Loud and Clear
The Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound and the Quest for Audio Perfection
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Written and read by the author, this is the first audiobook to tell the full story of the Grateful Dead’s “Wall of Sound,” an unprecedented and since-unparalleled speaker system.
Loud and Clear is the first book to tell the full story of the Grateful Dead’s “Wall of Sound,” an unprecedented and since unparalleled speaker system that was as tall as a school bus is long and more than a hundred feet wide. The band’s quest for roaring yet crystal clear sound began after their formation in 1965, colliding with the ‘60s progressive social climate.
Over the next few years, the Dead’s growing crew of sound-obsessed techies and eccentric roadies took their speaker system to new technological heights. But as the Dead’s relentless, drug-fueled touring schedule met this increasingly burdensome yet sonically perfect machine, in 1974, the Wall brought the band to its knees. The two years of “Wall shows” are legend among Deadheads, and this character-driven tale about human ambition, achievement, and the limits of both on a larger-than-life scale has the potential to reach a wide range of music fans and listeners of cultural history.
Author Brian Anderson interviewed hundreds of people associated with the band and the construction of the Wall itself, including band members, roadies, tech wizards, fans, and many more. This fascinating inside story of one of the most legendary rock bands of all time will appeal to Deadheads, music fans, audiophiles, and many more.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.
©2025 Brian Anderson (P)2025 Macmillan AudioKritikerstimmen
"Loud and Clear reveals that the Grateful Dead’s iconic sound system was far more than a fleeting experiment; it was a landmark in the band’s tireless quest to achieve the utmost clarity in live sound. Through extensive research, Anderson presents the Wall as both a groundbreaking technological feat and a living character shaped by the labor and singular vision of the many collaborators who brought it into being. The book traces the Wall’s development across the full arc of the Dead’s history, beginning with their earliest sonic experiments and continuing into the present through its influence on live sound engineering and lasting imprint on Deadhead culture. In doing so, Anderson shows how dogged persistence, innovation, and the pursuit of excellence converged to produce one of the most ambitious and mythologized sound systems in live music history." —Annabelle Walsh, Deadhead Style Archive
"The Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound began with a hallucination. Fortunately for the world, the hallucinator was Owsley Stanley, who had the wherewithal to bring the concept to fruition with the Grateful Dead, who from their inception were committed to delivering clear sound to their audiences and to themselves onstage. Brian Anderson's Loud and Clear is a thorough and warmly-told account of the Grateful Dead's technical history from the Acid Tests (1965) through the Wall of Sound era, which ended at Winterland in October of 1974 but whose technological advances have benefitted musicians and their audiences in every realm to this day." —David Gans, musician, radio host, and author of Conversations With the Dead
"Exhaustively researched and beautifully written, Loud and Clear details the evolution of the Grateful Dead’s sound system from their days as a bar band to the creation of the world’s greatest sound system, “the Wall.” It’s an intimate dive into the gear, the lives of the engineers who developed it and the crew members who cared for it, and their mutual relationship to the band. It’s first rate." —Dennis McNally, author of A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead