Shakespeare Reference in Loud And Clear

Brian Anderson's Loud And Clear: The Grateful Dead's Wall Of Sound And The Quest For Audio Perfection contains a reference to Macbeth. And actually, it's to a phrase from my favorite speech in all of Shakespeare. Anderson writes, "As Lesh later put it, Grateful Dead feels rushed, 'hyper' even, like 'sound and fury buried in a cavern'" (p. 60). So, yes, the reference comes in a quote from Phil Lesh. The phrase "sound and fury" comes from this fantastic speech from Macbeth: "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow/Creeps in this petty pace from day to day/To the last syllable of recorded time,/And all our yesterdays have lighted fools/The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!/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."

Loud And Clear: The Grateful Dead's Wall Of Sound And The Quest For Audio Perfection was published in 2025. My copy is an uncorrected proof, so that page number could be incorrect.