Your voice first of all is hypnotic and you talk with atmosphere I’m there with them. And you talk of John Lennon as a person exactly how I see and read about him his posture when standing and sitting looked very good there is s great quality about him John yoko
I have been a lifelong John Lennon admirer and remember the Westwood One Lost Lennon Tapes program that was broadcast on the LOOP FM98 in Chicago on Sunday Nights for 2 years. I still have all of the cassettes, recording each broadcast and saving them in my personal collection. The tapes are now in a environment controlled room and I play them from beginning to end ensuring each tape's tracking is even with every play. To anyone else reading this, this may sound fanatical or weird, but I prize these broadcasts. Thank you Elliot Mintz for keeping my entertained for 2 years.
you are most welcome. please consider making digital transfers of those cassettes and uploading them to your computer. even under the best of conditions, audio tape can stretch, become brittle or snap. best to maintain a back-up set.
I am so very blessed & honored by your friendship of more then 40+ years Elliot ... I continue to be so very proud of you & your achievements in this lifetime & look forward to seeing great things from you in 2012. Wishing you a happy & safe holiday season filled with peace, love, happiness & good health always. Kindest personal regards; David Harrison Levi - Starmaker global caring for Breast Cancer Awareness
Beautiful Child It was nighttime. I was on my hands and knees. I heard waves as if I was at the beach. A bell rang three times. Music was coming from a distance. I was curious about the sound. It pulled me in and I bunny hopped to the lounge room. Someone was singing. The voice was magical, as if coming from a kingdom in a faraway land. I asked my dad, ‘What’s that sound?’ Dad said, ‘This is a song that John Lennon wrote for his son Sean.’ The sound of waves washed over the music and the lyrics. The house was comfortable and safe; and as the song ebbed and flowed, like a lullaby, I felt a strong connection with my father. Warmth washed over me. This is my first memory. As I got older I realised that my dad may have been speaking to me through the lyrics of Lennon’s song ‘Beautiful Boy’. The song encompassed the possible journey that we would take as father and son. But I was too young to understand the words. I loved the waves as well as the sound of children playing and laughing. There is a gentle whisper at the end of the song. The voice says, ‘Goodnight Sean. See you in the morning.’ And a child’s voice says, ‘Goodnight dada.’ I think Dad was saying goodnight to me through these words. The beat of the music and the joyful whistling at the end of the song made me feel like someone was walking away. My father, Arnaud, used to be a painter. With his artistic mind he may have thought that music would be a creative vehicle for communicating his message. Dad also played me the ‘Let it Be’ album by The Beatles. He pointed to John Lennon’s picture and said, ‘That man with the light brown hair is dead.’ He also told me he was killed outside his apartment. I was slightly frightened by this, but I felt safe because Dad was with me. I imagined Lennon dying and walking through dark streets with his wife Yoko. Dad also showed me a black-and-white picture of John and Yoko. I couldn’t tell who was who. I thought Yoko was John and John was Yoko. They looked so alike with their long dark hair and angular faces. You could draw an interesting parallel between my parents and John and Yoko. Like Yoko, who had previously lost babies due to miscarriages, my mother Gail had also lost a baby to stillbirth. Perhaps you could say that because of these circumstances both Lennon and my father were over-joyed when their wives finally brought beautiful boys into the world.
