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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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2020]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.