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LAMONT GIVES CHASTA HER MONEY FOR WINNING THE 2018 CELEBRITY DEAD POOL

Congrats to Chasta for winning the 2018 Celebrity Dead Pool. This morning Lamont had the pleasure of handing over her winning cash.

Below are the final scores from the 2018 Celebrity Death Pool.

1. Chasta – 25 Points
2. Tonelli – 24 Points
3. Lamont – 23 Points
4. Baby Huey – 0 Points

Lamont

1. Burt Reynolds (Passed away on September 6th, 2018. He was 82 years old.) (18 Points)
2. Jack Nicholson
3. Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi
4. Ayman Al-Zawahiri
5. Stan Lee (Passed away on November 12th, 2018. He was 95 years old.) (5 Points)
6. Don Cherry
7. Saif Al-Adel
8. Dick Van Dyke
9. Leah Bracknell
10. Regis Philbin

Tonelli

1. Willie Nelson
2. Richard Simmons
3. Don King
4. Val Kilmer
5. Jake Roberts
6. Stephen Hawking (Passed away on March 14th, 2018. He was 76 years old.) (24 Points)
7. Cher
8. Bam Margera
9. Charlie Sheen
10. Ronnie Wood

Baby Huey

1. Bill Cosby
2. Tom Brokaw
3. Valerie Harper
4. Larry King
5. Tim Curry
6. Ric Flair
7. Kris Kristofferson
8. Sean Connery
9. Aaron Carter
10. Little Richard

Chasta

1. John McCain (Passed away on August 25th, 2018. He was 81 years old.) (19 Points)
2. Kim Jong-un
3. George H. W. Bush (Passed away on November 30th, 2018. He was 94 years old.) (6 Points)
4. Harvey Weinstein
5. Bob Barker
6. Artie Lange
7. Doris Day
8. Matt Lauer
9. Jared Fogel
10. Bob Dole

LED ZEP’S LAST STUDIO ALBUM

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 7, 2019- ON THIS DATE 39 YEARS AGO LED ZEPPELIN’S ‘IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR’ WAS CERTIFIED PLATINUM. THIS WOULD BE THE FINAL ZEPPELIN STUDIO ALBUM RELEASED BEFORE THE PASSING OF DRUMMER JOHN BONHAM.

THE GROUP DISBANDED SHORTLY THEREAFTER. THE ALBUM ITSELF FEATURED UNIQUE MARKETING, WITH A PLAIN BROWN WRAPPER ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE RECORD. THE ACTUAL ALBUM JACKET FEATURED 6 DIFFERENT SLEEVES IN BLACK AND WHITE. IF YOU TOOK WATER TO THE SLEEVE IT WOULD PERMANENTLY GIVE YOU A COLORED PHOTO. HERE’S ZEPPELIN WITH A FANTASTIC LIVE VERSION OF THE FIRST SONG ON THE ALBUM. HERE’S ‘IN THE EVENING’

AEROSMITH IN OAKLAND

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 7, 2019-.IT WAS 1983 AND AEROSMITH WAS ON THE ROAD WITH THE ‘GET A GRIP’ TOUR, WHEN THEY PLAYED THE OAKLAND ARENA WITH PAT TRAVERS AS THE WARM UP ACT. THE ORIGINAL OPENING ACT FOR THE TOUR WAS MEGADETH, BUT MEGADETH WAS DROPPED 6 WEEKS INTO THE TOUR WHEN DAVE MUSTAINE WAS DOING A RADIO INTERVIEW AND TALKED SMACK ABOUT AEROSMITH, SAYING ‘WE THINK WE OUGHTA BE HEADLINING, BUT WE DON’T MIND, BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS THIS IS AEROSMITH’S LAST HARRAH’. MEGADETH WAS DROPPED IMMEDIATELY AS A WARM UP ACT ON THE TOUR. BTW, BY THE END OF THE TOUR ‘GET A GRIP’ SOLD 12 MILLION COPIES.

HERE’S A HUGE SONG FROM THE CD, THIS IS ‘LIVIN’ ON THE EDGE’

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HAGAR’S BEST SOLO ALBUM-STANDING PENIS

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 6, 2019…SAMMY HAGAR RELEASED THE ALBUM ‘STANDING HAMPTON’ ON THIS DATE IN 1982.IT WAS ORIGINALLY GOING TO BE TITLED ‘THERE’S ONLY ONE WAY TO ROCK’ UNTIL AN ENGLISH FAN TOLD HIM THE TERM ‘HAMPTON’ IS SLANG FOR THE WORD PENIS. THUS, ‘STANDING HAMPTON’ WAS THE NEW ALBUM TITLE !

