Neal Schon’s Journey Through Time featuring Gregg Rolie, Deen Castronovo, Marti Frederiksen, Marco Mendoza and Chris Collins will be at The Fox Theater in Oakland on Saturday, February 23rd.
Tickets go on sale Friday, January 11th at 10am through: www.apeconcerts.com
For more info go to: www.thefoxoakland.com
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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 11, 2019…ON JANUARY 11 1980, TOM PETTY RELEASED THE SINGLE REFUGEE. IT WAS THE FIRST OF TWO HIT SONGS FROM THE ALBUM ‘DAMN THE TORPEDOES’.
PETTY WROTE THIS SONG BECAUSE HE WAS PISSED OFF AT HIS RECORD COMPANY FOR TRYING TO SELL HIS RECORDING CONTRACT TO ANOTHER COMPANY WITHOUT TELLING THE BAND.
HE WAS SO UPSET WITH ‘ABC RECORDS’ IT SET THE TONE OF THE RECORD ON ‘DAMN THE TORPEDOES’ AND SPECIFICALLY ‘REFUGEE.’
THE BAND PERFORMED THIS SONG ON THEIR FIRST SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE PERFORMANCE, AND ACTUALLY SHOT A MUSIC VIDEO FOR REFUGEE BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T WANT TO APPEAR ON THE MERV GRIFFIN SHOW,
R.I.P. TOM PETTY. YOU WILL LIVE ON FOREVER WITH YOUR MUSIC. HERE’S THE VIDEO FOR REFUGEE
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 11, 2019…48 YEARS AGO THE ALBUM “PEARL” BY JANIS JOPLIN WAS POSTHUMOUSLY RELEASED. THIS WAS ONLY THE SECOND SOLO RECORD RELEASE BY JOPLIN, AND THE LAST ALBUM THAT INVOLVED HER DIRECT PARTICIPATION. JOPLIN. ALL NINE SONGS ON ‘PEARL’ WERE PERSONALLY APPROVED AND ARRANGED BY JOPLIN. IT’S ALSO THE ONLY JOPLIN ALBUM RECORDED WITH ‘THE FULL TILT BOOGIE BAND’ HER FINAL TOURING GROUP.
SADLY, ON OCTOBER 4,1970 JOPLIN WAS FOUND DEAD IN ROOM 105 OF THE LANDMARK HOTEL OF A HEROIN OVERDOSE.
SHE LEFT $1500 IN HER WILL FOR A FUNERAL PARTY. THE PARTY WAS HELD OCT 26,1971 AT THE LION’S SHARE IN SAN ANSELMO. THE GRATEFUL DEAD PERFORMED.
THIS VIDEO WITH BLOW YOU AWAY. JOPLIN LIVE IN 1970.
Lamont and Tonelli interviewed Bob-O for his weekly Football picks.
Pro’s:
Take New Orleans (buy 1 pt.) -7 vs. Philadelphia @ New Orleans
Take Kansas City -5.5 vs. Indianapolis @ K.C.
Take L.A. Rams (buy 1 pt) -6 vs. Dallas @ Los Angeles
Take L.A. Chargers +4 vs. New England @ New England
John Mellencamp is returning to the Bay Area to play the Paramount Theatre in Oakland on Thursday, April 25th.
For tickets and more info go to: www.paramounttheatre.com
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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 10, 2019… HAPPY 64TH BIRTHDAY TO MICHAEL SCHENKER. SHENKAR WAS AN EARLY MEMBER OF THE SCORPIONS, JOINED UFO IN 1978 AS THEIR LEAD GUITARIST, AND THEN WENT ON TO FORM THE MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP.
