LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 22, 2019…METALLICA PLAYS SHORELINE IN 1994 ON THE ‘SH** HITS THE SHED’ TOUR. THE TOUR SAW METALLICA PLAY 51 SHOWS IN NORTH AMERICA IN 1994. SUPPORT ACTS FOR THIS TOUR WERE DANZIG,CANDLEBOX, FIGHT, AND SUICIDAL TENDENCIES. IT’S INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT ROBERT TRUJULLO WAS THE BASSIST FOR SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, AND 9 YEARS LATER, HE WOULD END UP JOINING METALLICA.
ANOTHER THING TO NOTE WAS ALICE IN CHAINS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE WARM UP ACT ON ALL THE TOUR STOPS, BUT DUE TO LAYNE STALEY’S DRUG ADDICTION, THEY WERE FORCED OFF THE BILL. THE OFFSPRING WAS REPORTEDLY OFFERED TO REPLACE ALICE IN CHAINS ON THE TOUR, BUT THEY TURNED DOWN THE OFFER, WANTING TO CONTINUE PLAYING IN CLUBS.
CANDLEBOX WAS EVENTUALLY CHOSEN AS THE REPLACEMENT FOR ALICE IN CHAINS.
THIS WAS METALLICA’S SETLIST:
The Ecstasy of Gold
(Taped intro)
Breadfan
Master of Puppets
Wherever I May Roam
Harvester of Sorrow
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
The God that Failed
Kill/Ride Medley
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Disposable Heroes
Seek & Destroy
Guitar Solo
Nothing Else Matters
Creeping Death
Bass Solo
Fade to Black
Whiplash
Encore:
Sad but True
One
Encore 2:
Enter Sandman
So What
LATER IN THE TOUR, METALLICA PLAYED WOODSTOCK. HERE’S THE FULL SHOW
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 21, 2019…BILL GRAHAM’S ‘DAY ON THE GREEN’ CONCERTS WERE CONCERTS THAT WERE THE PROTOTYPES FOR FESTIVAL SHOWS. STAGED ON THE LAWN OF THE OAKLAND COLISEUM, THE ‘DAY ON THE GREEN’ CONCERTS WERE A SUMMER SERIES OF CONCERTS THAT GRAHAM STARTED IN 1973 AND THEY CONTINUED UNTIL SHORTLY AFTER HIS DEATH AS A RESULT OF A HELICOPTER CRASH IN 1991.
ON THIS DATE IN 1979 IT WAS DAY ON THE GREEN # 3 TIME. THIS SHOW WAS ALSO KNOWN AS THE “MONSTERS OF ROCK” DAY ON THE GREEN, WITH THE LINE UP FEATURING MAHOGANY RUSH, AC/DC, TED NUGENT, AND AEROSMITH. INCREDIBLY, THE TICKETS FOR THIS MEGA SHOW WERE ONLY
$12.50, OR $15 AT THE DOOR.
HERE ARE THE SETLISTS FROM THE “MONSTERS OF ROCK” DAY ON THE GREEN:
MAHOGANY RUSH
The Answer
Dragonfly
I’m a King Bee
Johnny B. Goode
Who Do You Love?
Electric Reflections of War
The World Anthem
Purple Haze
FRANK MARINO AND MAHOGANY RUSH
AC/DC
Live Wire
Problem Child
Sin City
Highway to Hell
Bad Boy Boogie
The Jack
Rocker
Dog Eat Dog
HERE’S THE ENTIRE SET FROM AC/DC
AEROSMITH
Back in the Saddle
The Train Kept A-Rollin’
Mama Kin
Big Ten Inch Record
Reefer Head Woman
Lick and a Promise
Think About It
Seasons of Wither
Bone to Bone (Coney Island White Fish Boy)
Lord of the Thighs
Sweet Emotion
Get the Lead Out
Walk This Way
Draw the Line
Same Old Song and Dance
Come Together
Toys in the Attic
AEROSMITH MAKING THINGS HAPPEN AT THE ‘MONSTER’S OF ROCK’ DAY ON THE GREEN.
