Mr. Sohn said he had developed a warm relationship with Armstrong through the tapes.
The prosecutor also revealed that Mr al-Hilli had recorded all of his phone conversations and investigators were going through the tapes.
Need to go through the tapes … as we know, that's not exactly what he asked for but I couldn't press forward on that without exposing the source.
"When we were going through the tapes we found a lot of stuff that didn't fit the main CD," recalls Shipley.
When the sessions ended, neither the Beatles nor their producer, George Martin, could face wading through the tapes to assemble an album.
Far fewer visitors are trolling through the tapes, according to archivists long fond of the Nixon maunderings as the gift that keeps on giving.
The disarranged piles melded into a wallpaper of ludicrous font and slashes of pink, brown, and yellow flesh; though the job was chiefly a matter of inventorying characteristics, tabulating spurts and lashings, Kromer couldn't get through the tapes fast enough.
Mr. Van Ronk's last concert, in Adelphi, Md., on Oct. 22, had been recorded, and Van Ronk spent his last weeks going through the tapes to prepare a live album, Mr. Greenhill said.
