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This morning Mick Jagger shared a health update by way of an Instagram video showing the 75 year old rockstar dancing, this comes a month after having heart surgery. Fingers cross this will lead to The Rolling Stones going back on the road and make up their postponed tour dates.
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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MAY 15, 2019…TODAY MARKS THE 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY FOR GREEN DAY’S ALBUM ‘21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN’.IT WAS GREEN DAY’S 8TH STUDIO ALBUM AND WAS THE BAND’S 2ND ROCK OPERA. A STAGGERING 45 SONGS WERE WRITTEN BY BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG FOR THE RECORD BEFORE THE GROUP HAD A CHANCE TO GO INTO THE STUDIO AND RECORD THE PROJECT. ARMSTRONG DESCRIBED THE ALBUM AS:
“snapshot of the era in which we live as we question and try to make sense of the selfish manipulation going on around us, whether it be the government, religion, media or frankly any form of authority”
THE ALBUM WAS FUELED BY 2 HIT SINGLES, ‘KNOW YOUR ENEMY’ AND ‘21 GUNS’. IN 2010 ‘21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN’ WON THE GRAMMY FOR THE “BEST ROCK ALBUM” AND HAS SOLD OVER 4 MILLION COPIES WORLDWIDE.
HERE’S A GREAT VIDEO FOR ‘21 GUNS’
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MAY 15, 2019…THE ACOUSTIC FOR A CURE CONCERT IS NOW AN ANNUAL EVENT CREATED BY BAY AREA ROCK LEGENDS SAMMY HAGAR AND JAMES HETFIELD. THE GOAL OF THE CONCERT IS TO RAISE NEEDED FUNDS AND AWARENESS FOR THE PEDIATRIC CANCER PROGRAM AT UCSF BY BRINGING TOGETHER SOME OF THEIR LEGENDARY FRIENDS AND THROWING A MUST SEE CONCERT.
IN PAST YEARS, ARTISTS HAVE INCLUDED GREEN DAY’S BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG, JERRY CANTRELL, TRAIN’S PAT MONAHAN, MOTLEY CRUE’S TOMMY LEE, LINDA PERRY, CHAD SMITH, BOB WEIR, NANCY WILSON, JOE SATRIANI, AND EVEN A SURPRISE APPEARANCE FROM ADAM SANDLER, AND MANY MORE.
THIS YEAR SCHEDULED ARTISTS PERFORMING INCLUDE:
TOM JOHNSTON OF THE DOOBIE BROTHERS, CHAD KROEGER OF NICKELBACK, LUKAS NELSON, JOE SATRIANI, RICK SPRINGFIELD, NANCY WILSON OF HEART, AND SAMMY HAGAR AND THE CIRCLE.
HERE ARE SOME OUTSTANDING MOMENTS FROM PAST SHOWS
PAT BENATAR
2014
AND 2017 WHEN DAVE GROHL FILLED IN FOR JAMES HETFIELD
AND ADAM SANDLER
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MAY 14, 2019…ON THIS DATE 4 YEARS AGO, “THE KING OF BLUES” DIED IN HIS SLEEP AT THE AGE OF 89 FROM A SERIES OF SMALL STROKES CAUSED BY TYPE 2 DIABETES. WHEN KING PASSED AWAY IN 2015, IT CAN TRULY BE SAID HE INFLUENCED A GENERATION OF MUSICIANS.
IN THE 1950’S KING WAS A MEMPHIS DJ AND STRUGGLING MUSICIAN. KING PLAYED A ROY HAWKINS ORIGINAL ON THE AIR. THE SONG IS ABOUT MOVING ON FROM A RELATIONSHIP. THE SONG WAS ‘THE THRILL IS GONE.’
KING HIMSELF RECORDED THE SONG SEVERAL TIMES, BUT DIDN’T LIKE ANY OF THE RESULTS. THE PRODUCER BILL SZYMCZYK (MOST FAMOUS FOR LATER PRODUCING THE EAGLES) CALLED KING AT 4 A.M. AND SUGGESTED ADDING STRINGS TO THE SONG. KING LATER SAID HE WOULD HAVE AGREED TO ALMOST ANYTHING AT THAT TIME OF THE NIGHT. THE ADDITION GAVE KING HIS FIRST MILLION SELLING RECORD (AND ENDED HIS RADIO CAREER).
THIS WAS KING’S BIGGEST SELLING HIT. COMMERCIALLY HE DIDN’T HAVE MUCH SUCCESS ON THE CHARTS, BUT HE DID BECOME A BLUES LEGEND THAT TOUCHED MILLIONS OF FANS.
