Interviews

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Graham Nash Talks About the Release of "Over the Years"— A Retrospective With A Twist (Corrected)
AAA Vinyl, Interviews
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 19, 2018  |  22 comments
AnalogPlanet last spoke with Graham Nash in 2016 upon the release of This Path Tonight, his latest collection of new songs. On June 29th RHINO will issue Over the Years a new 30 track, 15 song CD retrospective also available on vinyl as a 15 song double LP set. Over the Years includes songs originally released on CSN and CSN&Y albums as well as songs from the records he made with David Crosby and of course from his solo albums beginning with 1971's "Songs For Beginners".

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Pro-Ject's Heinz Lichtenegger Buys Musical Fidelity
Interviews, News
Michael Fremer  |  May 27, 2018  |  2 comments
There's never been an official press release about Pro-Ject's purchase of Musical Fidelity from owner Antony Michaelson so this site has held off reporting it until it could be confirmed. Last week, while at the EISA Global Press Convention in Antwerp, Belgium, AnalogPlanet editor Michael Fremer had an opportunity to speak with Pro-Ject CEO Heinz Lichtenegger about the Musical Fidelity purchase.

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Ortofon's Leif Johannsen Introduces the New 100th Anniversary Century Cartridges
Interviews, Munich 2018
Michael Fremer  |  May 14, 2018  |  8 comments
First thing Friday morning at High End Munich 2018, AnalogPlanet editor Michael Fremer sat down with Leif Johannsen, Ortofon's Chief Officer of Acoustics and Technology, who for more than a decade has been in charge of designing the company's phono cartridges.

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Pink Floyd's "The Wall" Illustrator Gerald Scarfe Interviewed
Interviews
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 17, 2017  |  1 comments
Illustrator, cartoonist Gerald Scarfe spoke yesterday (6/16/17) with AnalogPlanet editor Michael Fremer after Scarfe's hour-long talk at London's Victoria and Albert Museum where since May 13th (and running through October 1st) "The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains" has been attracting large, enthusiastic crowds.
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Is HD Vinyl In Your Record Playing Future?
Interviews
Michael Fremer  |  May 25, 2017  |  22 comments
REBEAT CEO Günter Loibl has a plan to change the way vinyl records are mastered.

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"American Epic" Director, Creator, Writer Bernard McMahon Interviewed
Interviews
Michael Fremer  |  May 12, 2017  |  7 comments
AnalogPlanet editor Michael Fremer spoke by phone with "American Epic" director, creator and writer Bernard MacMahon about the making of what should be an indispensable American musical history movie.

Please listen!

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Veteran Recording Engineer Phill Brown Interviewed by AnalogPlanet Editor Michael Fremer
Interviews
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 09, 2017  |  14 comments
A planned trip to the U.K. to attend a Chasing the Dragon Records direct-to-disk recording session at AIR Studios seemed like a good time to accomplish some other business. So in addition to covering the recording session, analogPlanet editor Michael Fremer paid a visit to Rega, where he'd not been in twenty years (factory tour video to come) and connected with veteran recording engineer Phill Brown and arranged for an interview.

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The Origin of The Rarest and Most Sought After Pressing of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
Interviews
Bill Wright  |  Dec 20, 2016  |  16 comments
AnalogPlanet reader Bill Wright interviews Australian mastering engineer Don Bartley, who cut lacquers back in 1983 for what many consider to be the best sounding and certainly the rarest pressing of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, produced by EMI Australia for the 1983 Sydney Audio Show. Fewer than five hundred copies were pressed.

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Legendary Recording Engineer Roy Halee Talks About the Making of Paul Simon's "Stranger To Stranger" Album
Interviews
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 03, 2016  |  10 comments
Stranger to Stranger Paul Simon's most recent record and his finest in years, both musically and sonically had him reuniting with his original producer Roy Halee. The two hadn't worked together for many years.

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Glyn Johns Talks With Michael Fremer About Eric Clapton's New Album (and More)
Interviews
Michael Fremer  |  May 20, 2016  |  13 comments
Glyn Johns spoke recently by phone with Analogplanet editor Michael Fremer about recording Eric Clapton's just released album I Still Do, about his recently published book "Sound Man" and about his incredible career as one of the world's most revered and respected recording engineers and producers.

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Analogplanet Visits Sterling Sound and Interviews Ryan K. Smith
Interviews
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 09, 2016  |  28 comments
Intervention Records' Shane Buettner was at Sterling Sound yesterday to oversee the mastering of Big Audio Dynamite's 1985 debut album This is Big Audio Dynamite

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Graham Nash Talks About "This Path Tonight" With Analogplanet.com editor Michael Fremer
Interviews
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 26, 2016  |  13 comments
Graham Nash held a "listening party" for his new album "This Path Tonight" at New York's Electric Lady Studios, Wednesday, February 24th. The album ships on April 15th, including on vinyl mastered at Bernie Grundman Mastering. Here's a half hour interview I conducted with Graham in the Electric Lady control room.

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Meet Lux, Age Nine, "King of the One Dollar Record Bins"
Interviews
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 14, 2015  |  11 comments
A friend of mine recently alerted me to his friend's son, Lux, who is a nine year old record collector and vinyl enthusiast.

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"Tour" The Record Parlour and Hear From the Founders How It Become L.A.'s "Best Record Store"
Interviews, News
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 06, 2015  |  20 comments
While at the WAX event in Los Angeles a few weeks ago I took a side trip to The Record Parlour, a short walk from both the Capitol Tower venue and Amoeba Records.

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Guess What Company Norman Pickering Started?
Interviews
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 14, 2015  |  14 comments
In his ninety-nine years on this earth Norman C. Pickering has seen and done more than most of us would manage were we lucky enough to live to be a hundred and ninety-nine.

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