shootings. Thank you world, for letting him miss that.
(sad tears begin again)
I was putting away a few CD's this afternoon and ended up with a little better idea of when we met Lee and the gang in Denver for the first time. I'm pretty sure the Phil shows that went down on my birthday weekend, 4-4 and 4-5 02 at the Philmore was the first time we met troutie, arjuna and toostoned. We gathered at Sanchez Broken Arrow before the show on the 5th and I'm pretty sure everyone ended up at chez troutie the next night for a little chicken on the grill. I remember meeting toostoned at troutie's place. He was a quite fellow. Didn't talk much. He turned out to be a lawyer with an interest in all things botanical.
Spirit plants forums evolved into more than a cyber-home for toostoned, imo. Most of his friends in the real world were made from connections gleaned at spf, as far as I can tell. Sure, we met many of his family members, but I don't remember meeting even one friend in Denver that he hung around with before stumbling onto spf.
Later that same year on 9-1-02, toostoned had his first psychedelic experience at a Phil show at red rocks. (At least I'm pretty sure it was his first meeting with that particular sacrament. Toostoned jumped in with both feet and never looked back. At least after that first night. hehe But he ended up leaving that show early due to the intense psychological pressure exerted on his soft head.
Later, with the advent of the circus joint, which was I'm pretty, sure the brainchild of toostoned sacramental show experiences became magnified exponentially for me. And toostoned was right there for every last one of those gut wrenching and ultimately soul satisfying rides. Every last one.
Toostoned lost his lawyering job somewhere in the mix. Dirty hippies became his friend of choice. And his good nature was taken advanatge of by a few, imo. Wayward travelers and itinerant locals were invited up to his little piece of paradise on the top of yegge peak, some tougher to dislodge than others. But all started with a clean slate, as far as toostoned was concerned, imo.
Last summer toostoned got busted for cultivation fo da kine on the weekend a music festival was to go down on his mountain top. The police apparently monitored license plates from the highway and finally came across a fellow headed up the hill who had warrants for his arrest. He went into toostoned's front door and out the back ot get away from the heat. Him entering the house was all the excuse the po-po needed to go in and have their way........
A pair of friends toostoned allowed to set up a little cabin on the property also got taken down last week for cultivation. While it appeared that the hippies had control of Yegge peak for s spell, things changed in a hurry.
I'll be back
lw
Toostoned even came out on the prairie a couple of times through the course of the years, catching Dead and Jim White shows along the way. During this time, my understanding of the sacrament grew and changed. Toostoned was there every step of the way. Always ready to jump head first into the deep end of that cosmic pool.
Were still not sure what happened to our brother, Lee, in the daze leading up to my birthday earlier this month. That remains a mystery. But he did lose a brother to cancer weeks before his own death and found out that he was losing the mountain top the very same day he passed away.
As far as I can tell, Lee came into our life on my birthday in 2002 and ended on my birthday in 2007. This community had a profound effect on his life, imo. The freak community was pretty much all he had, as far as I can tell. For better or worse, toostoned was one of us....
lw
Well spoken LW.
Did anyone find out the cause of death? I understand a few of us attended the funeral. Was he ill or in a car crash or something?
This brings back to mind the issue of Eddie. Did anyone ever find out for sure what happened to him? There was speculation that he died. I was told that he was homeless. He may have died from exposure on some city street with no one to help or grieve for him.
Apparently, the coroner maintains that Lee died while huffing Dust-Off. If so, I believe it was an accidental death. But that's just one friend's opinion....
As for Eddy, he's not been around for quite awhile around and anything above and beyond that is pure speculation, imo.
lw
I often wonder if homeland security got ahold of Eddy, although I assume the answer is much simpler than that.
As to TooStoned, well, however he checked out, he is still mourned. He is every bit as big a loss to this community as Eddy, his contributions were significant. If the fricking gubment had just let him grow his kind in peace, this'd never of happened imo. Yet another loss to the community of taboo minds.
When will the pendulum swing back?
When will those who make laws realize that plants are just as sacred as animals. You can't outlaw the fruits of the planet.
(well, they could and they did, but i still say you can't)
TooStoned, we hear you.
