Copper


Batting .800

Issue 93TO BE DETERMINED

Rodney Crowell – Texas I grew up in the red clay hills of rural North Georgia; country music is in my blood, even though it probably represents a fraction of a percentage...

Emily Remler: Eight Great Tracks

Issue 93TRADING EIGHTS

When Emily Remler was a kid in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, she tried out her brother’s Gibson guitar and loved it. Soon she could figure out 1960s rock songs by ear...

NRBQ

Issue 93MUSIC TO MY EARS

In 1966 two kids who were not being watched carefully started a garage band in their hometown of Shively, KY. Terry Adams played keys and sang, brother Donn played horns...

How Records are Made, Part 2: Plating and Pressing

Issue 93REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE

The disk mastering stage, discussed in detail in the previous issue, was the last stage permitting intentional changes to the sound of the final product, for aesthetic or technical reasons. While...

The Killers

Issue 93OFF THE CHARTS

Until the Killers came on the scene, the phrase “Las Vegas music” tended to conjure up images of late-career crooners in casino supper clubs. But in 2001, when singer and...

Muggings

Issue 93MUSIC'AL NOTES

It was the jostling that alerted me. I looked down and saw a hand removing money from my pocket. This was almost identical to an incident that had happened to...

From Wallkill to Bethel

Issue 93MUSIC AUDIO AND OTHER ILLNESSES

When last we met, I put forth my guess as to one of two reasons Woodstock, despite being the largest music and art festival ever, was also the most peaceful. The...

Standard Time

Issue 93TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

It may seem like I seldom devote space here to repertoire favorites, e.g., Top Twenty World’s Greatest Concertos. Why is that? Well, some people are heavily invested in the Top...

Drive, He Said Part 2

Issue 93VINTAGE WHINE

In Part 1, Copper #92, we looked at idler-wheel turntable mechanisms. In this article, we’ll look at belt-drive turntables. The original Edison phonographs—cylinder players, not disc players—were belt-driven. Oddly, the first belt-drive turntable...

A Turntable of my Own, Part 4

Issue 93IN MY ROOM

Copper #90 , #91, and #92---Ed.> You are looking at the main aluminum plate that will support the entire table. It is resting on the aluminum plate that was previously...