LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 26, 2020…OKAY THIS BLOWS MY MIND. EXACTLY 51 YEARS AGO TODAY YOU WERE ABLE TO SEE LED ZEPPELIN PLAY AT THE FILLMORE AND WINTERLAND !! ZEPPELIN PLAYED APRIL 24TH AND 27TH 1969 AT THE FILLMORE, AND APRIL 25 & 26TH AT WINTERLAND. HERE’S VINTAGE LED ZEPPELIN FROM 1969
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APRIL 6, 2020…ON THIS DATE IN 1971, THE ROLLING STONES RELEASED ‘BROWN SUGAR’ IN THE U.S.A, THE FIRST SINGLE FROM THE ALBUM ‘STICKY FINGERS’(IT WAS RELEASE APRIL 16 IN THE U.K.) IT WAS ALSO THE FIRST SINGLE ON THE GROUP’S NEW LABEL, ROLLING STONE RECORDS, WHICH INTRODUCED THE NOW INFAMOUS “TONGUE AND LIPS LOGO”. THE LOGO WAS DESIGNED BY JOHN PASCHE, WHO WAS FRESH OUT OF ART SCHOOL. THE ORIGINAL WORKING TITLE FOR THE SONG WAS “BLACK PUSSY” BUT JAGGER DECIDED IT WAS A LITTLE TOO DIRECT AND CHANGED IT TO ‘BROWN SUGAR.’ THERE ARE MANY INTERPRETATIONS OF THE SONG. ONE OF JAGGER’S OLD SECRET GIRLFRIENDS MARSHA HUNT SAYS THE SONG WAS WRITTEN FOR HER (IT WAS REVEALED LATER THAT SHE HAD A CHILD WITH JAGGER).
JAGGER STATED THAT THE SONG: “was all to do with the dual combination of drugs and girls. This song was a very instant thing, a definite high point. That makes it… the whole mess thrown in. God knows what I’m on about on that song. It’s such a mishmash. All the nasty subjects in one go… I never would write that song now.”
THE LYRICS WERE DESCRIBED AS A COMBINATION OF A NUMBER OF TABOO SUBJECTS, INCLUDING SLAVERY, RAPE, CUNNILINGUS, LOST VIRGINITY AND HEROIN. THIS SONG REALLY HAS IT ALL !! HERE’S A LIVE VERSION FROM 1972
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 25, 2020…ON THIS DATE 40 YEARS AGO, BLACK SABBATH RELEASED THEIR 9TH STUDIO ALBUM ‘HEAVEN AND HELL.’ THIS IS A HUGE ALBUM IN THE HISTORY OF BLACK SABBATH BECAUSE IT WAS THE FIRST ALBUM TO FEATURE RONNIE JAMES DIO AS THE GROUP’S LEAD SINGER, REPLACING OZZY OSBOURNE WHO HAD LEFT A YEAR EARLIER. WHAT’S REALLY WEIRD IS THE INITIAL SESSIONS FOR THIS ALBUM ACTUALLY STARTED OFF WITH OZZY IN THE STUDIO. BAND INFIGHTING IN THE 11 MONTH STUDIO SESSIONS RESULTED IN OZZY LEAVING THE GROUP. IN OZZY’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY HE STATED: “it was clear they’d had enough of my insane behaviour”.
IN ANOTHER CRAZY TWIST, DIO WAS ACTUALLY INTRODUCED TO TONY IOMMI BY SHARON ARDEN (WHO WOULD LATER BECOME SHARON OSBOURNE). THE PAIR LATER HAD A CHANCE MEETING AT THE RAINBOW ROOM IN LOS ANGELES WHERE BOTH DISCUSSED FORMING A NEW BAND INSTEAD OF CARRYING ON AS BLACK SABBATH. ACCORDING TO DIO: “It must have been fate, because we connected so instantly.”
ON THEIR FIRST JAM SESSION TOGETHER, THE DUO FINISHED ‘CHILDREN OF THE SEA’ A SONG THAT IOMMI HAD GIVEN UP ON PRIOR TO THE BAND’S FIRING OF OZZY. THE ALBUM HEAVEN AND HELL WAS HUGE COMMERCIALLY FOR SABBATH, SELLING OVER 1 MILLION COPIES IN THE U.S.
HERE’S BLACK SABBATH WITH A LIVE VERSION OF ‘CHILDREN OF THE SEA’
AND AS AN ADDED TREAT ANOTHER GREAT SONG FROM HEAVEN AND HELL. HERE’S A LIVE VERSION OF ‘NEON KNIGHTS’
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 25, 2020…IT WAS A REUNION THAT NOBODY THOUGHT WOULD HAPPEN. ON THIS DATE IN 1994 THE EAGLES PLAYED THE FIRST OF 2 SHOWS AT THE WARNER BROTHERS SOUNDSTAGE TO RECORD THE ‘HELL FREEZES OVER’ ALBUM. BACK TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 14 YEARS IT WAS A REUNION THAT NOBODY, AND I MEAN NOBODY THOUGHT WOULD HAPPEN. THE NAME OF THE TOUR WAS TAKEN FROM AN EARLIER QUOTE BY DON HENLEY, WHO RESPONDED TO THE QUESTION “WHEN WILL THE EAGLES GET BACK TOGETHER?”