TED NUGENT
Stormtroopin’
Just What the Doctor Ordered
Free-For-All
Dog Eat Dog
The Great White Buffalo
Cat Scratch Fever
Need You Bad
Paralyzed
It Don’t Matter
Stranglehold
Encore:
Motor City Madhouse
THIS IS TED NUGENT’S FULL SET AT ‘DAY ON THE GREEN’
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 21, 2019…HISTORY TOOK PLACE ON THIS DAY 29 YEARS AGO WHEN ROGER WATERS’ THE WALL TOOK PLACE AT THE BERLIN WALL. THE CONCERT WAS HELD AT POTZDAMER PLATZ, BERLIN
TO COMMEMORATE THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL 8 MONTHS EARLIER.
OVER 350,0000 PEOPLE ATTENDED THE CONCERT, AND THE EVENT WAS BROADCAST LIVE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
IT’S ESTIMATED THAT 10’S OF MILLIONS WITNESSED THE EVENT AND LISTENED TO THE SHOW ON RADIO.
THE CAST WATERS PUT TOGETHER FOR THE EVENT WAS IMPRESSIVE, NUMBERING MORE THAN 200 PERFORMERS. IT WAS ONE OF THE LARGEST MUSICAL PRODUCTIONS IN HISTORY. THE CAST INCLUDED THE SCORPIONS, BRYAN ADAMS, CYNDI LAUPER, SINEAD O’CONNOR, VAN MORRISON, THOMAS DOLBY, PAUL CARRACK, THE HOOTERS, JONI MITCHELL, 100 MEMBERS OF THE COMBINED SOVIET FORCES, THE EAST GERMAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS, ALL PERFORMING AND BUILDING A WALL OF 2,500 BRICKS DURING THE SHOW.
IT WAS AN EPIC EVENT. HERE’S FULL VIDEO OF THE CONCERT
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 21, 2019…A MONUMENTAL DAY FOR ROCK N’ ROLL. GUNS N’ ROSES ‘APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION’ WAS RELEASED ON THIS DAY 32 YEARS AGO AND IT WAS A MASSIVE ALBUM.
G ‘N”EFFIN R’s APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTIONWAS RELEASED ON THIS DAY 32 YEARS AGO AND IT WAS MASSIVE !
HERE’S SOME QUICK ‘APPETITE’ TIDBITS:
-THE ALBUM SPENT 147 WEEKS ON THE BILLBOARD 200
-IT WAS POWERED BY 3 MASSIVE SINGLES ‘WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE’ ‘SWEET CHILD O’ MINE’ AND ‘PARADISE CITY’
-THE RECORD WAS CERTIFIED 18 TIMES PLATINUM FOR SALES OVER 18 MILLION COPIES SOLD IN THE U.S.A.
-TO DATE “APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION” HAS SOLD OVER 30 MILLION COPIES WORLDWIDE.
-IT IS THE BEST SELLING MUSIC DEBUT ALBUM OF ALL-TIME.
-THE INFAMOUS ALBUM COVER WAS ACTUALLY THE 3RD COVER CONSIDERED BY THE BAND, AND CAME ABOUT AS A COMPROMISE BETWEEN THE BAND AND THE RECORD COMPANY
-IN AN INTERVIEW CIRCA 2011, AXL ROSE REVEALED HIS ORIGINAL IDEA FOR THE COVER WAS A PHOTO OF THE SPACE SHUTTLE CHALLENGER EXPLODING. THE RECORD COMPANY SAID NO WAY.
-THE ORIGINAL ARTWORK WAS AN IMAGE BASED ON THE ROBERT WILLIAMS PAINTING OF THE SAME NAME. THIS COVER DEPICTED A GIRL WITH HER PANTS AROUND HER ANKLES, A ROBOT RAPIST, AND A METAL AVENGING ANGEL ABOUT TO TAKE REVENGE. GEFFEN, THE BAND’S LABEL, HAD TO WHIP UP AN ALTERNATIVE WHEN SEVERAL RETAILERS REFUSED TO STOCK THE ALBUM.
THE ORIGINAL COVER
THE “COMPROMISE” COVER OF A CROSS WITH THE SKULLS OF THE 5 MEMBERS WAS ORIGINALLY DESIGNED AS A TATTOO AND THE KNOT WORK
IN THE CROSS IS A REFERENCE TO ONE OF AXL’S FAVORITE BANDS, THIN LIZZY.
