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AN INTRODUCTION TO ‘S&M’ 

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 21, 2020…ONE OF THE MANY THINGS I LOVE  ABOUT METALLICA IS THEY ARE NEVER AFRAID TO TRY SOMETHING NEW AND PUSH THE ENVELOPE. ONE SUCH INSTANCE TOOK PLACE ON THIS DATE 21 YEARS AGO. THE GROUP HELD THEIR FIRST OF 2 CONCERTS WITH THE SF SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AT THE BERKELEY COMMUNITY THEATRE FOR WHAT BECAME KNOWN AS THE S&M CONCERTS. THE TWO SHOWS, HELD ON APRIL 21 & APRIL 22, 1999 WERE RECORDED WITH THE BEST TAKES COMPILED INTO THE S&M ALBUM. TO DATE, ACCOUNTING FOR STREAMING AND PHYSICAL SALES, S&M HAS SOLD OVER 7.3 MILLION COPIES AND COUNTING. 

 

THIS IS A STUB FROM THE SECOND NIGHT. INTERESTING TO NOTE THE COST OF A TICKET FOR THIS MONUMENTAL CONCERT WAS A MERE 40 BUCKS !! THIS IS METALLICA WITH ‘NO LEAF CLOVER’ FROM THE SUPERB S&M CONCERTS

FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF PRINCE

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 21, 2020…PRINCE WAS 57 WHEN HE WAS FOUND ALONE AND UNRESPONSIVE IN HIS PAISLEY PARK STUDIO COMPOUND ON APRIL 21, 2016. AN AUTOPSY SHOWED PRINCE HAD DIED OF AN ACCIDENTAL OVERDOSE OF FENTANYL, A SYNTHETIC OPIOID 50 TIMES MORE LETHAL THAN HEROIN. DURING HIS LIFETIME, PRINCE SOLD OVER 100 MILLION RECORDS, AND HAD AMASSED A FORTUNE OF OVER 300 MILLION DOLLARS. AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH, PRINCE DIED WITHOUT A WILL. RELATIVES THAT HAD NEVER HAD ANY FORM OF CONNECTION WITH PRINCE STARTING LINING UP FOR A PIECE OF THE FORTUNE. OVER A YEAR AFTER HIS DEATH, A JUDGE RULED THAT HIS HEIRS WERE HIS SISTER, AND FIVE HALF SIBLINGS. HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS INCLUDE 7 GRAMMY AWARDS, 6 AMA AWARDS, 4 MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS, AN ACADEMY AWARD, AND ONE GOLDEN GLOBE. HE WAS INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME IN 2004.

RIP PRINCE. HERE’S AN INCREDIBLE LIVE VERSION OF WHAT’S IN MY OPINION, THE THE DEFINITIVE PRINCE SONG. ENJOY!

photo props-Scott Penner

 

LAMONT & TONELLI PRESENT LAMONT’S LOVE MAKING SONG

Recently, Dr. Fauci was asked is it okay to use dating apps and hook up with people while the shelter in place is in effect. As a public service Lamont and Tonelli replayed Lamont’s love making song.

AEROSMITH GET A GRIP 

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 20, 2020…TWENTY SEVEN YEARS AGO AEROSMITH RELEASE THE ALBUM ‘GET A GRIP’. THIS WAS THE GROUPS ELEVENTH STUDIO ALBUM AND IT WAS HUGE. GET A GRIP BECAME AEROSMITH’S BEST SELLING ALBUM WORLDWIDE, SELLING OVER 20 MILLION COPIES. IT IS ALSO TIED WITH ‘PUMP’ AS THEIR SECOND BEST SELLING ALBUM IN THE U.S.A. SELLING OVER 7 MILLION COPIES. ‘TOYS IN THE ATTIC’ LEADS U.S. SALES AT 8 MILLION. HERE’S SOME ‘GET A GRIP’ TRIVIA:

-The album cover features a cow’s udders, with one of them pierced and sporting an earring. An animal rights group objected, but the band explained the image was computer generated.

-Seven songs from Get a Grip wound up charting on at least one of Billboard’s charts.

