Brian A. Anderson

MUSIC & MUSICIANS: The Best Books of 2025  The most acclaimed and anticipated books on music and musicians published in 2025 (so far), including new paperback editions of titles published in hardcover last year.

Stoked to see LOUD AND CLEAR in such good company on Bookshop’s MUSIC & MUSICIANS: The Best Books of 2025 List.

bookshop.org/lists/music-...

Sweet find!

Screenshot of catalog listing: “Arc’teryx Sabre Jacket - Grateful Dead 60th Anniversary Edition - $900.00”

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12/4/65>12/4/25

Here’s to the next 60 years of the Grateful Dead, the enduring American mystery cult.

Yes! An oddball scene, for sure.

Screenshot of progress bar on Relisten streaming app: “Turn on Your Lovelight - Grateful Dead - 1969-06-06 - Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, USA”

Sitrep from the full run. Probably the longest Lovelight the Dead ever performed? Definitely the longest in-circulation recording.

Sitrep from the full run. From a 1969 rehearsal, but could really be from any show the band played in that era too.

Author Talk: LOUD AND CLEAR with Brian Anderson New author Brian Anderson will discuss his extensive research about the Grateful Dead’s wall of sound and their quest for audio perfection. Books will be available for sale from...

Chicago suburban heads and other curious folk, I’ll be talking about the book at the Park Ridge Public Library (shoutout) next month.

Thursday 1/29. 7 PM. Books for sale on-site. Come hang.

Free! Register here: parkridgelibrary.libcal.com/event/15227396

Weir was still wound pretty tight on that one.

Mark your calendars. I’ve got a hot stack of books for the 12/20 Dead Inside holiday market at Sleeping Village. Snag a copy. Happy to personal inscriptions.

“Aw, go away, you cop!” -Garcia

Yellow, brown, and green flyer depicting a Dead bear riding a reindeer with holiday lights in its antlers: “Dead Inside 12/20, Five Year Anniversary Melt-Down & Holiday Market + visuals by Hydrosonic Light Show, 8-12 at Sleeping Village, 21+”

Alternate flyer with vendor list: “Dead Inside 5-Year-Anniversary-Melt-Down & Holiday Market, 12/20, Featuring Fox and the Cobra, Dunning Dye Co., Brian Anderson (Loud and Clear book signing), Permanent Marker Dyes, Golden Heart Soap, Tommy’s Abstract World, Sunshine Roadkill, Typical Daydream Dyes, Lo-Fi Supply, Mirrorball Cards, …and more.”

Stoked to be part of the 5-year anniversary meltdown of Dead Inside, Chicago’s finest Dead Night. I’ll be slinging and signing copies of LOUD AND CLEAR alongside a bunch of other righteous vendors.

Sat 12/20 @ Sleeping Village. 8-12. 21+.

Come hang. Guaranteed deep trip.

🎨: @longyaaawn (IG)

Front cover of Loud & Clear by Brian Anderson. Wall of Sound with Bobby, Donna, Bill, and Phil mid boogie. Slight quibble: Bill Weld wasn't governor of MA in 1972, but he did give us portopoppies outside the Garden in the 90s. 😊

Really like "Loud and Clear" by @thebanderson.bsky.social. 300 pages on a PA, good good stuff.

Thanks! Glad you dig it.

That I’m not sure about—I’d have to check. But I wouldn’t be surprised if she did!

My mom worked this show.

I was only a kid but remember it quite vividly. Old man worked the show. Really set me on the path.

I was there. Core memories.

Flyer for best nonfiction of 2025 from Bookshop Santa Cruz, including LOUD AND CLEAR and nine other titles

Shoutout Bookshop Santa Cruz for including LOUD AND CLEAR on its best of 2025 nonfiction list. A real honor to get a nod from a longtime indie bookseller in Dead country.

Support your local.

I believe you mean a, ahem,
terrapineck

I totally get this approach to things. I couldn't do it with a band, but have done/am doing similar with decades-long runs of newspaper comic strips and similar... (next up on that list, the complete runs of Pogo and MAD.)

Oh, believe me, I still go back to certain shows. But how did I decide to start listening through all Dead concerts in sequence? I guess I felt it was just time and that the journey would be revealing, so I jumped in one day. I still have a very long ways to go. I’m only (“only”) in April 1969.

Rewarding is the right word! 🫡

Three weeks?! Call their ass.

This is hardcore.

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TBD! I’m leaning toward keeping this purely, strictly Dead, and then working through the side/adjacent projects after. But we’ll see if the pathological completionist in me wins out in this current run.

Thanking a taper is part of my daily practice! 🫡

I have. I’m 39. I hope so!

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