Though the LP12 was originally issued way back in 1972, until a few months ago I'd never heard one-just one of those odd gaps in experience that everyone has. I mean his original brainchild, the Sondek LP12 turntable. A legend can be intimidating, especially when it's also a classic, a revolutionary, an iconoclast, a survivor. It's also possible that, knowing my political proclivities, Tiefenzrun was just playing with me. But it was long ago, I'd had too much wine, and my recollection could be faulty, so don't hold me to any of it. As I remember, he advocated: drilling for oil anywhere, the plus sides of global warming, and the certain and overwhelming economic benefits of huge tax cuts, enormous military spending increases, and all-of-a-sudden who-cares-about-deficits economics. I'll never forget the evening of gourmet dining and right-wing dogma I shared with Tiefendrun last fall in a posh, lively Glasgow restaurant. "I could have been Ivor Tiefendrun, or Tiefenfrun, or Tiefengrun, for that matter," he's quoted as having said once while krunching a krakker. Someone once told me his real last name is Tiefencrun, but since it wouldn't sound any different with a k, he settled for a b. For some reason positively phobic about the letter c, he banned its use in any of those names. Long before the Swedes at Ikea did it, the singular Scotsman Ivor Tiefenbrun began giving his products funny-sounding names.
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