Re: Wall of Sound

2004-09-22 Thread Richard Pipes
At 09:30 AM 9/22/2004 -0700, Jeff Lester wrote: With the Wall of Sound question: although some elements of the Wall of Sound were incoporated into the 1973 PA system, the full Wall of Sound did not debut until 3/23/74. Here's a picture of the Band playing at the 8-1-73 show:

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2004-02-10 Thread Dan
This has been bothering me for quite a while. Everything I read says the wall of sound debuted in March of 74. My first shows were 12/18-19/73. If that wasn't the wall of sound, what was it? Huge stacks of blue JBL speakers. Rolling Stone had done an article on it about a month befor