Yes, Too Stoned will certainly be missed... I know that when I would be scrolling through a forum I would always be happy when I saw that burst of yellow color that was on TSTT's Avatar.... I always knew I'd read a good posting....sal........
Its just really starting to sink in for me. Yesterday I read through a bunch of old emails and pm's he'd sent us in the last while. I really counted on him being here, too.
Yesterday it also sank in that I lost the person with whom I shared 99% of of my psychedelic experiences over the last six or seven years. And the most intense ones at that. Circus joints was made for live music......
lw
Thanx LW for sharing aibt of your experiences and life with TSTT....(I've been away) I never knew TSTT in person ,except for here, and wish I could have. We shared lots of salvia pics and info here and elsewhere, and I always enjoyed our discussions. My condolences to his friends and family.
Be well, Lee.
Hey there Jupe: Good to see you once again.... sal
THis morning I put on a Dead show from 9/17/72 that I just scored yesterday. I was marveling at the 39 minute "Other One," figuring it couldn't get any better than that, when the next song began and I was immediately carried back to lee's wake. I don't remember ever hearing da dead do "Sing Me Back Home," by M Haggard, but they played it for toostoned that night and the version laid down by Jerry this morning was about enough to bring tears to my eyes, again...
lw
Match made for heaven: Haggard and Garcia. Was it the Oregon Country Fair show?
May we all get sung back home before we die!
It was a show in Baltimore, MD, 9-17-72.
I'm pretty sure I have that county fair show from OR, come to think of it.
Anyway, I'd tell you to check it out in strwaming form, but check out the version out in streaming form, but its a commercial "dick's picks" release and not available at that site, I'm guessing.
lw
It's usually listed as Venata,OR I believe
just bought a couple of tickets for the country fair the other day. It's still a pretty fun event, thought nothing like the hay days I hear.
A~
Avery, what are the dates??
MySpace tells me today is TooStoned's birthday. Here's to you, buddy.
My thoughts, exactly.
Cheers, Lee. Thinking of you and taking your messages further.
Wow. Thanks for the heads up, man.
Happy birthday, brother.
lw
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parasamgate
bodhi
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Tonight's Manu Chao show at RedRocks was the last event we'd planned with Lee. He seemed pretty stoked about this one. Maybe it falling so close to his boithday had something to do with that.....
lw
Just wanted to post here to say I remember TSTT fondly from his posts here & I wish to give blessings to those effected by his passing & love to any part of him that continues on the journey...
May the lady embrace you and keep you safe TSTT!
Anyone know how old TSTT was?
I miss Lee so much. Its still an every day thing.
Stork sent us an email the other day with a pic of tstt down in Vallarta. The shit-eating grin and dual trays heaped high with the "mexican nickel of the week," this photo is one of my favs. ...
lw
I just now have read this, and I it hits me hard.
I hate to bump an old thread, moreso one so painfulto so many people. I just have to add my sorrow at this tradgedy.
I went to Denver a couple of weeks back and there are many of us who are still having a tough time with his death. I still think about Lee most every day. It was nice seeing his dog and burning a little paolo santo from his personal stash at the home of a mutual friend.
The recent Phil shows in Colorado were the first I've caught without tstt in a bunch of years. And I think the tears I shed one of those nights freaked out the peeps in front of me more than any dose could.....
Btw...... LeeFest will be held in the Denver area on the 15th of August. Class is over for me by then and I might try and make it out. There will be live music in a mountain setting complete with authentic tripping hippies.
lw
almost a year has passed.
good that there'll be a festival in his honour.
take a toke for me. lw
Your wish is my command......
Now what?
lw
mmphft!
i'll let ya know
carry on! (same wish)
.....perhaps August is a good month to mourn all the Psychedelic Peoples, it has a great meteor show too.
a BIG PARTY for everyone at the end of time.
(see my Typonaut post)
Tears welled as i found this post last night. I meet Lee on line years ago andin person once. He was a wonderful person kind, sweat, loving, gental. the last time i saw him he left the show early placed a kiss on my cheek, and he was gone.
I was so overjoyed to find this place again and so sad to find lee had passed. I will miss my friend .
with deep sarrow jfurry
I'm sure glad you found your way back, bro. I've been thinking of you a lot as of late. Remembering the times we shared with toostoned and company at redrocks.
lw