Ouch! Last night Lamont went to the San Jose Sharks game. A puck was thrown to him, despite having his hands full, he tried catching the puck with one hand, instead the puck hit him on his finger.
LOOK AT LAMONT’S FINGER AFTER TRYING TO CATCH A PUCK
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVE MATTHEWS
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 9, 2019…HAPPY 52ND BIRTHDAY TO DAVE MATTHEWS. DAVE MATTHEWS WAS BORN IN SOUTH AFRICA. HIS FATHER WAS AN EMPLOYEE OF IBM, AND AT THE AGE OF 2, THE FAMILY MOVED TO VIRGINIA. THEN THE FAMILY MOVED BACK TO SOUTH AFRICA WHEN HE WAS 13. MATTHEWS THEN MOVED BACK TO AMERICA WHEN HE WAS 18 BECAUSE HE WAS DRAFTED AND DIDN’T WANT TO FIGHT FOR A RACIST COUNTRY.
THIS IS AN AMAZING FACT, DURING THE PERIOD FROM 2000 TO 2010, THE DAVE MATTHEWS BAND HAS EARNED MORE MONEY, AND SOLD MORE CONCERT TICKETS THAN ANY OTHER BAND IN AMERICA.
HERE’S AN ENTIRE DAVE MATTHEWS CONCERT, ENJOY !!
photo thanks-Matthew Straubmuller
RUSH’S THIRD LIVE ALBUM
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 9,2019…TODAY IS THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF RUSH’S LIVE ALBUM ‘A SHOW OF HANDS’. THE BAND ALSO RELEASED THIS ON VIDEO, AND BEING IT WAS 1989, IT WAS ON VHS AND LASERDISC.
THE DVD VERSION DEBUTED IN 2006 AS PART OF A BOX SET, AND WAS SOLD AS AN INDIVIDUAL DVD IN 2007 ( I GUESS THEY WERE WAITING TO SEE IF THE DVD TECHNOLOGY WOULD CATCH ON !!)
A MAJORITY OF THE SONGS WERE RECORDED DURING THE 1988 ‘HOLD YOUR FIRE’ TOUR. A HUGE SONG ON THE ALBUM WAS ‘SUBDIVISIONS’. HERE’S A LIVE VERSION FROM 1990
HAPPY 75TH BDAY JIMMY PAGE
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 9, 2019…JIMMY PAGE OF COURSE IS THE FOUNDER AND LEAD GUITARIST OF LED ZEPPELIN, AND IS CONSIDERED TO BE ONE OF, IF NOT THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL GUITARISTS OF ALL-TIME. LED ZEPPELIN IS ONE OF THE GREATEST SELLING BANDS OF ALL-TIME, SELLING MORE THAN 300 MILLION ALBUMS. THIS BLEW MY MIND. PAGE TOOK ONLY A FEW GUITAR LESSONS, AND IS MAINLY SELF TAUGHT !
HERE’S PAGE AND THE OFFICIAL LED ZEPPELIN VIDEO FOR “THE OCEAN”
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VH’S 1984
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 9, 2019…TODAY IS THE 35TH ANNIVERSARY OF VAN HALEN’S ‘1984’. IT WAS THE SIXTH VAN HALEN ALBUM, AND THE LAST ONE UNTIL ‘A DIFFERENT KIND OF TRUTH’ IN 2012 TO FEATURE DAVID LEE ROTH. ROTH LEFT THE GROUP IN 1985. THE ALBUM ‘1984’ AND VAN HALEN’S DEBUT ARE THE BANDS BEST SELLING ALBUMS. EACH HAS SOLD OVER 10 MILLION COPIES.
BTW, THIS MIGHT BE THE HOTTEST WOMAN EVER TO APPEAR IN A VAN HALEN VIDEO.
HERE’S ‘I’LL WAIT’
WTF, RENEGADE IS HOW OLD !?!
