LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 15 2019- FORTY YEARS AGO LED ZEPPELIN RELEASED ‘IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR’
THIS WAS THE EIGHTH AND FINAL STUDIO ALBUM FROM ZEP, AND THE ONLY ALBUM RELEASED BY THE BAND IN THEIR LAST 4 YEARS OF EXISTENCE.
IN 1980 JOHN BONHAM DIED AND THE GROUP DISBANDED SOON THEREAFTER, VOWING NOT TO GO ON WITHOUT THEIR DRUMMER.
‘IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR’ HAS SOLD OVER 11,500,000 MILLION COPIES.
HERE’S A GREAT LIVE VERSION OF ‘IN THE EVENING’
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 15 2019- HAPPY 71ST BIRTHDAY TO BAY AREA ROCKER AND DOOBIE BROTHER TOM JOHNSTON.
TOM JOHNSON IS THE GUITARIST, VOCALIST AND FOUNDER OF THE DOOBIE BROTHERS AND A FRIEND OF THE SHOW.
HE TOLD US IT ALL STARTED IN SAN JOSE ON AN ACOUSTIC GUITAR WHERE HE WROTE ‘LISTEN TO THE MUSIC’ ‘ROCKIN’ DOWN THE HIGHWAY’ ‘LONG TRAIN RUNNIN’ AND ‘CHINA GROVE’
THE DOOBIES HAVE SOLD OVER 50 MILLION ALBUMS TO DATE.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOM JOHNSTON, YOU’RE ONE OF THE GOOD ONES.
HERE ARE THE DOOBIES WITH A LIVE PERFORMANCE FROM 1975
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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 15 2019-ONE OF THE MOST HALLOWED EVENTS IN POP CULTURE TOOK PLACE ON THIS DATE IN 1969 WITH CLOSE TO AN ESTIMATED 1,000,000 PEOPLE SHOWING UP FOR THE “WOODSTOCK MUSIC FESTIVAL.”
THE FESTIVAL WAS BILLED AS THE “AQUARIAN EXPERIENCE: 3 DAYS OF PEACE AND LOVE” AND THE MASSIVE CONCERT DIDN’T HAPPEN WITHOUT A HITCH.
THERE WERE LAST MINUTE VENUE CHANGES, BAD WEATHER, AND A VIRTUAL ARMY OF ATTENDEES SHOWING UP TO A VENUE THAT WASN’T PREPARED FOR THE MASSIVE ONSLAUGHT OF HUMANITY. PROMOTERS EXPECTED A CROWD OF 50,000 PEOPLE AND BECAUSE OF LAST MINUTE LOGISTICS, AND NO EFFICIENT WAY TO CHARGE THE THRONG OF PEOPLE, ORGANIZERS CHANGED WOODSTOCK TO A FREE CONCERT. HIGHWAYS AND LOCAL ROADS CAME TO A STANDSTILL AND MANY CONCERT GOERS ABANDONED THEIR CARS AND TOOK BY FOOT TO ATTEND THE EVENT.
THERE WAS ALOT OF SEX, DRUGS, RAIN AND ROCK AND ROLL. THERE WERE NO MORE THAN A DOZEN POLICE OFFICERS TO KEEP AND EYE ON THE CROWD, AND OFF-DUTY POLICE OFFICERS WERE BANNED FROM THE VENUE.
THE FIRST BIG ACT TO SIGN UP FOR WOODSTOCK WAS CCR. HAVING CREEDENCE CLEARWATER ON THE BILL GAVE THE FESTIVAL THE STREET CRED IT NEEDED TO ATTRACT OTHER BIG ACTS.
HERE’S A LIST OF THE MUSICIANS AND ACTS IN THE ORDER THEY APPEARED ON DAY ONE:
RICHIE HAVENS
YOGA GURU SRI SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA
BERT SOMMER
SWEETWATER
MELANIE
TIM HARDEN
RAVI SHANKAR
ARLO GUTHRIE
JOAN BAEZ
DAY ONE WRAPPED UP AROUND 2 AM ON THE MORNING OF AUGUST 16TH WITH BAEZ PLAYING IN A TORRENTIAL DOWNPOUR.
DAY TWO STARTED A LITTLE AFTER NOON ON AUGUST 16TH. HERE IS THE LIST OF PERFORMERS AND ACTS IN ORDER:
QUILL
COUNTRY JOE MCDONALD
JOHN SEBASTION
KEEF HARTLEY BAND
SANTANA
THE INCREDIBLE STRINGED BAND
CANNED HEAT
MOUNTAIN
THE GRATEFUL DEAD
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
JANIS JOPLIN
SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE
THE WHO
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
DAY THREE STARTED AT APPROXIMATELY 2PM.
