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TONIGHT ELTON JOHN PLAYS THE ORACLE IN OAKLAND

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 18, 2019…ELTON JOHN BRINGS HIS ‘FAREWELL YELLOW BRICK ROAD TOUR’ TO THE BAY AREA. HE PLAYS THE ORACLE ARENA TONIGHT. THE DOORS OPEN AT 7 PM

HERE’S ELTON JOHN GOING BACK TO 1972 FROM A TV APPEARANCE ON THE BBC PERFORMING ‘GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD’

HAPPY BDAY TO GUITARIST MICK TAYLOR

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 17, 2019… HAPPY 70TH BIRTHDAY TO MICK TAYLOR, ONE OF THE BEST DAMN GUITARISTS THAT WAS EVER PART OF THE ROLLING STONES. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE ROLLING STONES FROM 1969-1974 AND APPEARED ON CLASSIC STONES ALBUMS LIKE ‘LET IT BLEED’, ‘STICKY FINGERS’ ‘EXILE ON MAIN STREET’ AND ‘IT’S ONLY ROCK N’ ROLL’. THERE WERE MANY REASONS GIVEN FOR TAYLOR LEAVING THE BAND. IT’S BEEN STATED HE WAS PROMISED WRITING CREDITS FOR SOME OF THE SONGS HE WORKED ON AND THEN DIDN’T RECEIVE THEM. ANOTHER REASON WAS HE LEFT TO PROTECT HIS FAMILY FROM THE DRUG CULTURE THAT SURROUNDED THE STONES. WHATEVER THE REASON, TAYLOR ANNOUNCED HE WAS LEAVING THE GROUP IN DECEMBER OF 1974 AT A PARTY, AND IT COMPLETELY CAUGHT THE GROUP BY SURPRISE. HE WAS EVENTUALLY REPLACED BY RON WOOD.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MICK TAYLOR, GUITARIST EXTRAORDINAIRE ! HERE’S VINTAGE STONES WITH TAYLOR EXCHANGING RIFFS WITH KEITH RICHARDS CIRCA 1972 DURING A BAND REHEARSAL.

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photo thanks-Dina Regine – https://www.flickr.com/photos/divadivadina/3374002853/in/set-72157600312484431?edited=1

NEIL YOUNG ”HEART OF GOLD”

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 17, 2019…ON THIS DATE IN 1972 NEIL YOUNG RELEASED THE SINGLE “HEART OF GOLD”

YOUNG WROTE THE SONG IN 1971 AFTER HE HAD SUFFERED A BACK INJURY WHICH MADE IT DIFFICULT TO PLAY THE ELECTRIC GUITAR, SO ON THE HARVEST ALBUM HE PLAYED ACOUSTIC GUITAR. THIS SONG WAS RECORDED AT THE FIRST SESSIONS FOR THE ‘HARVEST’ ALBUM.

A QUICK SONG FACT FOR YOU. THE SONG FEATURES BACKGROUND VOCALS FROM JAMES TAYLOR AND LINDA RONSTADT .

‘HEART OF GOLD’ BECAME YOUNG’S BIGGEST HIT.

HERE’S YOUNG PERFORMING THE SONG FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 1971

PRETENDERS-LEARNING TO CRAWL

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 17, 2019…THE YEAR WAS 1984 AND THE PRETENDERS RELEASED THEIR 3RD ALBUM ‘LEARNING TO CRAWL’. THIS ALBUM CAME AFTER A 2 YEAR HIATUS, DURING WHICH TIME FOUNDING MEMBERS OF THE BAND PETE FARNDON AND JAMES HONEYMAN-SCOTT BOTH DIED OF DRUG OVERDOSES.

THE ACTUAL NAME OF THE ALBUM ‘LEARNING TO CRAWL’, WAS OFFERED UP BY CHRISSIE HYNDE. HER DAUGHTER NATALIE RAE HYNDE WAS LEARNING TO CRAWL AT THE TIME CHRISSIE WAS TRYING TO DREAM UP A NAME FOR THE RECORD. THANK GOD IT WASN’T ‘FULL DIAPER’

HERE’S A VIDEO OF THE PRETENDERS PERFORMING ‘MY CITY WAS GONE’

SCORPIONS ‘LOVEDRIVE’

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 15, 2019…TODAY IS THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ALBUM ‘LOVEDRIVE’ BY THE SCORPIONS. ‘LOVEDRIVE’ WAS THE 6TH STUDIO ALBUM FROM THE BAND, AND WAS THE FIRST RECORD BY THE GROUP TO DENT THE TOP 50 ON THE BILLBOARD ALBUM CHART. IT WAS ALSO THE FIRST SCORPIONS RECORD TO FEATURE MATTHIAS JABS ON GUITAR.