-A RECORD COMPANY DOUCHEBAG ALMOST NIPPED THE ALBUM’S SUCCESS IN THE BUD. ONCE ‘APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION’ HIT THE 200,000 SALES MARK, THE RECORD COMPANY CONSIDERED CUTTING THEIR PROMOTIONAL BUDGET TO PROMOTE THE RECORD AND WERE GOING TO GET THE GROUP TO GO BACK INTO THE STUDIO AND WORK ON A FOLLOW UP INSTEAD.
INSTEAD, SOMEONE CONVINCED THE COMPANY TO KEEP PROMOTING THE RECORD AND IT IT WENT ON TO SELL OVER 30 MILLION COPIES. I WONDER IF THE GENIUS THAT WANTED TO CUT EXPENSES STILL HAS A JOB ?
-‘OUT TA GET ME TELLS THE STORY OF ROSE’S TROUBLE WITH THE LAW GROWING UP IN INDIANA
– ‘NIGHTRAIN’ IS A TRIBUTE TO THE CHEAP WINE THE BAND USED TO DRINK IN THEIR EARLY DAYS BECAUSE IT WAS INEXPENSIVE AND PACKED A HIGH ALCOHOL CONTENT
-‘PARADISE CITY’ HOLDS THE UNIQUE DISTINCTION AS THE ONLY SONG ON THE ALBUM TO FEATURE A SYNTHESIZER.
-SLASH SAID THAT ‘PARADISE CITY’ WAS WRITTEN IN THE BACK OF A VAN ON THE WAY BACK FROM A GIG IN SAN FRANCISCO. SLASH WANTED THE LYRICS
“Take me down to the Paradise City/ Where the girls are fat and they’ve got big titties.” HOWEVER THE BAND WENT WITH ROSE’S LINE “Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty.”
-‘MR.BROWNSTONE’ IS ABOUT THE PROBLEM THE BAND USED TO HAVE WITH HEROIN. THE ORIGINAL LYRICS WERE JOTTED DOWN ON THE BACK OF A GROCERY BAG.
-ICONIC GNR SONGS ‘NOVEMBER RAIN’ ‘YOU COULD BE MINE’ AND ‘DON’T CRY’ WERE ALMOST INCLUDED ON ‘APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION’ BUT WERE PUT ON HOLD FOR VARIOUS REASONS. IN THE CASE OF ‘NOVEMBER RAIN’ IT WASN’T INCLUDED BECAUSE THE ALBUM ALREADY HAD THE BALLAD ‘SWEET CHILD O’ MINE’
-SLASH SAID THAT ‘WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE’ TOOK THREE HOURS TO WRITE. AXL SAID HE WAS INSPIRED TO WRITE THE LYRICS WHEN HE WAS A RUNAWAY AS A TEENAGER. HE RAN INTO A HOMELESS MAN AS HE WAS GETTING OFF THE BUS IN NEW YORK CITY. THE GUY WAS YELLING AT ROSE
“You know where you are? You’re in the jungle baby. You’re gonna die!!”
-‘SWEET CHILD O’ MINE’ STARTED DURING A JAM SESSION AFTER SLASH JOKINGLY PLAYED A CIRCUS MELODY AND WAS CLOWNING STEVEN ADLER WHILE PLAYING. IZZY STRADLIN HAD HIM PLAY THE RIFF AGAIN WHILE DUFF ADDED A BASS LINE AND ADLER ADDED A BEAT. MEANWHILE, AXL ROSE WAS UPSTAIRS LISTENING TO THE JAM SESSION, AND HE WROTE SOME LYRICS.
WHEN THEY ALL PLAYED IT TOGETHER, ROSE WONDERED “WHERE DO WE GO? WHERE DO WE GO NOW?” THE BAND LOVED IT AND TOLD HIM HE HAD TO MAKE THAT PART OF THE SONG.
-RATHER THAN DO THE TRADITIONAL “A” & “B” SIDES ON THE VINYL AND CASSETTES, ‘APPETITE’ IS SPLIT INTO “G”&“R” SIDES. THE “G” SIDE DEALT WITH DRUGS AND HARD CITY LIFE, THE “R” SIDE WERE ALL ABOUT LOVE, SEX, AND RELATIONSHIPS.
-THE TOTAL BUDGET FOR THE RECORD WAS $370,000.
