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JAR OF FLIES

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 25, 2019…’JAR OF FLIES’ IS THE 3RD STUDIO EP FROM ALICE IN CHAINS. IT WAS RELEASED ON THIS DATE 25 YEARS AGO AND WAS THE FIRST EP IN MUSIC HISTORY TO DEBUT AT #1 ON THE ALBUM CHARTS. IT HAS SINCE GONE ON TO SELL OVER 4 MILLION COPIES. ‘JAR OF FLIES’ FEATURED THE SONG ‘NO EXCUSES’. THE SONG IS ABOUT LAYNE STALEY’S BATTLE TO OVERCOME HEROIN ADDICTION. THE TITLE OF THE EP WAS TAKEN FROM A HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE PROJECT DONE BY JERRY CANTRELL. SOME TRIVIA FOR YOU, IN JAPAN, THE EP WAS TITLED ‘ANOTHER SIDE OF ALICE’

HERE’S ALICE IN CHAINS, WITH ‘NO EXCUSES’

VAN HALEN’S FINAL SAMMY HAGAR STUDIO ALBUM

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 24, 2019…24 YEARS AGO VAN HALEN RELEASED THE ALBUM “BALANCE”. IT WAS THE BANDS 10TH STUDIO RELEASE, AND THE 4TH ALBUM TO FEATURE SAMMY HAGAR AS THE LEAD SINGER. IT WAS ALSO THE BAND’S LAST STUDIO ALBUM WITH SAMMY HAGAR AS THE LEAD SINGER. IT REACHED NUMBER ONE ON THE CHARTS WITHIN 3 WEEKS OF DEBUTING ON THE CHARTS, AND SOLD OVER 3 MILLION COPIES. THE INFIGHTING WITHIN THE BAND WAS AT EPIC PROPORTIONS, AND AFTER THE BALANCE TOUR, MEMBERS WENT THEIR SEPARATE WAYS.

HERE’S A SONG FROM BALANCE THAT SAMMY HAGAR WROTE ABOUT HIS EX-WIFE

SKID ROW TURNS 30

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 24, 2019…SKID ROW IS THE SELF TITLED FIRST ALBUM BY SKID ROW, AND IT WAS RELEASE ON THIS DATE IN 1989.

IT WAS A TOP TEN ALBUM ALBUM ON BILLBOARDS ALBUM CHARTS, AND FEATURED TWO TOP TEN SINGLES, ‘18 AND LIFE’ AND ‘I REMEMBER YOU’.

SAY WHATEVER YOU WANT ABOUT SKIDROW, SEBASTIAN BACH CAN FREAKIN’ SING ! HERE’S A LIVE VERSION OF ‘18 AND LIFE’ FROM A CONCERT IN 1991

ALLEN COLLINS OF LYNYRD SKYNYRD

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 23, 2019…ON THIS DAY IN 1990 ALLEN COLLINS, GUITARIST FOR LYNYRD SKYNYRD, DIED OF PNEUMONIA. COLLINS HAD BEEN ILL FOR SEVERAL MONTHS. COLLINS WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDING MEMBERS OF THE BAND AND HELPED CO-WRITE MANY OF THE BAND’S MAJOR HITS. HE ACTUALLY SURVIVED THE PLANE CRASH IN 1977 THAT KILLED 2 OTHER BAND MEMBERS. IN 1986, COLLINS WAS INVOLVED IN A CAR CRASH THAT KILLED HIS GIRLFRIEND AND LEFT HIM PARALYZED FROM THE WAIST DOWN.

HERE’S A VIDEO FROM 1977 WHEN THE BAND INTRODUCED ‘THAT SMELL’ TO THE PUBLIC FOR THE FIRST TIME.

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BIRTHDAY WISHES TO CHEAP TRICK’S ROBIN ZANDER

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 23, 2019…HAPPY 66TH BIRTHDAY TO CHEAP TRICK’S ROBIN ZANDER. ZANDER JOINED CHEAP TRICK AT THE AGE OF 20 AND HAS BEEN WITH THEM EVER SINCE, THROUGH THICK AND THIN. THE BAND ENJOYED EARLY SUCCESS IN JAPAN, AND EXPLODED TO SUPERSTARDOM IN 1979 WITH THE SUCCESS OF THE ALBUM ‘LIVE AT THE BUDOKAN’. WHEN ZANDER ISN’T ON TOUR WITH CHEAP TRICK, HE’S AT HOME WITH HIS WIFE , FORMER PLAYBOY PLAYMATE PAMELA STEIN.

HERE’S CHEAP TRICK’S OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR SURRENDER

(photo courtesy Jimmy O’Sheehan Photography https://www.facebook.com/jimmyosheehan/ )

SANTANA ‘SUPERNATURAL’

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 23, 2019…19 YEARS AGO SANTANA KICKED OFF A 3 WEEK RUN WITH THE # 1 ALBUM. THE ALBUM WAS ‘SUPERNATURAL’. ‘SUPERNATURAL’

WON 8 GRAMMY AWARDS, INCLUDING ALBUM OF THE YEAR. IT ALSO WENT 15 TIMES PLATINUM, EVENTUALLY SELLING OVER 30 MILLION COPIES WORLDWIDE. GUEST ARTISTS ON THE ALBUM INCLUDE ROB THOMAS, EVERLAST, ERIC CLAPTON, LAURYN HILL, CASEY PORTER, CEE-LO GREEN, AND DAVE MATTHEWS.

THE ALBUM WAS DRIVEN BY THE SONG OF THE YEAR ‘SMOOTH’ WITH ROB THOMAS. IT WAS OFFICIALLY THE FINAL #1 SONG OF 1999, AND ACCORDING TO BILLBOARD MAGAZINE, AS OF THE END OF 2018 IT’S THE SECOND MOST SUCCESSFUL SINGLE OF ALL-TIME.

HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR ‘SMOOTH’