Magazine Contents
July 2003
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Cover Story
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| Everything Must Groove |
Interviewing Steely Dan's Walter Becker and Donald Fagen is a lot like playing a verbal pinball machine: their answers change direction with a comic, if disorienting, suddenness — deflecting the thrust of a question and bouncing up against an array of societal, historical, and musical references. For instance, when I asked them whether their latest album, Everything Must Go, reflects their impressions of the end of the world or is instead the big sayonara...
BY KEN MICALLEF |
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Features
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| Really Unplugged |
In the past couple of years, interest in acoustic music has reached new highs. Sparked in large part by the phenomenal success of the movie O Brother,...
BY ALLEN LAM |
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| Tech Basics Without Tears |
Technology can be fun when it involves drooling over new gear features, ogling bold new designs, and wallowing in the benefits of an enhanced feature...
BY JON CHAPPELL WITH STEVE OPPENHEIMER |
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Up Front
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| CAPTURED LIVE |
Willie Nelson and Friends Stars and GuitarsLost Highway www.losthighway.com Death and taxes....
BY MARK SMITH |
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| IT HAPPENED THIS MONTH |
July On 7/9/1977, singer/songwriter Declan MacManus quit his day job as a computer operator at the Elizabeth Arden cosmetics factory in Acton, England....
BY CHRIS KELSEY |
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| ONSTAGE WITH: Nick Zinner of Yeah Yeah Yeahs |
The Strokes may be the biggest band to come out of the New York punk scene in recent years, but watch out for Yeah Yeah Yeahs. This underground art-punk...
BY MIKE LEVINE |
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| THE BUZZ |
Loretta Lynn, White Stripes, Guns 'n' Roses, Stax Museum, RIAA, William Shatner, Brad Paisley, Noel Redding, and June Carter Cash.
By Jon Wiederhorn |
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Reviews
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| Electro-Voice N/D967 |
For monitor engineers, paradise is a place where you will never again have to hear singers ask, “Can you turn me up some more in the monitors?”...
By Ed Ivey |
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| MACKIE DFX-12 |
MACKIE HAS BEEN PRODUCING low-cost compact mixers for more than a decade. From the first 1604 to its current mixer line, Mackie mixers have always pushed...
By Emile Menasché |
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| Roland Acoustic Chorus AC-60 |
The design of Roland's new AC-60 acoustic amp ($599) reflects the company's long experience in making amplifiers. The amp has a clean, glassy tone that...
By Mike Levine |
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| YAMAHA AW16G |
WHEN YAMAHA introduced the AW4416 Professional Audio Workstation three years ago, it included useful features from the 02R and 01V digital mixers. Much...
By Jon Chappell |
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Columns
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| BACKSTAGE: Meet the Thorns |
You're a musician. You've built a pretty good solo career. All that you've achieved, the credit and the blame, falls on your shoulders. And you're okay...
BY ROBERT L. DOERSCHUK |
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| INDIE INK: The Chesterfield Kings Stuck in the ‘60s — and proud of it. |
Every so often, a handful of acts invade the market with the look, sound, and style of a bygone era. Eventually the trend fades: band members get haircuts,...
BY DAVID SIMONS |
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| MAKING TRACKS: Multiple Choices |
If you're getting started with your own personal studio, or if you're new to the whole phenomenon of musicians who record, this column will bring you...
BY JON CHAPPELL |
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| MINDING YOUR BUSINESS: Put Your Best Foot Forward |
While I was channel surfing the other night I came upon a cable bio about preteen America's favorite bad role model, Britney Spears. Say what you will...
BY CHRIS KELSEY |
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| TECH TALK: Key Connections |
Welcome to “Tech Talk.” In this column, I'll interview techs from touring acts in order to get setup and application tips that you can apply...
BY EMILE MENASCHÉ |
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Departments
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| Performance Tools |
THE LAND OF WAHS The German-made Automagic Wah provides a number of cool features for the sound-shaping fetishist. To begin with, the pedal offers Automagic...
BY GINO ROBAIR |
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Editor's Note
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| New and Improved |
In our quest to continually improve Onstage, we've added three more columns to the magazine. We did this to give more depth to our coverage and to expand...
Mike Levine, Editor |
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