It was May 31, 1947 and you were looking for something to do in Tinseltown. An ad in the Hollywood-Citizen News caught your eye. It was for The Epicure, a restaurant/night club located at 5510 Hollywood Boulevard. Maybe the free parking makes you want to check it out. Or maybe it’s the top sirloin steak […]
Category: Remember When
The Story of Tone Wheel Tech: From WWI Diplomacy to Clone Wheel Physics
There’s magic in the sound of a Hammond B-3: there is also some deep, old-school technology. Like many of the core techniques used in electronic music, the tone wheels at this instrument’s heart spring in part from ideas developed for far more “serious” inventions, including one created by an associate of Albert Einstein. While in […]
In Memoriam: Aretha Franklin
We’ve lost one of the greatest. As the world mourns the passing of Aretha Franklin, we can find a brief respite from our sorrow […]
The Legendary Leslie Speaker Cabinet: One great machine, decades of timeless sound
John Lennon loved to distort his voice. For his recording of “Tomorrow Never Knows,” he asked for his voice to sound like […]
