Copper
Gibson: Missed It By That Much
Believe it or not, it’s not over yet. Reports of Gibson Brands’ emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy were, as it turns out, premature. In Copper #72 we reported the news that thanks to agreements between the...
“When Did THEY Do THIS To US?”
The other day I had the opportunity to meet with a local journalist who anchors one of the local TV morning news programs. He had been trying to upgrade the...
The 50 Best Albums of 2018
For me, 2018 was a blur, and seemed to pass faster than any other year before. Was it the politics? Was it work? Friends and Family? No idea. In all...
Top Dog
[There is no sexism intended by use of “man” in this piece. Luckily for the survival of humanity, insanely destructive competitive behavior is primarily, if not uniquely, a male trait....
Joni Mitchell
In 1943, Alberta, Canada released a musical wood sprite into the world who came to be known as Joni Mitchell. A polio survivor whose damaged fingers made her get creative...
Fairchild, Part 1
I truly enjoy the research involved in these pieces, refreshing faded memories, absorbing facts overlooked or misunderstood in my youth, and especially—ending up somewhere completely unexpected. That’s how I came...
Berlin Stories
KaDeWe “How can you stand to be here after all that happened to your family?” Her name was Anna and she lived in East Berlin. I met her at the...
You Know It Ain’t Easy, Part 1
Montreal, 1969 Over the last year or so, I have run across 2 people with incredible stories about how they planned ways to meet John & Yoko, and managed to actually...
The Volume Of A Pizza
Numbers, and the mathematics that describe them, can help you with many interesting things, including the volume of a pizza. There are some wonderful surprises hidden in plain old numbers....
2018 Was Really Something
Over more decades in audio than I care to dwell upon, I’ve attended concerts and demos that assaulted not just my ears but my intellect and my emotional stability. Somehow...
The Revenge of The White Album
By now, you know whether The White Album re-issue is for you. I’m happy to go on record, so to speak, as saying that most of these Fabs reissues aren’t...
Telling the Story
Every picture tells a story. That’s utterly true, regardless of Rod Stewart. And if every picture can speak, so can all the music ever made. It’s always useful to remind...