Thriller at Thirty
Sean MurphyNovember 30, 1982. That is the date it dropped, and it's quite safe to say the world literally had no idea what was about to hit it upside it's head.…
Technology and Entertainment: The Evolution of Audio, Part Four
Build It and They Will Come If it is true that history tends to be written by the winners, it is also a fact that the most successful ideas, in…
Daddy’s Gonna Tell You No Lies: The Evolution of a Masterpiece
Sonny. The man from Saturn had roots (deep ones) and, for a time, swam in the same waters any striving musician in the early '50s had to dive into. He…
Technology and Entertainment: The Evolution of Audio, Part Three
(Re)Defining the High-End Audio Experience For practical purposes, the authentic high-end audio tag applied to products that sold for thousands, not hundreds of dollars. As such, it seems safe to…
Time is on Their Side: The Stones Turn 50 (or, Get Yer Blah-Blahs Out…)
There they go again. I've got nothing. Full marks to any act that is able, much less willing, to strut around the stage after doing it on and off for…
Serpico and Turning Black Friday into Good Friday
Look at that dude. Pacino, clean-shaven and short-haired as the movie begins, sports the best 'stache of the decade, then goes goatee, then gets full facial (hair and head), all…
Let Us Give Thanks for the Guitar Solo
Over at Esquire the always reliable Charlie Pierce (some previous blog love for him HERE) opened up a discussion on the best guitar solos. This excercise is equal parts pointless and…
Technology and Entertainment: The Evolution of Audio, Part Two
The Day The Music Died Back in 2011 Jon Bon Jovi accused Steve Jobs (in Britain’s Sunday Times) of being “personally responsible for killing the music business.” Unlike his rock…
Pete La Roca, R.I.P.
It will be an ongoing, and very somber, progression, watching so many old-school jazz musicians (many of whom recorded on the epic Blue Note label during the glory years of…
Technology and Entertainment: The Evolution of Audio, Part One
(Personal note: Today marks five years since I started working at CEA, a happy and fruitful association I'm glad to acknowledge. I'll resist the urge to elaborate on how horrifyingly…