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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 27, 2018… PAT TRAVERS AND CHEAP TRICK

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IT WAS 1979 AND PAT TRAVERS AND CHEAP TRICK ROCKED THE OAKLAND ARENA. BOTH BANDS WERE AT THE HEIGHT OF THEIR SUCCESS. PAT TRAVERS WAS FLYING HIGH WITH HIS ‘LIVE GO FOR WHAT YOU KNOW’ ALBUM, AND CHEAP TRICK STRUCK MAJOR GOLD WITH ‘LIVE AT THE BUDOKAN’ AND THE ‘DREAM POLICE’ ALBUM. THE COST TO GET INTO THE SHOW? A TICKET SET YOU BACK $ 8.50 !

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HERE’S PAT TRAVERS WITH SOME STRAIGHT AHEAD ROCK AND ROLL

HERE’S SOME VINTAGE CHEAP TRICK

AND A GREAT LIVE VERSION OF SURRENDER

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 26, 2018…HAPPY BIRTHDAY LARS

HAPPY 55th BIRTHDAY TO METALLICA’S LARS ULRICH.

LARS WAS BORN IN DENMARK AND MOVED TO THE UNITED STATES WHEN HE WAS 16 IN ORDER TO TRAIN TO BECOME A PROFESSIONAL TENNIS PLAYER. HE GOT HERE AND SAID F*** THAT , I WANT TO ROCK, AND STARTED PLAYING DRUMS.

HIS FIRST CONCERT WAS DEEP PURPLE,AND IT’S BEEN STATED THAT CATCHING A Y&T SHOW WAS HIS DEFINING MOMENT ON HIM DECIDING THAT HE WANTED TO BECOME A MUSICIAN.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LARS.

HERE’S LARS MAKING IT HAPPEN WITH METALLICA.

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 26, 2018…NIKKI SIXX WAS DEAD

THIS ONE HAS TO BE FILED UNDER THE HOLY S**T FILE !! ON THIS DAY IN 1987 NIKKI SIXX OF MOTLEY CRUE WAS PRONOUNCED ‘DEAD ON ARRIVAL’ IN AN AMBULANCE WHEN HIS HEART STOPPED BEATING FOR 2 MINUTES.

SIXX WAS GIVEN 2 SHOTS OF ADRENALINE IN HIS CHEST TO REVIVE HIM.

BTW, FELLOW BAND MEMBERS OF MOTLEY CRUE WERE PREMATURELY INFORMED OF HIS DEATH !

HERE’S THE SONG THAT CAME OUT OF THIS MESS !

THE CRUE WITH ‘KICKSTART MY HEART’

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 26, 2018..HENDRIX AND PURPLE HAZE

52 YEARS AGO JIMI HENDRIX WROTE THE LYRICS TO ‘PURPLE HAZE’ IN HIS DRESSING ROOM BETWEEN SHOWS AT A CLUB IN LONDON. HENDRIX ACTUALLY CLAIMS THAT ‘PURPLE HAZE’ HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH DRUGS.

HE CLAIMS THAT IT WAS INSPIRED BY A DREAM WHERE HE WAS WALKING UNDERWATER AND EVERYTHING WAS PURPLE. THE HAZE ENGULFED HIM AND IN THE DREAM HE WAS LOST. THE SONG ALSO INCLUDES ONE OF THE MOST MISHEARD LYRICS EVER “ SCUSE ME WHILE I KISS THE SKY”. MANY HAVE MISINTERPRETED THIS TO BE “SCUSE ME WHILE I KISS THIS GUY”.

HENDRIX ADDED TO THIS CONFUSION BY SINGING IT THAT WAY AND THEN POINTING TO ONE OF HIS BAND MEMBERS.

HERE’S HENDRIX PERFORMING THE SONG AT THE ATLANTA POP FESTIVAL

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 25, 2018…MERRY CLAYTON

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MERRY CLAYTON. MERRY CLAYTON HAS PROVIDED BACKGROUND VOCAL TRACKS FOR NUMEROUS ARTISTS OVER HER CAREER. HER MOST NOTABLE WAS HER DUET WITH MICK JAGGER ON ‘GIMME SHELTER’. HER ROLE AS BACKGROUND SINGER IS FEATURED IN THE DOCUMENTARY ‘20 FEET FROM STARDOM’.

