When journalist Brian Anderson acquired a crumbling speaker monitor from the Grateful Dead’s legendary 1974 Wall of Sound via a Sotheby’s auction, it wasn’t just memorabilia he was after. The former ...
This summer, when the bass drops clean and delay-free at Lollapalooza or some other sweaty festival field, spare a thought for the Grateful Dead. You have them to thank, whether you have a skull and ...
Brian Anderson’s ‘Loud and Clear’ captures the strenuous work, psychedelic vision and lasting influence of the band’s most audacious sound-system experiment. By Noah Eckstein When journalist Brian ...