-“Livin’ on the Edge” went to number one on the rock chart and stayed there for nine weeks.

-“Livin’ on the Edge” was inspired by the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

-Styx’s Tommy Shaw and Night Ranger’s Jack Blades co-wrote “Shut Up and Dance.”

-“Cryin’” has been certified gold and sold over 600,000 copies.

-There’s an unconfirmed story that for the video for “Crazy,” producers cast a woman they had seen in a Pantene commercial to star opposite Alicia Silverstone. That woman was Steven Tyler’s daughter, Liv Tyler. They apparently had no idea her father was in the band. -Lenny Kravitz provided backup vocals on the song “Line-Up.”

-“Amazing” is about Steven Tyler’s troubled life and his drug abuse in the late 70s and early 80s.

– Don Henley sings backup on “Amazing.”

-The band earned two Grammys off the album, the 1993 award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or a Group with Vocal for “Livin’ on the Edge” and the same trophy in 1994 for “Crazy.”

HERE’S AEROSMITH WITH AN OUTSTANDING VIDEO FOR ‘LIVIN’ ON THE EDGE’

RELIVING LAST YEAR’S DIRTY 30 ANNIVERSARY PARTY  

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 20, 2020…LAST YEAR THERE WAS A HUGE 4/20 PARTY AT THE CONCORD PAVILION WITH SAMMY HAGAR AND THE CIRCLE, DON FELDER (FORMERLY OF THE EAGLES) AND THE STONE FOXES.  IT WAS FIRST CONCERT OF THE YEAR AT THE CONCORD PAVILION. LOOKING BACK AT THE PARTY I WAS TOUCHED THAT OVER 15 THOUSAND PEOPLE SHOWED UP TO PARTY WITH US. THE BONE LISTENERS REALLY ARE A FAMILY AND WE LOVE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU. A SPECIAL THANK YOU AS WELL TO SAMMY HAGAR THAT WAS AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY WHEN WE TOLD HIM WE WANTED TO HAVE A PARTY ( SAMMY NEVER TURNS DOWN AN OPPORTUNITY TO PARTY !!) AND A HUGE THANK YOU TO DON FELDER THAT OVER THE YEARS HAS TURNED INTO A GREAT FRIEND OF THE BONE. ADD THE STONE FOXES TO THE MIX AND IT WAS A HUGE LOVE FEST !!! AARON SUIDA FROM LIVE NATION YOU ROCK.

HERE’S SAMMY HAGAR AND THE CIRCLE’S  ‘MAS TEQUILA’ TWO NIGHTS AFTER OUR PARTY !!

SAMMY ‘I CAN’T DRIVE 55’

AND SOME “VAN HAGAR”

HERE’S FELDER WITH A SPECIAL VERSION OF ‘HOTEL CALIFORNIA.’ IS IT JUST ME, OR DO YOU GUYS GET GOOSEBUMPS WHENEVER FELDER PLAYS THE DUELING LEAD GUITARS PART AT THE END OF HOTEL CALIFORNIA ? I GET MISTY !!  GODDAMN THIS GUY IS GREAT !

 

all photos-the talented jim sheehan -Jimmy O’Sheehan Photography (408) 387-0246

 

 

THE IRON MAN 2 SOUNDTRACK 

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 19, 2020…COMBINING ROCK AND ROLL WITH A SUPERHERO MOVIE, THIS STILL GIVES BABY HUEY A BONER. ON THIS DATE IN 2010 AC/DC RELEASED THE IRON MAN 2 SOUNDTRACK. THIS WAS NOT A GREATEST HITS PACKAGE, BUT AN AC/DC COMPILATION ALBUM WHICH CONTAINED BOTH HITS AND LESSER KNOWN SONGS. THE ALBUM CONTAINED ‘BACK IN BLACK’ AND ‘HIGHWAY TO HELL’ AS WELL AS ‘GUNS FOR HIRE’ FROM ‘FLICK OF THE SWITCH’, ‘THUNDERSTRUCK’ ‘ROCK AND ROLL DAMNATION’ AND ‘T.N.T.’ FROM ‘HIGH VOLTAGE’.