-THE BASIC TRACKS WERE RECORDED IN TWO WEEKS. THE ACTUAL MUSIC WAS RECORDED IN JUST 6 DAYS. THE VOCALS TOOK LONGER BECAUSE AXL IS A PERFECTIONIST AND DID THE TRACKS ONE LINE AT A TIME.
-RATHER THAN DO THE TRADITIONAL “A” & “B” SIDES ON THE VINYL AND CASSETTES, ‘APPETITE’ IS SPLIT INTO “G”&“R” SIDES. THE “G” SIDE DEALT WITH DRUGS AND HARD CITY LIFE, THE “R” SIDE FEATURED SONGS THAT WERE ALL ABOUT LOVE, SEX, AND RELATIONSHIPS.
HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR “WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE”
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 20, 2019…HAPPY 72ND BIRTHDAY TO THE BAY AREA’S CARLOS SANTANA. SANTANA MOVED TO SAN FRANCISCO WHEN HIS FAMILY RELOCATED FROM TIJUANA. THINGS WERE TOUGH WHEN HE FIRST MOVED HERE. BETWEEN THE AGES OF 10-12 HE WAS SEXUALLY MOLESTED BY AN AMERICAN MAN WHO BROUGHT HIM ACROSS THE BORDER. CARLOS AND HIS FAMILY LIVED IN THE MISSION DISTRICT, GRADUATED FROM JAMES LICK MIDDLE SCHOOL, AND IN 1965 FROM MISSION HIGH SCHOOL.
BY 1966 HE FORMED THE SANTANA BLUES BAND WITH GREGG ROLIE.
BY 1969 THEY WERE KNOWN SIMPLY AS ‘SANTANA’ AND HAD SIGNED A MAJOR RECORD CONTRACT.
PROMOTER BILL GRAHAM WAS A FAN AND ARRANGED FOR THE GROUP TO APPEAR AT WOODSTOCK BEFORE THE DEBUT ALBUM WAS EVEN RELEASED. SANTANA’S PERFORMANCE WAS ONE OF THE GREAT HIGHLIGHTS OF THE FESTIVAL AND IT WAS INCLUDED ON ‘WOODSTOCK’ FILM THE SOUNDTRACK.
GRAHAM ALSO INSISTED SANTANA RECORD THE SONG ‘EVIL WAYS’ PREDICTING IT WOULD GET AIRPLAY. SANTANA’S DEBUT ALBUM WAS A HUGE HIT, REACHING #4 ON THE U.S. CHARTS IN 1969.
HIS CAREER HAS SPANNED OVER FIFTY YEARS. “ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE” LISTED CARLOS AS # 20 ON THEIR LIST OF THE “100 GREATEST GUITARISTS.”
HE’S ALSO WON 10 GRAMMY AWARDS AND 3 LATIN GRAMMY AWARDS.
HAPPY 72ND BIRTHDAY TO BAY AREA ROCK LEGEND CARLOS SANTANA.
HERE’S SANTANA AT WOODSTOCK WITH A YOUNG GREGG ROLIE ON LEAD VOCALS AND KEYBOARDS
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 20, 2019…TODAY IT’S CHRIS CORNELL’S BIRTHDAY. HE WOULD HAVE BEEN FIFTY FIVE.
CORNELL, WHO STRUGGLED WITH DEPRESSION FOR MUCH OF HIS LIFE, WAS FOUND DEAD IN HIS DETROIT HOTEL ROOM IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF MAY 18, 2017 AFTER PERFORMING AT A SOUNDGARDEN CONCERT EARLIER IN THE EVENING. HIS DEATH WAS RULED A SUICIDE BY HANGING. THIS IS A REPORT THAT RAN IN THE DETROIT FREE PRESS:
“According to the records, obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request, a call from Cornell’s wife prompted bodyguard Martin Kirsten to go to the Soundgarden singer’s suite — Room 1136 — to check on him “because he did not sound like he was OK.” Unable to access the locked room, Kirsten kicked open the main door, then did the same with the interior bedroom door.
“I went inside and the bathroom door was partially opened, and I could see his feet,” Kirsten told police in a signed statement.
The bodyguard loosened the band around Cornell’s neck, then tried to resuscitate the singer by compressing his chest, Kirsten said in his statement.
