[sdiy] Re: [AH] Bebe Barron's page on NPR.org

[Peter Grenader]

This is a very knotty issue.  Louie's second wife is dead set that these
tapes are worth a fortune and has held all of it waiting for that fortune to
arrive.  Bebe's repeated attempts have been ignored,  as have those of the
Library of Congress and this is the basis of the 'issues' between she and
Louie's second wife that Susan touched upon in the interview.  It's sad -
although, most of these tapes consist of hours and hours of work files and
most recorded in the 50's - so the tapes are pretty screwed up by now.
They're in a garage - not a temp and humidity controlled storage facility.




 CCartCat at aol.com wrote:

In the interview, Louis' son (by his 2nd wife), David, is talking about all
his father's old tapes & electronics as if it were a family curse.
Surprised no one's approached the family about releasing completed works,
archiving, what not.

Also imagining many soldering iron wielders inquiring about old components.
<g>

Barrons beware,
Kevin Seward