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WHITESNAKE

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APRIL 7, 2019…’WHITESNAKE’ IS THE SELF TITLED ALBUM RELEASED ON APRIL 7 1987. IT WAS WHITESNAKE’S 7TH STUDIO ALBUM AND WAS GARGANTUAN FOR THE BAND. IT SOLD OVER 8 MILLION COPIES IN THE U.S. ALONE, AND REACHED #2 ON THE ALBUM CHARTS FOR 1987. THE ALBUM WAS POWERED BY 2 HUGE SINGLES ‘IS THIS LOVE’ AND ‘HERE I GO AGAIN’.

‘HERE I GO AGAIN’ WAS ACTUALLY RELEASED ON A PREVIOUS ALBUM, BUT DAVID COVERDALE RE-RECORDED IT AND RE-MIXED THE SONG FOR THIS RECORD AND IT THAT BECAME A MONSTER HIT. THE SONG ACTUALLY DOCUMENTS THE BREAKDOWN OF HIS FIRST MARRIAGE. I CAN’T THINK OF A BETTER WAY TO GET OVER HIS FIRST MARRIAGE THAN MARRY THE MODEL THAT WAS WRITHING ALL OVER THE JAGUAR CARS IN THE VIDEO FOR THIS SONG. HE MARRIED TAWNY KITAEN IN 1989 (THEY WERE DIVORCED 2 YEARS LATER).

THE VIDEO IS GREAT! HERE’S WHITESNAKE WITH TAWNY KITAEN AND THE VIDEO THAT TOOK OVER MTV IN 1987

THE LAST WALTZ

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APRIL 7, 2019…FORTY ONE YEARS AGO, THE BAND RELEASED THEIR 13TH ALBUM ‘THE LAST WALTZ’. THIS IS A MONUMENTAL TRIPLE ALBUM THAT DOCUMENTED THE GROUP’S “FAREWELL” CONCERT.

THE ACTUAL SHOW TOOK PLACE THANKSGIVING DAY 1976 AT BILL GRAHAM’S WINTERLAND BALLROOM. FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE ACTUALLY HAD THANKSGIVING DINNER WITH THE BAND AT THE EVENT.

THE BAND WAS ACTUALLY JOINED BY A LITANY OF SPECIAL GUESTS,

INCLUDING MUDDY WATERS, ERIC CLAPTON, RINGO STARR, VAN MORRISON, DR JOHN, EMMY LOU HARRIS, NEIL YOUNG, RONNIE WOOD, JONI MITCHELL AND NEIL DIAMOND.

THE CONCERT WAS ALSO SHOT AND RELEASE AS A DOCUMENTARY BY MARTIN SCORSESE.

HERE’S THE FULL CONCERT FROM THE WINTERLAND BALLROOM

I LOVE THIS BAND

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APRIL 7, 2019…IT WAS ON THIS DATE 50 YEARS AGO THE BAY AREA’S SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE RELEASED THEIR FOURTH STUDIO ALBUM ‘STAND!’

THIS WAS THE GROUP’S BIGGEST SELLING ALBUM, CONTAINING ‘EVERYDAY PEOPLE’ THE TITLE TRACK ‘STAND!’ ‘SING A SIMPLE SONG’ AND ‘I WANT TO TAKE YOU HIGHER’

STAND! WENT ON TO SELL OVER 3 MILLION COPIES AND IS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL ALBUMS OF THE SIXTIES. FOUR YEARS AGO THE ALBUM WAS DEEMED “CULTURALLY, HISTORICALLY OR AESTHETICALLY SIGNIFICANT” BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AND WAS SELECTED FOR INCLUSION IN THE

NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY.

HERE’S SLY AND THE BAND PERFORMING ‘ I WANT TO TAKE YOU HIGHER’ ON THE MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW

AND THIS IS JUST A GREAT JAM SESSION FROM 1974 WITH AN APPEARANCE ON ‘THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL’

TONIGHT Y&T ROCK THE FILLMORE

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APRIL 6, 2019… WE ALL LOVE Y&T AND TONIGHT THEY’RE PLAYING THE FILLMORE. MENIKETTI HAS ONE OF THE BEST VOICES IN ROCK AND HE BRINGS IT EVERY NIGHT.

THE DOORS OPEN AT 7PM, THE SHOW STARTS AT 8 !

TO GET YOU IN THE MOOD, HERE’S SOME CLASSIC Y&T.

HERE’S A LINK FOR TICKETS.

thefillmore.com/event/yt/

WHO REMEMBERS CALIFORNIA JAM

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APRIL 6, 2019…ON APRIL 6TH 1974 IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, THE MASSIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL CALIFORNIA JAM TOOK PLACE AT ONTARIO MOTOR SPEEDWAY IN ONTARIO, CALIFORNIA.

THE LINE UP FEATURED THE EAGLES, EARTH WIND AND FIRE, SEALS AND CROFTS, DEEP PURPLE, BLACK SABBATH, RARE EARTH, EMERSON LAKE AND PALMER, AND BLACK OAK ARKANSAS.

