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Anniversaries and Appreciations

Issue 125Opening Salvo

Thanksgiving has come and gone in the US (and Brazil and elsewhere) and it was perhaps the strangest any of us have ever experienced – or maybe the most meaningful....

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Oasis’ Remastered Masterpiece: What’s the Story?

Issue 125WAYNE'S WORDS

There is a Saturday Night Live sketch from 1996 in which then Prime Minister John Major (Mike Myers) partakes in the traditional 15 minutes of questions in the House of Commons. He...

Steve Guttenberg: the Audiophiliac, Part One

Issue 125FRANKLY SPEAKING

Steve Guttenberg is the host of The Audiophiliac Daily Show, a popular YouTube channel with more than 157,000 subscribers. Steve has written for numerous audio and mainstream publications and websites including CNET, The...

The Good Old Days

Issue 125PARTING SHOT

“You’re not likely to believe this son, but when I was your age, you could walk into Disney Hall almost any weekend evening and enjoy a fantastic concert without being...

All Kitted Out

Issue 125AUDIO ANTHROPOLOGY

Something for everyone for the holidays from Audio Fidelity. From Audio, December 1958.   A circa 1964 Harman Kardon FA30XK receiver kit in astounding condition. Courtesy of the Audio Classics collection....

AES’ Audio Wonders of the World: Blackbird Studio

Issue 125INDUSTRY NEWS

The AES (Audio Engineering Society) Show Fall 2020 was of necessity an all-virtual affair. This season’s marquee event was “7 Audio Wonders of the World,” which featured in-depth video tours...

AES Fall Show 2020, Part Three

Issue 125INDUSTRY NEWS

This fall, the Audio Engineering Society (AES) held its annual convention online because of  COVID-19 restrictions. Ordinarily hosted at the gargantuan Javits Center in New York, this had the unforeseen...

Two Outstanding New Releases…and a Repackage of...

Issue 125TO BE DETERMINED

Joni Mitchell – Archives – Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963-1967) Joni Mitchell is one of the rare folk artists from the late sixties whose first few albums eschewed covers of...

Concert T-Shirts: History in the Making

Issue 125FEATURED

Recently, a college buddy posted a picture of himself on social media with a Pablo Cruise T-shirt that his brother had given him for his birthday. It was so random...

Mary Lou Williams: Hidden Figure of Piano Jazz

Issue 125TRADING EIGHTS

Considering that she wrote arrangements for Duke Ellington and mentored Thelonious Monk, jazz pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams should be much more famous than she is. She was also...

Five Weeks In Mongolia, Part Two

Issue 125FEATURED

Part One of this story ran in Issue 123. A full day on the “road” to Baldan Baravain required significant recuperation. It took us some time to regain our land legs...

Interviewing Genesis in the 1970s – Part One

Issue 125FEATURED

How I got to meet my idols. Me:  “Hi, I’m Rich Isaacs. I’m on the Atlantic Records guest list.” Winterland box office attendant: “I don’t see your name here.” It...

My War on LPs

Issue 125FEATURED

My life took a swerve in the summer of 1974. Did I have an affair with an older woman whose husband was away in a war? Did I learn that...

Vertical Tracking Angle Meets Stylus Rake Angle...

Issue 125REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE

The geometric considerations with regard to vinyl disk recording and reproduction are plenty and can get quite complex. In fact, the entire first section of the Disk Recording Anthology Volume 1:...

Joan Armatrading: Showing Some Emotion

Issue 125OFF THE CHARTS

Joan Armatrading never caught on in a big way in the US. She didn’t quite fit in to any recognizable genres, and because she was Black she also didn’t meld...

Audio News – Bad and Good

Issue 125MUSIC AUDIO AND OTHER ILLNESSES

This time out, I want to share some audio-related news – both bad and good. First the bad news, and I confess to some embarrassment, because I probably led a...

To Test or Not to Test, That is the Question (P...

Issue 125DEEP DIVE

How many audiophiles actually perform any form of measurement on any aspect of their system? Is there any merit in doing so? To answer the question of whether it is...

Split Enz: True Colours, Part Two

Issue 125TRUE-LIFE ROCK TALES

In Issue 124 Ken wrote about the beginning of the Split Enz 1980 US/Canada tour, encounters with Iggy Pop and Cynthia Plaster Caster and more. The story continues here. On November...

Strawberry Fields Forever...and Ever

Issue 125TWISTED SYSTEMS

This article was originally published in Goldmine magazine, www.goldminemag.com, and appears here with permission. Goldmine has covered music collectibles and memorabilia since 1974 and features interviews, record reviews and other subjects of interest. 2020 is...

Holiday Music, Naughty & Nice

Issue 125TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

First, the Nice part: One of my earliest memories of hearing recorded choral music was of a particular disc from David (not yet Sir David) Willcocks and the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge....