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VPI to the Rescue
If you haven’t heard by now, VPI industries, headed by…
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Issue 123
The Soul of Guitar Tone
As a guitar player for the last 55 years, hundreds…
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Issue 122
The Legacy of Eddie Van Halen
There are millions of guitar players. There are thousands of…
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Issue 121
Workingman’s Dead…at 50
First off, I am proud to announce two projects of…
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Issue 120
There Must Have Been Something In the Water
If the Beatles never happened, if the British Invasion never…
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Issue 118
(Going for) The Absolute Sound…for Less
Besides being the name of the legendary high-end audio magazine,…
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Issue 117
The Golden Age of the Fab Four vs. the Fab Five
The Beatles vs. The Rolling Stones. And the winner is……
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Issue 116
Me and the Dead, Part Two
In response to reader jeffstarr who commented on my Dead…
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Issue 114
Me and the Dead: The Rocky Road To Unlimited Devotion
My first book, Twisted Business will be published in the…
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Issue 113
And it Feels Just Like…Starting Over
So, as I have written about and stated in numerous…
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Issue 112
Donovan’s Muse: an interview with the Real Jennifer Juniper
For those who don’t know, Jenny Boyd is a former…
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Issue 110
Day After Day…
Day after day, alone (with a lot of media and…
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Issue 124
Stairway to Heaven
My friend Ira is a committed audiophile and we seem…
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Issue 109
The High-End in the Time of Coronavirus
There is nothing like a virus that may take down…
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Issue 105
The Tice Clock and the Endless Search for the Holy Grail
Back in the good old high-end audio days of around…
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Issue 100
Bob Dylan at the Beacon Theater, November 27, 2019
All Along the Mayflower Bob Dylan at the Beacon Theater,…
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Issue 92
End of Summer Musings
How fast can the summer go? It seems like it…
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Issue 91
So You Think You Love
The White Album
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Probably not as much as Rutherford Chang. This is how…
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Issue 90
The Dave Clark Five
When writing this column, I frequently close my eyes and…
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Issue 89
Can An Atheist Love Gospel Music ?
Hmmmm…… If I weren’t a writer, always looking for interesting…
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Issue 88
Here Comes
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First appeared in Goldmine Magazine, edited for Copper. I recently…
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Issue 87
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Renovation
My current audio system consists of the following— and there…
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Issue 86
The Munich High End Show 2019, Part 2
Before I go any farther down the High End show…
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Issue 85
The Munich High End Show 2019
I attended the High End Audio Show 2019 last week…
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Issue 155
We’re Not Gonna Take It!
Can an artist really stop the use of their songs…
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Issue 180
Jeff Beck: In Memoriam
No, there is no cute way to begin this one.…
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Issue 178
Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’?
Well, eh…no, according to my wife. A joke goes like…
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Issue 177
The
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Jay Jay’s review of the Revolver remixes appeared in Issue…
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Issue 176
Revolver
Returns: Remixed and Reloaded, Part One
Is Revolver the greatest of all Beatles albums? Every time…
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Issue 171
First Look (and Listen): A Hi-Def Live Concert Audio Experience for the 21st Century
I recently attended a press showing (and listening) session at…
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Issue 169
Dead & Company at Citi Field, July 15, 2022: A Review
Very few artists command followings so rabid that, when anyone…
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Issue 167
When Domestic Bliss is an Audio Miss
When you walk into my apartment you stroll past the…
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Issue 165
The Lasting Memories of Hit Summer Songs
Another summer is now here, and I’m reminded about how,…
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Issue 161
From Small Things, Big Things One Day Come
No, this is not a review of the great Springsteen-penned…
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Issue 158
Nero Fiddles While Rome…
Sorry folks but I’m having a hard time thinking about…
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Issue 157
Michael Jackson and
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As Seen Through a Woke Prism As Copper is and…
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Issue 84
The One That Got Away
The day I just missed a 1959 ‘Burst As an…
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Issue 152
Get Back, Let It Be
and the Boredom of Excellence
It is almost a given that if you dedicate eight…
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Issue 144
What Exactly is Classic Rock? Part Two
In Part One (Issue 143), Jay Jay talked with FM…
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Issue 143
What Exactly Is Classic Rock? Part One
First, a note: Jay Jay’s book, Twisted Business: Lessons From…
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Issue 140
A Tale of Two Systems…
…and a podcast announcement. I now have a podcast called…
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Issue 136
An Appreciation of the Move
As the COVID epidemic winds down (hopefully soon) this time…
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Issue 134
Streaming Audio and Other Rants
First off, I hope many of you are listening to…
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Issue 132
Where Were You When The Lights Went Out?
You probably wished you were hanging out with me…read on……
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Issue 131
Islands In the Stream
In past articles I have referenced the differences between how…
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Issue 128
In Memory of Leslie West
Leslie West, like Albert King, just knew how to play…
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Issue 126
Zen and the Art of Criticism
Who hasn’t walked out of a show, turned to a…
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Issue 125
Strawberry Fields Forever…and Ever
This article was originally published in Goldmine magazine, www.goldminemag.com, and…
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Issue 48
Brit Psychedelics, Continued
Cream’s Disraeli Gears is being moved to a later issue.…
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Issue 60
Guitar Influences, Part 4: Albert King
I woke up a couple of weeks ago and realized…
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Issue 59
Guitar Influences, Part 3: Eric Clapton
As common as it is to read statements from rock…
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Issue 58
Guitar Influences, Part 2: Keith Richards, Chuck Berry…& Mike Kagan??
