LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 2,2020…IT WAS 1988 AND CHEAP TRICK PLAYED THE OLD ‘STONE’ NIGHTCLUB IN SF. THE LOCATION OF THE STONE WAS AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER THE HOME OF MANY BARS. ORIGINALLY OPENED BY MARTY BALIN OF JEFFERSON AIRPLANE AS ‘THE MATRIX’. HE OPENED IT AS A VENUE FOR HIS BAND TO PLAY. DON CORNELIUS OF ‘SOUL TRAIN’ PURCHASED IT AND OF COURSE NAMED IT ‘SOUL TRAIN’ AND TURNED IT INTO A SOUL AND R&B BAR. WHEN IT OPENED AS ‘THE STONE’ IT WAS TIME TO ROCK ‘N ROLL AGAIN. HERE’S CHEAP TRICK WITH A LIVE PERFORMANCE FROM 1979
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 2,2020…FIFTEEN YEARS AGO GREEN DAY HAD THE NUMBER 1 ALBUM IN THE USA WITH AMERICAN IDIOT. THIS WAS A MONSTER RECORD FOR THE BAND. WORLDWIDE IT WAS #1 IN 19 COUNTRIES AND SOLD OVER 19 MILLION COPIES. IT ALSO PICKED UP THE GRAMMY AWARD IN 2005 FOR ‘THE BEST ROCK ALBUM’. HERE’S GREEN DAY PERFORMING ONE OF 5 HUGE SONGS FROM THE CD, THIS IS ‘HOLIDAY’
photo-the great Jimmy O’Sheehan Photographyhttps://www.facebook.com/jimmyosheehan/
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 1, 2020- THE YEAR WAS 1975 AND ON THIS DATE FLEETWOOD MAC ANNOUNCED THE ADDITION OF 2 NEW MEMBERS THAT WOULD HAVE A MONUMENTAL EFFECT ON THE COURSE OF THE BAND’S FUTURE. ON THIS DATE 45 YEARS AGO STEVIE NICKS AND LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM JOINED THE GROUP. WITH THE ADDITION OF THESE TWO MEMBERS, FLEETWOOD MAC BECAME ON OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL GROUPS IN MUSIC HISTORY, SELLING OVER 100 MILLION ALBUMS WORLDWIDE. THE ALBUM ‘RUMOURS’ALONE HAS SOLD OVER 40 MILLION UNITS, AND IS ONE OF THE BEST SELLING ALBUMS OF ALL TIME. THIS IS AN OUTSTANDING VERSION OF ‘RHIANNON’, FILMED IN 1976 DURING A REHEARSAL FOR A TV SHOW.
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 1,2020…FORTY YEARS AGO TODAY RUSH KICKED OFF 1980 WITH THE ALBUM ‘PERMANENT WAVES’. THIS WAS THE FIRST OF 14 PLATINUM ALBUMS FOR RUSH. QUICK FACT, IN TERMS OF SALES, RUSH IS BEHIND ONLY THE BEATLES AND THE ROLLING STONES FOR MOST CONSECUTIVE GOLD OR PLATINUM ALBUMS BY A ROCK BAND. HERE’S RUSH IN THEIR HOMETOWN OF TORONTO. THIS TRULY IS GREAT CONCERT FOOTAGE. HAPPY 2020 EVERYONE
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is offering free rides in the city on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day to avoid delays as well as discourage drinking and driving.
All Muni lines and routes can be ridden with no cost between 8 p.m. Dec. 31 and 5 a.m. Jan. 1, 2018, but Clipper card holders should be careful to avoid using their cards or they could still be charged a fare.
Service on cable car routes will be provided by buses after 6 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, as will service on the F-Market & Wharves line.
Owl service will be doubled on a number of routes, while additional Muni Metro shuttles will run from West Portal to Fourth and King streets until 2:15 a.m. and between Embarcadero and West Portal until 5 a.m.
In addition, BART will run additional service until roughly 3 a.m., but trains to and from the East Bay will stop at either the Embarcadero or Montgomery stations, but not both.
Trains on the Pittsburg/Bay Point and Richmond lines will stop at the Montgomery station, while trains on the Dublin/Pleasanton and Fremont/Warm Springs line will stop at Embarcadero.
After the fireworks show scheduled for midnight, trains headed back to the East Bay on the Dublin/Pleasanton and Fremont/Warm Springs lines will not stop at West Oakland.
Caltrain service will also be free from 8 p.m. on Dec. 31 to 5 a.m. Jan 1.
