Copper
Fairchild, Part 4
The last three Vintage Whine columns have looked at the pro and consumer audio companies owned by Sherman Fairchild, with a side-look at his many other holdings. We began in Copper #75 with Part 1; Copper#76...
Andrea Brinkmann, RIP
Brinkmann Audio is a highly-regarded German manufacturer of turntables and electronics. From the Brinkmann USA newsletter— In Memoriam: Andrea Brinkmann 1977-2019 “It is with great sorrow that we report the passing...
Stay Hot!
Last week I finally signed up for a streaming service. First two albums I clicked on were Yuja Wang: The Berlin Recital and Nemanja Radulović: Baïka, both DG releases. Not sure why I chose them,...
The Most Remarkable Man, Redux
I’ve discussed a few of the heavyweight characters I encountered in my initial years as a player. But I didn’t yet talk about the man whose influence on me is...
Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre
There was never a more promising time than the late 17th century to be a musician in France. King Louis XIV, after all, loved music and dance as much as he...
Audio Love
I know exactly when my love of audio began ̶ maybe not the day, date, or hour, but the man who gave me the priceless gift. It wasn’t a salesman,...
Paradise by the Dashboard Light
It was his High School football coach who christened Marvin Lee Aday “Meat Loaf” due to his weight and general physical attributes. Little did his coach know, he had created...
Eurythmics
Singer Annie Lennox and guitarist David A. Stewart began working together as members of a London-based punk band called The Catch (later The Tourists), which split in 1980. Soon thereafter,...
Motherwell
In the mid-sixties, I managed a furniture store in Motherwell, Scotland. Motherwell, in those days, was a steel town of about 37,000 people and when business was good, the Ravenscraig...
John Lennon: Come and Gone
[Portions of this story were originally published in Goldmine magazine—Ed.] February 7th was the 55th anniversary of the Beatles’ arriving in America. To commemorate this date in Beatles history, I present this true story of fate...
Quantum Theory
Quantum Theory troubles many people, even some of those who actually understand it. That would include such luminaries as one of its founders, Albert Einstein, who expressed serious concerns with...
Music is the Space Between the Notes
Depending upon whom you believe, that statement was made by either Claude Debussy or Miles Davis. I’m certainly no authority on Debussy, but it seems to me that his stuff...
