‘Bear’s Sonic Journals: The Foxhunt, The Chieftains Live in San Francisco 1973 & 1976’ is the last ever release by Paddy Moloney, of The Chieftains, who sadly passed away last October 2021.

This release was recorded by the legendary 60's icon, Owsley "Bear" Stanley, at Boarding House on the 1st October 1973 where the Chieftains appeared at the personal invitation of Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead.

Owsley was affectionately called "Bear" by his friends and was widely known as the 'Acid King' for his role in manufacturing the highest quality LSD to help fuel the music and art revolution of the 60's. He started recording gigs when he was soundman for The Grateful Dead so he could develop his technique and evaluate his equipment. He called these recordings 'Sonic Journals'.

'Bear's Sonic Journals: The Foxhunt, The Chieftains Live in San Francisco 1973 & 1976' is one of these ‘Sonic Journals’, which are lovingly maintained by The Owsley Stanley Foundation – a non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation Owsley’s archive of more than 1,300 live concert soundboard recordings from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, including recordings by Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Fleetwood Mac, Janis Joplin, and more than 80 other artists across nearly every musical idiom.