Concert goers judge that the best sound balance is heard from large concrete bunkers 37 miles from the stage, while the musicians play their instruments by remote control from a insulated spaceship in orbit round the planet, or a different planet.

— The Hitchhiker’S Guide To The Galaxy Book (Peter Jones)

22 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 5 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:11:28.840 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

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- Now, wait a minute...

- No minutes, no waiting.

- Mr Desiato speaks to no-one.

- Perhaps you'd better let him speak for himself.

- He speaks to no-one.

- Oh. Why? What's the matter with him?

- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy notes that Disaster Area, a plutonium rock band from the Gagralacka Mind Zones are generally held to be not only the loudest rock band in the galaxy, but in fact the loudest noise of any kind at all.

- Concert goers judge that the best sound balance is heard from large concrete bunkers 37 miles from the stage, while the musicians play their instruments by remote control from a insulated spaceship in orbit round the planet, or a different planet.

- Well, hi there, Ford. Did you talk to your big noise friend?

- Uh, Hot... Uh... Hotblack? Yeah, I, er... I sort of spoke to him, yeah.

- Well, what did he say?

- Well, not a lot. He's spending a year dead for tax reasons.

- Oh, yeah? Neat!

- Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

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