Keith Richards, Chuck Berry &… Mike Kagan?? Yeah…I know. I…
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Issue 57
Guitar Influences, Part 1: Mike Bloomfield
I have been asked on several occasions to write about…
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Issue 55
A Very Twisted Tower Tale
The response to my tone control/ equalizer article brought out…
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Issue 54
We Don’t Need No Education…We Don’t Need No Tone Controls…
Well, you will soon see that I disagree with that…
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Issue 53
Climbing to the Audio Summit Part 3: Speakers and Stuff
As I bring this “Climbing to the Audio Summit” exercise…
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Issue 52
Climbing to the Audio Summit Part 2: Amps/Preamps
The response to “Climbing to the Audio Summit: Turntables” was…
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Issue 51
Climbing to the Audio Summit Part 1: Turntables
I want to thank you all for your comments on…
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Issue 50
The Final Countdown!
We’ve arrived at the finals of the ‘67 Psychedelic Shoot-out!!!…
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Issue 49
Still More of the ’67 Psychedelic Shootout!
Both the Beatles & The Rolling Stones released 2 albums…
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Issue 61
Guitar Influences, Part 5: Mick Ronson
So now you are saying….”So how do you go from…
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Issue 47
Brit Psychedelics
First a word about what/who is not on my Psychedelic…
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Issue 46
The ’67 Psychedelic Shootout Continues!
Let it not be said that journalists don’t pay attention…
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Issue 45
The Great 1967 Psychedelic Album of the Year Shootout
Part 1 The Contenders I recently sent away for, and…
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Issue 44
Cables? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Cables!
In the world of high end audio there is probably…
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Issue 43
Revenge, Audio Style
I hope you all had a great summer. I missed…
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Issue 36
1967: The Year Rock ‘n’ Roll Became Rock
To all my readers; I will be taking the summer…
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Issue 35
Long Island, Part 2
The following Monday morning after the delivery and installation of…
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Issue 33
Audio Retales
Visits Long Island
Robin Williams famously once said that “Cocaine is God’s way…
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Issue 32
High-End Audio Retales
I want to start this one by thanking Copper for…
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Issue 31
When Pop Music Meets Politics…
..things may not go as planned. The recent presidential elections…
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Issue 30
Chasing the Dragon
How owning an audio system is like “Chasing the Dragon”…
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Issue 72
Fake Blues Is Fake News
Although The Beatles were my “jumping off point” in my…
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Issue 83
A Conversation With “Cousin Brucie”
[Originally published in Goldmine magazine—Ed.] Talking Beatles, The JFK Assassination and…
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Issue 82
Great Artists Dilemma
As much as my Springsteen article caused an outpouring of…
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Issue 81
Why Can’t America Produce a Great Rock Band? (the answer will surprise you)
One afternoon, while I was writing a Beatles article for…
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Issue 80
The Cult of Bruce (and Why I’m Not a Member)
Certain bands maintain a following that is so rabid that,…
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Issue 79
I Hate…(Fill in the Blank)
When I’m introduced as Jay Jay French of Twisted Sister…
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Issue 78
John Lennon: Come and Gone
[Portions of this story were originally published in Goldmine magazine—Ed.] February…
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Issue 77
Giles Martin Interview
[Originally published in Goldmine magazine—Ed.] While at the listening session…
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Issue 76
You Know It Ain’t Easy, Part 2
….unless you really wanted to meet John & Yoko. New…
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Issue 75
You Know It Ain’t Easy, Part 1
Montreal, 1969 Over the last year or so, I have…
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Issue 74
Keith Richards Will Still Be Here When You Are Gone
This article is about preservation. No one exemplifies this more…
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Issue 73
Dylan, The Beatles, Mick Jagger, The Fugs, and John, Paul & Bingo
If I titled this story “The Strange Life & Times…
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Issue 29
The Audio Tourist
[ To get perfectly nerdy: if you drew a Venn…
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Issue 71
Elton Saved My (Rock ‘N’ Roll) Life Tonight
Last Friday, I attended Elton John’s concert at Madison Square…
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Issue 70
Radio R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Aretha Franklin (and all recording artists) get no “R-E-S-P-E-C-T” in…
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Issue 69
Loving the Beatles (In Real Time)
With the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ “White Album” this…
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Issue 68
While My Guitars Gently Sleep
Early on in my writing for Copper a few readers…
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Issue 67
The Needle and the Damage Done
No, this is not another “confession’ about past drug use.…
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Issue 66
How I Dealt With My Recent Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
As you may have surmised, this is a very personal…
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Issue 65
Reel to Real
“Hey Jay Jay, how about an audio column for a…
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Issue 64
So a Drummer Walks Into a Bar….
A little light summer diversion: -What is the difference between…
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Issue 63
So You Wanna Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star
But first: No, I didn’t forget about Tommy Emmanuel. It…
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Issue 62
Guitar Influences, Part 6: Jerry Garcia (an unintended consequence)
I was going to write about my new fave guitarist…
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