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Sound Pilot: Interview with Acoustic Design Consultant Philip Newell
Sound Pilot: Interview with Acoustic Design Consultant Philip Newell
Philip Newell has been professionally involved in audio since 1966. He has done it all, from an apprenticeship in audio electronics while studying radio and television servicing, to doing live... Read more...
Patty Griffin: Finding True Purpose
Patty Griffin: Finding True Purpose
Sometimes it takes a while to find your true purpose in life. Patty Griffin had just been through a divorce when she decided to try singing professionally in 1994 at... Read more...
Israel
Israel
Our friend Allan was the Sherriff of Galilee. At least that’s what we called him. In actuality he was a commander in the border police and was often called on... Read more...
An Undiscovered Guitar God, a Remake, a Reissue, and a Future Classic
An Undiscovered Guitar God, a Remake, a Reissue, and a Future Classic
Walter Trout – Ordinary Madness Walter Trout is a blues survivor, and will turn seventy next March. He started playing in the late sixties, and spent the next two-and-a-half decades on the... Read more...
Can You Dig It?
Can You Dig It?
This ad made you want to groove on a Marantz receiver, man! Circa 1973. Who knew you didn't have to go to school to be an audio engineer? Courtesy of... Read more...
It Started with a 45
It Started with a 45
I got my first transistor radio in 1961. It was cheap, made in Japan, and the brand was Lloyd’s — anybody remember that one? I couldn’t wait to listen to... Read more...
The Incredible Jimmy Smith!
The Incredible Jimmy Smith!
When Jimmy Smith was growing up near Philadelphia in the 1930s, he taught himself to play boogie-woogie piano well enough to win a radio-sponsored contest. He discovered the joys of... Read more...
Record Store Day – An Alternative Opinion
Record Store Day – An Alternative Opinion
I never really gave much thought to Record Store Day, other than to see it mentioned on the internet here and there over the years, and eventually I would become... Read more...
Confessions of a Setup Man, Part Eight: Too Hot to Handle
Confessions of a Setup Man, Part Eight: Too Hot to Handle
When I was working at The Absolute Sound as Harry Pearson’s set up man in the mid 1980s through early 1990s, Goldmund was a name at the top of the high-end pantheon.... Read more...
He is Lemmy, and He Played Rock and Roll
He is Lemmy, and He Played Rock and Roll
I met my friend Ned, a long-haired fry-cook at a British pub in Manhattan’s South Street Seaport. He was between college and his next step in life – a toss-up... Read more...
Take 22
Take 22
This is my 22nd issue of editing Copper. 22 issues of fun, hard work, passion, power outages, a moment of panic or two and many other feelings. Deadline pressure and... Read more...
Unusual Musical Collaborations and Cameos, Part Two
Unusual Musical Collaborations and Cameos, Part Two
In Part One (Issue 118) we covered Stevie Wonder and George Benson, Metallica and Lang Lang, Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs and Adele and Paul Weller. Here we continue to look into unlikely... Read more...
Pat Quilter: Sound Reinforcement and Amp Guru, Part Two
Pat Quilter: Sound Reinforcement and Amp Guru, Part Two
In Part One (Issue 118) Pat Quilter and John Seetoo talked about the beginnings of Quilter Audio Labs and QSC Audio, the history of recorded sound, non-amplified vs. amplified live... Read more...
The Forty Thieves
The Forty Thieves
I’m sitting with my sister Ellen at an outdoor coffee shop on the ocean in Venice Beach, California, and we’re talking about our dad. Hard to be exact; it had... Read more...
Sound Pilot: Interview with Acoustic Design Consultant Philip Newell
Sound Pilot: Interview with Acoustic Design Consultant Philip Newell
Philip Newell has been professionally involved in audio since 1966. He has done it all, from an apprenticeship in audio electronics while studying radio and television servicing, to doing live... Read more...
Themes From a Summer Piece
Themes From a Summer Piece
The Song of the Summer is not an official title. It’s not a Grammy category, not (usually) quantifiable by chart position or mass success. Nor does it have to have... Read more...
When Dire Straits Made a Springsteen Record
When Dire Straits Made a Springsteen Record
There has been a lot said about the importance of Bruce Springsteen’s 1978 album Darkness on the Edge of Town. It was a transitional album for Bruce, taking him from beachside... Read more...
Chicago Boogie
Chicago Boogie
Summer CES 1993, taken before The Mondial Experience jam session and party. For a few years, former audio manufacturer Mondial Designs would rent a club or big room, supply a... Read more...
Issue 119
Disappearing Act
Disappearing Act
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