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Thank you, Maddie! Jim was a real giant in the industry. I mean that both figuratively and literally -- he was very tall <smile>. Interesting, Dave! I guess he had that effect on many people. When I was on the board of the LA Section of the AES, I asked him to speak on tape restoration there as I had been hearing horror stories. We came up with theme for the presention: Just because you can't play the tape doesn't mean it's trash! It was our discussions about that presentation that led to him entrusting the Mullin-Palmer collection tapes to me for digitization and he and I worked on them every spare minute when he was in LA for the presentation. That story is documented here. http://www.aes.org/journal/suppmat/hess_2001_7.pdf And a side note: that bag of tape that Jim is holding in the photo on page four of the article was wound onto reels by Stanford archivists and returned to me about five years later, so even that didn't get away in the end! Regards, Richard On 2017-06-17 5:05 PM, David Radlauer wrote: > Thanks Richard. My path crossed with Wheeler in early 1990s. It launched my interest in tape preservation. > > Dave Radlauer On 2017-06-17 4:24 PM, Maddie Dietrich wrote: > Thank you for sharing, Richard, and I am sorry for your loss, and that of > the industry. > > Maddie > > On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Richard L. Hess <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > >> I have sad news. My friend, mentor, and in many ways the person who was >> most influential in encouraging me to become involved in audio tape >> restoration, Jim Wheeler, passed away recently. I have no further details. >> Jim's wife called Jim Lindner who emailed me. >> >> As many of you may know, Jim Wheeler's health had deteriorated over the >> last decade, so this is not unexpected. He had not been living at home for >> a while. >> ... -- Richard L. Hess email: [log in to unmask] Aurora, Ontario, Canada 647 479 2800 http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.