Requiem for John

A few years back we rediscovered on the Internet one of our favorite DJs from our early twenties. He is Vin Scelsa and can be heard on WFUV-FM in New York. Shortly after John's death, we somehow brought ourselves to listen to Vin's show from April 7th. It is an amazing show in that we look upon it as a fitting requiem for John, especially since part of it was recorded that Saturday afternoon. So many of the selections from that night captured the essence of John -- "Beautiful Dreamer," "Kind and Generous," "A Love Supreme," Glenn Gould playing Bach, Townes Van Zandt... Even the last songs of the show, all about trucks, were fitting. Growing up, John loved playing with trucks in the dirt road next to our home in New Jersey; he was about two-years-old at the time.

If you want to listen to the show, you can download it in a zip file at: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/iddiot_tree/. Just scroll down to the link for the April 7, 2007 show.