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Issue 12
What Is a Song?
Warning: more Beatles content. Of course, they’re many people’s favorite…
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Issue 11
The New Old Way
We can all remember those moments when everything in our…
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Issue 1
Paul Kantner Is Dead
He died on Thursday, January 28th. The news hit me…
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Issue 13
The Mystery Of The Making
I never think about how mysterious the process of contemporary…
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Issue 14
Thoughts On Triage
(As mentioned in the last issue, David Baerwald’s Triage was…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 15
The Tuesday Night Music Club
Sometime during the summer of 1992 I got a call…
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Issue 16
Two Kinds Of Hits
We have a hit. We’ve been hit. Both are true.…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 17
The Sound Your Head Makes When It Hits the Table
Enough about the Sheryl Crow record. Well, no — but…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 18
In My Dreams
Sometime in 1995, Bill Bottrell called and wanted me to…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 19
Fretting About Fretboards
CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of…
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Issue 20
Leon
2016 has been a helluva year. You know: the list…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 21
Waiting for the Black Cadillac
Who knows what’s behind our taste? A record that I…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 22
It’s a Lonely World
I didn’t set out to be a hired gun, but…
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Issue 23
I Was Watching You
One of the things that happens to musicians as we…
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Issue 24
On Words In Music
I was trying to figure out when and where I…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 25
Courtney Hartman and the Mysterious Ghost
In October, I appeared at a 3-day event called the…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 26
Steve Reich: Drumming
When I was 17, I discovered the compositional style called…
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Issue 27
The Restless Mind: At Last, At Rest
I had begun to write about my early years listening…
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Issue 28
Breaking Glass
To pick up the story: Shortly after I first heard…
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Issue 29
Terry Riley
Which Terry Riley? I first heard A Rainbow in Curved…
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Issue 30
Ducks In a Row
For about six months of my life, around the time…
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Issue 31
The Minimalist Groove of Nik Bärtsch
I first heard of composer Nik Bärtsch from director Robert…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 32
Silence Isn’t Silent
Let me tell you about Bernie Leadon. Bernie came to…
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Issue 33
96,000 People Can’t Be That Wrong
As I write this, I’m listening to the early Flying…
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Issue 34
It Was 50 Years Ago….
… a couple days ago. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club…
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Issue 35
Wild About Harry (Pearson)
Some time ago, I wrote, first for Paul McGowan, and…
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Issue 36
Whistling Down the Wire
Paul McGowan’s recent column brought something to mind that I’ve been…
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Issue 37
Net Neutrality
Net Neutrality – the Why, but mostly the Why Not…
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Issue 38
Roon: What’s It Building In There??
A couple of years ago, along with a DirectStream DAC,…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 39
The Great Wall
In the early 70s, the Grateful Dead were the most…
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Issue 40
Meetings With Remarkable Men, Part 1
Last time out, I wrote a bit about the Grateful…
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Issue 41
Meetings With Remarkable Men, Part 2
I wasn’t much of a Grateful Dead fan at first.…
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Issue 42
Meetings With Remarkable Men, Part 3
In the previous two articles, I wrote about encountering Jack…
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Issue 44
Brothers In Arms
While I’ve been contemplating my next piece, I’ve been thinking…
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Issue 45
Why Doesn’t My System Sound Better?
(Or: A Neurotic’s Confession)
By any objective measure, it sounds incredible. But you know…
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Issue 46
The Story of “All I Wanna Do” (as I remember it)
I was talking to Paul McGowan a week or so…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 47
What Is a Bass?
I’ve been contemplating this topic for a little while, although…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 48
What Is a Bass? Part 2: Jack’s $4,000 Revolution
Last issue I started writing about what made an electric…
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Issue 49
What Is a Bass? Part 3: Alternative Materials
In the first two installments, I talked about a bit…
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Issue 50
What Is a Bass? Part 4: Electronic Guitars
I want to wrap up this attempt to answer the…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 51
Danny Thompson
While writing the last few chapters, I talked on occasion…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 52
In Defense of Taste
My last piece seems to have raised some eyebrows, though…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 53
The Big Rock Show
Some friends of mine have been putting on a big…
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Issue 54
Sandwiches of You
A couple issues back, discussing the NAMM convention, I mentioned…
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Issue 55
My Helios
I’ve been asked a couple times about the recording /…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 56
The Sound of Microphones
Specifically, Neumann LDCs, or Large Diaphragm Condensers. You know how…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 57
Mix A vs. Mix B
In the dark, dim past, on a dark and stormy…
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Issue 58
Why Doesn’t My System Sound Better? Part 2
About half a year ago, in Copper #45, I wrote…
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Issue 59
Listening, Not Hearing
A few days ago, I was lying on my couch,…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 60
Structure Needs a Firm Foundation
I’ve had a BHK Signature preamp for about a week-and-a-half,…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 61
RootMasterSound
By now, it’s no secret that THE Show a few…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 62
Obsessed With Stereo
I think about my system too much. I mean, really…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 63
A Conversation
Well, conversation might not be the word. I was going…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 65
Hitting Bottom
Mark Malboeuf, alias badbeef, asked me to comment on a…
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Issue 66
You Better Think
