John Lennon
The Complete Lost Lennon Tapes
Volumes 21 & 22
(Walrus 035/036)
Volume 21
01. I’m Stepping Out (first day of Double Fantasy sessions-breakdowns and complete take)
02. I’m Stepping Out (first day of Double Fantasy sessions-dinner orders and complete take)
03. I’m Stepping Out (first day of Double Fantasy sessions-breakdowns and complete take)
04. Borrowed Time (working out the arrangement)
05. Borrowed Time (aborted take)
06. Borrowed Time (breakdowns with acoustic guitar overdubs)
07. (Just Like) Starting Over (offline monitor mix)
08. (Just Like) Starting Over (rough mix of basic track)
09. John Sinclair (David Frost TV show)
10. It’s So Hard (Mike Douglas TV show)
11. Luck Of The Irish (Mike Douglas TV show)
12. Sisters O Sisters (Mike Douglas TV show)
13. We’re All Water (Dick Cavette TV show)
14. Woman Is The Nigger Of The World (Dick Cavette TV show)
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Volume 22
01. Aisumasen (i’m Sorry) (St. Regis Hotel NYC in June 1971)
02. Honey Don’t (St. Regis Hotel NYC in June 1971)
03. Glad All Over (St. Regis Hotel NYC in June 1971)
04. Lend Me Your Comb (St. Regis Hotel NYC in June 1971)
05. Wake Up Little Suzie (St. Regis Hotel NYC in June 1971)
06. Baby I Don’t Care (St. Regis Hotel NYC in June 1971)
07. Vacation Has Just Begun (St. Regis Hotel NYC in June 1971)
08. Heartbeat (St. Regis Hotel NYC in June 1971)
09. Peggy Sue Got Married (St. Regis Hotel NYC in June 1971)
10. Peggy Sue (St. Regis Hotel NYC in June 1971)
11. Maybe Baby (St. Regis Hotel NYC in June 1971)
12. Mailman Bring Me No More Blues (St. Regis Hotel NYC in June 1971)
13. Rave On (St. Regis Hotel NYC in June 1971)
14. Tell Me What I Say (recorded at John’s 31st birthday party-Oct 9, 1971)
15. Yellow Submarine (recorded at John’s 31st birthday party-Oct 9, 1971)
16. Old Smokey Mountain (recorded at John’s 31st birthday party-Oct 9, 1971)
17. Goodnight Irene (recorded at John’s 31st birthday party-Oct 9, 1971)
18. He’s Got The Whole World (recorded at John’s 31st birthday party-Oct 9, 1971)
19. Like A Rolling Stone/Twist And Shout/Louie Louie/La Bamba (recorded at John’s 31st birthday party-Oct 9, 1971)
20. Bring It On Home To Me (recorded at John’s 31st birthday party-Oct 9, 1971)
21. Yesterday (recorded at John’s 31st birthday party-Oct 9, 1971)
22. Dance for The Chicken (recorded at John’s 31st birthday party-Oct 9, 1971)
23. Power To The People (recorded at John’s 31st birthday party-Oct 9, 1971)
24. Maybe Baby (recorded at John’s 31st birthday party-Oct 9, 1971)
25. Peggy Sue (recorded at John’s 31st birthday party-Oct 9, 1971)
26. My Baby Left Me (recorded at John’s 31st birthday party-Oct 9, 1971)
27. Blue Suede Shoes (recorded at John’s 31st birthday party-Oct 9, 1971)
28. Crippled Inside (recorded at John’s 31st birthday party-Oct 9, 1971)
29. Give Peace A Chance (recorded at John’s 31st birthday party-Oct 9, 1971)
30. Crippled Inside (recorded at John’s 31st birthday party-Oct 9, 1971)
31. Uncle Albert (recorded at John’s 31st birthday party-Oct 9, 1971)
32. Happy Birthday (recorded at John’s 31st birthday party-Oct 9, 1971)
33. Uncle Albert (recorded at John’s 31st birthday party-Oct 9, 1971)
34. My Sweet Lord (recorded at John’s 31st birthday party-Oct 9, 1971)
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Silvers > EAC > TLH > Hunger City
Some of these discs did not line up with the covers
Splitting tracks and combining tracks where required has remedied that.
Audacity, CD Wav and Traders Little Helper were used for the repairs
Disc 22 presented 2 tapes with mastering that included 2-3 second gaps between every track (even though the tapes were continious).
Honey Don’t also included 3 digital “holes”.
These gaps have been removed and in doing so the overall time for this disc was reduced (in case you wonder why the time is different)
Some of the covers also required small tweeks to repair typos.
Not altogether a Direct transfer but an improved version of the Silvers with these errors corrected.
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John Lennons all-star 31st birthday party in Syracuse, New YorkSaturday 9 October 1971
Following the opening of Yoko Ono’s art exhibition “This Is Not Here” at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York,
a party was held at a nearby hotel room in celebration of John Lennon’s 31st birthday.Before the guests arrived, however, Lennon began composing Attica State, which would later appear on the Some Time In New York City album.
“It was conceived on my birthday,” he later explained.
“We ad libbed it, then we finished it off.”Ono had ordered a cake for her husband, which was decorated with the words: “To John from Yoko and the whole world”.
Much of the party was recorded for posterity on audio tape, as were much of the couple’s activities at this time.The guests included:
Ringo Starr
Maureen Starkey
Phil Spector
Klaus Voormann
Mal Evans
Neil Aspinall
Eric Clapton
Allen Ginsberg
Jim KeltnerThe all-star cast sang drunken versions of songs including:
What’d I Say
Yellow Submarine
On Top Of Old Smokey
Goodnight Irene
Take This Hammer
He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands
Like A Rolling Stone
a medley of Twist And Shout/Louie Louie/La Bamba
Bring It On Home To Me
Yesterday
Tandoori Chicken
Power To The People
Maybe Baby
Peggy Sue
Bring Out The Joints (a Lennon-Spector composition)
My Baby Left Me
Heartbreak Hotel
Blue Suede Shoes
Crippled Inside
Give Peace A Chance
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
My Sweet Lord
Imagine
Oh Yoko!.Also during the party, a Japanese reporter interviewed Lennon and Ono.
The recording, which featured a high degree of tension between the couple.
It became known as The Argument Interview, and was later aired on the US radio series The Lost Lennon Tapes.Following the event, Lennon and Ono sent a postcard to Ringo and Maureen Starkey thanking them for attending.
The card, which was later reproduced in Starr’s book Postcards From The Boys, featured Arnold Bocklin’s picture Spring Evening 1879,
which had been customised to show Ono’s head on the body of a naked nymph, and Lennon-style glasses drawn on a panpipe-playing satyr.Dear hello Ringo and More-Reen
thankx a lot for coming to my birthday chaos, looks like some good things will come from the Museum Show too!
lost of love to you and yours
from bonnie John + Yogurthello Maureen!!
Mrs. Lennon and her husband