IN THE ORDER OF APPEARANCE THIS WAS THE REMAINING LINEUP:
JOE COCKER
COUNTRY JOE AND THE FISH
TEN YEARS AFTER
THE BAND
JOHNNY WINTER
BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS
CROSBY STILLS NASH AND YOUNG
PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND
SHA NA NA
JIMI HENDRIX *** HNEDRIX WAS THE FINAL MUSICIAN TO APPEAR AT WOODSTOCK. HORRENDOUS RAIN AND DELAYS CAUSED HIS PERFORMANCE TO BE PUSHED BACK TO MONDAY MORNING. BY THE TIME HENDRIX WAS ABLE TO TAKE THE STAGE, THE CROWD HAD DWINDLED DOWN TO LESS THAN 30,000 PEOPLE.
THIS IS FASCINATING FOOTAGE. THE FIRST DAY OF WOODSTOCK.
THIS IS DAY 2 COVERAGE
DAY 3
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 14 2019-IT WAS 1990 AND THE BLACK CROWES “SHAKE YOUR MONEY MAKER TOUR” HIT THE CONCORD PAVILION. THE SHOW WAS AT THE HEIGHT OF THE CROWES POPULARITY , WITH THE ALBUM HITTING # 4 ON THE ROCK CHARTS IN AMERICA AND THE BAND AT # 1 ON THE ROCK SINGLES CHART WITH HARD TO HANDLE. AND THEY WERE THE WARM UP BAND !
HERE WAS THE SETLIST FOR THE BLACK CROWES AT THE CONCORD PAVILLION:
Thick N’ Thin
You’re Wrong
Twice as Hard
She Talks to Angels
It’s a Sin
Hard to Handle
Stare It Cold
Jealous Again
Struttin’ Blues
THIS IS AN AMAZING PERFORMANCE FROM THE ‘CROWES’ ON MTV UNPLUGGED
AFTER THE BLACK CROWES, HEART CAME ON TO PLAY 19 SONGS AND WERE SUPERB. HEART WAS ON TOUR SUPPORTING THEIR BRIGADE TOUR. HERE WAS THE SETLIST FROM HEART:
Wild Child
If Looks Could Kill
Who Will You Run To
Tall, Dark, Handsome Stranger
Heartless
I Didn’t Want to Need You
Dog & Butterfly
Never
Straight On
Fallen From Grace
Dreamboat Annie
Stranded
These Dreams
Alone
Crazy on You
Magic Man
Encore:
What About Love
All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You
Barracuda
HERE’S THE SONG THAT WAS PLAYED AS PART OF THEIR ENCORE:
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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 14 2019- FORTY EIGHT YEARS AGO THE WHO RELEASED THEIR FIFTH STUDIO ALBUM ‘WHO’S NEXT.’
MANY CONSIDER THIS ALBUM AS ONE OF THE WHO’S FINEST RECORDS AND ONE OF THE GREATEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME. IT WAS POWERED BY FIVE HIT SINGLES ‘BABA O’RILEY’ ‘GOING MOBILE’ ‘BARGAIN’ ‘BEHIND BLUE EYES’ AND THE 81/2 MINUTE ANTHEM ‘WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN’ ( WITH ROGER DALTREY SUPPLYING ROCK AND ROLL’S GREATEST SCREAM )
THE ARTWORK ON THE ALBUM COVER SHOWS THE GROUP APPARENTLY HAVING JUST URINATED ON A LARGE STONE STRUCTURE. ACCORDING TO THE PHOTOGRAPHER MOST OF THE BAND MEMBERS WERE UNABLE TO TINKLE, SO WATER WAS POURED FROM A CANISTER TO GET THE EFFECT THEY WERE LOOKING FOR.
‘WHO’S NEXT’ HAS SOLD OVER 5 MILLION COPIES TO DATE.
HERE’S A GREAT LIVE VERSION OF ‘WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN’ FROM 1978
Christopher Titus will be performing at the Heritage Theatre in Campbell this Friday, August 16th at 8pm.
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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 13, 2019- TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO WOODSTOCK ‘94 WAS HELD IN SAUGERTIES, NEW YORK. THE FESTIVAL WAS ATTENDED BY OVER 350,000 FANS, AND FEATURED MORE THAN 51 ACTS INCLUDING GREEN DAY, NINE INCH NAILS, AEROSMITH, METALLICA, JOE COCKER AND THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS.
