Copper


The Write Thing

Issue 146Opening Salvo

“Writers write.” – Dave Kindred.“Nuff said.” – Stan Lee. Ken Kessler is back! He started with Copper Issue 2 and returns after a long absence with the beginning of a series on...

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Praiseworthy Achievement

Issue 146AUDIO ANTHROPOLOGY

A stunning Harman Kardon Citation II B power amplifier. Designed by Stu Hageman and introduced in 1959, it’s considered by many to be one of the greatest Golden Age amplifiers....

The Man with No Name? Michael Baugh Interview, ...

Issue 146THE COPPER INTERVIEW

In Part One (Issue 145) we talked to multifaceted guitar playing genius Michael Baugh about what inspired him to play guitar, and how he got into film composing. Here, Mike tells us...

Bob Dylan – Springtime in New York: The Bootleg...

Issue 146TO BE DETERMINED

This issue, I’m focusing on a single release, Bob Dylan’s Springtime in New York: The Bootleg Series Vol. 16/1980-1985, a new five-disc box that covers Dylan’s return to form following his...

Burt Bacharach, Part One – The Early Years

Issue 146FEATURED

Burt Bacharach is one of those composers who I’ve listened to nearly my entire life. From the age of six or seven, my mother – the adventurous listener in the...

Alternate Realities – Janácek: Piano Works

Issue 146FEATURED

Janácek: Piano WorksLars Vogt, pianoOndine ODE1382-2 With his tart rhythms and uneasy tonality, Leoš Janáček, a late Romantic Czech composer and early innovator in folk musicology, circles his own little...

Phil Keaggy – A Lifetime of Making Joyful Noise...

Issue 146FEATURED

Part One of this series (Issue 145) covered Phil Keaggy’s early music with hard rock power trio Glass Harp, his experiments with prog rock, jazz fusion, classical and Elizabethan acoustic guitar,...

Martin Theophilus of The Museum of Magnetic Sou...

Issue 146REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE

Martin Theophilus is the Executive Director of the Museum of Magnetic Sound Recording (MOMSR), a private collection of recording machines, tapes and other materials, along with a companion website. The site contains...

Global Groovin’ with Analog Africa

Issue 146FROM THE SWEET SPOT

“Greetings, funky friends.” So began a recent email announcing the latest release from one of my favorite music labels, Analog Africa. Launched in 2007, AA has so far produced 44 ear-opening reissues...

Back To My Reel-to-Reel Roots, Part One

Issue 146NATURAL BORN KESSLER

Returning after a long absence, Contributing Editor Ken Kessler – who started with Copper Issue 2 – provides us with a cautionary study of the open-reel tape revival, an addiction that has...

Al Staehely: Spirit and the Letter of the Law

Issue 146DISCIPLES OF SOUND

In rock and roll you always take the wins where you find them. Al Staehely is the only person who has both played Carnegie Hall and provided legal services for...

Summer Jam at Watkins Glen

Issue 146TRUE-LIFE ROCK TALES

For a variety of reasons, we left in the late evening of July 27th, 1973. The trip to Watkins Glen Grand Prix Raceway was about 265 miles. It was going...

Roon Done Right: A User Guide

Issue 146DEEP DIVE

Many people think of Roon as a media player or media server, but it’s neither! Good thing, too, as it would be crazy to spend $120/year renting software to play music you...

Twisted Business: Jay Jay French’s Lessons Lear...

Issue 146FRANKLY SPEAKING

Jay Jay French was the lead guitarist and is the business maven behind Twisted Sister, one of the world’s most successful rock bands with more than 20 million records sold....

Clandestine Amigo Releases Its Second Album, Th...

Issue 146OCTAVE PITCH

Things Worth Remembering is the second album by pop/rock band Clandestine Amigo. Recorded in pure high-resolution Direct Stream Digital (DSD) and mastered using Octave Records’ DSDDirect Mastering process, the album finds...

Pilgrimage to Sturgis, Part Four

Issue 146NEW VISTAS

The first installments of this series appeared in Issues 143, 144 and 145. It was well after midnight by the time I staggered back from downtown Spearfish. I had a hard time locating my...

Jean-Philippe Rameau: A New Take on French Opera

Issue 146SOMETHING OLD / SOMETHING NEW

If Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683 – 1764) had not embarked on a new aspect of his musical career in middle age, the world would be deprived of some very fine operas....

Isaac Hayes: Soul Chef

Issue 146OFF THE CHARTS

Isaac Hayes had an inauspicious start. Born in 1942 in rural Tennessee, he was raised on a farm by his sharecropping grandparents. He would go on to become one of...

Wizened Tree

Issue 146PARTING SHOT

Near The Valley of Rocks in Lynton, England is a coastal stretch of land that is truly dramatic, with a landscape that has endured intense weathering. Here it is rugged...