Lost Beach Boys tapes surface in SLO County
By DJ M on August 26th, 2009
In Brian Wilson/B. Boys
NEW TIMES SLO "San Luis Obispo County resident Lance Robison was able to leverage some 45-year-old, reel-to-reel tapes into a five-figure deal that funded his dream project, a new CD called Codependance Beach. What Lance sold to Capitol Records were three reel-to-reel 'work' tapes from the Beach Boys’ 1964 recording session for Shut Down Vol. 2. These tapes contained the multi-tracks from which the original mono recordings were mixed. The mono masters from that 1964 album have since been lost or misplaced, and even if they were found, they don’t contain the various tracks from which to create stereo recordings. In other words, the only reason Beach Boys fans now have stereo versions of 'Don’t Worry Baby' and 'Why Do Fools Fall in Love' is because a then-13-year-old kid named Lance Robison came into possession of these work tapes and held onto them for 43 years."