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I've just received news that Clark died peacefully yesterday around 5:30pm. He had been in a care facility for around two weeks. A wonderful, rare bird in our world.
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Brian Walsh
He was really was a fascinating guy (despite the ties...).
Would actually like to read some of his unpublished short stories and poetry.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Link to the obit on website
https://s3.amazonaws.com/storage.lastingmemories.com/r/o/roger-clark-johnsen/publication/originals/Johnsen.pdf
Thanks so much for this. And I thought I knew him pretty well!
I had multiple email exchanges with Clark, mostly in the days of the Outside forum (now gone). Clark loved being controversial on any subject. Would make extravagant claims, but argued his points well. Had good polish and flair as a writer. Made for lively threads in these forums. So long old friend!
My amp has a polarity switch. I use it often thanks to him.
Rest in peace Clark.
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I, too, hadn't heard from him in a while. Condolences to his friends and family and those who knew him.
RIP Clark.
Big J
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
I recall someone asking about him a while back and couldn't find much of anything from him. The last article in PF was a few years old.
He was quite the eloquent and interesting fellow. In his honor, I searched the book cases for his book, The Wood Effect. He'd given me a copy back in maybe 2004 when he came to my house for a visit after CES.
RIP, my friend.
-Rod
I'm saddened at this news. I never met him, but he once posted that he'd like to have a few drinks with me after I said I loved the Vlach Quartette's Beethoven.
Thank you for letting us know-
I had the pleasure to meet and spend a few hours with Clark in the late '90s - I met him at his loft listening room- probably one of the best rooms I have had the pleasure of experiencing. At the time, I was working for Roger Modjeski.
Clark and I have a wide ranging conversation about equipment, music and life-
I will miss him-
Happy Listening
of all places, we interfaced on facebook and were mostly compatible and i would now and again send him emails. i was fully ready to query where he had wandered off to when i saw an anouncement of his death.
he will be missed.
...regards...tr
but I always enjoyed my interactions with him. When I saw his interactions on the non-audio side, I stayed far away. I have wondered what might have happened to him, as I wonder about some others from early days here. I am really sorry to hear this news, and my condolences to his real life friends and family.
Thanks, Bob.
Clark was one of the most personable people I've known in audio. Opinionated as heck, backed by being very well read (especially literature), knowledgeable and passionate about music, and always happy to converse and share. Provocative. Wicked sense of humor.
Clark was a founding member of the late Bob Crump's beer and pizza parties at CES, which grew and culminated in January 2004 with the gals of Misty River performing live to a "sellout" crowd just outside Bob's room at the Alexis Park. Anybody who was there remembers it!
RIP. Raising a glass to you, buddy!
Brian Walsh
Brian,
Yea, I remember Bob Crump had CTC Blowtorch Pre, Halo amps, his cables driving those large Sound Labs ELS shoe horned into that small hotel room. What a sound. liquid, dynamic, relaxed, detailed and smooth as a baby's butt!
Someone came into his room and told him after requesting "Diane Krall" (Crump only played what he called "real music") that he thought the SET 5 watt system in another room blew his rig away. I thought Bob was going to throw him out the very small window in the room his was so pissed! Fun times!
I'm sure Crump & Clark somewhere are having a cold one and listening for absolute polarity in every recording!
I have heard nothing about Clark for a long time. Sorry to hear he had passed on.
and sometimes other topics as well.
Really liked his Positive Feedback columns.
Lots of style AND he made you think.
A good combo.
I suppose Absolute Polarity is no longer an issue for him.
RIP.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
He has achieved absolute polarity, we must assume. He was the guy. who introduced me to Blue Circle and Naim. A great pair of ears he had, so good he could hear things most of us could not.
Sad news..... He was one of my favorite posters when he was here..... RIP.
nt
"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. "
― W.C. Fields
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