Best free software to copy files to another hard drive???

[robert kramer]

What is the best free software to copy files to another hard drive?

I have a 1TB Passport external HD and want backup the files to a 2TB external Passport. Thanks for any help.

[Cal Sharp]

robert,
You don't need any software for that. You can plug both drives into a computer and drag (copy) them from Passport to the other one. If you're running short of USB ports you can copy the files to the desktop and then plug in the other drive and copy them over.

[robert kramer]

Thanks Cal. I'll dig in and copy them.

Speaking of steel guitar - here's some photos of Bill Purcell from today's Nashville Tennessean. "Nashville Then: August 1963". 5 years before "Emmons Guitar Company."

[Cal Sharp]

There must be a story, how he got together with Buddy...

[robert kramer]

I work with one of Purcell's students. I'll ask him to ask Bill about how got hired on for EGC.

[Russ Wever]

I work one of Purcell's students. I'll ask him
to ask Bill about how got hired on for EGC.

Robert,
Gosh, I'd be curious to hear anything Purcell has
to say about it. Anything and everything he might
recall about the EGC sessions.
Thnx,
Russ

[robert kramer]

To stay on the subject of computers: Cal - I’ve been able to save file between hard drives. Thanks again for the advice.

I got the name of the “Black Album” wrong. It’s Emmons Guitar, Inc (EGI) not Emmons Guitar Company.

Russ – Weldon told us EGI was cut at Cinderella. I will post more info as it comes in.

Bill Purcell’s “Our Winter Love” (Columbia) went to #9 Billboard in 1963.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c45spFPiQE

It was produced by Grady Martin who is almost surely playing the fuzz tone/tremolo 6 string bass guitar at 0:57. “Don’t Worry About Me” was released in 1961 with Grady playing 6 string bass guitar through a blown channel on the board at Bradley’s. Glenn Snoddy then built a pedal to get a fuzz sound. Gibson released Glenn Snoddy's design as the Maestro Fuzz-Tone FZ-1 that was used on “Satisfaction” in 1965. On “Our Winter Love” Grady could have been using the newly released Maestro or still using Glenn Snoddy’s prototype.

You can also hear Millie Kirkham answering the violins on the intro and over Grady at 0:57 and also at 1:40. No synthesizers back then - just Millie.

“Night Life" was cut at Bradley’s 2/22/63 (with Pig) and Grady working the tremolo controls of the Emmons' amp (Grady’s Twin?) while Emmons was cutting the song.

The point of all this is that all these musicians were working sessions everyday experimenting with new sounds - musical ideas and production techniques in an environment where a lot of the time the musicians were calling the shots. This is the environment in which Emmons developed his innovations both in music - instrument design - sound design and in country music as a whole.

Also - After listening to "Our Winter Love" I wonder if Emmons wasn't influenced by Purcell's ballad playing. "Our Winter Love" does have the similar tempos to "Greensleeves" and "Danny Boy." Maybe that's why Purcell was called in on EGI?

Bill Purcell Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Pursell

Peter Cooper “How a happy accident revolutionized guitar sound” Nashville Tennessean 8/4/13
http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2013 ... epeat=w3tc

[Wiz Feinberg]

I used to have a Maestro FZ-1 Fuzztone when I played guitar as a kid. I opened it up and drew a schematic in the early 1960s. I still have that schematic.

[Russ Wever]

An interesting piece on Bill Pursell that also
brings up the distorting preamp as it was used
in "Our Winter Love" → click

On original topic, I find an adapter like → this
useful when copying from an internal hard-drive.
~Russ