HERE’S SOME EARLY SCHENKER WITH UFO, A LIVE VERSION OF ‘DOCTOR DOCTOR’
photo thanks- best rock photoman ever-https://www.facebook.com/pg/jimmyosheehan
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 10, 2019…HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ROD STEWART. STEWART IS ONE OF MUSIC’S BIGGEST SELLING ARTISTS, HAVING SOLD OVER 100 MILLION RECORDS. STEWART CAME INTO PROMINENCE AS A SINGER OF ‘THE JEFF BECK GROUP’, AND THEN AS THE LEAD SINGER OF ‘THE FACES’ BEFORE STRIKING OUT ON HIS OWN AND HAVING A MONSTER SOLO CAREER. STEWART HAS 8 CHILDREN WITH 5 DIFFERENT BABY MAMA’S. HIS LATEST CHILD WAS BORN 7 YEARS AGO, WHEN STEWART WAS 67 !
HERE’S STEWART PERFORMING ‘MAGGIE MAY’ ON THE BBC CIRCA 1971
THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES, ROD STEWART WITH JEFF BECK, THE VIDEO FOR ‘PEOPLE GET READY’
photo thanks-jim sheehan https://www.facebook.com/jimmyosheehan/
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 10,2019… FORTY SEVEN YEARS AGO JACKSON BROWNE RELEASED HIS SELF TITLED DEBUT ALBUM. THE ALBUM IS OFTEN MISTAKENLY REFERRED TO AS SATURATE BEFORE USING, BECAUSE THE WORDS APPEAR ON THE COVER. IT WAS ACTUALLY DESIGNED TO LOOK LIKE A WATER BAG. THE RECORD COMPANY WANTED THE TERM REMOVED TO AVOID ANY CONFUSION. IT ENDED UP ON THE FINAL PRESSING, AND THEN THE CONFUSION ENSUED.
THE ALBUM’S SUCCESS WAS FUELED WITH THE TOP TEN SINGLE ‘DOCTOR MY EYES’.
HERE’S JACKSON BROWNE FROM 1978 WITH AN APPEARANCE ON THE BBC
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 10, 2019…THIRTY YEARS AGO METALLICA RELEASED THE EPIC SINGLE ‘ONE’.
THE SONG IS ABOUT A SOLDIER FIGHTING IN THE WAR AND A MORTAR BLOWS OFF HIS FACE. HE CAN’T HEAR, SEE, SMELL, TASTE AND DOESN’T HAVE ARMS OR LEGS. HE COMES OUT OF A COMA IN THE HOSPITAL. THE DOCTORS IN THE HOSPITAL ARE WORRIED BECAUSE HE’S HAVING SPASMS ALL THE TIME. THEY CALL IN THE GENERAL, AND HE DOESN’T RECOGNIZE WHAT’S HAPPENING EITHER, BUT A SOLDIER WITH THE GENERAL REALIZES IT’S MORSE CODE. THE GENERAL ASKS WHAT HE’S SAYING, AND THE SOLDIER TELLS HIM HE’S SAYING K-I-L-L- M-E OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
HERE’S METALLICA’S ONE
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 10, 2019…TWO DAYS AFTER HIS BIRTHDAY AND THE RELEASE OF HIS ALBUM ‘BLACKSTAR’ THE WORLD WAS SHOCKED WITH THE NEWS OF DAVID BOWIE’S PASSING. HIS 2016 DEATH REALLY CAME AS A JOLT TO MUSIC FANS. BOWIE DIED IN HIS NEW YORK CITY APARTMENT OF LIVER CANCER, WHICH HE HAD KEPT SECRET. AFTER HIS DEATH, BOWIE’S FAMILY REVEALED HE HAD BEEN DIAGNOSED 18 MONTHS EARLIER.
THE DAY FOLLOWING HIS DEATH, FANS FLOCKED TO THE MUSIC SITE VEVO, AND STREAMED HIS MUSIC VIDEOS A TOTAL OF 51 MILLION TIMES, SETTING A RECORD FOR WEBSITE. THE PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 36 MILLION TIMES IN A 24 HOUR PERIOD SET BY ADELE.
HERE’S A TWO HOUR BOWIE CONCERT FROM JAPAN. GREAT CAMERA WORK AND AUDIO. ENJOY
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