LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 16, 2019…TODAY IS THE 26TH ANNIVERSARY OF DAVID LEE ROTH GETTING ARRESTED! IT WAS 1993 AND THE NYPD WAS DOING A SWEEP OF DRUG BUYERS AND PUSHERS IN WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK. ONE OF THE PEOPLE THEY ARRESTED TURNED OUT TO BE DAVID LEE ROTH, WHO WAS BUSTED AFTER SCORING SOME “JAMAICAN BUNK REEFER.”
WHAT’S REALLY IRONIC ABOUT ROTH GETTING BUSTED WAS IN 1992 HE TOLD AN INTERVIEWER HE LEFT VAN HALEN BECAUSE HE FELT “DISGUST OVER BAND MEMBERS USING DRUGS.”
HERE’S ROTH WITH THE BAND FROM 1984
HERE’S THE NEWS ITEM THAT RAN THE DAY HE WAS BUSTED
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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 16, 2019- ON THIS DATE IN 1987, THINGS WERE GETTING REAL UGLY IN THE PINK FLOYD CAMP. ROGER WATERS HAD LEFT THE BAND, AND THE REMAINING MEMBERS DECIDED TO CARRY ON WITHOUT HIM. SO ON THIS DATE TO ESCALATE THE BATTLE, ROGER WATERS ATTORNEY’S ISSUED A STATEMENT THAT ROGER WATERS BELIEVED HIMSELF TO BE THE CREATIVE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND PINK FLOYD, AND THEREFORE HE WOULD CONTEST THE USE OF THE NAME BY ANYONE ELSE AND ANY FORMER MEMBERS OF PINK FLOYD.
HERE’S VIDEO FROM THE BAND’S REUNION CONCERT IN 2005 WHEN THEY PUT ASIDE ALL THE PETTY B.S. AND MADE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC ONCE AGAIN.
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 16, 2019…28 YEARS AGO TEMPLE OF THE DOG RELEASED THE SELF TITLED ALBUM ‘TEMPLE OF THE DOG.’
TEMPLE OF THE DOG WAS A SUPERGROUP PUT TOGETHER BY CHRIS CORNELL IN 1990. CORNELL FORMED THE BAND IN HONOR OF HIS FRIEND ANDREW WOOD WHO DIED OF A HEROIN OVERDOSE. WOOD WAS KEPT ALIVE FOR 3 DAYS ON LIFE SUPPORT, AND WHEN CORNELL AND HIS BANDMATES WENT TO VISIT HIM THEY THOUGHT THAT A ONE OFF ALBUM WOULD BE A FITTING TRIBUTE. THE ALBUM WOULD CONTAIN WOOD’S SOLO SONGS, ALONG WITH 2 SONGS WRITTEN BY CORNELL.
RESPONDING TO CONCERNS THAT THEY WERE SOMEHOW EXPLOITING WOOD’S WORK, THEY DECIDED INSTEAD TO RELEASE AN ALBUM OF ALL ORIGINAL MATERIAL, AND CALLED THE PROJECT ‘TEMPLE OF THE DOG’
‘HUNGER STRIKE’ WAS THE LAST SONG RECORDED FOR THE ALBUM ON THE DAY EDDIE VEDDER FLEW IN TO SEATTLE TO MEET HIS NEW BANDMATES IN WHAT WOULD BECOME PEARL JAM. CORNELL HAD HOPED TO SING THE HIGH AND LOW PARTS OF THE SONG HIMSELF AND JUST OVERDUB THE VOCALS. BUT HE WAS STRUGGLING WITH THE LOW REGISTER. VEDDIE STEPPED UP TO THE MICROPHONE AND IT MADE IT CLICK FOR CORNELL. IT ALSO MARKED THE FIRST RECORDED VOCAL FOR VEDDER ON A MAJOR RECORD. IT WAS THE FIRST SONG RELEASE FROM THE PROJECT AND WENT TO NUMBER 4 ON BILLBOARD’S CHARTS.
A TOUCHING TRIBUTE TO WOOD WAS WRITTEN BY CORNELL. IT WAS CALLED ‘SAY HELLO TO HEAVEN’ AND WAS THE SECOND SINGLE RELEASE FROM THE PROJECT. IT WAS A HUGE SUCCESS, HITTING NUMBER 5 ON THE ROCK CHARTS.
