It required four semi-trailer trucks to transport, and due to the rigging time, necessitated two leapfrogging road crews with separate scaffolding sets.
Averaging over 600 speakers powered by a minimum of 48 600-watt amplifiers, the massive and experimental sound reinforcement system advanced the technology, but presented an array of physical, audio, and technical difficulties.
The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack, a second album from the same run of shows, was released in 2005.Īfter a grueling schedule, caused in part by the cost of the band's unwieldy "Wall of Sound" public address system, the decision was made to stop touring and performing as the Grateful Dead, short of disbanding. It was the fourth and final album released by the band on their original Grateful Dead Records label. The album was recorded October 17–20, 1974, at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom, during a "farewell run" that preceded a then-indefinite hiatus. It is the band's fifth live album and thirteenth overall. Steal Your Face is a live double album by the Grateful Dead, released in June 1976.
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