Copper
Batting .800
Rodney Crowell – Texas I grew up in the red clay hills of rural North Georgia; country music is in my blood, even though it probably represents a fraction of a percentage...
Emily Remler: Eight Great Tracks
When Emily Remler was a kid in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, she tried out her brother’s Gibson guitar and loved it. Soon she could figure out 1960s rock songs by ear...
NRBQ
In 1966 two kids who were not being watched carefully started a garage band in their hometown of Shively, KY. Terry Adams played keys and sang, brother Donn played horns...
How Records are Made, Part 2: Plating and Pressing
The disk mastering stage, discussed in detail in the previous issue, was the last stage permitting intentional changes to the sound of the final product, for aesthetic or technical reasons. While...
The Killers
Until the Killers came on the scene, the phrase “Las Vegas music” tended to conjure up images of late-career crooners in casino supper clubs. But in 2001, when singer and...
Muggings
It was the jostling that alerted me. I looked down and saw a hand removing money from my pocket. This was almost identical to an incident that had happened to...
From Wallkill to Bethel
When last we met, I put forth my guess as to one of two reasons Woodstock, despite being the largest music and art festival ever, was also the most peaceful. The...
Standard Time
It may seem like I seldom devote space here to repertoire favorites, e.g., Top Twenty World’s Greatest Concertos. Why is that? Well, some people are heavily invested in the Top...
Drive, He Said Part 2
In Part 1, Copper #92, we looked at idler-wheel turntable mechanisms. In this article, we’ll look at belt-drive turntables. The original Edison phonographs—cylinder players, not disc players—were belt-driven. Oddly, the first belt-drive turntable...
A Turntable of my Own, Part 4
Copper #90 , #91, and #92---Ed.> You are looking at the main aluminum plate that will support the entire table. It is resting on the aluminum plate that was previously...
