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The Last Seat in the House : The Story of Hanley Sound /

"Known as the "Father of Festival Sound," Bill Hanley (b. 1937) made his indelible mark as a sound engineer at the 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Fair. Hanley is credited with creating the sound of Woodstock, which literally made the massive festival possible. Stories of his on-the-fly...

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Autor principal: Kane, John (Professor of media arts) (Autor)
Otros Autores: Lopez, Ken (Kenneth) (writer of foreword.), DiBiase, Allan, 1948- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Prologue: A soundman and a bomb
  • First generation, second generation
  • The not so glamorous life of a sound engineer
  • A boy who loved sound
  • Poor sound all around
  • Organ music and training
  • Salem Street
  • Jazz!
  • Newport needs a home
  • Orchestra sound
  • Folk and distortion
  • The inauguration of President Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Hanley Sound needs a manager
  • Go-go dancers, Batman, and the Beach Boys
  • Hanley and the family band
  • Hanley and the Remains
  • The Beatles face a feverish pitch
  • Beatles by chance
  • Shea Stadium sound
  • The sompetition
  • Big Apple! Big sound!
  • Down in the Village
  • more monitor, please!
  • A Frenchman and the Second Avenue Shuffle
  • The Victory Special
  • The white man's Apollo
  • It's loud
  • sight and sound at the Fillmore
  • Getting paid
  • The festival experience
  • The festival phenomenon begins
  • All roads lead to Woodstock
  • The golden age of the rock festival
  • Woodstock
  • by the time Hanley gets to Woodstock
  • The Woodstock crew
  • Going up the country
  • No console, no food
  • Stage announcements
  • The nuts, bolts, and occasional zap!
  • Woodstock, how sweet the sound ... System
  • I'm going home
  • Madison Square Garden and the unions
  • The greatest rock and roll band in the World
  • Demonstration sound
  • The march against death
  • Student strike
  • MAY DAY
  • A Sympowowsium and the fate of the festival
  • Woodstock South
  • Winters end
  • Oh, Canada
  • hot 'Lanta and Love Valley
  • A portrait of an interrupted festival and Grand Funk Railroad
  • The festival that never was
  • A festival under the sun
  • Hanley's southern truck, NOLA, and the Guru Maharaj Ji
  • Hanley's invention
  • Sound of silence
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix A: Sympowowsium attendees.