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TEMPLE OF THE DOG 

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 16, 2020-29 YEARS AGO TEMPLE OF THE DOG RELEASED THE SELF TITLED ALBUM ‘TEMPLE OF THE DOG.’ TEMPLE OF THE DOG WAS A SUPERGROUP PUT TOGETHER BY CHRIS CORNELL IN 1990. CORNELL FORMED THE BAND IN HONOR OF HIS FRIEND ANDREW WOOD WHO DIED OF A HEROIN OVERDOSE. WOOD WAS KEPT ALIVE FOR 3 DAYS ON LIFE SUPPORT, AND WHEN CORNELL AND HIS BANDMATES WENT TO VISIT HIM THEY THOUGHT THAT A ONE OFF ALBUM WOULD BE A FITTING TRIBUTE. THE ALBUM WOULD CONTAIN WOOD’S SOLO SONGS, ALONG WITH 2 SONGS WRITTEN BY CORNELL. RESPONDING TO CONCERNS THAT THEY WERE SOMEHOW EXPLOITING WOOD’S WORK, THEY DECIDED INSTEAD TO RELEASE AN ALBUM OF ALL ORIGINAL MATERIAL, AND CALLED THE PROJECT ‘TEMPLE OF THE DOG.’ ‘HUNGER STRIKE’ WAS THE LAST SONG RECORDED FOR THE ALBUM ON THE DAY EDDIE VEDDER FLEW IN TO SEATTLE TO MEET HIS NEW BANDMATES IN WHAT WOULD BECOME PEARL JAM. CORNELL HAD HOPED TO SING THE HIGH AND LOW PARTS OF THE SONG HIMSELF AND JUST OVERDUB THE VOCALS. BUT HE WAS STRUGGLING WITH THE LOW REGISTER. VEDDIE STEPPED UP TO THE MICROPHONE AND IT MADE IT CLICK FOR CORNELL. IT ALSO MARKED THE FIRST RECORDED VOCAL FOR VEDDER ON A MAJOR RECORD. IT WAS THE FIRST SONG RELEASE FROM THE PROJECT AND WENT TO NUMBER 4 ON BILLBOARD’S CHARTS.

A TOUCHING TRIBUTE TO WOOD WAS WRITTEN BY CORNELL. IT WAS CALLED ‘SAY HELLO TO HEAVEN’ AND WAS THE SECOND SINGLE RELEASE FROM THE PROJECT. IT WAS A HUGE SUCCESS, HITTING NUMBER 5 ON THE ROCK CHARTS. HERE’S THE VIDEO FOR ‘SAY HELLO TO HEAVEN’

OREGON SAYS NO TO THE BUTT

Similar to New York, the Oregon Health Authority has released a graphic coronavirus guide for hanky-panky during the pandemic. Complete with explicit emoji graphics that leave little to the imagination. It promotes solo sexcapades, use of personal toys and sex chat apps. The infographic also suggests “pressing pause” on the butt-focused act “rimming” warning everyone of the dangers involved. Again, this is a state government PSA.

LAMONT & TONELLI TALK ABOUT THE DALLAS COWBOYS BREAKING QUARANTINE TO HAVE A PARTY

Well, Ezekiel Elliott and Dak Prescott are partying like it’s NOT 2020 in the middle of a pandemic, hanging together for a celebration that appears to violate the Texas “safer-at-home” order. The party went down Friday night at the Dallas Cowboys QB’s crib in Prosper, TX and his star running back was there as a guest. Apparently, it was a birthday party for one of Dak’s friends and at the height of the bash, there were about 30 guests. Ultimately, the cops let Prescott off with a warning, reminding everyone of “social distancing.”

JERRY GARCIA’S ASHES 

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APRIL 15, 2020…ON THIS DATE 24 YEARS AGO THE REMAINING ASHES OF JERRY GARCIA WERE SCATTERED NEAR THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE. GARCIA HAD ALSO REQUESTED A SMALL PORTION OF HIS ASHES TO BE SCATTERED IN THE GANGES RIVER IN INDIA, WHICH TOOK PLACE ON APRIL 4TH 1996. IN COMMEMORATION OF JERRY GARCIA, HERE’S A REAL TREAT FOR DEAD HEADS. THE COMPLETE 2ND SET FROM A GRATEFUL DEAD SHOW AT SAN FRANCISCO CIVIC AUDITORIUM CIRCA 1983

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LOOKING AT THE INCREDIBLE ‘SECOND HELPING’

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APRIL 15, 2020…TODAY MARKS THE 46TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RELEASE OF LYNYRD SKYNYRD’S EPIC ALBUM ‘SECOND HELPING.’ AS THE FOLLOW UP TO SKYNYRD’S DEBUT, IT HELPED ESTABLISH THE GROUP AS ONE OF THE TOP ROCK ACTS OF THE 70’S. THE ALBUM FEATURES TRACKS ‘WORKIN’ FOR MCA’ ‘THE NEEDLE AND THE SPOON’ ‘DON’T ASK ME NO QUESTIONS’ ‘CALL ME THE BREEZE’ AND THE GROUP’S BIGGEST HIT, THE ANTHEM ‘SWEET HOME ALABAMA.’ THE ALBUM WENT DOUBLE PLATINUM, AND IN TERMS OF STREAMING,  ‘SWEET HOME ALABAMA’ IS THE 6TH MOST STREAMED SONG OF THE 70’S WITH A 73 MILLION LEAD OVER THE RUNNER UP. HERE’S SKYNYRD WITH A LIVE VERSION FROM 1977’S “A DAY ON THE GREEN” 

