| Show C2 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday May 2 2001 ©D’®(wy DatoD is siDtei? ®g® IF®!? ®ot©? COXSACKIE N Y (AP) — Bob Irwin’s life is tangled up in audiotape — miles of reels filled with sounds of shaggy-haire- d singers and jangly guitars Cue in point:Irwin recently finished a mono master of Bob Dylan’s “Bringing It All Back Home” so it could be pressed in vinyl And he smiles at the thought of unspooling and restorstacks of tape outside his ing the waist-hig- h studio from the likes of The Lovin’ Spoonful Mitch Ryder and Nancy Sinatra He calls it the “buzz that never goes away" If it sounds like Irwin exists in a time warp he does It’s called Sundazed Music — a small but successful record label borne of the tireless love of music and knack for rescuing old recordings Sundazed’s specialty is blasts from the past and reissues of old chestnuts with an emphasis on American rock and pop from the ’60s “If I didn’t own a record company and you came over to my house” he says ” I’d play these same records" Sundazed is headquartered in Irwin’s hometown of Coxsackie on the Hudson River Through the front door of a stately 19th century building are shelves stocked with CDs from bands like the Druids of Stonehenge and die Neanderthals and the young staff would look at home in an espresso house The back stairwell wall is checkered with pictures hinting at Irwin’s wide experience in the recording industry: There’s a picture of Irwin with Santana Irwin with John Denver Irwin with Roger McGuinn' Irwin with Iggy Pop Irwin helped produce reissues for those artists often through his work for other labels He acts as the aural equivalent of an art restor-eworking off timeworn tapes to bring lus to reissued releases back ter 1 r USU By USU Media Grape and heading for a life in and out of mental institutions The album — a snapshot of an unglued mind — has become a cult classic For the Sundazed release Irwin restored the tracks added some new ones from the same session and packaged it with new pictures and liner notes That sort of attention has given Sundazed a reputation as one of the top reissue labels said Tim Neely book editor ami researcher for Goldmine “They treat it with care and they just don’t slap it out there” he said About a fifth of Sundazed releases are vinyl which Irwin considers a “recession-proo- f product” Vinyl records have lit only refused to die he notes but sates have gone up in recent years as'more people have been lured to the romance of dropping a needle into a groove Some audiophiles belieye vinyl offers a warmer sound than the digitized music of CDs “As long as we have the core of vinyl collectors they're rabid enough so that it wax the most important thing in their lives” Irwin says “I know it Was true in my life” Sundazed struck deals allowing it to issue vinyl versions of old albums still sold by major labels as CDs Sundazed began offering old Byrds albums on vinyl last year This month the company began selling “Bringing It All Back Home” tlx first of Dylan’s catalog to be committed to vinyl by Sundazed It is the original mono mix out of print since All the white Sundazed grew While '60s rock remains its core identity the label also sells releases of country artist Buck Owens R&B great Lee Dorsey and Sonny & Cher It offers seven — yes seven — Nancy Sinatra CDs In all these cases Irwin is pursuing his holy grail: a perfectly produced record in a perfect package “You will never see us on the air — as long TV with a repack- -' as I’m alive — on aging of ’60s songs that you don’t need to hear” he says The soul of Sundazed is Irwin’s “analog room” a mixing and mastering studio retrofitted with equipment capable of hanfrom the ’60s This formats obsolete dling tape is where Irwin is often found fiddling with spools of pop history He talks about his late-nig- pfe-digi- ’ ht tal mint-conditi- 1958 tube-driv- en three-trac- on k nwrhiiM the way other men might talk about Scrlpps Howard photo Bob Inyin holds a reel of audio tape as he poses in his Sundazed stucfio in Coxsackie NY Sundazed Music asmall but successful record label specializes hi blasts from the past - Irwin started his musical restoration work back in 1989 after leaving his job as a record-stor- e manager to start Sundazed with his wife Huy Early Sundazed releases tended toward reissues of the"’ 60s garage and surf music he loved The quality of those releases attracted notice from major labels which enlisted him for reissue projects