Copper


Issue 63

Issue 63Opening Salvo

Welcome to Copper #63! This issue's menu offers summer reading ranging from light amuse-bouche to meaty main courses. I hope you'll enjoy it. Everything is relative: the high-nineties temperatures of the Colorado summer...

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Rosanna

Issue 63HAND PICKED

If you have spent even the briefest of times on the Interwebs in the past 6 months then you are fully aware of the rarefied place that Toto’s “Africa” has...

Sonos: Another Killer IPO?

Issue 63INDUSTRY NEWS

For the last few years, investors have been somewhat cautious regarding new  IPOs (Initial Public Offerings of shares, as companies move from privately-held to publicly-traded). So far during 2018, however,...

In Search of Meaning, Where There Is None

Issue 63THE AUDIO CYNIC

First off, don’t look at the title and image above and think, “oh, great, Leebs is off on his midlife crisis—finally.” For starters, “midlife” applied to me would mean I...

A Conversation

AND OTHER ILLNESSESAUDIOIssue 63MUSIC

Well, conversation might not be the word. I was going to write a bit about my bedroom system. But on Sunday I had an encounter so bizarre that I have to write...

The Ondine All-Stars

Issue 63TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

For the classical record industry, it’s gotten hard to tell whether these are the best of times or the worst of times. The CD revolution of the mid-1980s brought a...

Marianne Faithfull

Issue 63OFF THE CHARTS

In the 1960s, British storyteller-in-song Marianne Faithfull fascinated fans as much for her affair with Mick Jagger as for rather mystical voice and persona. As she heads toward her 72nd birthday, she can...

"New Old"?

Issue 63VINTAGE WHINE

The first time I heard the word “oxymoron,” I thought it was a detergent for the intellectually challenged. No, really. For those unfamiliar with the term, it means a phrase...

So You Wanna Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star

Issue 63TWISTED SYSTEMS

But first: No, I didn’t forget about Tommy Emmanuel. It just doesn’t warrant a full analysis except to say that, in the here and now, if I could play like...

Command and Control

Issue 63QUIBBLES AND BITS

I have just read what is without hesitation the most … what is the correct expression here? … profoundly unsettling work of non-fiction that has ever passed through my hands.  It is...

Hotel Tales

Issue 63MUSIC'AL NOTES

St James Club. I had come to LA on a sales trip. I was new to the business and still trundling door to door with my Revolver Turntable. Los Angeles...

Counting Butterflies

Issue 63FEATURED

I used to be a moderator of a now-defunct Indian bicycling forum called Bikeszone. BZ, as it was called, was the epicenter of the burgeoning recreational cycling movement in India....