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APRIL 15, 2019…ON THIS DATE 23 YEARS AGO THE REMAINING ASHES OF JERRY GARCIA WERE SCATTERED NEAR THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE. GARCIA HAD ALSO REQUESTED A SMALL PORTION OF HIS ASHES TO BE SCATTERED IN THE GANGES RIVER IN INDIA, WHICH TOOK PLACE ON APRIL 4TH 1996.
IN COMMEMORATION OF JERRY GARCIA, HERE’S A REAL TREAT FOR DEAD HEADS. THE COMPLETE 2ND SET FROM A GRATEFUL DEAD SHOW AT THE SHORELINE AMPHITHEATER FROM 1987.
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APRIL 15, 2019…YOU KNOW I LOVE ALL THINGS METALLICA. THREE YEARS AGO METALLICA RELEASED THE REMASTERED VERSIONS OF THEIR FIRST TWO ALBUMS ‘KILL ‘EM ALL’ AND ‘RIDE THE LIGHTNING’. THE DELUXE NUMBERED BOX SET OF ‘KILL ‘EM ALL” INCLUDES FOUR PIECES OF VINYL, FIVE CD’S, ONE DVD AND A HARDCOVER BOOK WHICH INCLUDES RARE PHOTOS AND A PATCH.
THE DELUXE NUMBERED BOX SET OF ‘RIDE THE LIGHTNING’ INCLUDES 4 VINYL RECORDS, SIX FREAKIN’ CD’S ONE DVD, AND A HARDCOVER BOOK INCLUDING UNSEEN PICTURES, A MINI BOOK OF LYRICS HANDWRITTEN BY JAMES HETFIELD, AND A SET OF THREE POSTERS. THE DELUXE BOX SETS ARE BOTH LIMITED EDITION COLLECTORS ITEMS.
THESE GUYS DO EVERYTHING RIGHT. HERE’S A GREAT VERSION OF ‘FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS’ PERFORMED AT “DAY ON THE GREEN” IN 1985.
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APRIL 14, 2019…ON THIS DATE 45 YEARS AGO THE CONCERT FILM ‘LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: THE ROLLING STONES’ PREMIERED FOR INVITED GUESTS AT THE ZIEGFELD THEATRE IN NEW YORK CITY. THE MOVIE OPENED UP THE NEXT DAY AT THE ZIEGFELD TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
THE FILM IS REALLY AN AMAZING PIECE OF WORK. IT’S A CONCERT FILM TAKEN FROM 2 STONES SHOWS DURING THEIR 1972 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR IN SUPPORT OF THE ALBUM ‘EXILE ON MAINSTREET.’
THE CONCERTS WERE RECORDED IN 32 TRACKS AND LATER MIXED IN THE STUDIO IN ENGLAND. IN THE INITIAL RUN OF THE MOVIE IN AMERICA, THE MOVIE FEATURED “QUADRASOUND”. NOW GET THIS, QUADRASOUND FED RIGHT AND LEFT SCREEN SPEAKERS AND RIGHT AND LEFT SPLIT SURROUND SPEAKERS. THE OBJECTIVE WAS TO TRANSFORM EVERY THEATRE SHOWING THE MOVIE FROM A 650 SEAT ROOM INTO A 10,000 SEAT ARENA. BEFORE THE MOVIE EVEN STARTED, THE THEATRE PUMPED QUADRAPHONIC CROWD AMBIENT NOISE INTO THE ROOM TO FOOL THEATRE GOERS INTO THINKING THE SOUND WAS COMING FROM THEIR OWN VENUE, INTENSIFYING THE EXPERIENCE WHEN THE STONES PLAYED.
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“The Quadraphonic presentation of Ladies and Gentlemen… required a 44 JBL driver sound system (four systems were built and used by Dragonaire in its road show performances of the film). Each sound system was capable of generating 3300 Watts RMS, and was transported to each venue in a 14 ft. bed truck. Played at 100 dbA in evening and midnight performances, the sound track had to be mixed by a sound engineer based on the number of people in the audience in order to achieve optimal clarity. Sound engineers accompanied the road show presentations.
The film was played in limited roadshow engagements during which advertising was stopped (want ads were used after the first two markets) because the word of mouth for the film increased attendance every day throughout the run. Limited engagements were conducted in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Houston, Chicago, Miami, and Los Angeles before the picture was sold to Plitt Theatres which released the film in a “flat” screen monaural version.”
