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Claude Lemaire
Claude Lemaire has a college degree in electronics and has given various lectures on music and audio. Along with some professional DJ’ing, Claude has had a hand in live show recording, mastering, loudspeaker and turntable design, as well as hosted his own weekly disco FM radio show. The proud owner of a ten-thousand plus vinyl record collection, in 2010, Claude launched his music blog Soundevaluations. He has written for EnjoyTheMusic.com, and currently writes for Positive Feedback and Mono and Stereo. You can follow his music articles by visiting https://soundevaluations.blogspot.ca/ .
In this episode, writer and self-taught musicologist Claude Lemaire chooses Iron Butterfly, Jeff Beck, and even the Beatles as pioneering heavy rock influencers.
Welcome to Claude Lemaire’s new series, in which he explores the history of hard rock, heavy rock, and heavy metal—including metal’s many subgenres.
Claude Lemaire presents standout jazz LPs from his 12,000-strong vinyl collection, including Thelonious Monk’s “Brilliant Corners” and Charles Mingus’ “The Clown.”
Welcome to my series Treasures from the Vinyl Vault. In it, I will feature select gems from my approximately 12,000 ever-growing vinyl collection, accumulated over a 45-year period and counting.
“Not only is this double-LP compilation outstanding in sound, it is also excellent musically and performance-wise—surprisingly so, perhaps, given the poor history of audiophile-oriented releases.”
Hi, my name is Claude and I’m a… disco addict. There I said it. Now that wasn’t so awful after all. Truth be told, I never shied away from admitting my lifelong disco dependency to strangers. I was always an unabashed member of the disco brigade, but from what I’ve gathered from friends and acquaintances,…
As the ’60s came to a close, with the dawn of the new decade just on the horizon, many rock bands abandoned references to psychedelics in their music, favouring instead a return to roots, folk, and country.
“In some instances, MoFi’s One-Step transfer gives us a ‘you are there” realism rarely heard on record”
Welcome to my series Treasures from the Vinyl Vault. In it, I will feature select gems from my approximately 12,000 ever-growing vinyl collection, accumulated over a 45-year period and counting.
On the cusp of being 240 seasons each, the guys can still rock.
Welcome to my series Treasures from the Vinyl Vault. In it, I will feature select gems from my approximately 12,000 ever-growing vinyl collection, accumulated over a 45-year period and counting.
If you were oblivious to Beck’s debut, you could think it was some long-lost Zeppelin material.
By 1968, the sweet Summer of Love was long gone, but the strong scent of acid still permeated the airwaves within the burgeoning, quickly-evolving rock scene.
Welcome to my series Treasures from the Vinyl Vault. In it, I will feature select gems from my approximately 12,000 ever-growing vinyl collection, accumulated over a 45-year period and counting.
When MoFi offered to send me an advanced promo for one of the most famous albums of all time, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity and thrill of revisiting a classic forty years after its initial release.