6moons industryfeatures: Stephaen does RMAF 2007




Hobbyist show reports especially on a consumer show like RMAF have proliferated such that us press folk seem - um, hard-pressed to twist the show coverage format into something you won't find duplicated everywhere. If it's all the same, why bother with more of it? Being of a decidedly non-conformist bent, Stephæn had just the solution: People and music. What kind of music are the people listening to who make and design audio components or bother attending a hifi show? Isn't that a telling bit of info on the state of affairs? Under hectic show conditions of course, such a question needs to be less open-ended to solicit a quick answer. So Stephæn decided on asking for two albums. The first-ever bought (think "the morning after" once your music-lover's cherry had been popped); and the most recent album purchased (the latter quite possibly at the show proper). The first album's approximate purchase year also speaks volumes about how long these people have been into this thing. If they can even remember. Those are two data points that should, even in the most scrambled, disoriented, assaultively overstimulated and fried show brain, pop up readily. The first time you got high. The last time. If, mind you, the mensch connected to the brain actually gets high on music rather than pay mere lip service to the entire notion. Listening? To music? Hell, we just design electronics. We be more advanced. Test tones, my man - iPhone ring tones! If the latter, wouldn't you want to know? With the show expanded greatly once again this year, it was well beyond a single reporter on the beat to cover it all. Thus insert the usual boiler plate apologies for those missed, overlooked and otherwise slighted. Here are those folks Stephæn met and who filled out his miniature questionnaire. If his selections of gear, makers and personalities reflect his personal interests - well, you can't sue a guy for following his nose on an unpaid mission. The man was supposed to have fun! As in years past, he also penned this piece for the Audio Asylum whose fearless leader Rod Morris granted us once again kind permission to syndicate the writeup for double the trouble. Thanks a mill, Rod! And now onward ho with Stephæn's Take On The Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2007 - Ed. Name: Ray Kimber Affiliation: Kimber Kable First Album Purchased: The Who -Tommy Year Purchased: 1969 Most Recent Album Purchased: Queen - Crown Jewels Name: Steve Schell Affiliation: Cogent True-to-Life Loudspeakers, Inc. First Album Purchased: Beatles - Something New (mono) Year Purchased: 1965 (?) Most Recent Album Purchased: Skip James—Complete 1931 Recordings Name: Rich Drysdale Affiliation: Cogent True-to-Life Loudspeakers, Inc. First Album Purchased: Soundtrack to The Alamo Year Purchased: Dark ages - late 50s or early 60s Most Recent Album Purchased: Roy Orbison (on Classic Records) Name: Bill Woods Affiliation: Acoustic Horn Company First Album Purchased: Rite of Spring Year Purchased: 1962 Most Recent Album Purchased: Ravel - Piano for the Left Hand ______________________ Name: Jonathan Weiss Affiliation: Cogent True-to-Life Speakers First Album Purchased: Year Purchased: Most Recent Album Purchased: Takemitsu -Cassiopeia, for percussion & orchestra (conductor: Ozawa) Name: Chris Brady Affiliation: Teres Audio First Album Purchased: Iron Butterfly Year Purchased: 1968 Most Recent Album Purchased: Lightnin' Hopkins Name: Kara E. Chaffee Affiliation: deHavilland Electric Amp. Co. First Album Purchased: CSNY #1 or Sgt. Pepper Year Purchased: 1969 Most Recent Album Purchased: Tex Beneke & The Modernaires - Live at the Hollywood Bowl Name: Jim Riddell Affiliation: Sounds Real Audio First Album Purchased: Steve Miller Year Purchased: 1964 Most Recent Album Purchased: David Bowie Name: Pete Riggle (aka Mr. VTAF®) Affiliation: Pete Riggle Engineering and Audio First Album Purchased: Ken Nordine - Word Jazz Year Purchased: 1957 Most Recent Album Purchased: Together at the Bluebird Café (Steve Earl, Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt) Name: Henk Boot Affiliation: 6moons.com First Album Purchased: The Outsiders Year Purchased: 1963 Most Recent Album Purchased: Musica Nuda Name: Marja Vanderloo Affiliation: 6moons.com First Album Purchased: Demis Roussous Year Purchased: 1970 Most Recent Album Purchased: