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VAN HALEN II

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 23, 2019… FORTY YEARS AGO TODAY VAN HALEN RELEASED THEIR 2ND STUDIO ALBUM VAN HALEN II. VAN HALEN’S DEBUT ALBUM SOLD 1 MILLION COPIES PRIOR TO THIS RECORD AND WAS STILL ON BILLBOARD’S ALBUM CHARTS WHEN VHII WAS RELEASED. THE SUCCESS OF VAN HALEN II WAS DRIVEN WAS DRIVEN BY 2 HIT SINGLES, ‘DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY’ & ‘BEAUTIFUL GIRLS’

HERE ARE SOME QUICK HITS REGARDING VH II :

-VAN HALEN II REACHED #6 ON THE BILLBOARD TOP LP’S CHART

-THE BLACK AND YELLOW GUITAR ON THE BACK OF THE ALBUM IS BURIED WITH DIMEBAG DARRELL. EDDIE VAN HALEN PLACED IT IN HIS CASKET AT HIS FUNERAL BECAUSE DIMEBAG SAID IT WAS HIS FAVORITE.

-DAVID LEE ROTH IS SHOWN IN A CAST IN THE LINER NOTES. HE ALLEGEDLY BROKE HIS RIGHT FOOT MAKING A LEAP AT A PHOTO SHOOT FOR THE ALBUM AND LANDED ON THE BOTTOM OF THE MICROPHONE STAND ALSO SEEN IN THE PICTURE OF THE BACK COVER ART

-VAN HALEN II HAS SOLD MORE THAT 5 MILLION COPIES IN THE USA

HERE’S VAN HALEN IN 1983 PERFORMING ANOTHER GREAT TRACK ON THE ALBUM ‘BOTTOM’S UP’

GREEN DAY ‘AWESOME AS F**K’

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 22, 2019…ON THIS DATE 8 YEARS AGO BOUGHT A SPOOGE TOWEL AND THEN THE NEW GREEN DAY ALBUM ‘AWESOME AS F**K’ , OR ‘AWESOME:LIVE’

THE ALBUM IS COMPOSED OF TRACKS RECORDED DURING GREEN DAY’S

‘21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN WORLD TOUR’ IN SUPPORT OF THEIR 8TH STUDIO ALBUM ‘21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN’. THE GROUP RECORDED EVERY SHOW ON THE TOUR, AND WHEN THE TOUR WAS OVER, ARMSTRONG, DIRNT, AND COOL SORTED THROUGH EVERY PERFORMANCE TO PUT THE VIDEO AND ALBUM TOGETHER. THE ALBUM INCLUDED A DVD OF A FULL SHOW RECORDED IN JAPAN

HERE’S PART ONE OF THE DVD

AND HERE’S PART 2

BACK IN THE SADDLE

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES MARCH 22, 2019…IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT FORTY TWO YEARS AGO AEROSMITH RELEASED ‘BACK IN THE SADDLE’ THEIR FIRST SINGLE FROM THE ALBUM ‘ROCKS’.

STEVEN TYLER DECIDED TO USE THE TERM “BACK IN THE SADDLE” AS A WAY OF DECLARING THE BAND WAS BACK WITH A NEW ALBUM AND WAS READY TO ROCK HARD. TYLER ALWAYS THOUGHT “BACK IN THE SADDLE” MEANT HAVING SEX WITH YOUR GIRLFRIEND MORE THAN ONCE IN A NIGHT, SO HE WROTE THE SONG ABOUT A COWBOY RIDING INTO TOWN TO SATISFY HIS SEXUAL URGES. HE WROTE THE SONG IN THE STAIRWELL OF THE RECORD PLANT RECORDING STUDIO, WHERE HE WOULD OFTEN WRITE ONCE THE TRACK WAS MUSICALLY FINISHED.

THE MAIN RIFF OF THE SONG WAS COMPOSED BY GUITARIST JOE PERRY

ON A 6 STRING BASS HE HAD RECENTLY PURCHASED. PERRY SAYS HE WAS “LYING ON THE FLOOR STONED ON HEROIN” WHEN HE CAME UP WITH THE RIFF. THIS WAS THE FIRST TRACK ON THE ALBUM ‘ROCKS’. AFTER THE BAND PUT THE TRACK TOGETHER AROUND JOE PERRY’S RIFF, THEY KNEW IT HAD TO BE THE OPENER FOR ‘ROCKS’

THIS VERSION IS A LITTLE GRAINY, BUT IT’S AEROSMITH PERFORMING THE SONG IN CONCERT ON THEIR 1977 TOUR IN SUPPORT OF THE ALBUM ‘ROCKS’

HERE’S FROM A SHOW IN JAPAN CIRCA 2002

AND HERE’S THE OFFICIAL AEROSMITH VERSION

EAGLES ‘ON THE BORDER’

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES MARCH 22, 2019…BACK IN 1974 THE EAGLES RELEASED THEIR 3RD STUDIO ALBUM ‘ON THE BORDER’.

