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ALICE IN CHAINS-WOULD

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 30, 2019…TWENTY SEVEN YEARS AGO ALICE IN CHAINS RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘WOULD’. THE B-SIDE WAS ‘MAN IN THE BOX’

THE SONG IS ALL ABOUT GOING THROUGH REHAB AND THE AFTERMATH OF GOING THROUGH REHAB. THE LAST PART OF THE LYRICS WONDERS IF THE FUTURE IS ANY MORE PROMISING. JERRY CANTRELL WROTE THIS SONG FOR HIS FRIEND ANDREW WOOD, THE LATE LEAD SINGER OF THE SEATTLE BAND

“MOTHER LOVE BONE.” WOOD DIED OF A HEROIN OVERDOSE IN 1990. SADNESS AND DRUG ADDICTION PLAYED A BIG PART IN THE BAND’S MUSIC FOR THE REST OF THEIR CAREER. THE GROUP’S SONGS OFTEN REFLECTED THE LIFE OF LEAD SINGER LAYNE STALEY, WHO DIED OF A DRUG OVERDOSE IN 2002.

HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FROM ALICE IN CHAINS FOR ‘WOULD’

ALICE COOPER ROCKED SHORELINE IN 1996

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 29, 2019…TWENTY THREE YEARS AGO ALICE COOPER’S “SCHOOL’S OUT FOR SUMMER ’96 TOUR” INVADED SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE, AND IT WAS EXTRAORDINARY. IT WAS PART OF A GREAT DOUBLE BILL WITH THE OPENING BAND THE SCORPIONS. BTW, TICKETS WERE ONLY 10 BUCKS !!!

HERE’S ALICE COOPER’S SETLIST:

Under My Wheels

Billion Dollar Babies

I’m Eighteen

Desperado

No More Mr. Nice Guy

Poison

Welcome to My Nightmare

Only Women Bleed

Cleansed by Fire

Lost in America

Feed My Frankenstein

Gutter Cat vs. the Jets

Street Fight

Steven

Ballad of Dwight Fry

School’s Out

Elected

HERE’S VINTAGE ALICE COOPER.

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ALICE COOPER ROCKED SHORELINE IN 1996

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 29, 2019…TWENTY THREE YEARS AGO ALICE COOPER’S “SCHOOL’S OUT FOR SUMMER ’96 TOUR” INVADED SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE, AND IT WAS EXTRAORDINARY. IT WAS PART OF A GREAT DOUBLE BILL WITH THE OPENING BAND THE SCORPIONS. BTW, TICKETS WERE ONLY 10 BUCKS !!!

HERE’S ALICE COOPER’S SETLIST:

Under My Wheels

Billion Dollar Babies

I’m Eighteen

Desperado

No More Mr. Nice Guy

Poison

Welcome to My Nightmare

Only Women Bleed

Cleansed by Fire

Lost in America

Feed My Frankenstein

Gutter Cat vs. the Jets

Street Fight

Steven

Ballad of Dwight Fry

School’s Out

Elected

HERE’S VINTAGE ALICE COOPER.

photo thanks-THE TALENTED JIMMY O’SHEEHAN PHOTOGRAPHY https://www.facebook.com/jimmyosheehan/

1975 MEMORIES WITH DAY ON THE GREEN # 2

credit-ksan day on the green archives

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 29, 2019…THIS DAY ON THE GREEN FEATURED THE DOOBIE BROTHERS, THE EAGLES,COMMANDER CODY AND HIS LOST PLANET AIRMEN, AND KINGFISH(FEATURING BOB WEIR). A SPECIAL SURPRISE GUEST CAME OUT DURING BOTH THE EAGLES AND DOOBIE BROTHERS ENCORES. THE GUEST WAS ELTON JOHN.

HERE ARE THE DOOBIES FROM “THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL” FROM AN APPEARANCE THEY MADE IN 1973

AND HERE’S AN APPEARANCE ON THE BBC FROM 1974

FROM THE WTF DEPARTMENT !!!

 

 

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 29, 2019…ON THIS DATE 19 YEARS AGO, THE CASKET OF LYNYRD SKYNYRD’S LEAD SINGER RONNIE VAN ZANT WAS STOLEN FROM IT’S MAUSOLEUM IN JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. THE CASKET WAS REMOVED FROM THE MAUSOLEUM BUT LEFT AFTER VANDALS WERE UNABLE TO OPEN IT. THE ASHES OF STEVE GAINES, THE BAND’S GUITARIST WHO DIED IN THE SAME PLANE CRASH AS VAN ZANT, WERE SPILLED FROM HIS URN, WHICH ALSO HAD BEEN STOLEN.

HERE’S A FULL SKYNYRD CONCERT FROM 1977

 

 

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THE SONG THAT ROCKETED ROD STEWART TO SUPERSTARDOM

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 28, 2019…FORTY EIGHT YEARS AGO ROD STEWART GAVE US THE SONG ‘MAGGIE MAY’. THE SONG WAS PRETTY MUCH A TRUE ACCOUNT OF WHEN ROD STEWART LOST HIS VIRGINITY WHEN HE WAS 16. IN THE JANUARY 2007 ISSUE OF “Q MAGAZINE” STEWART SAID:

“‘Maggie May’ was more or less a true story, about the first woman I had sex with, at the Beaulieu Jazz Festival.The encounter was over in a few seconds.”