Additional medical personnel were summoned, and Cornell was pronounced dead at about 1:30 a.m., an hour and 15 minutes after Kirsten was first contacted by Cornell’s wife, Vicky Cornell.
CORNELL WAS SUCH A FREAKIN’ TALENT. RIP CHRIS CORNELL
CORNELL PERFORMING WITH SOUNDGARDEN
AND IN THE SUPERGROUP AUDIOSLAVE
HERE’S AN OUTSTANDING VOCAL PERFORMANCE WITH SOUNDGARDEN
photo thanks-superstar photographer jim sheehan https://www.facebook.com/jimmyosheehan/
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 19, 2019…GUNS N ROSES AND SKIDROW PLAY THE FIRST OF 2 NIGHTS AT SHORELINE (JULY 19 & 20 1991). THE SHOWS WERE PART OF THE GROUP’S “USE YOUR ILLUSION TOUR” WHICH RAN FROM
JANUARY 20,1991 TO JULY 1993. IT WAS NOT ONLY THE BAND’S LONGEST TOUR, BUT ONE OF THE LONGEST CONCERT TOURS IN ROCK HISTORY. THE
“USE YOUR ILLUSION TOUR” COVERED 194 SHOWS IN 27 COUNTRIES. IT WAS ALSO A SOURCE OF TREMENDOUS INFAMY FOR THE BAND, DUE TO RIOTS, LATE STARTS, AND CANCELLATIONS. THE TOUR ALSO MARKED A HIGH POINT IN POPULARITY FOR THE GROUP, WITH OVER 7 MILLION FANS ATTENDING THE SHOWS, AND INCREDIBLY HIGH WORLD ALBUM SALES.
HERE WAS THE SETLIST FROM JULY 19TH AT SHORELINE:
Perfect Crime
Mr. Brownstone
Live and Let Die
Bad Obsession
Nightrain
Dust N’ Bones
Civil War
Patience
Welcome to the Jungle
November Rain
14 Years
Double Talkin’ Jive
Locomotive
Matt Sorum Drum Solo
Slash Guitar Solo
Speak Softly Love (Love Theme From The Godfather)
Sweet Child O’ Mine
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
You Could Be Mine
Estranged
Paradise City
HERE’S A FULL UNCUT GUNS N’ ROSES CONCERT FROM 1991
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 19, 2019…HAPPY 72ND BIRTHDAY TO QUEEN GUITARIST BRIAN MAY. MAY IS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF QUEEN, WORLD RENOWNED GUITARIST, AND ONE HELL OF A SONG WRITER. BRIAN HAS COMPOSED 22 QUEEN TOP 20 HITS. HIS SONGS INCLUDE ‘WE WILL ROCK YOU’ ‘I WANT IT ALL’ ‘FLASH’ ‘HAMMER TO FALL’ ‘FAT BOTTOM GIRLS’ AND ‘TIE YOUR MOTHER DOWN’
AS A MEMBER OF QUEEN, BRIAN MAY BECAME KNOWN AS A VIRTUOSO MUSICIAN, IDENTIFIED BY HIS UNIQUE GUITAR SOUND. BRIAN MAY’S GUITAR IS KNOWN AS THE “RED SPECIAL.” THE GUITAR WAS ACTUALLY MADE BY HIS FATHER (WHO WAS AN ENGINEER). THE BODY WAS MADE FROM AN OLD MANTLEPIECE AND THE WHAMMY BAR WAS MADE FROM AN OLD BICYCLE KICKSTAND. THE MIX OF MATERILAS ARE SO UNIQUE IT’S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE FOR OTHERS TO DUPLICATE HIS SOUND.
MAYY WAS RANKED AS #26 ON ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE’S LIST OF THE “100 GREATEST GUITARISTS OF ALL-TIME.”. GUITAR WORLD HAS HIM RANKED AS HIGH AS SECOND IN A READER’S POLL.
HE HAS ALSO BEEN INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AS A MEMBER OF QUEEN, AND RECEIVED A GRAMMY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD.
AND HE CAN SHRED ON THE GUITAR. HERE’S BRIAN MAY AT HIS BEST
photo thanks-superstar photographer Jim Sheehan https://www.facebook.com/jimmyosheehan/