REMASTERED METALLICA  

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APRIL 15, 2020…I LOVE ALL THINGS METALLICA. FOUR YEARS AGO METALLICA RELEASED THE REMASTERED VERSIONS OF THEIR FIRST TWO ALBUMS ‘KILL ‘EM ALL’ AND ‘RIDE THE LIGHTNING’. THE DELUXE NUMBERED BOX SET OF ‘KILL ‘EM ALL”  INCLUDES FOUR PIECES OF VINYL, FIVE CD’S, ONE DVD AND A HARDCOVER BOOK WHICH INCLUDES RARE PHOTOS AND A PATCH. THE DELUXE NUMBERED BOX SET OF ‘RIDE THE LIGHTNING’ INCLUDES 4 VINYL RECORDS, SIX FREAKIN’ CD’S ONE DVD, AND A HARDCOVER BOOK INCLUDING UNSEEN PICTURES, A MINI BOOK OF LYRICS HANDWRITTEN BY JAMES HETFIELD, AND A SET OF THREE POSTERS. THE DELUXE BOX SETS ARE BOTH LIMITED EDITION COLLECTORS ITEMS. THESE GUYS DO EVERYTHING RIGHT. HERE’S A GREAT VERSION OF ‘FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS’ PERFORMED AT “DAY ON THE GREEN” IN 1985.

93 YEAR OLD MAKES A PLEA FOR MORE BEER DURING CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN

Time to break out the sharpies and poster board! Olive Veronessi of Pennsylvania went viral when she asked for more beer last week.

It didn’t take long for Coors Light to respond:

…and delivered!

LAMONT & TONELLI PRESENT REAL CORONA MORONS 5G CONSPIRACY THEORIST

Lamont and Tonelli present “Real Corona Morons” featuring 5G Conspiracy Theorist, people who think the COVID-19 Pandemic was caused by 5G.

DIVER DOWN VAN HALEN

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 14, 2020- YOU WANNA FEEL OLD !? IT WAS 38 YEARS AGO VAN HALEN RELEASED THEIR 5TH STUDIO ALBUM ‘DIVER DOWN.’ I FREAKIN’ LOVE THIS ALBUM, HOWEVER THE CRITIC’S CRAPPED ALL OVER THE BAND BECAUSE IT CONTAINED FIVE COVER SONGS. I SAY THE CRITICS CAN SUCK IT !!  ‘DIVER DOWN’ SPENT OVER A YEAR ON THE CHARTS AND TO DATE HAS SOLD OVER 5 MILLION COPIES. HERE’S SOME DIVER DOWN TRIVIA-

1-The instrumental track “Intruder” was written as a kind of filler. The band put together the video for “(Oh) Pretty Woman” but the clip was too long so the band added “Intruder” to put before “(Oh) Pretty Woman” and run at the beginning of the video so the film they made would fit.                                                                                                                                                                                              2-The video for the band’s cover of “(Oh) Pretty Woman” is one of the first to get banned by MTV. The network shunning it because in it, two little people appear to molest a woman, who is actually a drag queen.                                                                                    3-The album opens with a cover of The Kinks’ “Where Have All the Good Times Gone,” Van Halen’s second time doing a Kinks cover – their first was “You Really Got Me” on their 1978 debut. David Lee Roth said the group could have done any number of Kinks songs since they knew tons of them and played them nightly when they had club gigs.
4-Eddie thought “Cathedral” sounded like a Catholic church organ, so that’s how the song got its name.
5-The lyrics to the song “Secrets” came from greeting cards and get-well cards that David bought in Albuquerque, New Mexico that were written in the style of American Indian poetry.
6-“The Full Bug” got its title from a saying that originates from killing a cockroach by stepping on it. The goal is to step on the whole thing, to get the “full bug,” and according to Roth, it means to make the maximum effort.
7-Roth said that “Happy Trails” was included in the album because they wanted to do “something wonderful and different.            8-The cover art for the album features a “diver down” flag, which is used when a scuba diver is underwater in the area.                    9-The photo of the band on the back cover of the album was taken while they were on stage at the Tangerine Bowl in Orlando on October 24, 1981. During that time they were the opening act for The Rolling Stones.                                                                                       10-The album is one of Eddie Van Halen’s least favorites because it features five covers. He once said, “I’d rather have a bomb with one of my songs than a hit with someone else’s.”

OKAY, EVERYBODY BUT EDDIE CAN SUCK IT !! I STILL LOVE THIS ALBUM. HERE’S ‘INTRUDER/DIVER DOWN’ FROM VAN HALEN (AND NO THAT IS NOT EDDIE MONEY AS QUASIMODO) 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RITCHIE BLACKMORE

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APRIL 14, 2020…THE GREAT RITCHIE BLACKMORE CELEBRATES HIS 75TH BIRTHDAY TODAY. BLACKMORE OF COURSE IS A FREAKIN’ GOD ON GUITAR FOR HIS WORK WITH DEEP PURPLE, RAINBOW, AND BLACKMORE’S NIGHT. THIS CHEESY PICTURE BTW, IS A PICTURE OF BLACKMORE’S WAX FIGURE AT SHRINE BUILT FOR HIM IN ENGLAND. HERE’S SOME AMAZING VIDEO OF BLACKMORE IN HIS PRIME WITH DEEP PURPLE. IT WAS RELEASE LAST YEAR FROM THE DEEP PURPLE VAULTS. IT ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE A HOME MOVIE WITH BOARD FED SOUND OF DEEP PURPLE PERFORMING IN JAPAN CIRCA 1972. BLACKMORE’S GUITAR WORK IS FANTASTIC. 

RITCHIE BLACKMORE IS WITHOUT A DOUBT ONE OF THE GREATEST GUITAR PLAYERS OF ALL TIME. THIS IS A FANTASTIC DOCUMENTARY TO GIVE YOU INSIGHT ON RITCHIE BLACKMORE

 

photo thanks-Ore Sama