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WATCH A 93 YEAR OLD MAN SHOOT AN APARTMENT MAINTENANCE MANAGER AFTER DISPUTE OVER WATER DAMAGE

On January 2nd, 93-year-old Robert Thomas was upset about water damage in his Las Vegas apartment. In response Robert Thomas shot and wounded a maintenance manager in an office before being arrested. The maintenance manager was treated for two wounds and has been released from a hospital. Robert Thomas appeared in court Tuesday, where a judge ordered him held on $25,000 bail pending a January 22nd preliminary hearing on attempted murder, kidnapping and weapon charges. Robert Thomas was not asked to enter a plea.

At the 6:58 mark, you can see Robert Thomas shooting the maintenance manager. At the 7:55 mark, you can see an officer fired through a glass door as Robert Thomas stood over the wounded maintenance manager. The bullet pierced the lapel of Robert Thomas’ coat but didn’t hit him. Robert Thomas received a cut on the head as he was arrested.

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DAVID BOWIE’S BIRTHDAY

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 8, 2020-TODAY WOULD HAVE BEEN DAVID BOWIE’S 73RD BIRTHDAY. HE WAS BORN DAVID ROBERT JONES, BUT CHANGED HIS NAME IN 1966 TO AVOID CONFUSION WITH DAVY JONES OF THE MONKEES. IN AN INTERVIEW HE SAID THAT THE NAME ‘BOWIE’ COMES FROM THE BOWIE KNIFE, THAT HE WAS LOOKING FOR A WORD THAT STOOD FOR ‘’TRUISM, AND CUTTING THROUGH THE LIES AND ALL THAT.’ BOWIE DIED FOUR YEARS AGO ON JANUARY 10, 2016 IN HIS NEW YORK CITY APARTMENT OF LIVER CANCER, WHICH HE HAD KEPT SECRET. AFTER HIS PASSING, BOWIE’S FAMILY HAD REVEALED HE HAD BEEN DIAGNOSED 18 MONTHS EARLIER. MAY HE REST IN PEACE, HERE’S CLASSIC BOWIE

 

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ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL PART II

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 8, 2020-ON THIS DATE FORTY YEARS AGO PINK FLOYD RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL PART II’ IN AMERICA. NOW THIS IS SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE PINK FLOYD RARELY ISSUED SINGLES FROM THEIR ALBUMS. THEY FELT THEIR SONGS WERE BEST APPRECIATED WHEN TAKEN INTO THE CONTEXT OF THE ALBUMS. THEIR PRODUCER AT THE TIME CONVINCED THEM THAT THIS WOULDN’T HURT ALBUM SALES, AND WHEN THE BAND GAVE IN IT BECAME THEIR ONLY #1 HIT. TWO MORE SONGS WERE ULTIMATELY RELEASED AS SINGLES FROM THE ALBUM, ‘RUN LIKE HELL’ AND ‘COMFORTABLY NUMB.’ TO DATE ACCOUNTING FOR DOWNLOADS, STREAMING AND ACTUAL SALES ‘ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL PART II’ HAS SOLD OVER 16.7 MILLION COPIES.  HERE’S A TREAT, PINK FLOYD PERFORMING THE SONG IN CONCERT CIRCA 1980 (IT’S A LITTLE GRAINY, BUT IT IS VIDEO FROM 1980 FOR GOD’S SAKE)!

ROBBIE KRIEGER

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 8, 2020-HAPPY 74TH BIRTHDAY TO ROBBY KRIEGER. KRIEGER IS BEST KNOWN AS THE DOORS GUITARIST. A LOT OF PEOPLE DON’T KNOW THAT KRIEGER ACTUALLY LEARNED TO PLAY GUITAR WHILE LIVING IN THE BAY AREA. HE ATTENDED BOARDING SCHOOL IN MENLO PARK AND IT WAS WHILE HE WAS ATTENDING SCHOOL THAT HE DE-TUNED A UKULELE AND PLAYED ALONG WITH RECORDS. HE LATER WENT TO MEXICO ON A CHRISTMAS BREAK, AND BOUGHT A GUITAR AND LEARNED HOW TO PLAY FLAMENCO GUITAR. IT WAS WHILE AT MENLO SCHOOL HE FORMED A BAND AND PLAYED FLAMENCO, FOLK, BLUES AND JAZZ. ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE CALLS KRIEGER ONE OF THE “GREATEST GUITARISTS OF ALL TIME.” KRIEGER WROTE OR CO-WROTE MANY OF THE DOORS HITS.

HERE’S GREAT VIDEO OF THE DOORS PERFORMING IN EUROPE IN 1968

 

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MAN WITH FIVE INCH DRAGON HORN GROWING OUT OF BACK FOR THREE YEARS FINALLY WENT TO THE DOCTOR

Recently, doctors in the UK surgically removed a 5 inch-long “dragon horn” from a man’s lower back and the 50-year-old patient reported that it had been growing for at least three years. The physicians determined that the “gigantic” skin growth was a cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC)—a type of skin cancer that causes growing, scaly bumps on the top layer of skin.

