**Not sure if this belongs here, so mods/admins please feel free to move this thread if necessary**
I was visiting a local warehouse-style salvage store (Urban Ore in Berkeley, CA, incase anyone was wondering) the other day, and I bought some old 7" tape reels (this is the same place I found that KFOG aircheck tape a couple months back), and on the plain white box of one tape was written, among other things, "Oliver North + Larry Bensky," which was very intriguing.
I didn't know if that recording was still there or not until I tried playing it back, so I bought it.
Unfortunately it suffers from a moderate case of sticky shed syndrome, so playing it back was rather difficult, and my machine, old as it is, was struggling. After several hours of trying, though, I managed to get a clean copy of what was on the tape, which, thankfully, had not been erased and reused, as that KFOG tape apparently was.
It is an interview of Oliver North, who at the time (November 1991) was on a tour for his new book, conducted by Larry Bensky in a hotel room (presumably Mr. North's).
I read a little about Mr. Bensky, as I wasn't familiar with him (I don't listen much to public radio. Maybe I should?), and I learned that he was apparently a well regarded political correspondent at KPFA and elsewhere). Unfortunately and somewhat interestingly, he passed away just over a month ago. Could this tape have belonged to him at one time, I wonder?
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I was visiting a local warehouse-style salvage store (Urban Ore in Berkeley, CA, incase anyone was wondering) the other day, and I bought some old 7" tape reels (this is the same place I found that KFOG aircheck tape a couple months back), and on the plain white box of one tape was written, among other things, "Oliver North + Larry Bensky," which was very intriguing.
I didn't know if that recording was still there or not until I tried playing it back, so I bought it.
Unfortunately it suffers from a moderate case of sticky shed syndrome, so playing it back was rather difficult, and my machine, old as it is, was struggling. After several hours of trying, though, I managed to get a clean copy of what was on the tape, which, thankfully, had not been erased and reused, as that KFOG tape apparently was.
It is an interview of Oliver North, who at the time (November 1991) was on a tour for his new book, conducted by Larry Bensky in a hotel room (presumably Mr. North's).
I read a little about Mr. Bensky, as I wasn't familiar with him (I don't listen much to public radio. Maybe I should?), and I learned that he was apparently a well regarded political correspondent at KPFA and elsewhere). Unfortunately and somewhat interestingly, he passed away just over a month ago. Could this tape have belonged to him at one time, I wonder?
c