Irwin soon found himself poking tape vaults finding forgotthrough major-labten reels and feeling like a kid given die run of a candy store el their vintage Chevy Bel Air Recapturing the right sound can be excruciating In working on a compilation of Simon & Garftinkel for Legacy Irwin set up a New York City studio just like the duo’s studio circa 1966 Since there was no decent stereo master to work with he tried to make it sound like the first press of Jhe vinyl But is that kind of loving care worth it so a new generation can hear Nancy Sinatra sing “Light my Fire”? Apparently yes Those reissues came during a boomkt in her popularity and “blew the lid off things” for Sundazed says Irwin It helps feat a Sundazed album selling between 15000 and 30000 is considered a successful release The little label can lavish attention on projects major labels couldn’t be bothered with For instance there’s Alexander “Skip” Spence who recorded the cult album “Oar” in 1968 Spence was leaving the band Moby 1967 Other Dylan albums are on tap for future release: “Blonde on Blonde” and four other albums are up next Add that to Irwin’s other projects and he notes happily that he won’t live long enough to get all the music he wants out alumnus establishes wireless research center Relations - -- 6 —— to access any information anytime anywhoe from any- place Utah State is embarking on a new educational venture to explore this technology with the establishment of the Richard and Moonyeen Anderson Wireless Research and Teaching Center Furse will direct the center 5 located in Lab of the Dean F Peterson Engineering Building on the USU campus which officially opens today Among the center’s objectives “ are providing opportunities ‘for both undergraduate and ' graduate students to explore diverse medical agricultural and industrial applications for" wireless technology through hands-o- n projects “The timing for the crater couldn’t be better” said Furse & What do com kernels human bodies and aircraft “Wireless commuwiring have in common? nication is explodAll present a tough environment for data collection but ing faster than any researchers at Utah State Uniother technology versity are using wireless we’ve seen —-- even technology to gather information from these seemingly silicon Computer inaccessible locales chips" “The antenna we’ve designed to monitor a pacemaker doesn’t look that differCynth la Furse USU professor ent from the one we built to monitor com moisture” said Cynthia Furse associate pro- -' fessor of electrical and com- - ' is not that different” she added “(Radio) waves are puter engineering at Utah waves We use similar techState displaying two thin metal squares about the size niques and similar antenna of matchbooks in either hand ‘designs” Welcome to the wonderful ‘Trying to extract data from world of wireless technology holes bored in the earth or which provides the potential buried within the human body EL-25- “Wireless communication is exploding faster than any other technology we’ve sera — even silicon computer project “I feel that electromagnet- icwireless technology can be applied to do many good tilings for people” said Anderson who earned an electrical engineering degree from Utah State and maintains residences in Los Altos Calif and Ml Sterling Utah “Therefore my wife and I have chosen the College of Engineering at USU to become the home of a world-clacenter” Fbity students will participate in the centra’s first wire- less communication course to' be held next fall “Wireless technology is chips” She added that the project fits perfectly with Governor Mike Leavitt’s engineering and technology initiative which includes building a workforce and Utah’s raising profile within ' the high-tec- h community The center is the brainchild of USU alumnus Richard Anderson who retired four years ago from a tetecommuhications career Anderd with son and his wife Moonyeen donated more than $1 million the largest single cash donation in tiie College of Engineering’s history for the tech-sav- vy ss 38-ye- ar Hewlett-Packar- RESTATES tTHEATRES NROpening May 4lH ITHE MUMMY RETURNSJ 753-190- WOOMQPUUiOn-ia- EVENIN6S AT wo fa (XTTpG-U- someonelKyoupg-ij- i NMfelO ) O EVKNINCSATMOfcM J i NWiByTiOO 0000 SA1&SUN ATtMS FRhMONATXIO 435 HCINEMA3M CMLPOM : HVLAim BRIGHAM REEljiTIME people-helpin- DUOf CROCODILE Tmoviesi&H very enticing” said Furse “It’s a g area that offers a vast range of applications! 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