HERE’S AN AWESOME VIDEO WITH BB KING, SLASH, AND AN ALL-STAR JAM.
photo thanks-Aaron Warren
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MAY 14, 2019…FORTY-TWO YEARS AGO HEART RELEASED THEIR 3RD STUDIO ALBUM ‘LITTLE QUEEN’. IF THERE’S EVER ANY REASON, AND I MEAN ANY REASON TO BECOME A HEART FAN, IT’S THIS ALBUM. HERE’S MY REASONING. THE ALBUM PRODUCED A GREAT HEART SONG ‘BARRACUDA’. I LOVE THE SONG, BUT WHEN YOU HEAR THE STORY BEHIND THE SONG, YOU’LL HAVE A NEWFOUND RESPECT FOR THE WILSON SISTERS. THE SONG WAS WRITTEN BY ANN AND NANCY WILSON TOGETHER WITH GUITARIST ROGER FISHER AND DRUMMER MICHAEL DEROSIER. ACCORDING TO THE BAND, THE SONG IS ABOUT THE RECORD INDUSTRY IN GENERAL. IT WAS WRITTEN AT A TIME WHEN THERE WAS FRICTION BETWEEN THE BAND AND THEIR OLD RECORD LABEL.
‘LITTLE QUEEN’ WAS THE FIRST ALBUM HEART RELEASED FOR THE CBS-PORTRAIT LABEL. THEIR OLD LABEL, MUSHROOM RECORDS, SUED THE BAND, AND IN 1978 RELEASE ‘MAGAZINE’, AN ALBUM MADE UP OF MATERIAL HEART DID NOT WANT RELEASED.
THE WILSON SISTERS REVEALED THAT THEY WROTE BARRACUDA IN ANGER AFTER MUSHROOM RECORDS PLACED AN AD IN TRADE PUBLICATIONS IMPLYING THAT THE WILSON SISTERS WERE LESBIANS HAVING AN AFFAIR !
THE SONG FOCUSES ON ANN’S RAGE TOWARDS A PROMOTER WHO CAME UP TO HER AFTER A SHOW AND ASKED HER HOW HER “LOVER” WAS. SHE INITIALLY THOUGHT HE WAS REFERRING TO HER THEN IN-BAND BOYFRIEND
MICHAEL FISHER. AFTER THE PROMOTER(TOOL) REVEALED IT WAS HER SISTER NANCY, ANN GOT PISSED AND WENT TO HER HOTEL ROOM AND WROTE ‘BARRACUDA.’ RUMOR HAS IT THE ORIGINAL TITLE WAS “MOTHER F***ERS” BUT THE NEW RECORD COMPANY ASKED FOR A BETTER TITLE.
NANCY SUBSEQUENTLY CHANGED IT TO ‘BARRACUDA’ COMPARING THE SLEAZY SIDE OF MUSIC TO THE DANGEROUS FISH.
IT MAKES YOU WONDER, WHAT KIND OF PIECE OF SH** WOULD ACCUSE TWO SISTERS OF HAVING SEX TOGETHER TO GET EVEN IN A BUSINESS DEAL !??
GOOD ON YOU ANN AND NANCY WILSON. MAD PROPS ON GETTING EVEN AND WRITING A FANTASTIC ROCK SONG. I ONLY WISH I COULD HAVE HEARD THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF ‘MOTHER F****ER’
HERE’S HEART PERFORMING BARRACUDA IN 1977
Thank you Jeff Moschin for the new logo for our Dead Pool.
Here is the current scoreboard for the 2019 Celebrity Dead Pool.
1. Chasta – 6 Points
2. Lamont – 0 Points
3. Tonelli – 0 Points
4. Baby Huey – 0 Points
Lamont
1. Leah Bracknell
2. 6ix9ine
3. Bob Barker
4. Loretta Lynn
5. Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi
6. Bob Newhart
7. Jimmy Carter
8. Larry King
9. Larry Flynt
10. Ayman Al-Zawahiri
11. Pope Benedict XVI
Tonelli
1. Bill Cosby
2. Jerry Stiller
3. Demi Lovato
4. Tommy Lasorda
5. Pete Davidson
6. Tony Bennett
7. Sean Connery
8. Betty White
9. Suge Knight
10. Roman Reigns
11. Joni Mitchell
Chasta
1. Hugh Downs
2. Carol Channing (Passed away on January 15th, 2019. She was 97 years old.) (3 Points)
3. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
4. Carl Reiner
5. Henry Kissinger
6. Doris Day (Passed away on May 13th, 2019. She was 97 years old.) (3 Points)
7. Hal Holbrook
8. Dick Van Dyke
9. Harvey Weinstein
10. Jerry Sandusky
11. Bashar al-Assad
Baby Huey
1. Billy Connolly
2. Olivia Newton-John
3. Tom Sizemore
4. Artie Lange
5. Bob Dole
6. Tim Curry
7. Robert Blake
8. Little Richard
9. Don King
10. Gary Glitter
11. Jerry Lee Lewis
On Saturday night, supergroup the Hollywood Vampires performed a show at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles and were joined on stage by Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler.
