Copper


Issue 116

Issue 116Opening Salvo

“Baby, there’s only two more days till tomorrow.” That’s from the Gary Wilson song, “I Wanna Take You On A Sea Cruise.” Gary, an outsider music legend, expresses what many of us...

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John Grado of Grado Labs, Part Two

Issue 116THE COPPER INTERVIEW

In Part One (Issue 115), John Seetoo and John Grado talked about Grado’s reference vinyl discs, the “Grado sound,” the use of wood in headphones and cartridges, company founder Joseph Grado...

The Natural Horn: Recent Recordings

Issue 116SOMETHING OLD / SOMETHING NEW

French horn is a notoriously difficult instrument to play at a virtuosic level, but that’s nothing compared to the challenge of playing its predecessor, the natural horn. This instrument looks...

Travis Wammack – Memphis Royalty

Issue 116MUSIC TO MY EARS

We’re going to visit a guy today who is known to guitar players but not to the general public. Travis Wammack recorded his first record when he was 12 years...

Colored Vinyl: Eye Candy, But is It Ear Candy?

Issue 116REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE

Records, from the age of shellac to the vinyl era, have traditionally been black. Artwork was typically confined to the small round paper label on the record itself and to...

Wanda Jackson: the Queen of Rockabilly

Issue 116OFF THE CHARTS

In the tiny town of Maude, Oklahoma, Wanda Jackson came into the world in 1937. Her dad bought her a guitar and took her to lots of western swing concerts...

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Issue 116MUSIC'AL NOTES

The bride and groom walked down the aisle to the wedding canopy while the whole orchestra played the wedding march. That is the whole Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. In the late...

Let the Good Sounds Roll

Issue 116EUREKA MOMENTS

When I was growing up having a real car stereo was almost as important as owning a solid home system, maybe more. The radios that came standard with most cars...

Images of the Past: On the Road with Nektar

Issue 116TRUE-LIFE ROCK TALES

Things work out, I’m happy, I have the job as road manager for Nektar, a British progressive rock band, as told in Issue 115. First concert is in Fort Wayne, Indiana....

Me and the Dead, Part Two

Issue 116TWISTED SYSTEMS

In response to reader jeffstarr who commented on my Dead article, “The Rocky Road to Unlimited Devotion” (Issue 114), he asked why I had to dislike the Dead just because I became...

Bananagun and Khruangbin Take on the World

Issue 116WAYNE'S WORDS

Bananagun: The True Story of Bananagun (Full Time Hobby) Khruangbin: Mordechai (Dead Oceans) Bananagun had me won over with their name, a readymade punch line for a mild risqué joke often attributed to the...

Talking with Carl Marchisotto of NOLA Loudspeakers

Issue 116FRANKLY SPEAKING

Carl Marchisotto is the president of Holbrook, NY-based Accent Speaker Technology, manufacturers of NOLA loudspeakers. Before then, Marilyn and Carl owned Acarian Systems, makers of Alon speakers, and Carl worked...

Audio Shows 101: What to Expect As A First-Timer

Issue 116FEATURED

A guide for newbies to make the most of the audio show experience. Since audio shows have been sidelined for the year, I felt it might be a good time...

What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been

Issue 116PARTING SHOT

"I call shotgun!" We can guess what's on that iPod: "Tears of a Clown," "Send in the Clowns," "Cathy's Clown," "Everybody Loves a Clown," "Death of a Clown" and a...

Four Solid Hits!

Issue 116TO BE DETERMINED

Sophia Portanet – Freier Geist Sofia Portanet is of Spanish and German descent, but she grew up in Paris, and she sings with perfect ease in both French and German. Although, the...

Set It Off

Issue 116AUDIO ANTHROPOLOGY

I wonder how many people blew the speaker. Thanks to our Ray Chelstowski for submitting this. Now that's a listening chair! From Audio, October 1962. I think I saw this...

Comfort and Adventure

Issue 116TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

Good: If I ever start making playlists again, or decide to re-organize my record collection, I could divide everything into just two piles, Comfort and Adventure. Lately I’ve been stuck...