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 31, 2019… HAPPY 77TH BIRTHDAY TO GUITARIST ANDY SUMMERS OF THE POLICE. BEFORE JOINING THE POLICE, SUMMERS WAS IN A VARIETY OF BANDS IN ENGLAND, AND IN 1968 WAS EVEN RECORDED AN ALBUM AS A MEMBER OF ‘ERIC BURDON AND THE ANIMALS’. HE JOINED ‘THE POLICE’ IN 1977 AND GAINED WORLDWIDE FAME. THE BAND BROKE UP AT THE HEIGHT OF THEIR POPULARITY AFTER SELLING 80 MILLION RECORDS. A LOT OF THE HOSTILITY THAT LED TO THEIR BREAK-UP WAS SONG SELECTION ON THE ALBUMS. EACH MEMBER WANTED MORE SONGS ON THE ALBUMS, MAINLY BECAUSE THE WRITER RECEIVED THE ROYALTIES, AS THE BAND DIDN’T SHARE IN SONGWRITING ROYALTIES. HERE’S SUMMERS WITH THE POLICE
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 31, 2018…HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BURTON CUMMINGS, THE FORMER LEAD SINGER FOR THE GUESS WHO. FROM 1965 TO 1975 WITH CUMMINGS LEADING THE WAY, THE GUESS WHO CRANKED OUT A TON OF HIT RECORDS. HE EITHER WROTE , CO-WROTE AND SANG ‘AMERICAN WOMAN’, ‘NO TIME’, ‘HAND ME DOWN WORLD’, ‘THESE EYES’ AND ‘LAUGHING’. IN 1970 THE GUESS WHO SOLD MORE RECORDS THAN ANY OTHER GROUP IN THE WORLD.JIMMY PAGE OF LED ZEPPELIN ONCE SAID THAT ONE OF THE BEST SINGERS HE’S EVER HEARD WAS “THAT GUY WHO SINGS FOR THE GUESS WHO” HERE’S A GREAT APPEARANCE FROM 1973 AND THE T.V. SHOW ‘IN CONCERT’ SHOWING OFF BURTON CUMMINGS CHOPS. ENJOY. HAPPY 72ND BIRTHDAY BURTON CUMMINGS
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 30, 2019…THE WINTERLAND BALLROOM, OR ‘WINTERLAND’ AS MOST PEOPLE CALLED IT, WAS AN HISTORIC CONCERT VENUE AT THE CORNER OF POST AND STEINER IN SF. BILL GRAHAM PURCHASED THE VENUE IN 1971 AND TURNED IT INTO KEY BAY AREA CONCERT VENUE. ONE OF THE MANY GREAT BAY AREA SHOWS TOOK PLACE SHOWS WAS 41 YEARS AGO, WHEN TOM PETTY PUT ON AN OUTSTANDING CONCERT. IF YOU WERE LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE THERE, YOU’LL RECOGNIZE THIS SETLIST: Surrender, Anything That’s Rock ‘n’ Roll, Fooled Again (I Don’t Like It), Casa Dega, I Need to Know, Refugee, The Dark End of the Street, Listen to Her Heart, You’re Gonna Get It, Mystery Man, American Girl, Breakdown, Strangered in the Night, Too Much Ain’t Enough, Shout, I Fought the Law, Anyway You Want It, Even the Losers
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 29, 2019…IT WAS ON THIS DATE IN 2015 BILLBOARD MAGAZINE ANNOUNCED THAT SLASH WOULD REJOIN GUNS ‘N ROSES TO HEADLINE COACHELLA. THIS LEAD TO THE “NOT IN THIS LIFETIME….” TOUR. THIS WAS A HUMONGOUS ANNOUNCEMENT AS NO ONE BELIEVED THAT THE CORE OF THE GROUP WOULD EVER COME TOGETHER ( INCLUDING MEMBERS OF THE BAND, THUS THE NAME “NOT IN THIS LIFETIME TOUR”).IT MARKED THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE “USE YOUR ILLUSION TOUR” IN 1993 THAT AXL ROSE, DUFF MCKAGAN AND SLASH HAVE ALL BEEN ON THE SAME STAGE. THE TOUR IS RANKED AS THE SECOND HIGHEST RANKING TOUR OF ALL-TIME IN TERMS OF GROSS REVENUE, RAKING IN MORE THAN $563 MILLION DOLLARS. HERE’S PRO VIDEO AND AUDIO OF G’NR’S 2016, 2017 & 2018 “NOT IN THIS LIFETIME…”TOUR
photo thanks-superstar photographer Jim SheehanJimmy O’Sheehan Photography
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 28, 2019..ON THIS DATE FOUR YEARS AGO LEMMY, THE LEAD VOCALIST AND BASSIST WITH MOTORHEAD DIED AT HIS HOME IN LOS ANGELES. LEMMY PASSED AWAY FOUR DAYS AFTER HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY FOLLOWING A SHORT BATTLE WITH A VERY AGGRESSIVE CANCER. WHEN MOTÖRHEAD OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED LEMMY’S PASSING ON THEIR OFFICIAL FACEBOOK PAGE, THEY NOTED THE CANCER HAD ONLY BEEN DIAGNOSED TWO DAYS EARLIER. KILLMISTER DIED FROM PROSTATE CANCER, CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA AND CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE. BTW, LEMMY SAID HE HAD STARTED SMOKING AT THE AGE OF 11, BUT 3 MONTHS BEFORE HIS DEATH IN SEPTEMBER OF 2015 HE WAS HOSPITALIZED WITH A LUNG INFECTION, SO DECIDED TO CUT HIS SMOKING DOWN TO ONLY 1 PACK A DAY. LEMMY ALSO CLAIMED THAT HE DRANK A BOTTLE OF JACK DANIELS A DAY SINCE HE WAS 3O YEARS OF AGE. TWO YEARS BEFORE HIS DEATH IN 2013 LEMMY QUIT DRINKING. A TRUE ROCK & ROLL LEGEND, R.I.P. LEMMY.