HERE’S MERRY AND MICK JAGGER TELLING HER STORY

HERE’S HER ISOLATED VOCALS FROM GIMME SHELTER, AS WELL AS MICK’S

ANOTHER NOTABLE SONG THAT MERRY SANG ON WAS LYNYRD SKYNYRD’S ‘SWEET HOME ALABAMA’. HERE’S HER TAKE ON SUPPLYING VOCALS ON THIS CLASSIC SONG

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CONVERSELY SHE ALSO COVERED NEIL YOUNG’S SOUTHERN MAN

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 25, 2018…THE GODFATHER OF SOUL R.I.P.

JAMES BROWN DIED ON CHRISTMAS DAY 2006. HE WAS KNOWN AS THE ‘GODFATHER OF SOUL’. OVER THE COURSE OF HIS CAREER JAMES BROWN RELEASED 144 SINGLES AND HAD FIFTEEN #1 HITS. AT THE END OF THE 1960’S HE OWNED A PUBLISHING COMPANY, 3 RADIO STATIONS AND HIS OWN LEARJET.

HE DIED ON THIS DATE IN 1973 OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE AFTER BEING HOSPITALIZED FOR PNEUMONIA.

AFTER HORRIBLE LEGAL ISSUES AND FIGHTS, BROWN’S BODY WAS FINALLY LAID TO REST 76 DAYS AFTER HIS DEATH.

HERE’S THE ‘GODFATHER OF SOUL’ AT HIS BEST, AN APPEARANCE ON ITALIAN TV FROM 1971

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 24, 2018…LEMMY TIME

TODAY LEMMY FROM MOTORHEAD WOULD HAVE BEEN 73. LEMMY’S REAL NAME WAS IAN FRASER KILMINSTER. HE EARNED THE NAME LEMMY AS A CHILD BECAUSE HE WAS ALWAYS ASKING TO BORROW MONEY. LEMMY USED TO BE THE ROAD MANAGER FOR ‘EMERSON LAKE AND PALMER’. HE WAS ALSO A ROADIE FOR ‘JIMI HENDRIX’. LEMMY DIED OF CANCER ON DEC 28, 2015.

R.I.P LEMMY

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 23, 2018…IT’S EDDIE VEDDER’S BIRTHDAY

HAPPY 54th BIRTHDAY TO PEARL JAM’S EDDIE VEDDER. EDDIE IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SEATTLE MUSIC SCENE, BUT ACTUALLY GREW UP IN CHICAGO AND SAN DIEGO. EDDIE’S FATHER LEFT THE FAMILY WHEN HE WAS 1 YEARS OLD, AND WAS RAISED BY HIS STEPFATHER, BELIEVING HIM TO BE HIS BIOLOGICAL FATHER. HE WROTE ABOUT THIS EVENT IN THE SONG ‘ALIVE’.

HERE’S GREAT CONCERT FOOTAGE FROM PEARL JAM

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 22, 2018…DLR BACK WITH VH

2007 MARKED THE DAVID LEE ROTH REUNION OF VAN HALEN, AND ON THIS DATE VH PLAYED THE ORACLE ARENA IN OAKLAND. IT WAS VAN HALEN’S FIRST TOUR WITH ROTH SINCE HE LEFT THE BAND 22 YEARS EARLIER IN 1985.

THE TOUR ALSO SAW EDDIE’S SON WOLFGANG REPLACE MICHAEL ANTHONY ON BASS.

HERE’S THE FULL SHOW FROM OAKLAND

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 22, 2018…JOE COCKER TRIBUTE

FOUR YEARS AGO THE GREAT JOE COCKER PASSED AWAY . COCKER WAS A BIG TIME SMOKER AND REPORTEDLY SMOKED 40 CIGARETTES A DAY UNTIL HE WAS FORCED TO GIVE UP SMOKING IN 1991. HE DIED OF LUNG CANCER.

COCKER WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST SINGERS I’VE EVER HEARD.

HERE’S HIS VERSION OF ‘CRY ME A RIVER’

AND NOTHING BEATS HIS VERSION OF ‘WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS’

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