An Hour With Steve Westman Showing "Off the Beaten Audiophile Record Path" Turned into An Hour and a Half and I Could Have Kept Going

I think you'll enjoy it

The first time I was a guest on Steve Westman's YouTube channel the subject was the Mo-Fi cuts from digital file story. Steve assured me a "whistleblower" was going to come forward in a few days and break the news. First, I really didn't believe it could be true. Why would a company with such a deep reputation not inform readers about it? If it thought it a superior way to go, make it public and certainly discontinue how the process is described in the literature etc. Well you know the story.

It turned out to be true but I was not going to be a rumor monger. It turned out the story was true, though the whistleblower never blew his whistle in public. And then i got accused of not breaking the story because I'm "on the Mo-Fi gravy train". Such a crazy time! But that's all behind us now (I hear, you, "then why bring it up now"). Just as background.

This time Steve asked me to talk about some less than well known AAA records people might find interesting and so that's how it started but not how it ended! Before we knew it an hour and a half had passed. I was on fire and I think it's among the most fun appearances I've had on any YouTube channel because as fiery and I can get, Steve maintains a Canadian cool and the contrast works well.

As you can see, I sent Steve the photo showing piano great Monty Alexander checking out my hair following a Birdland appearance a few days after I'd interviewed him but he cropped out Monty.....