Interviews

The day before he received the L.A. & Orange County Audio Society's Founder's Award in early December of 2018, AnalogPlanet Editor Michael Fremer sat down for a lengthy interview with film maker Ben Williams (who remained off-camera). Williams calls it a "guest monologue".

In this edited series of occasionally hilarious excerpts Fremer discusses his '90s era national publicity tours on behalf of TDK promoting vinyl records including a nerve wracking appearance on The Today Show sitting between Bryant Gumbel and Deborah Norville, and a later tour during the "laser disc days" explaining home theater and surround sound to a mostly unfamiliar audience.

While the TDK tours were intended to show people how to transfer vinyl to cassettes and later to CDs, Fremer used the radio and television appearances to promote vinyl records at a time when it seemed the format was doomed.

Fremer also describes the unusual health threatening circumstances under which he resigned from The Absolute Sound magazine and later joined Stereophile, where he's been senior contributing editor for the past 24 years.

You are guaranteed to laugh more than a few times and to perhaps at least once, barf.