HERE ARE THE SCORPIONS FROM 1985 PERFORMING ‘LOVING YOU SUNDAY MORNING’ AT THE OAKLAND COLISEUM

TODAY WOULD HAVE BEEN RONNIE VAN ZANT’S 71ST BIRTHDAY

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 15, 2019…RONNIE VAN ZANT PASSED AWAY ON OCT 20,1977 WHEN THE PLANE CARRYING LYNYRD SKYNYRD CRASHED IN MISSISSIPPI. HE WAS ONLY 29 YEARS OLD. ACCORDING TO HIS BANDMATES AND FAMILY MEMBERS, RONNIE WOULD TELL THEM ALL THE TIME THAT HE “WOULD NEVER BE 30 YEARS OLD”, AND ACCORDING TO FORMER BANDMATE ARTIMUS PYLE HE SAID THAT “THE MAN KNEW HIS DESTINY’. SPOOKY STUFF.

TODAY, VAN ZANT WOULD HAVE BEEN 71. HERE’S AN ISOLATED TRACK OF RONNIE VAN ZANT SINGING “SIMPLE MAN”. ENJOY

I CAN’T EXPLAIN- THE WHO

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 15, 2019…THE SINGLE ‘I CAN’T EXPLAIN’ WAS RELEASED ON THIS DATE 54 YEARS AGO IN AMERICA. IT WAS THE FIRST SINGLE TO BE RELEASED BY THE GROUP UNDER THE NAME ‘THE WHO’. THEIR PREVIOUS SINGLE WAS ACTUALLY RELEASED UNDER THE NAME ‘THE HIGH NUMBERS’. HERE’S A BIT OF TRIVIA ON ‘I CAN’T EXPLAIN’. JIMMY PAGE OF LED ZEPPELIN CLAIMS TO HAVE PLAYED GUITAR ON THE SINGLE WHEN HE WAS DOING SESSION WORK. THIS WAS CONFIRMED BY PETE TOWNSEND, HOWEVER, PAGE’S CONTRIBUTION IS SAID TO NOT HAVE MADE THE FINAL MIX !!! WTF !! HOW DO YOU CUT OUT JIMMY PAGE’S GUITAR WORK ?!?!

HERE’S THE WHO WITH ‘I CAN’T EXPLAIN’ AND A VIDEO FROM 1971 WHEN THE BAND PERFORMED AT THE FILLMORE EAST.

JOHN FOGERTY RELEASED THE ALBUM ‘CENTERFIELD’

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 15, 2019…AFTER A NINE YEAR HIATUS FROM RECORDING, JOHN FOGERTY CAME ROARING BACK IN 1985 WITH THE ALBUM ‘CENTERFIELD’. THE REASON FOGERTY SAT ON THE SIDELINES FOR SO LONG WAS HE HATED HIS RECORD COMPANY WHO OWNED THE RIGHTS TO ANY MUSIC HE MADE. WHEN HE SETTLED HIS DISPUTE HE CAME OUT WITH ‘CENTERFIELD’. FOGERTY PLAYED ALL THE INSTRUMENTS ON THE ALBUM HIMSELF.

HERE’S A GREAT LIVE VERSION OF CENTERFIELD

YOU WANT TO SEE A JAM SESSION THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND, CHECK THIS OUT

LAMONT AND TONELLI’S 2019 CELEBRITY DEAD POOL

Here is the list of everyone’s picks from the 2019 Celebrity Dead Pool Draft.

Lamont

1. Leah Bracknell
2. 6ix9ine
3. Bob Barker
4. Loretta Lynn
5. Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi
6. Bob Newhart
7. Jimmy Carter
8. Larry King
9. Larry Flynt
10. Ayman Al-Zawahiri
11. Pope Benedict XVI

Tonelli

1. Bill Cosby
2. Jerry Stiller
3. Demi Lovato
4. Tommy Lasorda
5. Pete Davidson
6. Tony Bennett
7. Sean Connery
8. Betty White
9. Suge Knight
10. Roman Reigns
11. Joni Mitchell

Chasta

1. Hugh Downs
2. Carol Channing
3. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
4. Carl Reiner
5. Henry Kissinger
6. Doris Day
7. Hal Holbrook
8. Dick Van Dyke
9. Harvey Weinstein
10. Jerry Sandusky
11. Bashar al-Assad

Baby Huey

1. Billy Connolly
2. Olivia Newton-John
3. Tom Sizemore
4. Artie Lange
5. Bob Dole
6. Tim Curry
7. Robert Blake
8. Little Richard
9. Don King
10. Gary Glitter
11. Jerry Lee Lewis