
History Concert Sound
Ongoing History of New Music
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The Greatest Sound System in the World
Bill hanley was the first guide to hoist speaker cabinets from the rafters using chain driven electric motors. This freed up more performance space on the stage and allowed the music to flow out over the crowd rather than down into it. The band's sound people experimented with p a gear led by a former ballet dancer from kentucky turned ellesd drug dealer named owsley beaer stanley. It took four semis and 21 people to transport all this gear from gig to gig. And they called it the wall of sound. But once people saw what had been done, well there was just no going back.
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