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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39 YEARS AGO TODAY RUSH KICKED OFF 1980 WITH THE ALBUM ‘PERMANENT WAVES’. THIS WAS THE FIRST OF 14 PLATINUM ALBUMS FOR RUSH. QUICK FACT, IN TERMS OF SALES, RUSH IS BEHIND ONLY THE BEATLES AND THE ROLLING STONES FOR MOST CONSECUTIVE GOLD OR PLATINUM ALBUMS BY A ROCK BAND.
HERE’S RUSH IN THEIR HOMETOWN OF TORONTO. THIS TRULY IS GREAT CONCERT FOOTAGE.
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THE YEAR WAS 1975 AND ON THIS DATE FLEETWOOD MAC ANNOUNCED THE ADDITION OF 2 NEW MEMBERS THAT WOULD HAVE A MONUMENTAL EFFECT ON THE COURSE OF THE BAND’S FUTURE. ON THIS DATE IN ‘75 STEVIE NICKS AND LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM JOINED THE GROUP.
WITH THE ADDITION OF THESE TWO MEMBERS, FLEETWOOD MAC BECAME ON OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL GROUPS IN MUSIC HISTORY, SELLING OVER 100 MILLION ALBUMS WORLDWIDE. THE ALBUM ‘RUMOURS’
ALONE HAS SOLD OVER 40 MILLION UNITS, AND IS ONE OF THE BEST SELLING ALBUMS OF ALL TIME.
THIS IS AN OUTSTANDING VERSION OF ‘RHIANNON’, FILMED IN 1976 DURING A REHEARSAL FOR A TV SHOW.
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 31, 2018…HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BURTON CUMMINGS, THE FORMER LEAD SINGER FOR THE GUESS WHO. FROM 1965 TO 1975 WITH CUMMINGS LEADING THE WAY, THE GUESS WHO CRANKED OUT A TON OF HIT RECORDS. HE EITHER WROTE , CO-WROTE AND SANG
‘AMERICAN WOMAN’, ‘NO TIME’, ‘HAND ME DOWN WORLD’, ‘THESE EYES’ AND ‘LAUGHING’. IN 1970 THE GUESS WHO SOLD MORE RECORDS THAN ANY OTHER GROUP IN THE WORLD.
JIMMY PAGE OF LED ZEPPELIN ONCE SAID THAT ONE OF THE BEST SINGERS HE’S EVER HEARD WAS “THAT GUY WHO SINGS FOR THE GUESS WHO”
HERE’S A GREAT APPEARANCE FROM 1973 AND THE SHOW ‘IN CONCERT’
SHOWING OFF BURTON CUMMINGS CHOPS. ENJOY. HAPPY 71ST BIRTHDAY BURTON CUMMINGS
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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 31, 2018… HAPPY 76TH BIRTHDAY TO GUITARIST ANDY SUMMERS OF THE POLICE. BEFORE JOINING THE POLICE, SUMMERS WAS IN A VARIETY OF BANDS IN ENGLAND, AND IN 1968 WAS EVEN RECORDED AN ALBUM AS A MEMBER OF ‘ERIC BURDON AND THE ANIMALS’. HE JOINED ‘THE POLICE’ IN 1977 AND GAINED WORLDWIDE FAME. THE BAND BROKE UP AT THE HEIGHT OF THEIR POPULARITY AFTER SELLING 80 MILLION RECORDS. A LOT OF THE HOSTILITY THAT LED TO THEIR BREAK-UP WAS SONG SELECTION ON THE ALBUMS. EACH MEMBER WANTED MORE SONGS ON THE ALBUMS, MAINLY BECAUSE THE WRITER RECEIVED THE ROYALTIES, AS THE BAND DIDN’T SHARE IN SONGWRITING ROYALTIES.
HERE’S SUMMERS WITH THE POLICE
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HOW’S THIS FOR A NEW YEARS EVE PARTY ? RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, NIRVANA & PEARL JAM. THAT WAS THE LINE UP AT THE COW PALACE NEW YEARS EVE 1991
NIRVANA NEW YEARS EVE 1991 FROM THE COW PALACE
HERE’S THE PEARL JAM SET FROM THE COW PALACE 12-31-91
AND THE ENTIRE RHCP SET FROM THE COW PALACE
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I DON’T THINK THERE’S A BETTER SINGER THAN DAVE MENIKETTI.
TONIGHT YOU CAN CATCH MENIKETTI IN ACTION WITH Y&T IN BERKELEY AT THE CORNER STONE.
TO PRIME YOU UP FOR THE SHOW, HERE’S Y&T WITH ‘MEAN STREAK’
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THE WINTERLAND BALLROOM, OR ‘WINTERLAND’ AS MOST PEOPLE CALLED IT, WAS AN HISTORIC CONCERT VENUE AT THE CORNER OF POST AND STEINER IN SF. BILL GRAHAM PURCHASED THE VENUE IN 1971 AND TURNED IT INTO A KEY BAY AREA CONCERT VENUE. ONE OF THOSE SHOWS WAS
40 YEARS AGO, WHEN TOM PETTY PUT ON AN OUTSTANDING SHOW.
HERE’S THE FULL CONCERT FROM THE WINTERLAND
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IT WAS ON THIS DATE IN 2015 BILLBOARD MAGAZINE ANNOUNCED THAT SLASH WOULD OFFICIALLY REJOIN GUNS ‘N ROSES TO HEADLINE COACHELLA. THIS LEAD TO THE “NOT IN THIS LIFETIME….” TOUR.
HERE’S PRO VIDEO AND AUDIO OF G’NR’S 2016 TOUR
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EDGAR WINTER CELEBRATES HIS 72nd BIRTHDAY TODAY .
EDGAR WINTER IS THE YOUNGER BROTHER OF LATE MUSICIAN JOHNNY WINTER. BOTH HE AND JOHNNY WERE BORN WITH ALBINISM. IN 1972, EDGAR BROUGHT TOGETHER A GROUP OF MUSICIANS TO FORM ‘THE EDGAR WINTER GROUP’. THE ORIGINAL GUITARIST FOR THE GROUP WAS THE BAY AREA’S RONNIE MONTROSE. THEY HIT IT BIG WITH THE ALBUM ‘THE ONLY COME OUT AT NIGHT’. THE ALBUM STAYED IN THE TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART FOR OVER 80 WEEKS.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY EDGAR.
HERE’S FRANKENSTEIN FROM ‘THEY ONLY COME OUT AT NIGHT’
