Bill Hanley: Saving the World Through Sound

born in 1938, raised in Boston suburb of Medford, Massachusetts. Father a police lieutenant, mother... Hanley Brothers ...

Bill at the AES, NY (Photo: Freeman Z)

• 1937 Bill is born in Medford, Massachusets
• 1950 First job, a Record Hop at the Belmont School in Malden, Mass
• 1958 Concert for promoter George Wein featuring George Shearing and Gary Burton
• 1965 First rock show in Boston: the Velvet Underground
• 1960's First rock stage at Foxboro Stadium
• 1967's Don Law's Boston Tea Party
• 19?? University of Pittsburgh
• 19?? Carnegie Hall
• 1970's M.I.T. Commencement: first outdoor amplified ceremony
• 1960's Established Hanley Sound, located at 888 8th Avenue, on Manhattan
• 19?? Electric Circus in New York: Creates Sound System
• 196? Founds the Fillmore East, with Bill Graham, builds and operates the sound system for inumerable performers (story)
• 1969 designs, builds and operates the Woodstock sound system, and records the album master tapes (story)
• 1968 Woodstock
• 19?? Peace Rallies Washington and New York
• Peter Yarrow, Hoffman Hayden, Jane Fonda (Brad Little)
• 1970? Sends Woodstock Bins to South Africa (story)
• 1974? designs and builds the "Magic Stage"
• 19?? Brother Terry establishes Terry Hanley Audio Systems.
• 198? Marries Rhoda Rosenburg
• 198? Son Joe Hanley is born
• 2006 wins Parnelli Award for innovation in the sound industry (story)
• 2007 speaks on the history of live sound at the Audio Engineering Society's 123rd Convention in New York
• 19?? chester on date Madison Square Garden photo w/Donovan