Rest in peace Owsley Stanley, thanks for everything

.oh.myyyyyyyyyyyy.!! I remember (yeah, I know, if you remember, you really weren't there) those shows. Lesh had a set with Seastones during the Dead show.....some tormented soul screamed "STOP IT, YOU'RE F*****G WITH MY HEAD!!" Mission accomplished! Those were the daze....

"hey I know man... cuz that would be the hippest" - claaaaaaaaaaasssic JG line

Roy Orbison is tuning the piano-- very cool

The first time I saw the Dead was around 1974, I think they had just stopped using it. I never got to see this sound marvel. Thanks for the video

@percommode I was at that show. There was a loud bang during one of the songs, I forget which one but in the main it worked out very well. Happy new year to you and all Dead Heads every where. XX

I love tbheir tire wheels BEAR logo. (asnd old one going back to 1921.)

Macintosh amps Maid in Binghamton N.Y.absolutely the best quality amps maid in the world

at 4:00 when Phil is starting to warm up for some reason I just love that sound

Having a bass with 4 strings from separate amp rigs would really be awesome! Not because it would be trippy, but for orchestral reasons. As a bass player you begin to realize that you can reinforce individual parts of the song, besides just holding the dominant 'bottom end' and the rhythm. If another player is off one night, or just sounding bad, you can make them sound better using the bass. So to have 4 strings represented in 4 locations in the spectrum of what I imagine is the stereo field, it gives you even more voicing options since the bass ultimately integrates with the frequencies of other instruments. Couple that with the array of frequency controls on the bass and WOW! Anyone who thinks bass is boring or limited, think again. It's anything but that.

Went to this show... there was a giant flower on a big box at the back of the place and at 12:00 midnight it was pushed forward to the stage then midgets in diapers jumped out and where throwing rose petals on the crowd.. awesome show..!

McIntosh Mc 1000 Amps I worked at Mac just as they brought the Amps in for the last tune up like 24 or 34 of them @7-8 grand each

Check out the book "Grateful Dead Gear" - covers instruments, sound systems, etc.

i'm pretty sure that's to support the quadraphonic system they ran with his bass. it allowed each string to play on it's own separate channel.

back in the day oh wee

@sirlonghair It's spelled "made", the company name is "McIntosh", and there are other fine amplifiers, such as VTL tube amps made in Chino CA.

Piano tuner guy getting annoyed at Phil's showing off bass sounds....classic.

Phil Lesh reminds me of Garth from Wayne's World. Does anyone agree?

The Hell's Angels have always been vicious assholes. This is just further proof. On a happier subject, I would like to say that I don't understand why people are always putting down the wall of sound. They all say it sounds muddy. That might have been true for a few concerts, but every one I was at the sound was perfect. Even in such horrible venues as the Indianapolis Coliseum, or that place in Kansas City (can't remember the name) where they hold livestock shows. All props to Macintosh amps.

Poor roadies! Think of how many live shows the Dead did, and look at what they went through to get this monster hooked up!

@1Anonymouse The electronics also provided a state variable filter for each pickup where you can blend the filtered sound with the direct sound. The Alembic Superfilter provides essentially the same function. Probably the best bass tone control invented. Apparently this bass is sitting in a closet somewhere in Chicago, stripped of most of the electronics and lots of holes routed and drilled in it for bridge and other experiments that were done in the late 70s. Bummer.

Cow Palace, Daly City, aka San Francisco, 1976. Did I mention it was New Year's Eve? Fun Times~ gdreferencesite com/cowpalace html (needs dots, not spaces)

look at all thouse Mac 2300's....mmmmmmmmm

@Deadfreeeak No guarantee he is there. Stanley *designed* it, but these are roadies putting it together.

I bet Phil's bass weighed a ton....

this video is in my left speaker only?? why is that. it doesn't really support an awesome thing like "the wall of sound"

Is Owsley in this video?

this old video was probably filmed in "mono" not "stereo"

'I talk to you like you're a person, because you look like a person even with that camera' ha ha ha ha. Talk about being experienced at handling paranoia.

thats how jerry lived his life, whatever would be the hippest. rip jgar