Shakespeare Reference in Here Beside The Rising Tide

Jim Newton's Here Beside The Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead, And An American Wakening contains a reference to Macbeth. In the chapter that tackles 1967 and the band's first album, Newton writes: "To Lesh, the album felt like 'sound and fury buried in a cavern'" (p. 130). So, yeah, the Macbeth reference actually comes from Phil Lesh's Searching For The Sound, quoted here. Anyway, "sound and fury" is a phrase used in what is probably my favorite speech in all of Shakespeare's work. The speech ends with these lines: "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player/That struts and frets his hour upon the stage/And then is heard no more. It is a tale/Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury/Signifying nothing." In the Notes section at the back of the book, Jim Newton says where the quote comes from : "'sound and fury buried in a cavern': Phil Lesh, Searching for the Sound, p. 99" (p. 465).

Here Beside The Rsing Tide: Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead, And An American Wakening was published in 2025. The copy I read was an advanced uncorrected proofs edition, in paperback.