Try to imagine. I had discovered music only the previous…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 67
The Great Wall, Redux
[Our friend and regular Copper columnist Dan Schwartz is under…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 68
The Tuesday Night Music Club, Redux
[Our friend, regular Copper columnist and resident right-handed bass player Dan Schwartz…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 69
Paul Kantner Is Dead, Redux
[Following the recent death of Jefferson Airplane lead singer Marty…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 71
Wild About Harry, Redux
[Having recently brought up J. Gordon Holt, it seems only…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 72
On Words In Music, Redux
I was trying to figure out when and where I…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 73
Silence Isn’t Silent, Redux
Let me tell you about Bernie Leadon. Bernie came to…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 76
Steve Reich: Drumming, Redux
When I was 17, I discovered the compositional style called…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 74
Messiah
On Sunday, December 9th, my family and I went to…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 75
The Revenge of The White Album
By now, you know whether The White Album re-issue is…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 77
96,000 People Can’t Be That Wrong, Redux
As I write this, I’m listening to the early Flying…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 78
The Most Remarkable Man, Redux
I’ve discussed a few of the heavyweight characters I encountered…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 112
It’s a Lonely World, Redux
I didn’t set out to be a hired gun, but…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 83
Mix A vs. Mix B, Redux
In the dark, dim past, on a dark and stormy…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 80
Reaching Inside
Bear with me; I’m going to talk about myself —…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 81
The Qobuz Diaries
I spent a week, since the last issue, in the…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 82
Real Religious Fervor
Real religious fervor: what do I mean by using that…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 84
Noir et Blanc
In 1983, one of my favorite records was released: Zazou/Bikaye/CY1’s …
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 85
My C-24
In one of his Paul’s Posts (“Capturing Air”), Paul McGowan…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 86
Oy! More Bass!
An ultra-recent debate between Uncle Bill Leebens and myself gives…
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Issue 87
Where I’ve Been, Part 1
If you’ve been interested (and I’m not saying you ought…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 88
TONE!
A recent conversation ‘twixt Uncle Bill and me: Me: This…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 89
The Sound Of Music, Redux
There’s something I’ve been thinking about for around 25 years;…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 90
We All Shine On, Redux
49 years ago, in the first international worldwide television broadcast,…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 91
The Mystery of The Making, Redux
I never think about how mysterious the process of contemporary…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 92
What Made Woodstock So Different?
In several years of so very many noteworthy 50th anniversaries,…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 93
From Wallkill to Bethel
When last we met, I put forth my guess as…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 94
The Bass That Phil Lesh Gave Me
In one’s early life as a musician, one tends to…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 95
Where I Am, Part 2
Picking up the story from Issue 87: a lot of…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 96
The Story of “All I Wanna Do”, Redux
I was talking to Paul McGowan a week or so…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 97
My Helios, Redux
I’ve been asked a couple times about the recording /…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 98
The Sound of My Stereo and the Quality of Cables
I’ve written about the sound of my system before –…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 99
Further Thoughts on System Synergy
For the past week, I’ve been thinking a bit more…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 100
The Sound of Microphones, Redux
Specifically, Neumann LDCs, or large diaphragm condensers. You know how…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 101
My C-24, Redux
In one of his Paul’s Posts (“Capturing Air”), Paul McGowan…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 102
A Journey Through The Absolute Sound
I discovered high-end audio in 1978. But I always seemed…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 103
On the Necessity of a Power Plant
I know there’s a policy of having us writers not…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 104
Adventures in Audio: AT&T and Me
Way back in the very early days of the World…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 105
The Ecstatic Music Of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
I can’t remember exactly when I first heard of Alice…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 106
The Digital Sound of Vinyl
In a recent video in his “Ask Paul” online video…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 107
Why Don’t Musicians Use Audiophile Speakers?
Well, actually, they do – sometimes. I’m writing this in…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 108
You Don’t Have to be…Redux
When I was a kid, my parents had a comedy…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 109
Obsessed with Stereo, Redux
I think about my system too much. I mean, really…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 110
In My Dreams, Redux
Sometime in 1995, Bill Bottrell called and wanted me to…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 111
Waiting for the Black Cadillac, Redux
Who knows what’s behind our taste? A record that I…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 113
The Beautiful Ordinariness of Elbow, Part One
Throw those windows wide One day like this a year…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 115
The Ordinary Beauty of Elbow, Part Two
I had thought that the intervening time between Part One…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 117
Of Tubes and Men
I got new tubes! No, really! “Why is he telling…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 123
Projects, Projects, Projects
What the hell have I been up to, you wonder?…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 125
Audio News – Bad and Good
This time out, I want to share some audio-related news…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 126
A World Without Keith Jarrett
“I even have dreams where I am as messed up…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 127
On the Baron: Tim de Paravicini, in Memoriam
There was a message for me to call Dan Meinwald…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 128
My Massive Income From Streaming
Our Paul McGowan asked me to recount the truly massive…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 136
On or Off?
Should you leave your hi-fi gear on or turn it…
Music, Audio, and Other Illnesses
Issue 148
The Role of Imagination
Sitting here listening to a Steinway recording – literally, a…
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