mtv behind the music
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 24, 2019…29 YEARS AGO KURT COBAIN MARRIED COURTNEY LOVE ON A BEACH IN WAIKIKI, HAWAII. THE PRESS AT THE TIME REPORTED THAT THE COUPLE WERE EXPECTING A BABY SEVEN MONTHS LATER IN SEPTEMBER OF 1992.
HERE’S A GREAT “BEHIND THE MUSIC’ ON COURTNEY LOVE DESCRIBING HER PREGNANCY AND MARRIAGE.
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 24, 2019…44 YEARS AGO LED ZEPPELIN RELEASED THE ALBUM PHYSICAL GRAFFITI. IT WAS THE GROUP’S SIXTH STUDIO ALBUM AND THE RECORDING OF THE ALBUM WAS DISRUPTED WHEN THE GROUP’S BASSIST AND KEYBOARDIST JOHN PAUL JONES SAID HE WAS THINKING OF QUITTING THE BAND. THE RUMOR WAS HE WAS GOING TO BECOME A CHOIRMASTER AT WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL, ALTHOUGH IN TRUTH HE JUST WANTED TO TAKE A REST FROM ZEPPELIN’S TOURING SCHEDULE. THE GROUP DECIDED ON A DOUBLE ALBUM SO THEY COULD FEATURE SONGS THAT WERE LEFT OVER FROM THEIR PREVIOUS ALBUMS LED ZEPPELIN III, LED ZEPPELIN IV, AND HOUSES OF THE HOLY. PHYSICAL GRAFFITI DEBUTED AT NUMBER ONE IN BOTH ENGLAND AND THE USA, AND IN THE UNITED STATES IS 16 TIMES PLATINUM.
YOU WANT TO SEE SOMETHING GREAT? HERE’S ZEP PERFORMING KASHMIR LIVE
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 24, 2019…ON THIS DATE AT THE 2000 GRAMMY AWARDS, CARLOS SANTANA WON EIGHT AWARDS AT THE GRAMMY AWARDS FOR THE ALBUM ‘SUPERNATURAL.’ KEEP IN MIND, BEFORE THE ‘SUPERNATURAL’ ALBUM,SANTANA HAD NOT HAD A TOP 10 ALBUM SINCE 1981. OTHER WINNERS WERE STING, WHO WON THE “BEST POP ALBUM” AND “BEST MALE VOCALIST”, AND ELTON JOHN, WHO WON THE “LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD.”
HERE’S A FANTASTIC LIVE VERSION OF ‘SMOOTH’
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 23, 2019…BORN ON THIS DATE IN 1944, JOHNNY WINTER WOULD HAVE BEEN 75. WINTER WAS A GREAT BLUES GUITARIST WHO HAD WORKED WITH RICK DERRINGER AND BROTHER EDGAR WINTER. IN 1969 HE RELEASE A SELF TITLED ALBUM THAT WENT TOP 30 ON THE BILLBOARD ALBUM CHARTS. HE DIED AT THE AGE OF 70 ON JULY 16,2014 IN GERMANY.
IF YOU LOVE THE BLUES, DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND WATCH THIS VIDEO OF JOHNNY AND EDGAR WINTER AND THEIR VERSION OF ‘TOBACCO ROAD’
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 23, 2019…TODAY IN 1978 THE GRAMMY AWARD FOR “ALBUM OF THE YEAR” WENT TO FLEETWOOD MAC FOR RUMOURS. THE GRAMMY COMMITTEE ACTUALLY HAD A TOUGH TIME SPLITTING UP THE AWARDS, BECAUSE THE “RECORD OF THE YEAR” WAS AWARDED TO THE EAGLES FOR ‘HOTEL CALIFORNIA’, AND THE “BEST POP PERFORMANCE” WAS AWARDED TO THE BEE GEES FOR ‘HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE’
THE ALBUM ‘RUMOURS’ TO DATE HAS SOLD OVER 40 MILLION COPIES. HERE’S FLEETWOOD MAC PERFORMING DREAMS CIRCA 1978
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 23, 2019…TODAY THE “OTHER GUITARIST” FOR AEROSMITH BRAD WHITFORD TURNS 67.
WHILE JOE PERRY IS THE BANDS BETTER KNOWN GUITARIST, AND WHITFORD IS KNOWN AS THE RHYTHM GUITARIST, THIS GUY SHREDS ON GUITAR, AND HAS CO-WRITTEN MANY TRACKS FOR THE BAND INCLUDING ‘LAST CHILD’. HE ALSO PLAYS LEAD ON ‘SICK AS A DOG’ AND ‘BACK IN THE SADDLE’ AND SHARES LEAD DUTY WITH PERRY ON ‘TRAIN KEPT A-ROLLIN’
‘DREAM ON’ AND ‘LOVE IN AN ELEVATOR’
WHATEVER HIS ROLE, BRAD WHITFORD BRINGS IT EVERY NIGHT ! HERE’S A GLORIOUS LIVE VERSION OF SWEET EMOTION…ENJOY ALL 7 ½ MINUTES !
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Lamont & Tonelli chat with Mr. Skin about the Anatomy Awards.
Marc Martel contributed vocal recordings for Queen biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
Motley Crue have released a new music video for their single “The Dirt (Est. 1981)” and features Machine Gun Kelly and the song will be on the soundtrack for their upcoming biopic “The Dirt.”
Click here to pre-order “The Dirt Soundtrack” due out on March 22nd.
Watch Motley Crue’s new music video for “The Dirt (Est. 1981).”
Motley Crue’s biopic “The Dirt” debuts exclusively on Netflix March 22nd.
Premise: Their music made them famous. Their lives made them infamous. Based on Mötley Crüe’s 2001 best-selling autobiography, The Dirt is an unflinching and uncensored story about sex, drugs, rock ‘n roll, fame, and the high price of excess. Director Jeff Tremaine (Jackass co-creator, Bad Grandpa) shows us just how Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars, Tommy Lee, and Vince Neil took Mötley Crüe from the Sunset Strip to the world stage, and what it meant to become the world’s most notorious rock band.
Directed by Jeff Tremaine.
The cast includes:
Douglas Booth as Nikki Sixx (Mötley Crüe’s bassist)
Iwan Rheon as Mick Mars (Mötley Crüe’s guitarist)
Machine Gun Kelly as Tommy Lee (Mötley Crüe’s drummer)
Daniel Webber as Vince Neil (Mötley Crüe’s singer)
Watch the trailer for “The Dirt.”
Follow Motley Crue here.
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 22, 2019…PABLO HONEY WAS THE DEBUT ALBUM FROM THE ENGLISH ROCK BAND RADIOHEAD. THE NAME OF THE ALBUM ACTUALLY COMES FROM A PRANK CALL BY THE JERKY BOYS, WHERE THE PRANK CALLER SAYS TO THE VICTIM “PABLO HONEY, PLEASE COME HOME TO FLORIDA!” THE ALBUM CONTAINED ONE OF THE GREATEST ROCK SONGS EVER, ‘CREEP’
WHEN THE SONG WAS FIRST RELEASED, IT WAS ACTUALLY BANNED FROM THE BBC AIRWAVES FOR BEING TOO DEPRESSING. LEAD SINGER THOM YORKE WHO WROTE THE SONG HAS SAID THE SONG IS ABOUT BEING IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE AND NOT FEELING GOOD ENOUGH. HE DESCRIBES THE FEELING AS “THERE’S THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, AND THEN THERE’S THE REST OF US.”
HERE’S AN EXTENDED UNCENSORED VERSION OF ‘CREEP’