IN HIS MEMOIR “ROD: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY” STEWART PROVIDED ALL THE DETAILS OF THE EXPERIENCE THAT LED TO THIS SONG:

“At 16, I went to the Beaulieu Jazz Festival in the New Forest. I’d snuck in with some mates via an overflow sewage pipe. And there on a secluded patch of grass, I lost my not-remotely-prized virginity with an older (and larger) woman who’d come on to me very strongly in the beer tent. How much older, I can’t tell you – but old enough to be highly disappointed by the brevity of the experience.”

REMARKABLY, THERE IS ACTUALLY VIDEO OF STEWART AT THE FESTIVAL, WHICH TOOK PLACE IN JULY 1961

HERE’S STEWART FROM APPEARANCE ON THE BBC IN 1971

CARIBOU

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 28, 2019…WHEN ELTON JOHN RECORDED THE ALBUM ‘CARIBOU’ HE WAS SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS MOST PRODUCTIVE AND CREATIVELY FERTILE PART OF HIS CAREER. THIS ALBUM WAS SANDWICHED IN BETWEEN TWO INDISPUTABLE MASTERPIECES, ‘GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD’ AND ‘CAPTAIN FANTASTIC AND THE BROWN DIRT COWBOY’

EVEN MORE AMAZING, ELTON RECORDED THE ALBUM ‘CARIBOU’ IN ONLY 9 DAYS ! TWO OF THE SONGS FROM ‘CARIBOU’ HAVE GONE ON TO BE SIGNATURE SONGS FOR ELTON. ‘THE BITCH IS BACK’ WAS THE OPENING TRACK OF THE ALBUM HAS BECOME A STAPLE OF HIS LIVE SHOWS. THE SONG FEATURES THE BAY AREA’S TOWER OF POWER HORN SECTION AND THEY KILL.

‘DON’T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME’ IS THE OTHER QUINTESSENTIAL ELTON JOHN SONG FROM THE RECORD THAT ALMOST DIDN’T EVEN MAKE THE ALBUM. ACCORDING TO PHILIP NORMAN’S “SIR ELTON:THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY”

THE SINGER WASN’T SATISFIED WITH HIS VOCALS ON THE SONG, AND AFTER LISTENING TO A PLAYBACK, REMARKED:

“That’s a load of crap. You can send it to Engelbert Humperdinck, and if he doesn’t like it, you can give it to Lulu as a demo.”

‘CARIBOU’ QUICKLY SHOT TO # 1 IN BOTH THE U.S. AND IN THE U.K.

HERE’S ELTON JOHN WITH A LIVE VERSION OF ‘DON’T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME’ FROM 1976

LAMONT & TONELLI PRESENT POOP IN A BOX

Here is Lamont and Tonelli’s latest video for “Poop In A Box.”

1990 RUSH AT THE SHORELINE

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 27, 2019…TWENTY NINE YEARS AGO RUSH BROUGHT THE “PRESTO TOUR” TO THE SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE. THIS SHOW HAD THE DISTINCTION OF BEING THE SECOND TO LAST SHOW ON THE 1990 TOUR. THE BAND STARTED TOURING ON FEBRUARY 17,1990 IN GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA AND WRAPPED EVERYTHING UP ON JUNE 29,1990 IN IRVINE, CALIFORNIA. OPENING BANDS THAT APPEARED AT VARIOUS POINTS ON THE TOUR INCLUDED MR. BIG, CHALK CIRCLE, AND VOIVOD.

ACCORDING TO SETLIST.COM, HERE WAS THE SET FROM RUSH AT SHORELINE:

Show of Hands( taped intro)

Force Ten

Freewill

Distant Early Warning

Time Stand Still

Subdivisions

Marathon

Red Barchetta

Superconductor

Show Don’t Tell

The Pass

Closer to the Heart

Manhattan Project

Xanadu

YYZ

Drum Solo

Scars

War Paint

Mission

Tom Sawyer

Encore:

The Spirit of Radio

2112 Part I: Overture

La Villa Strangiato

In the Mood

(with Mr. Big)

Wipe Out

AND AS AN ADDED BONUS, HERE’S THE ENTIRE RUSH CONCERT FROM SHORELINE.

photo thanks-Mary

AEROSMITH-DREAM ON

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 27, 2019…FORTY SIX YEARS AGO AEROSMITH RELEASED THEIR FIRST SINGLE ‘DREAM ON’

THEIR MANAGER AT THE TIME HAD THE BAND SHARE A HOUSE AND CONCENTRATE ON WRITING SONGS FOR THEIR FIRST ALBUM. STEVEN TYLER HAD ACTUALLY BEEN WORKING ON THE SONG ON AND OFF FOR APPROXIMATELY 6 YEARS, WRITING IT IN BITS AND PIECES. HE WAS ABLE TO COMPLETE IT WITH THE HELP OF THE REST OF THE BAND.

A BREAKTHROUGH CAME WHEN TYLER BOUGHT A KEYBOARD WITH MONEY HE FOUND IN A SUITCASE OUTSIDE WHERE THE BAND WAS STAYING. THE “SUITCASE INCIDENT” HAS SINCE BECOME PART OF AEROSMITH LORE, AS TYLER DIDN’T TELL HIS BANDMATES THAT HE TOOK THE MONEY, AND WHEN GANGSTERS CAME LOOKING FOR THE MONEY HE PLAYED DUMB.

TYLER ALSO RECOUNTED RECORDING THE SONG IN THE BOOK “WALK THIS WAY”:

“I put the string section on ‘Dream On’ sitting at this Mellotron while a friend of mine kept laying out lines of crystal THC that I was snorting whIle I was playing.”

ROCK AND ROLL MY FRIENDS, ROCK AND ROLL !!

THIS VERSION OF ‘DREAM ON’ GETS ME ALL TEARY