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GET OUT THE RED LEATHER, IT’S THE ROMANTICS

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 4, 2019…THE ROMANTICS RELEASE THEIR SELF TITLED DEBUT ALBUM. THE ALBUM WAS DRIVEN BY THE SONG ‘WHAT I LIKE ABOUT YOU’. THE SONG CRACKED THE TOP 50 SINGLES ON THE BILLBOARD CHARTS. IT LATER BECAME A ROCK ANTHEM WHEN IT WAS FEATURED IN A BUDWEISER BEER AD. IN 1987 THE ROMANTICS SUED THE MAKERS OF ‘GUITAR HERO’ FOR INCLUDING A SOUNDALIKE VERSION ON THEIR GAME. THEY LOST THE CASE IN COURT WITH THE JUDGE RULING THAT THE GAME MAKER HAD TAKEN ALL THE NECESSARY STEPS IN THE MAKING OF THE GAME.

HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO THE ‘WHAT I LIKE ABOUT YOU’ WITH THE BAND SPORTING BACK PLEATHER OUTFITS.

NIRVANA’S BIG BREAK

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 3, 2019…NIRVANA SIGNED WITH GEFFEN RECORDS ON THIS DAY IN 1991. PRIOR TO SIGNING WITH GEFFEN, THE BAND RELEASE THEIR FIRST ALBUM ‘BLEACH’ THROUGH AN INDEPENDENT RECORD LABEL. THEIR FIRST ALBUM FOR GEFFEN WAS ‘NEVERMIND’. NEVERMIND WENT ON TO SELL OVER 30 MILLION COPIES WORLDWIDE AND HAD BEEN CALLED ONE OF THE GREAT ROCK ALBUMS. NIRVANA HAS SOLD OVER 75 MILLION ALBUMS WORLDWIDE.

HERE’S THE FIRST SINGLE RELEASE FOR ‘NEVERMIND’

BRUCE’S’ DEBUT ALBUM

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 4, 2019..ON THIS DATE 45 YEARS AGO BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN RELEASED HIS FIRST STUDIO ALBUM ‘GREETINGS FROM ASBURY PARK’. WHEN IT WAS RELEASED IT DIDN’T ENJOY GREAT COMMERCIAL SUCCESS, BUT IT HAD SIGNIFICANT CRITICAL IMPACT. THE ALBUM WAS RECORDED AT A LOW PRICED STUDIO TO SAVE AS MUCH MONEY AS POSSIBLE. IT TOOK ONE WEEK TO RECORD THE ALBUM FROM START TO FINISH.

HERE’S A GREAT VIDEO OF SPRINGSTEEN OF BRUCE IN CONCERT PERFORMING THE 1ST SONG ON THE ALBUM

R.E.M’S MICHAEL STIPE

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 4, 2019…HAPPY 59TH BIRTHDAY TO MICHAEL STIPE OF R.E.M. NOT ONLY WAS STIPE THE LEAD SINGER OF R.E.M , HE WAS ALSO IN CHARGE OF THE GROUP’S VISUAL ASPECTS, AS HE DESIGNED ALL OF THE ARTWORK FOR THE ALBUMS AND DIRECTED THE BANDS VIDEOS. STIPE ALSO OWNS 2 FILM PRODUCTION STUDIOS. IN 1999 HE PRODUCED THE MOVIE ‘BEING JOHN MALKOVICH’. HE IS OFTEN MISTAKEN FOR JOHN MALKOVICH. ONE THING THAT I FOUND INTERESTING ABOUT THE BAND R.E.M IS THEY ALL TAKE EQUAL CREDIT AND SHARE SONG ROYALTIES EQUALLY, REGARDLESS OF WHO ACTUALLY WROTE THE SONG.

HERE’S A GREAT LIVE VERSION OF R.E.M. PERFORMING ‘THE ONE I LOVE’

PHIL LYNOTT R.I.P.

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 4, 2019…SAD DAY ON THIS DATE IN 1986. PHIL LYNOTT OF THIN LIZZY PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 36. LYNOTT WAS THE FOUNDING MEMBER OF THIN LIZZY, AS WELL AS IT’S MAIN SONGWRITER, SINGER AND BASS PLAYER.

IN THE LATE 70’S EARLY 1980’S LYNOTT LEFT THIN LIZZY AND SUFFERED FROM DRUG RELATED PROBLEMS, PARTICULARLY HEROIN. ON XMAS DAY 1985, HIS MOTHER DISCOVERED HIM COMATOSE. HIS GIRLFRIEND KNEW HE WAS ON HEROIN, AND TOOK HIM TO A DRUG CLINIC, AND HE WAS THEN TRANSFERRED TO A HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH SEPTICAEMIA. HE RECOVERED ENOUGH TO BE PUT ON A VENTILATOR, BUT DIED DAYS LATER AT THE AGE OF 36. THE OFFICIAL CAUSE OF DEATH WAS ‘MULTIPLE INTERNAL ABSCESSES CAUSING BLOOD POISONING LEADING TO KIDNEY, LIVER, AND HEART FAILURE’.