THE FESTIVAL ATTRACTED APPROXIMATELY 400,000 FANS, AND AT THAT TIME SET THE RECORD FOR THE LOUDEST AMPLIFICATION SYSTEM EVER INSTALLED, THE THE HIGHEST PAID ATTENDANCE, AND THE HIGHEST GROSS FOR A CONCERT. ( TO PUT THIS IN PERSPECTIVE, COACHELLA ATTRACTS 90,000 PEOPLE)

HERE’S CONCERT FOOTAGE OF SABBATH

DEEP PURPLE

BLACK OAK ARKANSAS

EARTH WIND AND FIRE

RARE EARTH

THE DAY TOMMY LEE FELL FROM THE ROTATING DRUM KIT

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APRIL 6, 2019…TO START OFF I JUST WANT TO SAY I LOVE MOTLEY CRUE. TOMMY LEE JUST SEEMS LIKE A REAL FUN GUY TO BE AROUND AND THE KIND OF GUY THAT WILL TRY ANYTHING. ONE OF THE COOLEST STUNTS I’VE EVER SEEN IN CONCERT WAS HIS IDEA FOR A ROTATING/ROLLER COASTER DRUM KIT.

THERE WAS ONE NIGHT THOUGH WHERE THE IDEA WENT HORRIBLY WRONG !

ON THIS DATE 29 YEARS AGO, LEE SUFFERED A CONCUSSION WHEN HE FELL AFTER SWINGING FROM THE SCAFFOLDING ABOVE HIS ELEVATED DRUM KIT.

THE FALL WOULD HAVE KILLED MOST MORTALS , HOWEVER I FIGURE HE MUST HAVE CUSHIONED HIS FALL WITH HIS HUGE WANG.

HERE’S TOMMY LEE WITH HIS SOLO IN OAKLAND 3 YEARS EARLIER (1987)

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LAYNE STALEY DIED 17 YEARS AGO

 

 

 

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APRIL 5, 2019…JUST 8 YEARS TO THE DAY AFTER DEATH OF KURT COBAIN, ANOTHER SEATTLE GRUNGE ERA MUSICIAN DIED OF THE EXACT SAME WAY. IN 2002 LAYNE STALEY OF ALICE IN CHAINS DIED OF A HEROIN OVERDOSE. HIS BODY WAS FOUND MORE THAN TWO WEEKS LATER ON APRIL 19TH AT HIS HOME IN SEATTLE. A SEATTLE POLICE SPOKESPERSON AT THE TIME OF THE DISCOVERY ANNOUNCED THAT HEROIN PARAPHERNALIA WAS FOUND AT THE SCENE. LAYNE STALEY DIED AT THE AGE OF 34.

 

STALEY HAD A LONG HISTORY OF DRUG USE, AND WROTE ABOUT IT IN HIS MUSIC. STALEY ADMITTED THAT HE WROTE ‘MAN IN THE BOX’ WHEN “HE WAS STONED.” OTHER LAYNE STALEY SONGS ABOUT DRUGS ARE ‘JUNKHEAD’ ‘ANGRY CHAIR’ ‘HATE TO FEEL’ & ‘FROGS’.

 

LAYNE STALEY’S DEATH WAS SUCH A WASTE OF TALENT AND ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF A GREAT MUSICIAN THAT DIED WAY TOO YOUNG.

HERE’S STALEY WITH ALICE IN CHAINS AND ‘MAN IN THE BOX’

 

 

 

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RIP KURT COBAIN

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APRIL 5, 2019…ON THIS DATE 25 YEARS AGO, KURT COBAIN WAS FOUND DEAD AT HIS HOME IN SEATTLE. THE DEATH WAS RULED A SUICIDE AS A RESULT OF A SELF INFLICTED GUNSHOT WOUND TO THE HEAD. HIGH AMOUNTS OF HEROIN WERE FOUND IN COBAIN’S BODY. COBAIN’S BODY WAS DISCOVERED THREE DAYS LATER BY A WORKER WHO WAS THERE TO INSTALL A SECURITY SYSTEM.

THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE DOCUMENTARY ON KURT COBAIN

HERE’S KURT WITH NIRVANA AND ‘SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT’

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THE DIVISION BELL

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APRIL 4, 2019…ON THIS DATE IN 1994 PINK FLOYD RELEASED THEIR 14TH STUDIO ALBUM ‘THE DIVISION BELL’ IN CANADA AND THE USA (THE ALBUM WAS ACTUALLY RELEASED MARCH 28TH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM). THIS WAS THE 2ND PINK FLOYD RECORDED WITHOUT ROGER WATERS. IT WAS MOSTLY WRITTEN BY DAVID GILMOUR AND RICHARD WRIGHT AND FEATURED THE FIRST VOCAL FROM WRIGHT ON AN ALBUM SINCE PINK FLOYD’S ‘DARK SIDE OF THE MOON’. IT SADLY WAS THE LAST PINK FLOYD ALBUM RECORDED WITH WRIGHT WHO DIED IN 2008.

‘THE DIVISION BELL’ ENDED UP SELLING OVER 3 MILLION COPIES.

HERE’S ‘THE RINGING OF THE DIVISION BELL’ FROM PINK FLOYD