Just uploaded a newly recorded track to the 'Music' tab here on the site, entitled: 'The Summer Wind'. It is a song that pretty much wrote itself, and which I felt I had to finish recording and make public, at least by the Labor Day week-end, which is unofficially the end of summer. (Although Summer does'nt really end astrologically until the end of September). It started with the melody, lyrics, and chord changes all at once, which became the chorus for the song, with the words immediately coming together with the melody of, "we got to go-on (hold-on) John, it's like those summer's are never gone", etc. And therefore, decided to dedicate it to and write it about a close friend of mine, by the name of: 'John Sullivan'. He was a fellow musician, who had pretty much passed-away before his time, some years ago already. It brought back allot of memories of that time in my life, all those years ago; growing-up, hanging-out, and playing music, back on Long Island. Hope you enjoy it. Maybe you can even relate. You know, it's funny, how mysterious life can be sometimes, in more ways then one. After recording and listening to the track, I realized there were certain totally un-intentional similarities in the story line of this particular song, and a story I once read about how John Lennon and Paul McCartney had met at some kind of a church function (of all things) one summer day, back in the 50's. As a matter of fact, if I remember correctly, it was the exact day of my birthday, on July 17th! (Could be wrong though. Have to look it up again, sometime). Its also funny, how John used to actually remind some of us of Paul McCartney, in allot of ways. Maybe, the Irish lineage somewhere in the family tree. I don't know. It was quite remarkable, however. What does it all mean? Don't really know. Probably, absolutely nothing. But, at least, maybe of all people, Paul McCartney may just be one person who might quite possibly relate to this song, in some way. Don't know, if that will ever really happen. But I do find it a bit mysterious, that the song sort of turned out the way that it did. Lyrically, anyway. John and I used to read allot of books about The Beatles when we were kids, and were very influenced by their music, and their life. Even though we were influenced by allot of other musical acts as well, those guys were pretty much the original driving force when were growing up, and influenced us to learn how to play the guitar, and to write songs for ourselves, for instance. And John, although very down to earth (excuse the seeming pun) could also be quite mysterious himself. He did have that side to him. So, it's sort of not unusual therefore, that a song written about him should also turn-out somewhat mysterious as well, in a way. Even had a dream about John, after he had passed, that was very surreal, to say the least; and which had very much surprised, and amazed me. (And often, had wondered what it meant). Even just recently, as a matter of fact, I had a dream about John as I was recording this song. Sort of like, he knew. (Or it could be that he was just on my mind, because of the song). Never-the-less, whatever the reason, may God grant John's spirit, eternal peace...