THE STATUE OF PHIL LYNOTT WAS ERECTED IN 2005 ON GRAFTON STREET IN DUBLIN TO COMMEMORATE THE IRISH MUSICIAN.

HERE’S THIN LIZZY FROM A TELEVISION APPEARANCE IN THE 70’S.

THE GREATNESS OF THIN LIZZY AND PHIL LYNOTT ON DISPLAY WITH THIS FULL CONCERT FROM 1983.

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THE DOORS DEBUT

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 4, 2019-FIFTY TWO YEARS AGO THE DOORS RELEASED THEIR SELF TITLED DEBUT ALBUM. THIS ALBUM HAS BEEN INDUCTED INTO THE GRAMMY HALL OF FAME.

THE FIRST SINGLE FROM THE ALBUM WAS ‘BREAK ON THROUGH’ AND FIZZLED ON THE CHARTS. THE RECORD COMPANY DECIDED TO RELEASE THE SINGLE ‘LIGHT MY FIRE’ BUT CHOPPED IT DOWN FROM THE ALBUM VERSION WHICH CLOCKED IN AT 6:50. THE SINGLE VERSION CUT OUT ALL GUITAR PARTS AND WAS 2:52. AFTER GETTING A TON OF AIRPLAY, DISC JOCKEY’S REFUSED TO PLAY THE SHORT VERSION, AND PLAYED THE LONGER ALBUM VERSION. ‘LIGHT MY FIRE’ CATAPULTED THE GROUP INTO INSTANT STARDOM.

HERE’S A FANTASTIC LIVE VERSION OF ‘LIGHT MY FIRE’

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 3-HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEPHEN STILLS

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO STEPHEN STILLS. TODAY HE TURNS 74. STEPHEN STILLS IS KNOWN FOR HIS SOLO CAREER AND HIS WORK IN ‘BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD’ , CROSBY STILLS AND NASH, AND CROSBY STILLS, NASH AND YOUNG. STILLS’ SOLO CAREER AND GROUP SALES ARE OVER 35 MILLION ALBUMS. QUICK TRIVIA, HIS FIRST SOLO ALBUM AFTER LEAVING C,S,N & Y IS THE ONLY ALBUM TO FEATURE BOTH JIMI HENDRIX AND ERIC CLAPTON ON GUITAR.

THIS IS A SPECTACULAR VH1 DOCUMENTARY ON CSN&Y. ENJOY

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 3-LED ZEP’S JOHN PAUL JONE’S BDAY

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BORN JOHN RICHARD BALDWIN, HE’S BETTER KNOWN BY HIS STAGE NAME JOHN PAUL JONES. TODAY JOHN PAUL JONES OF LED ZEPPELIN IS 73. HE GOT HIS START AS A SUCCESSFUL STUDIO MUSICIAN IN ENGLAND AND CHANGED HIS NAME TO ‘JOHN PAUL JONES’ AFTER PUTTING OUT A SOLO PROJECT . IT WAS WHILE WORKING AS A SESSION MUSICIAN THAT HE MET JIMMY PAGE, AND THE TWO HOOKED UP. ROBERT PLANT AND JOHN BONHAM WERE ADDED AND LED ZEPPELIN WAS FORMED.

HERE’S SOME OUTSTANDING BASS WORK WITH SOME LIVE ZEP

AND AS AN ADDED TREAT HERE’S SOMETHING REALLY COOL. AN ISOLATED BASS TRACK FROM ‘JPJ’ PLAYING RAMBLE ON

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 2 -DID YOU CATCH CHEAP TRICK IN A BAR

IT WAS 1988 AND CHEAP TRICK PLAYED THE OLD ‘STONE’ NIGHTCLUB IN SF. THE LOCATION OF THE THE STONE WAS AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER THE HOME OF MANY BARS. ORIGINALLY OPENED BY MARTY BALIN OF JEFFERSON AIRPLANE AS ‘THE MATRIX’. HE OPENED IT AS A VENUE FOR HIS BAND TO PLAY.

DON CORNELIUS OF ‘SOUL TRAIN’ PURCHASED IT AND OF COURSE NAMED IT ‘SOUL TRAIN’ AND TURNED IT INTO A SOUL AND R&B BAR. WHEN IT OPENED AS ‘THE STONE’ IT WAS TIME TO ROCK ‘N ROLL AGAIN.

HERE’S CHEAP TRICK WITH A LIVE PERFORMANCE FROM 1979

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 2 -GREEN DAY’S AMERICAN IDIOT

14 YEARS AGO GREEN DAY HAD THE NUMBER 1 ALBUM IN THE USA WITH “AMERICAN IDIOT”. THIS WAS A MONSTER RECORD FOR THE BAND. WORLDWIDE, IT WAS #1 IN 19 COUNTRIES AND SOLD OVER 19 MILLION COPIES. IT ALSO WON THE GRAMMY AWARD IN 2005 FOR ‘THE BEST ROCK ALBUM’.

HERE’S GREEN DAY PERFORMING ONE OF 5 HUGE SONGS FROM THE CD, THIS IS ‘HOLIDAY’

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