AND OF COURSE, THE SONG THAT IS SYNONYMOUS WITH IRON MAN  ‘SHOOT TO THRILL’ IRON MAN STYLE !

L.A. WOMAN  

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 19, 2020…FORTY NINE YEARS AGO THE DOORS RELEASED THEIR 6TH STUDIO ALBUM ‘L.A. WOMAN’ AND THEIR FINAL STUDIO ALBUM TO FEATURE LEAD SINGER JIM MORRISON, WHO DIED 3 MONTHS AFTER THE ALBUM’S RELEASE. THIS WAS A GREAT ALBUM, DESPITE THEIR LONGTIME PRODUCER PAUL ROTHCHILD WALKING OUT ON THE BAND. ROTHCHILD ENDED AN EARLY LISTENING SESSION BY INSULTING THE DOOR’S MUSICAL DIRECTION AND WALKED OUT ON THE BAND. AS A RESULT, THE BAND CO-PRODUCED THE ALBUM WITH LONGTIME SOUND ENGINEER BRUCE BOTNICK. THE ALBUM CONTAINED THE HIT ‘LOVE HER MADLY’ WHICH PRECEDED THE ALBUMS RELEASE, AND ‘RIDERS ON THE STORM’. IT ALSO BOASTED THE TITLE TRACK, A SONG RAY MANZAREK ONCE EXPLAINED AS:“A song about driving madly down the LA freeway – either heading into LA or going out on the 405 up to San Francisco. You’re a beatnik on the road, like Kerouac and Neal Cassady, barreling down the freeway as fast as you can go.”
“Morrison recorded his vocals in the studio bathroom to get a fuller sound. He spent a lot of time in there anyway because of all the beer he drank during the sessions.”

MR. MOJO RISING…HERE ARE THE DOORS 

LET’S ALL REMEMBER DICK !  

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 18, 2020- EIGHT YEARS AGO, DICK CLARK, THE FAMOUS BROADCAST TYCOON/DISC JOCKEY/TV HOST/ ORIGINATOR AND HOST OF ROCKIN’ NEW YEARS EVE, DIED OF A MASSIVE HEART ATTACK IN SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA. CLARK DIED AT THE AGE OF 82 AFTER ENTERING THE HOSPITAL THE NIGHT BEFORE FOR A SIMPLE OUTPATIENT PROCEDURE. A BALL DROP HASN’T BEEN THE SAME WITHOUT HIM !!

FANDANGO!

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 18, 2020- ON THIS DATE 45 YEARS AGO ZZ TOP RELEASED THE ALBUM ‘FANDANGO!’ IT WAS THE GROUP’S FOURTH ALBUM, AND I HAVE TO TELL YOU IT WAS A BRILLIANT MOVE ON BEHALF OF THE BAND. UP TO THIS POINT IN THE BAND’S CAREER THEIR LIVE SHOWS WERE WHERE THE BAND REALLY SHINED, SO WITH THIS RECORD ZZ TOP RELEASED AN “IN CONCERT” A-SIDE, AND THE “STUDIO” B-SIDE. THE ALBUM FEATURED TRACKS LIKE ‘BLUE JEAN BLUES’ ‘HEARD IT ON THE X’ AND THE MONSTER HIT ‘TUSH’ WHICH VAULTED THE ALBUM TO TOP 10 STATUS ON THE ALBUM CHARTS AND LAID THE WAY FOR 50 YEARS OF HIT MAKING. ‘TUSH’ WAS ZZ TOP’S FIRST TOP 20 HIT ON THE SINGLES CHART, AND REMAINED IT’S ONLY TOP 20 HIT UNTIL THE ONSLAUGHT OF SUCCESS WITH THE ALBUM ELIMINATOR, AND THE SINGLE ‘LEGS.’ 

THE LIVE PORTION OF ‘FANDANGO!’  WAS RECORDED IN NEW ORLEANS AND WAS DESCRIBED BY  “ROLLING STONE” MAGAZINE AS “captured as it came down-hot, spontaneous and presented to you honestly, without the assistance of studio gimmicks”.

THIS IS ZZ TOP FROM 1975 PERFORMING IN WHAT LOOKS LIKE A NIGHTCLUB