Copper


From -6 to 86 and Back Again

Issue 79Opening Salvo

Welcome to Copper #79! This issue features my walkaround of the first-ever Florida Audio Expo . The turn-out was impressive, and both attendees and exhibitors were happy. I left Denver airport at -6 and frozen fuel...

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Any Way You Want It

Issue 79HAND PICKED

Arite…let’s get it out of the way, shall we? Journey is friggin’ AWESOME! That’s where we are going to start with this session of Hand Picked. If you think differently, then it...

Did the Grammys Ever Matter?

Issue 79THE AUDIO CYNIC

Somewhere in the hazy past, I wrote that nostalgia ain’t what it used to be. The cynical part of me thinks that the rosy glow with which we surround many...

New Old Stock

Issue 79VINTAGE WHINE

Newbies to the audio world encounter a lot of puzzling terminology, some of which seems oxymoronic. One such term that took me a while to understand is NOS—New Old Stock....

June Millington, Part 1

Issue 79THE COPPER INTERVIEW

Before the Runaways, before the Go-Go’s, before the Bangles – there was Fanny. David Bowie was quoted in a 1999 Rolling Stone interview about Fanny: “They’re as important as anyone who’s ever...

The Florida Audio Expo

Issue 79FEATURED

I lived on the Gulf coast of Florida for 15 years, and even worked for an audio manufacturer there—VAC, in Sarasota. In spite of that—or perhaps because of that—when I...

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Issue 79OFF THE CHARTS

A bass player named Flea is the group’s most stable member. But, despite all their drug-related traumas and personnel turnover, Red Hot Chili Peppers endure, still heating up the airwaves...

Hong Kong

Issue 79MUSIC'AL NOTES

On my many visits to China, I always make a point of going through or leaving from Hong Kong. Hong Kong is a western sea of tranquility amongst the tumult...

I Hate...(Fill in the Blank)

Issue 79TWISTED SYSTEMS

When I’m introduced as Jay Jay French of Twisted Sister at parties or social events, the first question I’m asked is, “So what music are you listening to these days?”...

Purcell’s King Arthur

Issue 79TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

Merlin waves his Wand; the Scene changes, and discovers the British Ocean in a Storm, AEolus in a Cloud above: Four Winds hanging, &c. . . . AEolus ascends, and the four Winds fly off....

Audiophile Science

Issue 79QUIBBLES AND BITS

There is one consistent misconception that non-scientists have about science, and that is the Albert Einstein problem – the idea that major scientific problems can be solved by a lone...