In the video below, watch them play Train Kept A-Rollin’, We Gotta Rise and School’s Out.
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MAY 13, 2019…TWENTY SIX YEARS AGO ‘PLUSH’ FROM STP WAS RELEASED AS A SINGLE IN THE UK AND EUROPE.
IN AMERICA NO SINGLES FROM THE ALBUM ‘CORE’ WERE MADE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE, SINCE ATLANTIC RECORDS LIKED SELLING $16 ALBUMS MORE THAN $2 SINGLES. DESPITE NOT BEING RELEASED IN THE USA AS A SINGLE, THE SONG HIT # 1 ON THE ALBUM ROCK CHART. PLUSH ALSO WON THE GRAMMY IN 1994 IN THE CATEGORY OF “BEST HARD ROCK PERFORMANCE” AND EARNED STP AN “MTV MUSIC AWARD” FOR “THE BEST NEW ARTIST” IN 1993.
THE LYRICS FOR ‘PLUSH’ WERE ACTUALLY INSPIRED BY AN UNFORTUNATE EVENT IN STP’S HOMETOWN OF SAN DIEGO ABOUT A MISSING WOMAN WHO WAS LATER DISCOVERED DEAD BY LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT (AND I FEEL, WHEN THE DOGS BEGIN TO SMELL HER…”)
OTHER WEIRD FACTS ABOUT ‘PLUSH INCLUDE THE TITLE NEVER APPEARS IN THE LYRICS OF THE ACTUAL SONG. THIS IS ALSO TRUE OF THE ‘CORE’ TRACKS ‘SEX TYPE THING’ AND ‘NAKED SUNDAY’.
THE LINE “WHERE YOU GOING WITH THE MASK I FOUND” IS OFTEN MISHEARD AS “WHERE YOU GOING WITH THE MASTER PLAN?”
HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR ‘PLUSH’ WITH STP
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MAY 12, 2019…TONIGHT THE HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES (JOE PERRY, ALICE COOPER & JOHNNY DEPP) PLAY THE WARFIELD. A MOTHER’S DAY LIKE NO OTHER.
HERE’S A SAMPLE OF WHAT YOU’RE IN FOR TONIGHT AT THE WARFIELD
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MAY 12, 2019…IT WAS ON THIS DATE IN 1972 THE ROLLING STONES RELEASED THEIR 10TH STUDIO ALBUM ‘EXILE ON MAIN ST.’
AT THE TIME OF RELEASE, THE DOUBLE ALBUM WAS RIPPED TO SHREDS BY THE CRITICS AND WAS THE VICTIM OF HARSH REVIEWS AND POOR SALES.
OVER THE YEARS IT’S NOW CONSIDERED SOME OF THE STONES BEST WORK.
THE RECORD ONLY PRODUCED ONE TOP TWENTY HIT ‘TUMBLING DICE’, HOWEVER IT WAS FULL OF GREAT ALBUM TRACKS INCLUDING ‘RIP THIS JOINT’ AND A RARE SONG WITH KEITH RICHARDS SINGING LEAD VOCALS ‘HAPPY’.
THE STONES RECORDED THIS ALBUM IN A MUSTY BASEMENT AT A VILLA IN FRANCE. KEITH RICHARDS RENTED THE VILLA SO THE ROLLING STONES COULD AVOID PAYING TAXES IN ENGLAND. THE BAND WOULD SLEEP ALL DAY AND RECORD ALL NIGHT WITH WHOEVER SHOWED UP. THE SESSIONS WERE LOOSE AND UNORGANIZED, AND THE PERSONNEL ON THE SONGS VARIED ON WHO WAS PRESENT AT THE TIME OF THE RECORDING. FOR INSTANCE, ON ‘TUMBLING DICE’ MICK JAGGER AND KEITH RICHARDS PLAYED GUITAR, AND MICK TAYLOR, ORDINARILY THE LEAD GUITARIST PLAYED BASS. DEPENDING ON EVERYONE’S LEVEL OF INTOXICATION AND WHAT FRIENDS WANDERED INTO THE RECORDING STUDIO TO JAM WITH THE BAND THE SONGS AND ALBUM CROSSED MANY STYLES AND GENRES.
RUMOR HAS IT THIS IS ONE OF KEITH RICHARDS FAVORITE STONES SONGS.
HERE’S A LIVE VERSION OF ‘TUMBLING DICE’
