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 ...

Brian Anderson’s “Loud and Clear: The Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound and the Quest for Audio Perfection,” which hit shelves last week, offers the first definitive chronicle of one of rock’s most ...

Picture yourself at a concert. If you’re standing by the soundboard, usually near the rear center of the venue, you’ll enjoy the best possible version of the band’s performance—what the “sound guy,” ...

The sonic integrity of a Grateful Dead concert has long been a pull for frequency seekers. During the onset of the psychedelic ‘70s, the band’s fathom audio engineer, Owsley Stanley, recruited John ...

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 ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Brian Anderson’s “Loud and Clear: The Grateful Dead’s Wall of ...