Copper


Issue 62

Issue 62Opening Salvo

Welcome to Copper #62! My daughter Emily believes that men in general are whiners when they're sick---and I'm not exempt from her judgment. What was a sniffle and cough has turned into...

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Toys 'R' Us Is Dead

Issue 62INDUSTRY NEWS

Back in Copper #56, Industry News featured a Jeremiad of sorts, “Debt Is Death (Sometimes)”. One of the poster children for crippling debt mentioned in that piece was Toys ‘R’ Us.  While perhaps not a great...

Diminishing Returns (Or: The Clock Radio Dilemma)

Issue 62THE AUDIO CYNIC

While at the Munich High End Show last month, I saw portable audio gear the size of my hand. And, as I mentioned in my video, I also encountered systems that were decidedly...

Gut Punches and Heavenly Strains

Issue 62FEATURED

A few years ago, my old Spica TC-50s finally came to the end of the line. John Bau’s brilliantly constructed wedges from New Mexico could have lasted a bit longer, but the tweeters were...

C.P.E. Bach Sonatas

Issue 62SOMETHING OLD / SOMETHING NEW

Clavier-Sonaten für Kenner und Liebhaber (Keyboard Sonatas for Experts and Amateurs) is one of the most significant titles of any music book in history. This collection by J.S. Bach’s second surviving...

Go Your Own Way

Issue 62HAND PICKED

Feb 4th 1977 was the day that saw, amongst a BUNCH of other stuff I’m SURE, the release of Fleetwood Mac‘s 11th studio album Rumours. Little did anyone know that it was going...

Obsessed With Stereo

AND OTHER ILLNESSESAUDIOIssue 62MUSIC

I think about my system too much. I mean, really too much. As I’ve written many times, it was stable for more than 20 years. That’s a really long while in anybody’s...

Bird Brains

Issue 62FEATURED

Acclaimed British biographer Jenny Uglow has published a new study of Edward Lear, that eccentric Victorian whose playful verse has always delighted children, and the child in all of us. Lear was...

Part Deux

Issue 62TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

[Or: Another Mess O’ Messiaen—-Ed.] This column usually follows a fairly predictable path: first a few words about some music, then a brief clip illustrating the point. Today, let’s switch that...

Guitar Influences, Part 6: Jerry Garcia (an uni...

Issue 62TWISTED SYSTEMS

I was going to write about my new fave guitarist Tommy Emmanuel but, in light of the comments made by several readers (both pro & con) regarding Jerry Garcia in...

Queen, After the '70s

Issue 62OFF THE CHARTS

When they officially formed as Queen in 1973, the four skilled musicians in the band – Freddie Mercury (vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar), John Deacon (bass), and Roger Taylor (drums)...

Electric City

Issue 62VINTAGE WHINE

So: what does a professional audio nerd do on a day off? Check out an audio dealer, of course! I’d seen Craigslist ads for Electric City in Westminster, Colorado, for months–and finally...

Escape

Issue 62MUSIC'AL NOTES

“Line up against that wall” said the Captain to my uncle Fred. “Platoon. Get ready, take aim…” Act One. On one of the numerous attempts to escape Germany in the...

Me and Kenny Dalglish

Issue 62QUIBBLES AND BITS

I was born in Glasgow, Scotland.  At age 10 my family moved to Leeds, in England.  Three years later we moved to Leicester … my father and brother still live...