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BUBBLE MAN IN INDIA HAS HUNDREDS OF TUMOURS COVERING HIS BODY

An Indian man covered head-to-toe in hundreds of tumors that look like bubbles is desperate to find a cure. Diwakar Bisoye’s largest tumour on his leg weighs around 56lbs and the 65-year-old says he is treated worse than a “dirty stray animal” by people in his neighborhood. Mr. Bisoye has even become house-bound due to his condition, avoiding ever leaving his house out of fear of being ridiculed.

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AEROSMITH IN OAKLAND CIRCA 1983

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 7, 2020- JANUARY 7 1983 AEROSMITH WAS ON THE ROAD WITH THE ‘GET A GRIP’ TOUR, AND AEROSMITH PLAYED THE OAKLAND ARENA WITH PAT TRAVERS AS THE WARM UP ACT. THE ORIGINAL OPENING ACT FOR THE TOUR WAS MEGADETH, BUT MEGADETH WAS DROPPED 6 WEEKS INTO THE TOUR WHEN DAVE MUSTAINE WAS DOING A RADIO INTERVIEW AND TALKED SMACK ABOUT AEROSMITH, SAYING ‘WE THINK WE OUGHTA BE HEADLINING, BUT WE DON’T MIND, BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS THIS IS AEROSMITH’S LAST HARRAH’. MEGADETH WAS DROPPED IMMEDIATELY AS A WARM UP ACT ON THE TOUR. BTW, BY THE END OF THE TOUR ‘GET A GRIP’ SOLD 12 MILLION COPIES. HERE’S A HUGE SONG FROM THE CD, THIS IS ‘LIVIN’ ON THE EDGE’

 

 

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THE STYX CORNERSTONE TOUR

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 7, 2020-ON THIS DATE IN 1980 STYX WAS WRAPPING UP 3 SOLD OUT CONCERTS AT THE COW PALACE. THE SHOWS WERE PART OF THE “CORNERSTONE” TOUR. IT WAS A WORLDWIDE TOUR THAT SAW THE GROUP PLAY 88 DATES THAT SAW THE BAND HIT THE ROAD IN JANUARY 1980 AND WRAP THINGS UP AT THE END OF DECEMBER. HERE WAS THE SETLIST FROM THE CONCERT AT THE COW PALACE: Borrowed Time, Great White Hope, The Grand Illusion, Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man), Lady, Crystal Ball, Suite Madame Blue, Lights, Why Me, Eddie, Babe, Renegade,Come Sail Away ENCORE: Blue Collar Nights

HERE’S STYX WITH “BABE”, AND DENNIS DEYOUNG SPORTING THE BEST PORN ‘STACHE EVER !

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LED ZEP’S LAST STUDIO ALBUM

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 7, 2020-ON THIS DATE 40 YEARS AGO LED ZEPPELIN’S ‘IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR’ WAS CERTIFIED PLATINUM. THIS WOULD BE THE FINAL ZEPPELIN STUDIO ALBUM RELEASE BEFORE THE PASSING OF DRUMMER JOHN BONHAM. THE GROUP DISBANDED SHORTLY THEREAFTER. THE ALBUM ITSELF FEATURED UNIQUE MARKETING, WITH A PLAIN BROWN WRAPPER ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE RECORD. THE ACTUAL ALBUM JACKET FEATURED 6 DIFFERENT SLEEVES IN BLACK AND WHITE. IF YOU TOOK WATER TO THE SLEEVE IT WOULD PERMANENTLY GIVE YOU A COLORED PHOTO. HERE’S ZEPPELIN WITH A FANTASTIC LIVE VERSION OF THE FIRST SONG ON THE ALBUM. HERE’S ‘IN THE EVENING’

FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE!

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 6, 2020-SOME CALL IT THE GREATEST LIVE ALBUM EVER RECORDED. FORTY FOUR YEARS AGO PETER FRAMPTON RELEASED THE DOUBLE LIVE ALBUM ‘FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE!.’ THE ALBUM WAS RECORDED PRIMARILY AT THE WINTERLAND CONCERT VENUE IN SF. IT WAS THE NUMBER ONE ALBUM IN AMERICA FOR OVER 10 STRAIGHT WEEKS AND STAYED ON THE CHARTS FOR A WHOPPING 97 WEEKS, SELLING OVER AN ESTIMATED 11 MILLION COPIES. IN 1976 ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE READERS VOTED ‘FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE!’ AS THE ALBUM OF THE YEAR. HERE’S A TREAT, FRAMPTON PERFORMING ‘DO YOU FEEL LIKE WE DO’ IN THE SUMMER OF 1977 AT THE OAKLAND COLISEUM. MAYBE YOU’LL SPOT YOURSELF OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IN THE CROWD.