HERE’S VIDEO FROM A SESSION THAT RESULTED IN AN EXCELLENT ACOUSTIC VERSION OF ‘HOTEL CALIFORNIA’
Last night was the first ever virtual NFL Draft, with that being said all the GMs and Head Coaches from around the league had to make their picks from the comfort of their home. Arizona Cardinals Head Coach Kliff Kingsbury won the night with the best looking house, just look inside his living room.
If they ever decide to do a remake of Scarface, look no further than using Kliff Kingsbury’s house as the setting.
War Room 2.0 pic.twitter.com/aCh3GYPVCG
— Arizona Cardinals (@AZCardinals) April 24, 2020
And for Big Dick Black, here are a couple photos of Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones on his Yacht.
And everyone laughed when the U.S. wouldn’t go metric.
Meanwhile in #Russia:
Social distancing is measured in bears. pic.twitter.com/fauHkFIa4w
— Sergey Bobkov (@sbobkov) April 23, 2020
The Mayor of Las Vegas wants casinos open now. In a wild interview with Anderson Cooper on Wednesday, Mayor Carolyn Goodman revealed she had suggested the city be a coronavirus “control group”. She argued that the 150 people who had died in Vegas, while tragic, was simply not a justification to shut down a city of 2.3 million. Of course, President Trump has an official statement on the matter.
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 24, 2020…ON THIS DATE 31 YEARS AGO, TOM PETTY RELEASED HIS FIRST SOLO ALBUM (AWAY FROM THE HEARTBREAKERS). THE ALBUM WAS ‘FULL MOON FEVER’ AND EVEN THOUGH IT WAS BILLED AS A SOLO PROJECT, IT FEATURED MEMBERS OF THE HEARTBREAKERS, PLUS ALL OF THE MEMBERS OF THE TRAVELING WILBURYS ! THE ALBUM WAS HUGE FOR PETTY IN TERMS OF SALES, TO DATE IT HAS SOLD OVER 6 MILLION COPIES WORLDWIDE. IT ALSO PRODUCED 4 HIT SINGLES ‘RUNNIN’ DOWN A DREAM’ ‘YER SO BAD’ ‘I WON’T BACK DOWN’ AND ‘FREE FALLIN’ HERE’S A TREAT. PETTY PERFORMING ‘FREE FALLIN’ AT THE SHORELINE AMPHITHEATER CIRCA 1994
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 24, 2020…HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO A FRIEND OF THE SHOW JACK BLADES. BLADES IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS WORK AS THE BASS PLAYER AND FRONTMAN FOR NIGHT RANGER AND THE SUPERGROUP DAMN YANKEES. BLADES WAS BORN ON THIS DATE IN 1954 IN PALM DESERT CALIFORNIA. HAPPY 66TH BIRTHDAY JACK, YOU’RE ONE OF THE GOOD ONES !! HERE’S BLADES WITH ‘THE DAMN YANKEES’
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APRIL 24, 2020…ON THIS DATE IN 1967 THE DOORS RELEASED THEIR BREAKTHROUGH SINGLE ‘LIGHT MY FIRE.’ THIS WAS THE SECOND TRACK TAKEN FROM THEIR DEBUT ALBUM. THE FIRST SINGLE WAS ‘BREAK ON THROUGH’ WHICH PEAKED AT #126 ON THE CHARTS. THE ALBUM HAD COME OUT IN JANUARY 1967, AND AT 6 MINUTES & 50 SECONDS ‘LIGHT MY FIRE WAS DEEMED TO LONG FOR AIRPLAY! HOWEVER, RADIO STATIONS GOT A SH**LOAD OF CALLS FROM LISTENERS WHO HEARD IT OFF THE ALBUM. THE RECORD COMPANY CHOPPED IT DOWN TO 2:52 AND RELEASED THE SONG THAT WOULD BECOME THE DOORS FIRST NUMBER ONE HIT.
ACCORDING TO ELEKTRA RECORDS FOUNDER JAZ HOLZMAN “We had that huge problem with the time length – seven-and-a-half minutes. Nobody could figure out how to cut it. Finally I said to Rothchild, ‘Nobody can cut it but you.’ When he cut out the solo, there were screams. Except from Jim. Jim said, ‘Imagine a kid in Minneapolis hearing even the cut version over the radio, it’s going to turn his head around.’ So they said, ‘Go ahead, release it.’ We released it with the full version on the other side.”
TO MANY ROCK FANS, THE CHOPPED UP SHORTER VERSION WAS A TRAVESTY, AND MANY DJ’S WOULD PLAY THE LONGER ALBUM CUT. THE DOORS WENT ON TO HAVE 17 HIT SINGLES, INCLUDING 3 TOP TEN HITS. YOU THOUGHT THE ALBUM VERSION WAS LONG ! HERE’S A LIVE VERSION FROM 1970 THAT CLOCKS IN AT 13:52