TICKETS COST $135
HERE’S GREEN DAY AT WOODSTOCK’94
THE FULL SET FROM AEROSMITH
HERE’S FLEA LEAVING NOTHING TO THE IMAGINATION AT WOODSTOCK
METALLICA’S FULL SET AT WOODSTOCK
AND JOE COCKER WITH HIS FULL SET
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 13, 2019…ON THIS DATE IN 1973 LYNYRD SKYNYRD RELEASED THEIR DEBUT ALBUM Pronounced ‘Lĕh-‘nérd ‘Skin-‘nérd.
HERE ARE SOME QUICK FACTOIDS SURROUNDING THE ALBUM AND SKYNYRD:
-THE BAND WAS DISCOVERED BY MUSICIAN AND PRODUCER AL KOOPER
-KOOPER HAD THEM PLAY THEIR 12 SONGS AND 9 MADE THE DEBUT ALBUM
-THE RECORD PRODUCED FOUR CLASSIC SKYNYRD SONGS ‘TUESDAY’S GONE’ ‘GIMME THREE STEPS’ ‘SIMPLE MAN’ AND ‘FREE BIRD’
-THE RECORD COMPANY DIDN’T WANT ‘FREEBIRD’ ON THE ALBUM, SAYING IT WAS TOO LONG
– ‘GIMME THREE STEPS’ WAS BASED ON A TRUE LIFE STORY. RONNIE VAN ZANT WAS 18 AND USED A FAKE I.D. TO GET INTO A BAR. ROSSINGTON AND COLLINS WERE YOUNGER AND WAITING FOR HIM IN THE TRUCK. VAN ZANT WAS WAS DANCING WITH A GAL AND HER BOYFRIEND CAME AFTER VAN ZANT AND REACHED FOR SOMETHING IN HIS BOOT. RONNIE TOLD HIM:
“If you’re going to shoot me it will be in the ass or the elbows…just gimme three steps and I’ll be gone.”
HE MADE IT TO THE TRUCK AND THE THREE OF THEM WROTE THE SONG THAT NIGHT
-‘TUESDAY’S GONE’ IS ABOUT A GIRL ACTUALLY NAMED TUESDAY, AND IS ABOUT GOING AWAY AND LEAVING HER BEHIND
-BASSIST LEON WILKESON LEFT THE GROUP BEFORE THE RECORDING SESSIONS STARTED
-HE WAS REPLACED BY GUITARIST ED KING
-AFTER THE ALBUM WAS RECORDED THE BAND MOVED KING TO GUITAR AND BEGGED WILKESON TO COME BACK
-WILKESON MADE IT BACK IN TIME TO SHOOT THE ALBUM COVER
-THE PHOTO USED WAS THE LAST PICTURE SHOT IN WHAT WAS A MARATHON ALL DAY PHOTO SESSION
-MOMENTS AFTER THE PICTURE WAS SHOT, GARY ROSSINGTON THREW UP ON THE SIDEWALK
-Pronounced ‘Lĕh-‘nérd ‘Skin-‘nérd HAS NOW SOLD OVER 4 MILLION COPIES WITH TOTAL SALES AND STREAMING
-ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE HAS RANKED THIS ALBUM AT #403 IN THEIR LIST OF “THE TOP 500 ALBUMS OF ALL TIME”
HERE’S A GREAT VERSION OF ‘SIMPLE MAN’
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 13, 2019-MICK JAGGER AND JERRY HALL WERE A COUPLE STARTING IN 1977 AND WERE MARRIED IN BALI WITH A PRIVATE CEREMONY IN 1990. THEY HAD 4 KIDS TOGETHER. THEN JERRY CAUGHT MICK CHEATING. RUH-ROH!!
HALL FILED FOR DIVORCE AND WAS LOOKING FOR THE EQUIVALENT OF APPROXIMATELY $ 36,500,000 IN ALIMONY AND CHILD SUPPORT.
ON THIS DATE IN 1999 THE JUDGE RULED THE COUPLE’S MARRIAGE IN BALI WAS NULL AND VOID, AND WASN’T VALID EITHER IN INDONESIA OR UNDER ENGLISH LAW. HALL GOT NOTHING.
THIS IS CLASSIC LIVE STONES FROM 1972
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Over the weekend the San Francisco Giants surprised former first baseman Will Clark with an announcement that his number 22 will be retired next season. This morning before catching his flight home, Will Clark called into the show and Lamont and Tonelli personally congratulate him with the news.
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