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 9, 2019…IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT EXACTLY 40 YEARS AGO STYX RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘RENEGADE’. THE SONG TELLS THE STORY OF A MAN THAT WAS CONVICTED OF A CRIME AND WAS HEADING TO THE GALLOWS TO DIE. ENCLOSED IN THE LYRICS ARE A LETTER TO HIS MOTHER. RENEGADE WAS WRITTEN BY TOMMY SHAW WHO ALSO SANG LEAD VOCALS, WHILE JAMES YOUNG SUPPLIED THE LEAD GUITAR RIFFS.
HERE’S STYX WITH A LIVE VERSION OF RENEGADE
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 8, 2019-DAVID BOWIE’S BIRTHDAY
Photo Thanks-Rosana Prada
TODAY WOULD HAVE BEEN DAVID BOWIE’S 72ND BIRTHDAY. HE WAS BORN DAVID ROBERT JONES, BUT CHANGED HIS NAME IN 1966 TO AVOID CONFUSION WITH DAVY JONES OF THE MONKEES. IN AN INTERVIEW HE SAID THAT THE NAME ‘BOWIE’ COMES FROM THE BOWIE KNIFE, THAT HE WAS LOOKING FOR A WORD THAT STOOD FOR ‘’TRUISM, AND CUTTING THROUGH THE LIES AND ALL THAT.’
MAY HE REST IN PEACE, HERE’S CLASSIC BOWIE
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 8, 2019- ‘ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL PART II’
ON THIS DATE 39 YEARS AGO PINK FLOYD RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL PART II’ IN AMERICA. NOW THIS IS SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE PINK FLOYD RARELY ISSUED SINGLES FROM THEIR ALBUMS. THEY FELT THEIR SONGS WERE BEST APPRECIATED WHEN TAKEN INTO THE CONTEXT OF THE ALBUMS. THEIR PRODUCER AT THE TIME CONVINCED THEM THAT THIS WOULDN’T HURT ALBUM SALES, AND WHEN THE BAND GAVE IT IT BECAME THEIR ONLY #1 HIT. TWO MORE SONGS WERE ULTIMATELY RELEASE AS SINGLES FROM THE ALBUM, ‘RUN LIKE HELL’ AND ‘COMFORTABLY NUMB’
HERE’S A TREAT, PINK FLOYD PERFORMING THE SONG IN CONCERT CIRCA 1980 (IT’S A LITTLE GRAINY, BUT IT IS VIDEO FROM 1980 FOR GOD’S SAKE)!
GO SEE STATE LINE EMPIRE ON FEBRUARY 9TH AT LONGBOARD MARGARITA BAR IN PACIFICA
Hey everyone, go see State Line Empire, Burn River Burn and Chasing Desolation on Saturday, February 9th at Longboard Margarita Bar in Pacifica.
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ROBBIE KRIEGER
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 8, 2019…HAPPY 73RD BIRTHDAY TO ROBBY KRIEGER. KRIEGER IS BEST KNOWN AS THE DOORS GUITARIST. A LOT OF PEOPLE DON’T KNOW THAT KRIEGER ACTUALLY LEARNED TO PLAY GUITAR WHILE LIVING IN THE BAY AREA. HE ATTENDED BOARDING SCHOOL IN MENLO PARK AND IT WAS WHILE HE WAS ATTENDING SCHOOL THAT HE DE-TUNED A UKULELE AND PLAYED ALONG WITH RECORDS. HE LATER WENT TO MEXICO ON A CHRISTMAS BREAK, AND BOUGHT A GUITAR AND LEARNED HOW TO PLAY FLAMENCO GUITAR. IT WAS WHILE AT MENLO SCHOOL HE FORMED A BAND AND PLAYED FLAMENCO, FOLK, BLUES AND JAZZ.
ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE CALLS KRIEGER ONE OF THE “GREATEST GUITARISTS OF ALL TIME”
KRIEGER WROTE OR CO-WROTE MANY OF THE DOORS HITS.
HERE’S GREAT VIDEO OF THE DOORS PERFORMING IN EUROPE IN 1968
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