LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 26, 2019…FORTY FIVE YEARS AGO BAD COMPANY RELEASED THEIR SELF TITLED DEBUT ALBUM. THE RECORD WAS AN INSTANT SUCCESS FOR BAD COMPANY, AND FOR LED ZEPPELIN’S SWAN SONG LABEL. IT WAS THE VERY FIRST ALBUM TO BE RELEASED ON THE LABEL.

THE GROUP WAS ACTUALLY FOUNDED A YEAR BEFORE THE RELEASE OF THE RECORD. MICK RALPHS LEFT MOTT THE HOOPLE, AND TEAMED UP WITH TWO FORMER MEMBERS OF FREE, DRUMMER SIMON KIRKE AND SINGER PAUL RODGERS. THE QUARTET WAS ROUNDED OUT WITH KING CRIMSON’S BASSIST BOZ BURRELL.

PAUL RODGERS’ HAD A FASCINATION WITH THE JEFF BRIDGES FILM “BAD COMPANY” AND A PASSAGE WITH FROM A BOOK OF VICTORIAN MORALS WHICH RESULTED IN THE BAND GETTING ITS NAME.

DRIVEN BY THE SUCCESS OF SINGLES ‘MOVIN’ ON’ ‘CAN’T GET ENOUGH’ AND GREAT ALBUM TRACKS LIKE ‘BAD COMPANY’ THE ALBUM HAS NOW SOLD OVER 7 MILLION COPIES AND DOWNLOADS AND HOLDS THE DISTINCTION AS ONE OF THE TOP 50 BEST SELLING ALBUMS OF THE 70’S.

HERE’S THE VIDEO FOR ‘CAN’T GET ENOUGH’ FROM 1974

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 26, 2019…ON THIS DATE IN 1990 GUNS N’ ROSES RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘KNOCKIN’ ON HEAVEN’S DOOR’

THIS WAS ACTUALLY THE SECOND VERSION OF THE SONG RELEASED BY THE BAND.

THE GROUP STARTED PLAYING THE SONG LIVE IN 1987. A LIVE VERSION OF THIS SONG WAS RELEASED IN 1987 AS A B-SIDE OF THE MAXI-SINGLE ‘WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE’ IN 1987.

G N’ R THEN WENT INTO THE STUDIO AND RECORDED A STUDIO VERSION FOR THE SOUNDTRACK OF THE MOVIE ‘DAYS OF THUNDER’. THAT’S THE VERSION THAT WAS RELEASED TWENTY NINE YEARS AGO.

THE GROUP LATER WENT INTO THE STUDIO AND RELEASED A SLIGHTLY MODIFIED VERSION OF THE ‘DAYS OF THUNDER’ VERSION FOR THE ALBUM ‘USE YOUR ILLUSION II’.

A LIVE VERSION OF ‘KOHD’ WAS ALSO RELEASED IN 1992. THIS WAS A VERSION THE BAND PERFORMED AT THE FREDDIE MERCURY TRIBUTE CONCERT IN 1992.

HERE’S THE VIDEO FOR THIS VERSION FROM ‘DAYS OF THUNDER’

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 25, 2019…ON JUNE 25, 2009 MICHAEL JACKSON COLLAPSED AT HIS RENTED MANSION IN LOS ANGELES. MICHAEL JACKSON DIED DUE TO A LETHAL DOSE OF PROPOFOL ADMINISTERED BY HIS PERSONAL PHYSICIAN DR.CONRAD MURRAY. ATTEMPTS AT RESUSCITATING HIM BY DR. MURRAY AND THEN EMTS WERE UNSUCCESSFUL, AND JACKSON WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT UCLA MEDICAL CLINIC AT 2:26 P.M. LOCAL TIME.

MURRAY WAS EVENTUALLY CONVICTED ON CHARGES OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER AND SERVED 2 YEARS OF A FOUR YEAR PRISON SENTENCE.

JACKSON’S MEMORIAL SERVICE WAS HELD AT THE STAPLES CENTER IN LOS ANGELES ON JULY 7,2009 AND WAS A MAJOR EVENT. MORE THAN 17,000 TICKETS WERE OFFERED TO THE PUBLIC, AND APPROXIMATELY 1.2 MILLION PEOPLE SIGNED UP FOR A LOTTERY TO GET THE TICKETS.

HERE’S JACKO WITH EDDIE VAN HALEN

buyprint@wolfgangsMichael Jackson Vintage Concert Fine Art Print from Madison Square Garden, Aug 5, 1984 at Wolfgang’s

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 24, 2019…IF THERE WAS ONE SONG THAT DEFINED THE HAIGHT-ASHBURY COUNTERCULTURE IT WAS A SONG THAT WAS RELEASED ON THIS DATE IN 1967. THAT SONG IS ‘WHITE RABBIT’ BY JEFFERSON AIRPLANE.

THE SONG WAS PENNED BY GRACE SLICK, WHO WROTE THE SONG WHEN SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE SF BAND GREAT SOCIETY BEFORE JOINING AIRPLANE. THE SONG WAS A STAPLE OF GREAT SOCIETY’S ACT WHEN THEY SHARED A STAGE WITH JEFFERSON AIRPLANE AT THE FILLMORE IN 1966.

AIRPLANE WAS LOOKING FOR A NEW SINGER WHEN THEY SAW SLICK, AND IMMEDIATELY WANTED HER IN THE BAND. GRACE MOVED ON TO JEFFERSON AIRPLANE AND BROUGHT TWO SONGS WITH HER ‘SOMEBODY TO LOVE’ AND ‘WHITE RABBIT’. ACCORDING TO SLICK, WHITE RABBIT HAS BEEN MISINTERPRETED FOR YEARS. IN THE BOOK “ANATOMY OF A SONG” SHE SAID:

“I always felt like a good-looking schoolteacher singing ‘White Rabbit.’ I’d sing the words slowly and precisely, so the people who needed to hear them wouldn’t miss the point. But they did. To this day, I don’t think most people realize the song was aimed at parents who drank and told their kids not to do drugs. I felt they were full of s–t, but to write a good song, you need a few more words than that.”

THIS IS FANTASTIC !! SLICK’S VOCALS ISOLATED IN THE STUDIO SINGING ‘WHITE RABBIT’

HERE’S THE FULL PSYCHEDELIC VERSION

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 23, 2019…SIX YEARS AGO WAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST BONE BASHES IN THE HISTORY OF THIS RADIO STATION.IT WAS BONE BASH XIV WITH LYNYRD SKYNYRD, BAD COMPANY & NIGHT RANGER.

THIS WAS A HUGE BONE BASH FOR SA NUMBER OF TREASONS. FIRST AND FOREMOST, IT WAS THE RETURN TO BONE BASH FOR LYNYRD SKYNYRD. THE PREVIOUS SCHEDULED BONE BASH WITH SKYNYRD WAS CANCELLED THE DAY BEFORE THE EVENT WHEN JOHNNY VAN ZANT’S UNDERWENT AN EMERGENCY APPENDECTOMY AT STANFORD HOSPITAL.

THERE WERE ALSO THREE GREAT BANDS ON THE BILL.

BONE BASH XIV WILL ALWAYS RANK AS ONE OF THE TRUE GEAT BONE BASHES.

HERE’S A FULL HOUR OF SKYNYRD IN CONCERT

HERE’S SOME GREAT CROWD FOOTAGE OF BAD COMPANY FROM BONE BASH

AND A BONE BASH WOULD NOT BE COMPLETE WITHOUT THE BIKINI CONTEST AND THE “HUEYCAM” !

PHOTO-BONE BASH ARCHIVES