HERE’S THE BEGINNING OF THE CONCERT FROM THE MOVIE (MINUS THE QUADROPHONIC SOUND)
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AND LIVE VERSION OF ONE OF THE STONES GREATEST SONGS
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APRIL 14, 2019…THE GREAT RITCHIE BLACKMORE CELEBRATES HIS 74TH BIRTHDAY TODAY. BLACKMORE OF COURSE IS A FREAKIN’ GOD ON GUITAR FOR HIS WORK WITH DEEP PURPLE, RAINBOW, AND BLACKMORE’S NIGHT. THIS CHEESY PICTURE BTW, IS A PICTURE OF BLACKMORE’S WAX FIGURE AT SHRINE BUILT FOR HIM IN ENGLAND.
HERE’S SOME AMAZING VIDEO OF BLACKMORE IN HIS PRIME WITH DEEP PURPLE. IT WAS RELEASED LAST YEAR FROM THE DEEP PURPLE VAULTS. IT ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE A HOME MOVIE WITH BOARD FED SOUND OF DEEP PURPLE PERFORMING IN JAPAN CIRCA 1972. BLACKMORE’S GUITAR WORK IS FANTASTIC.
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 14, 2019- YOU WANNA FEEL OLD !? IT WAS 37 YEARS AGO VAN HALEN RELEASED THEIR 5TH STUDIO ALBUM ‘DIVER DOWN’
I FREAKIN’ LOVE THIS ALBUM, HOWEVER THE CRITIC’S CRAPPED ALL OVER THE BAND BECAUSE IT CONTAINED FIVE COVER SONGS. I SAY THE CRITICS CAN SUCK IT !! ‘DIVER DOWN’ SPENT OVER A YEAR ON THE CHARTS AND TO DATE HAS SOLD OVER 5 MILLION COPIES.
HERE’S SOME DIVER DOWN TRIVIA-
1-The instrumental track “Intruder” was written as a kind of filler. The band put together the video for “(Oh) Pretty Woman” but the clip was too long so the band added “Intruder” to put before “(Oh) Pretty Woman” and run at the beginning of the video so the film they made would fit.
2-The video for the band’s cover of “(Oh) Pretty Woman” is one of the first to get banned by MTV. The network shunning it because in it, two little people appear to molest a woman, who is actually a drag queen.
3-The album opens with a cover of The Kinks’ “Where Have All the Good Times Gone,” Van Halen’s second time doing a Kinks cover – their first was “You Really Got Me” on their 1978 debut. David Lee Roth said the group could have done any number of Kinks songs since they knew tons of them and played them nightly when they had club gigs.
4-Eddie thought “Cathedral” sounded like a Catholic church organ, so that’s how the song got its name.
5-The lyrics to the song “Secrets” came from greeting cards and get-well cards that David bought in Albuquerque, New Mexico that were written in the style of American Indian poetry.
6-“The Full Bug” got its title from a saying that originates from killing a cockroach by stepping on it. The goal is to step on the whole thing, to get the “full bug,” and according to Roth, it means to make the maximum effort.
7-Roth said that “Happy Trails” was included in the album because they wanted to do “something wonderful and different.
8-The cover art for the album features a “diver down” flag, which is used when a scuba diver is underwater in the area.
9-The photo of the band on the back cover of the album was taken while they were on stage at the Tangerine Bowl in Orlando on October 24, 1981. During that time they were the opening act for The Rolling Stones.
10-The album is one of Eddie Van Halen’s least favorites because it features five covers. He once said, “I’d rather have a bomb with one of my songs than a hit with someone else’s.”
OKAY, EVERYBODY BUT EDDIE CAN SUCK IT !! I STILL LOVE THIS ALBUM.
HERE’S ‘INTRUDER/ (OH) PRETTY WOMAN’ FROM VAN HALEN (AND NO THAT IS NOT EDDIE MONEY DRESSED AS QUASIMODO)
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APRIL 13, 2019…HAPPY FORTY SEVENTH BIRTHDAY TO AARON LEWIS, LEAD VOCALIST, RHYTHM GUITARIST AND FOUNDING MEMBER OF STAIND. DAMN THIS GUY CAN SING. IN 2001 STAIND BROKE WITH THE ALBUM ‘BREAK THE CYCLE’ ONE OF THE BIGGEST SELLING ALBUMS OF THE YEAR. ‘BREAK THE CYCLE’ ENDED UP SELLING OVER 7 MILLION COPIES WORLDWIDE, AND SPAWNING 4 HIT SINGLES.
HERE’S ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS ‘IT’S BEEN AWHILE’