Roberto Fonseca ______________________ Name: Michael Kalellis Affiliation: Analysis Audio First Album Purchased: First Beatles album Year Purchased: 1964 Most Recent Album Purchased: "A pile of old records..." Name: Robert Spence Affiliation: MaxxHorn First Album Purchased: Vogues - Turn Around and Look at Me Year Purchased: 1965 Most Recent Album Purchased: Alison Krauss -Live (33 1/3) Name: Adam Decaria Affiliation: Zu Audio First Album Purchased: Suicidal Tendencies Year Purchased: 1990 Most Recent Album Purchased: Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger Name: Sean Casey [above right, Zu's denuded, rebodied Denon 103 below] Affiliation: Zu Audio First Album Purchased: Rush - Fly By Night Year Purchased: 1979 Most Recent Album Purchased: Pink Lightnin' Name: Jay Fisher Affiliation: 6moons.com & Robb Report First Album Purchased: The Beatles - Meet the Beatles Year Purchased: 196? Most Recent Album Purchased: Kurt Elling - Night Moves Name: Duke LeJeune Affiliation: AudioKinesis First Album Purchased: Led Zeppelin III Year Purchased: 1975 Most Recent Album Purchased: Rush - Snakes and Arrows Name: Brian Walsh Affiliation: Essential Audio/AA Inmate: Central Funnies Guy First Album Purchased: Meet the Beatles Year Purchased: 1964 Most Recent Album Purchased: Ella and Louis Name: Samuel Laufer Affiliation: Laufer Technik First Album Purchased: Jackson Five - ABC Year Purchased: 1970 Most Recent Album Purchased: Kristen Hoffman Name: Dr. Shelley Katz Affiliation: Podium Sound Ltd. First Album Purchased: Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio Year Purchased: 1964 Most Recent Album Purchased: Sandy Thom Name: Jeffrey Catalano Affiliation: Highwater Sound LLC First Album Purchased: Rods & Ratfinks (Capitol, mono) Year Purchased: 1963 Most Recent Album Purchased: Bettye LaVette Name: Thomas Waschnick Affiliation: TW-Acoustic First Album Purchased: Uriah Heap - Innocent Victim Year Purchased: 1974 Most Recent Album Purchased: Hans Theessink - Slow Train Name: Nelson Pass Affiliation: Pass Labs First Album Purchased: Zappa - Absolutely Free Year Purchased: 1967 Most Recent Album Purchased: 200g Miles Davis - Kind of Blue Name: Jon Ver Halen Affiliation: Lowther America First Album Purchased: Jethro Tull - Benefit Year Purchased: 1969 Most Recent Album Purchased: Ella Fitzgerald - Plays the Gerswin Songbook Name: Bill O'Connell Affiliation: Morningstar Audio/Eastern Electric First Album Purchased: Ray Charles - Hit the Road Jack on 45 Year Purchased: 1967 Most Recent Album Purchased: Naim Recordings - Record Collection Volume I Name: Wayne Waananen Affiliation: The Bolder Cable Company First Album Purchased: Beach Boys - 409 Year Purchased: 1967 Most Recent Album Purchased: Ray Brown - Soular Energy Name: Bob A. Palkovich Affiliation: Merlin Music Sys. Inc. First Album Purchased: "Some jazz or blues..." Year Purchased: 1960s Most Recent Album Purchased: Latest Joni Mitchell Name: Jeff Joseph Affiliation: Joseph Audio (a division of Merlin) First Album Purchased: Cat Stevens - Teaser and the Firecat Year Purchased: 1971? Most Recent Album Purchased: Bill Berry - For Duke Name: Haruhiko 'Hal' Teramoto Affiliation: Feastrex First Album Purchased: Beatles - Help Year Purchased: January 1966 Most Recent Album Purchased: Beatles / Nat King Cole Name: Joe Cohen [above right, Feastrex drivers below] Affiliation: The Lotus Group/Prana Wire First Album Purchased: Tennesee Ernie - 16 Tons Year Purchased: 1956 Most Recent Album Purchased: Springsteen - Legend of Tom Joad Name: Harry Zweben Affiliation: Two Bald Guys Audio First Album Purchased: Mozart Horn Concertos w/Barry Tuckwell Year Purchased: 1979 Most Recent Album Purchased: Nielsen Symphonies w/Herbert Blumstedt Name: Pat Jewell Affiliation: Bad Boys Benevolent Association of Eastern Washington First Album Purchased: Johnny Rivers at Whiskey a Go-Go Year Purchased: 1966 Most Recent Album Purchased: Mercury Recordings at Moscow Name: Keely Chen Affiliation: Audio Horizons First Album Purchased: Chinese School 'Mong' (Folk) Songs Year Purchased: 1969 Most Recent Album Purchased: Tzu Chi Sign Language Song Name: Joseph Chow Affiliation: Audio Horizons First Album Purchased: Arthur Rubenstein Year Purchased: 1950 Most Recent Album Purchased: not legible Name: Victor Comerchero Affiliation: Audio Horizons First Album Purchased: Borodin - Palovetsian Dances Year