Grateful dead wall of sound4/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() According to the band’s own early ‘70s estimate, they gained some 4,000 pounds of equipment between 19, graduating from a Metro van to an 18-foot semi-truck capable of carrying 10,000 pounds. The Sotheby’s auction contains plenty of components from its most legendary iterations, including the high-fidelity behemoth that would force the band off the road in late 1974 due the cost and stress of operation. But, with decommissioned items from the Dead’s warehouse in northern California, a slew of Bob Weir’s guitars, and collections belonging to sound engineer Dan Healy and late trusted crew chief Laurence “Ram Rod” Shurtliff, it’s almost certainly the most comprehensive.įrom the moment sound engineer and legendary LSD chemist Owsley Stanley hooked them up with Altec Voice of the Theatre home stereo speakers in 1966, the Dead’s live sound system was famously cutting-edge. “We’re looking at the whole story of the Grateful Dead from the late ‘60s through 1995,” says Richard Austin, Sotheby’s Global Head of Books and Manuscripts, who’s been assembling the collection for the past few years and gave me a preview at the auction house’s offices. ![]() Taken as a whole, the collection neatly illustrates the California band’s enduring impact on American culture, ready to seed intersecting museum wings dedicated to fashion, high-fidelity audio, high-end instruments, industrial design, and cutting-edge drug technology. Available for auction at Sotheby’s on October 7-14 are three decades of sound gear, merchandise, and ephemera that might also double as a starter kit for a Grateful Dead museum, should a heady multi-millionaire decide to grab it all. The Grateful Dead are having a warehouse sale and nearly everything must go. ![]()
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