yeah, stuff just gets broken or disappears with various updates to operating systems, storage, and platform architecture. A lot of my AAJ reviews, articles, and interviews are damaged or abbreviated because of this--to say nothing of the various sites I wrote for that have gone completely dark. The moral of that story is to back everything up and ensure you have access copies (my early 2000s self needed a talking to!).
He didn't, as we all know, but I can certainly understand his wife (and his son) mostly remembering the ear-shattering noise of the free jazz he liked to put on.
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BTW: I always save all these kinds of remembrances when I come across them, simply because the Internet has increasingly developed amnesia in recent years. Important things are often immediately buried a mile deep (thanks to Google) or simply disappear altogether after a short while. And we all know how terrible search results have become.
Maybe some of you remember Hans Koert (Netherlands), who ran various websites, especially with in-depth information about Oscar Alemán. If you check his old https://keepswinging.blogspot.com/ website, you can see how quickly things can disappear from the Net. Jørgen Larsen, who continued running Koert's website(s) for a while (up until 2024), outlines these problems in his recent (and then last) post(s) over there. Have a look.