Purchased: 1949 Most Recent Album Purchased: Clara Haskil - Mozart Sonatas ______________________ Name: Annie Francis Affiliation: Fry Street Quartet/Kimber Kable First Album Purchased: Blondie - Heart of Glass Year Purchased: 1979 Most Recent Album Purchased: Feist - The Reminder Name: Russell Fallstad Affiliation: Fry Street Quartet/Kimber Kable First Album Purchased: Billy Joel - Glass Houses Year Purchased: 1980? Most Recent Album Purchased: Amadeus Quartet - Haydn Quartets Op 76, 77 and 103 Name: Rebecca McFaul Affiliation: Fry Street Quartet/Kimber Kable First Album Purchased: Heifetz Encores Year Purchased: 1970s Most Recent Album Purchased: Rachel Podger - Bach Sonatas and Partitas ______________________ Name: Chad Kassem Affiliation: Acoustic Sounds First Album Purchased: Moonaticks Year Purchased: 1968 Most Recent Album Purchased: Ry Cooder - Meeting By the River Name: Ron Sutherland Affiliation: Sutherland Engineering First Album Purchased: Girl from Ipanema Year Purchased: 1961 Most Recent Album Purchased: Jack Johnson - On and On Name: Richard Bird Affiliation: Rives Audio First Album Purchased: Fleetwood Mac Year Purchased: 1979 Most Recent Album Purchased: Bud Powell Name: Dennis Fraker Affiliation: Serious Stereo First Album Purchased: Ian Tyson - Cowboyography Year Purchased: 1980s Most Recent Album Purchased: Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris - All the Roadrunning Name: David Gill Affiliation: Gill Audio Design First Album Purchased: Kiss - Rock and Roll Over Year Purchased: 1978 Most Recent Album Purchased: Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight Name: Joe Fratus [upper right] Affiliation: Art Audio First Album Purchased: Jr. Walker and the All Stars - Shotgun Year Purchased: 1965 Most Recent Album Purchased: Steely Dan, all of the recent reissues ______________________ Name: John McDonald Affiliation: Audience First Album Purchased: Year Purchased: "I'm too old for this" Most Recent Album Purchased: Beatles - Love Name: Steve McCormack Affiliation: SMC Audio First Album Purchased: Beach Boys - Surfin' Safari Year Purchased: early 1960s Most Recent Album Purchased: Tito Puente - Dance Fever Name: David Cope Affiliation: Audio Note UK First Album Purchased: Meet the Beatles Year Purchased: 65-66 Most Recent Album Purchased: Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain (no reissue, on Ebay) Name: Paul Blizel Affiliation: Rhonda's husband First Album Purchased: The Beatles - Please Please Me Year Purchased: 1966 Most Recent Album Purchased: Please Please Me (mono Parlaphone) Name: Rhonda Blizel Affiliation: Paul's wife First Album Purchased: Cheap Trick Year Purchased: 1980 Most Recent Album Purchased: Best of The Bee Gees Name: Matt Blizel Affiliation: Audio Society of Minnesota First Album Purchased: Chuck Berry - Greatest Year Purchased: 2004 Most Recent Album Purchased: Beck - Sea Change (lp) ______________________ Name: Thomas Poon Affiliation: GINI Systems First Album Purchased: Eagles Year Purchased: 1985 Most Recent Album Purchased: TAS Collection Name: Neng Kue [upper right] Affiliation: Kuetech Audio Cables First Album Purchased: Eagles Greatest Hits Year Purchased: 1980 Most Recent Album Purchased: Obsession (Narada Flamenco Collection) ______________________ Name: Vinh Vu Affiliation: Norvinz/Gingko Audio First Album Purchased: Chet Atkins - Mr. Guitar Year Purchased: 1973 Most Recent Album Purchased: Hot Club of SF Name: Roger Sanders [upper right] Affiliation: Sanders Sound Systems First Album Purchased: Fritz Reiner, Chicago Symphony Year Purchased: 1959 Most Recent Album Purchased: none ______________________ Name: Ralph Henson Affiliation: First Album Purchased: "Who remembers that?!" Year Purchased: ?? Most Recent Album Purchased: Shostakovitch #5, Leonard Bernstein, NY Philharmonic Name: Brian Johnson Affiliation: Audiomagus First Album Purchased: Witchy Woman Year Purchased: 1972 Most Recent Album Purchased: Leonard Cohen compilation Name: Cornelia Davis Affiliation: Audio Federation First Album Purchased: Neil Young - After the Gold Rush Year Purchased: 1974? Most Recent Album Purchased: Steely Dan - Aja (Cisco rerelease) Name: Bill Woods Affiliation: Acoustic Horn Company First Album Purchased: Rite of Spring Year Purchased: 1962 Most Recent Album Purchased: Ravel - Piano for the Left Hand

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