The Easter Bunny was in action in Orlando, Florida…saving the day.
IN HONOR OF EASTER
PETER FRAMPTON’S BDAY
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 22, 2019…HAPPY 69TH BIRTHDAY TO PETER FRAMPTON. FRAMPTON IS CURRENTLY ON HIS FAREWELL TOUR AND HIS SHOW AT THE CONCORD PAVILION ON OCTOBER 12TH WILL BE HIS FINAL SHOW. FRAMPTON ANNOUNCED ON FEBRUARY 22ND OF THIS YEAR HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH IBM (INCLUSION BODY MYOSITIS). IBM IS A RARE AND INCURABLE INFLAMMATORY CONDITION WHICH CAUSES MUSCLES TO WEAKEN SLOWLY. ACCORDING TO FRAMPTON:
“In a year’s time, I might not be able to play, I want to go out screaming”
FRAMPTON REVEALED THE 8 YEARS AGO, HE STARTED TO NOTICE HIS ANKLES FELT A LITTLE TIGHT IN THE MORNING AND INITIALLY DISMISSED IT AS A SIGN HE WAS GETTING OLDER. THEN HIS LEGS STARTED GETTING WEAKER. HE TRIED TO IGNORE THE SIGNS THAT SOMETHING WAS WRONG UNTIL 4 YEARS AGO WHEN A FAN KICKED A BEACH BALL ONTO THE STAGE AT A CONCERT AND HE FELL OVER IT TRYING TO PICK IT UP. RUH ROH ! HE JOKED:
“He’s fallen and he can’t get up.But I was embarrassed.”
TWO WEEKS AFTER THE BEACH BALL INCIDENT, HE TRIPPED OVER A GUITAR
CORD ONSTAGE AND COLLAPSED AGAIN. HE ALSO NOTICED HIS ARMS WERE GETTING SO WEAK THAT LOADING HEAVY OBJECTS ONTO THE OVERHEAD COMPARTMENTS ON PLANES WAS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT. AN APPOINTMENT WITH A NEUROLOGIST REVEALED THE DIAGNOSIS OF IBM. HIS CURRENT TOUR IS A WAY FOR FRAMPTON TO GO OUT WHILE HE IS STILL ABLE TO PLAY UP TO HIS STANDARDS.
FRAMPTON OF COURSE RECORDED ONE OF THE GREATEST LIVE ALBUMS IN THE HISTORY OF ROCK HERE IN SAN FRANCISCO AT WINTERLAND.
‘FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE’ IS THE BEST SELLING LIVE ALBUM AND HAS SOLD OVER 16 MILLION COPIES.
LET’S TURN BACK THE CLOCK TO 1975 TO CATCH FRAMPTON ON “THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL.”
BTW, I’VE MADE AN OBSERVATION AFTER WATCHING OLD FOOTAGE OF FRAMPTON….NONE OF HIS SHIRTS HAD BUTTONS !!!
LEGENDARY DAY ON THE GREEN
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 22, 2019…31 YEARS AGO IT WAS A CLASSIC ‘DAY ON THE GREEN’ WITH PINK FLOYD AT THE OAKLAND COLISEUM FOR TWO NIGHTS-APRIL 22 & 23. MAN I MISS THE BILL GRAHAM “DAYS ON THE GREEN”. THESE SHOWS WERE PART OF THE ‘MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON’ TOUR. PINK FLOYD HADN’T TOURED SINCE 1981, AND WHEN ROGER WATERS LEFT THE GROUP IN 1985, HE BELIEVED THE GROUP WOULD NOT CONTINUE WITHOUT HIM. WATERS THREATENED LEGAL ACTION AGAINST DAVID GILMOUR AND NICK MASON, AS WELL AS ANY PROMOTER THAT PROMOTED A “PINK FLOYD” SHOW. HOWEVER, A LEGAL DEAL WAS WORKED OUT WITH WATERS AND THE TOUR WENT ON. THE FIRST SHOW IN OAKLAND AT THE COLISEUM WAS PLAYED TO A CROWD OF 78,000 PEOPLE. THE SECOND NIGHT WAS A SELLOUT WITH 90,000 FANS LOVING PINK FLOYD.
THIS WAS THE SETLIST FOR THE FIRST NIGHT OF DAY ON THE GREEN FROM SETLIST.COM
- Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
- Signs of Life
- Learning to Fly
- Yet Another Movie
- Round and Around
- A New Machine (Part 1)
- Terminal Frost
- A New Machine (Part 2)
- Sorrow
- The Dogs of War
- On the Turning Away
- One of These Days
- Time
- On the Run
- The Great Gig in the Sky
- Wish You Were Here
- Welcome to the Machine
- Us and Them
- Money
- Another Brick in the Wall Part 2
- Comfortably Numb
- Encore:
- One Slip
- Run Like Hell
THIS IS A CLASSIC COMMERCIAL ADVERTISING THE SECOND SHOW
NOTHING BEATS LIVE PINK FLOYD, CHECK OUT THIS CONCERT FOOTAGE
BUY DAY ON THE GREEN POSTER @ WOLFGANG’S wolfgangs.com/search.html?t=PINK%20FLOYD%201988
THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF PRINCE
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 21, 2019…PRINCE WAS 57 WHEN HE WAS FOUND ALONE AND UNRESPONSIVE IN HIS PAISLEY PARK STUDIO COMPOUND ON APRIL 21, 2016. AN AUTOPSY SHOWED PRINCE HAD DIED OF AN ACCIDENTAL OVERDOSE OF FENTANYL, A SYNTHETIC OPIOID 50 TIMES MORE LETHAL THAN HEROIN.