‘STANDING HAMPTON’ WAS SAMMY’S FIRST EVER ALBUM TO GO PLATINUM, AND IT SPAWNED 5 HIT SINGLES.

ONE OF MY FAVORITE HAGAR SONGS WAS ON THIS ALBUM, AND HERE’S SAMMY WITH A LIVE VERSION.

FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 6, 2019…SOME CALL IT THE GREATEST LIVE ALBUM EVER RECORDED. 43 YEARS AGO PETER FRAMPTON RELEASED THE DOUBLE LIVE ALBUM “FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE”. THE ALBUM WAS RECORDED PRIMARILY AT THE WINTERLAND CONCERT VENUE IN SF. IT WAS THE NUMBER ONE ALBUM IN AMERICA FOR OVER 10 STRAIGHT WEEKS, AND HAS SOLD OVER AN ESTIMATED 11 COPIES.

HERE’S A TREAT, FRAMPTON PERFORMING ‘DO YOU FEEL LIKE WE DO’ IN THE SUMMER OF 1977 AT THE OAKLAND COLISEUM. MAYBE YOU’LL SPOT YOURSELF OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IN THE CROWD.

MALCOLM’S BIRTHDAY

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 6, 2019…TODAY MALCOLM YOUNG WOULD HAVE BEEN 66 YEARS OLD. MALCOLM OF COURSE IS BEST KNOWN AS THE CO-FOUNDER OF AC/DC. HE WAS THE RHYTHM GUITARIST, BACKING VOCALIST AND SONGWRITER FOR THE GROUP. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF A BRIEF ABSENCE FROM THE BAND IN 1988, MALCOLM WAS WITH THE BAND FROM ITS INCEPTION IN NOVEMBER OF 1973 UNTIL RETIRING DUE TO HEALTH REASONS IN 2014.

HERE’S CLASSIC AC/DC.

R.I.P MALCOLM

photo thanks-Yves LeFouRire Dufour

AEROSMITH’S DEBUT

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 5, 2019…IT WAS 46 YEARS AGO A YOUNG BAND FROM BOSTON RELEASED THEIR SELF TITLED DEBUT ALBUM. THIS IS THE ALBUM COVER FROM THE FIRST PRESSING OF THE ALBUM. ON THE ORIGINAL COVER, THE SONG ‘WALKIN THE DOG’ WAS MISPRINTINTED AS ‘WALKIN’ THE DIG’. WHEN A SECOND PRESSING WAS ISSUED THE MISSPELLING WAS CORRECTED, AND A NEW COVER WAS ISSUED FEATURING A BIGGER PICTURE OF THE BAND MEMBERS.

HERE’S A GREAT VERSION OF ‘DREAM ON’


AEROSMITH’S COMEBACK

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 5, 2019…31 YEARS AGO AEROSMITH RELEASED THE SINGLE “ANGEL”. IT WAS THE SECOND SINGLE FROM THEIR COMEBACK ALBUM ‘PERMANENT VACATION’.

PRIOR TO THIS RECORD, THE BAND’S PREVIOUS HIT WAS A REMAKE OF ‘COME TOGETHER’ IN 1978. AFTER YEARS OF DRUG ADDICTION, AND POORLY SELLING RECORDS, THE GROUP WAS CONVINCED BY THEIR RECORD COMPANY TO BRING IN OUTSIDE SONG WRITERS. THE FIRST SONG OFF THE ALBUM WAS ‘DUDE(LOOKS LIKE A LADY)’. WHEN THE BAND RELEASED ‘ANGEL’ IT CEMENTED THE GROUP’S COMEBACK, BECOMING AEROSMITH’S BIGGEST CHARTING SONG TO THAT POINT.

TAKING YOU BACK TO 1988, HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FROM AEROSMITH

MARILYN MANSON TURNS 50

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 5, 2019…TODAY IS MARILYN MANSON’S 50TH BIRTHDAY. BORN BRIAN HUGH WARNER, MANSON CAME UP WITH HIS STAGE NAME BY COMBINING TWO CONTRASTING FIGURES IN AMERICAN POP CULTURE, MARILYN MONROE AND CHARLES MANSON. MANSON HAS TRADEMARKED HIS NAME, AND IT’S OWNED BY BRIAN WARNER. HE SAID IT’S LIKE WALT DISNEY TRADEMARKING MICKEY MOUSE. MANSON HAD AN INTERESTING CHILDHOOD, SAYING HIS FATHER WENT CRAZY AND LEFT WHEN HE WAS SIX, AND HIS MOTHER WAS A DANCER FOR THE ROCK GROUP ‘MOUNTAIN’.

HERE’S A FULL SHOW FROM MANSON FROM 1997’S ‘BIZARRE FESTIVAL’.

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