HERE ARE SOME QUICK NOTES ON THE ALBUM

-THREE SINGLES WERE RELEASED FROM THE RECORD ‘ALREADY GONE’ ‘JAMES DEAN’ AND ‘BEST OF MY LOVE’

-THE SINGLE ‘BEST OF MY LOVE’ WAS #1 ON BOTH THE BILLBOARD HOT 100 AND ADULT CONTEMPORARY CHART

-’ON THE BORDER REACHED #17 ON THE BILLBOARD TOP 200 LP’s CHART

-FOR THIS ALBUM, GLENN FREY INSISTED THE BAND BRING IN GUITARIST DON FELDER TO ADD SLIDE GUITAR TO THE SONG ‘GOOD DAY IN HELL’. THE BAND INVITED FELDER TO BECOME THE FIFTH EAGLE. THEY CREDITED HIM AS A LATE ARRIVAL ON THE ALBUM’S LINER NOTES

-’ON THE BORDER’ HAS SOLD TWO MILLION COPIES

HERE’S A PERFORMANCE OF ‘BEST OF MY LOVE’ FROM 1977. THE HARMONIES WILL BLOW YOU AWAY

LAMONT AND TONELLI PRESENT: THE VIDEO FOR “SHE WON’T GO DOWN”

Lamont and Tonelli are back with a new music video, this time around it’s their parody of Electric Light Orchestra with “She Won’t Go Down.”

PINK FLOYD’S ‘THE FINAL CUT’

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 21, 2019…THIRTY SIX YEARS AGO PINK FLOYD RELEASE THEIR 12TH STUDIO ALBUM ‘THE FINAL CUT’

FOLLOWING THE RELEASE OF THIS ALBUM, ROGER WATERS ANNOUNCED HE WAS LEAVING THE BAND, AND LATER ATTEMPTED TO KEEP DAVID GILMOUR AND NICK MASON FROM USING THE PINK FLOYD NAME.

IT’S ALSO THE FIRST ALBUM NOT FEATURE KEYBOARDIST RICHARD WRIGHT.

THE RECORDING SESSIONS FOR ‘THE FINAL CUT’ WERE FILLED WITH BAND INFIGHTING.

A GOOD MAJORITY OF THE ALBUM WAS LEFTOVER MATERIAL FROM ‘THE WALL’ RECORDING SESSIONS.

THE FINAL CUT IS AN ANTIWAR ALBUM. ROGER WATERS WROTE THE ALBUM WITH MOST OF THE ALBUM CONVEYING THE CONCEPT OF THE BETRAYAL OF FALLEN SOLDIERS, SUCH AS HIS FATHER, WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES DURING WORLD WAR 2 IN THE SPIRIT OF A POST WAR DREAM. THE POST WAR DREAM WAS ONE IN WHICH VICTORY

WOULD USHER IN A MORE PEACEFUL WORLD, WHOSE LEADERS WOULD NO LONGER BE SO EAGER TO SOLVE DISPUTES BY RESORTING TO WAR.

‘THE FINAL CUT’ SOLD OVER 2 MILLION COPIES.

HERE ARE SOME VIDEOS FOR ‘THE FINAL CUT’

EDDIE MONEY TURNS 70

 

 

 

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 21, 2019…EDDIE MONEY WAS BORN ON THIS DATE IN 1949 SO THAT MEANS TODAY HE TURNS 70.

 

ORIGINALLY FROM NEW YORK, MONEY MOVED TO BERKELEY IN THE 70’S TO PURSUE A CAREER IN MUSIC. IN THE LATE 70’S HE SCORED HUGE HITS WITH ‘BABY HOLD ON’ AND ‘TWO TICKETS TO PARADISE’ CONTINUED CHART SUCCESS THOUGH THE MID 1980’S. MONEY STILL TOURS AND RECENTLY DID A GEICO COMMERCIAL AND LAUNCHED THE REALITY TV SERIES “REAL MONEY” BASED ON HIS AND HIS FAMILY’S LIFE.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE GREAT EDDIE MONEY !!!

HERE’S ONE OF HIS BEST…HERE’S LIVE EDDIE MONEY

 

https://youtube.com/channel/UC5OpBVDvMuKBboZO3GGeXEw

POLICE SUSPECT BREAKS INTO DANCE AFTER CHASE

A police chase in Southern California had a weird ending on Tuesday night when a suspect broke into dance on Laurel Canyon Boulevard while police had their guns drawn.

During the arrest, three highway patrol officers had their guns pointed towards the driver as he backed away from the car on a shut-down road and barked orders at him.

The suspect at first complies, walking slowly away from the car with his hands up and his back in the direction of the police officers.

The suspect suddenly breaks into a short dance routine, shuffling his feet and flailing his arms while doing several spins and bending at the waist to touch his toes.

The dance sequence lasts about 15 seconds and the man then begins to follow police orders by lifting up his shirt to show he is not armed.

Before the dancing incident, the suspect led California Highway Patrol cops on a pursuit from Sherman Oaks to Pacoima in the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles.

Police initiated a “PIT maneuver” where they intentionally hit the suspect’s car, causing him to spin out and come to a stop near Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Van Nuys Boulevard.

Once the suspect stopped dancing, the officers took him into custody. Charges against him are pending.