RIP PRINCE. HERE’S THE DEFINITIVE PRINCE SONG
photo props-Scott Penner
DAY ON THE GREEN 1994
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 21, 2019…25 YEARS AGO IT WAS “DAY ON THE GREEN” TIME WITH PINK FLOYD ! THE BAND ROCKED THE OAKLAND COLISEUM FOR 3 SOLD OUT SHOWS IN A ROW, APRIL 20TH,21ST, AND 22ND 1994.
HERE ARE A COUPLE OF VIDEOS AND SOME AUDIO FROM THE SHOWS.(APRIL 20,21,AND 22 1994)
AUDIO FROM APRIL 21 AND 22
Here’s vintage Pink Floyd in concert
photo credit-Mary
JOIN US TONIGHT FOR OUR DIRTY 30 ANNIVERSARY PARTY
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 20, 2019…TONIGHT THERE IS A HUGE 4/20 PARTY AT THE CONCORD PAVILLION WITH SAMMY HAGAR AND THE CIRCLE, DON FELDER (FORMERLY OF THE EAGLES) AND THE STONE FOXES.
IT’S THE FIRST CONCERT OF THE YEAR AT THE CONCORD PAVILLION.
TO PRIME YOU UP FOR TONIGHT HERE’S SAMMY HAGAR AND THE CIRCLE’S LATEST ‘CAN’T HANG’
HAPPY 4/20 EVERYONE
CREDIT-OUR GOOD FRIEND TOMMY CHONG http://chongschoice.com
HERE’S THE HISTORY OF 4/20 WITH CHEECH AND CHONG
AEROSMITH GET A GRIP
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 20, 2019…TWENTY SIX YEARS AGO AEROSMITH RELEASE THE ALBUM ‘GET A GRIP’. THIS WAS THE GROUPS ELEVENTH STUDIO ALBUM AND IT WAS HUGE. GET A GRIP BECAME AEROSMITH’S BEST SELLING ALBUM WORLDWIDE, SELLING OVER 20 MILLION COPIES. IT IS ALSO TIED WITH ‘PUMP’ AS THEIR SECOND BEST SELLING ALBUM IN THE U.S.A. SELLING OVER 7 MILLION COPIES. ‘TOYS IN THE ATTIC’ LEADS U.S. SALES AT 8 MILLION.
HERE’S SOME ‘GET A GRIP’ TRIVIA:
-The album cover features a cow’s udders, with one of them pierced and sporting an earring. An animal rights group objected, but the band explained the image was computer generated.
-Seven songs from Get a Grip wound up charting on at least one of Billboard’s charts.
-“Livin’ on the Edge” went to number one on the rock chart and stayed there for nine weeks.
-“Livin’ on the Edge” was inspired by the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
-Styx’s Tommy Shaw and Night Ranger’s Jack Blades co-wrote “Shut Up and Dance.”
-“Cryin’” has been certified gold and sold over 600,000 copies.
-There’s an unconfirmed story that for the video for “Crazy,” producers cast a woman they had seen in a Pantene commercial to star opposite Alicia Silverstone. That woman was Steven Tyler’s daughter, Liv Tyler. They apparently had no idea her father was in the band.
-Lenny Kravitz provided backup vocals on the song “Line-Up.”
-“Amazing” is about Steven Tyler’s troubled life and his drug abuse in the late 70s and early 80s.
– Don Henley sings backup on “Amazing.”
-The band earned two Grammys off the album, the 1993 award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or a Group with Vocal for “Livin’ on the Edge” and the same trophy in 1994 for “Crazy.”
HERE’S AEROSMITH WITH AN OUTSTANDING VIDEO FOR ‘LIVIN’ ON THE EDGE’
SAMMY HAGAR TALKS ABOUT NEW MUSIC WITH THE CIRCLE, MICHAEL ANTHONY POSSIBLY REUNITING WITH VAN HALEN, PLAYING WITH JASON BONHAM AND MORE
Lamont and Tonelli’s Dirty 30 Anniversary Show with Sammy Hagar & The Circle will be on Saturday, April 20th at the Concord Pavilion.
Tickets are on sale now through: www.livenation.com
Click here for more info.
Click here to purchase tickets.
Listen to Lamont and Tonelli’s interview with Sammy Hagar.
Sammy Hagar & The Circle will be releasing their debut studio album “Space Between” on Friday, May 10th.
Click here to pre-order “Space Between.”
Click here to check out Sammy Hagar on iTunes.
Stream and Download “Trust Fund Baby” by clicking here.
Watch Sammy Hagar & The Circle’s music video for “Trust Fund Baby.”
Watch Sammy Hagar & The Circle’s music video for “Can’t Hang.”
Listen to Lamont and Tonelli’s interview with Don Felder.
Listen to Lamont and Tonelli’s interview with Sammy Hagar.
Listen to Baby Huey and Chasta’s interview with Sammy Hagar.
Follow Sammy Hagar here.
HAIR OF THE DOG
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 19, 2019- ON THIS DATE IN 1975 NAZARETH RELEASE THE ALBUM ‘HAIR OF THE DOG’. IT WAS THE GROUP’S SIXTH STUDIO ALBUM, AND IS THE RECORD THAT BROKE THE BAND IN AMERICA. NAZARETH WAS ALREADY BIG IN ENGLAND AND IN CANADA WITH HARD ROCKIN’ ALBUMS LIKE ‘RAZAMATAZ’, BUT THIS ALBUM WAS OFF THE CHARTS IN TERMS OF SALES SELLING OVER 2 MILLION COPIES IN THE U.S.A.
THE ALBUM WAS FUELED BY 2 HIT SINGLES ‘LOVE HURTS’ AND THE TITLE TRACK ‘HAIR OF THE DOG’.
AND NOW IT’S TIME TO START MESSING WITH A SON OF A BITCH, HERE’S NAZARETH.
