LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 17, 2019…ON THIS DATE THIRTY EIGHT YEARS AGO THE WHO PERFORM WHAT IS SUPPOSEDLY THEIR FINAL CONCERT. THE SHOW IN TORONTO WAS THE FINAL CONCERT DURING THEIR “FAREWELL TOUR.” IT’S INTERESTING TO NOTE THE WHO HAVE EMBARKED ON 13 TOURS SINCE THE ‘82 FAREWELL TOUR, WITH A 14TH TOUR PLANNED FOR NEXT YEAR. THIS AS THE FINAL CONCERT FROM 1982. IT WAS SUCH BIG NEWS IT WAS SIMULCAST ON LIVE TV BEFORE MTV
photo thanks-Sarah W.
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 17, 2019…ON THIS DATE IN 1971 DAVID BOWIE DROPPED HIS 4TH ALBUM ‘HUNKY DORY’. WHEN BOWIE RECORDED THIS ALBUM HE WAS WITHOUT A RECORD CONTRACT. WHEN RCA RECORDS HEARD THE TAPES OF THE ALBUM THEY SIGNED HIM IMMEDIATELY.
HUNKY DORY WAS THE FIRST BOWIE RECORD TO FEATURE ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE BAND THAT WOULD BECOME KNOWN THE FOLLOWING YEAR AS ‘ZIGGY STARDUST’S SPIDERS FROM MARS.’ THE LP WAS POWERED BY THE SONG ‘CHANGES,’ WHICH IS ONE OF FOUR BOWIE SONGS TO BE INCLUDED IN THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME’S “500 SONGS THAT SHAPED ROCK AND ROLL.” THE ALBUM WAS RANKED AT ‘ONE OF THE 100 MOST IMPORTANT ROCK ALBUMS’ BY “TIME” MAGAZINE. HERE’S THE MEGA HIT FROM THE ALBUM. THE INCOMPARABLE DAVID BOWIE WITH A LIVE VERSION OF ‘CHANGES’
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 17, 2019..HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISHES GOING OUT TO PAUL RODGERS WHO TURNS THE BIG 7-0 TODAY ! RODGERS SHOT TO FAME IN THE EARLY 1970’S WITH THE BAND ‘FREE’ AND THE SONG ‘ALL RIGHT NOW’. HE LATER WENT ON TO FORM ‘BAD COMPANY’. HE’S BEEN A PART OF THE SUPERGROUP ‘THE FIRM’ AND TOURED WITH ‘QUEEN’. IN ADDITION, HE WAS ALSO CONSIDERED AS A REPLACEMENT FOR JIM MORRISON BY ‘THE DOORS’, AND WAS ASKED TO BE THE LEAD SINGER OF ‘DEEP PURPLE’. IS IT ANY WONDER HE’S BEEN CALLED ‘THE VOICE.’ HERE’S AN AMAZING JAM SESSION, WITH PAUL RODGERS, SLASH, AND QUEEN’S BRIAN MAY. IT WAS PART OF A NIGHT OF ALL-STAR NIGHT OF MUSIC IN HONOR OF GIBSON GUITARS AND THEIR “NIGHT OF 100 GUITARS.” THE TRIO KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARK WITH THEIR PERFORMANCE OF ‘ALL RIGHT NOW’
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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 16, 2019..HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BILLY GIBBONS OF ZZ TOP, TODAY HE TURNS 70. GIBBONS CO-FOUNDED ZZ TOP IN 1969. THIS GUY IS JUST PLAIN AWESOME ON GUITAR. MANY PROMINENT MUSICIANS HAVE SINGLED OUT GIBBONS AS ONE OF THEIR FAVORITES, INCLUDING ARTISTS LIKE TED NUGENT, CUB CODA, AND THE LATE JIMI HENDRIX, WHO STATED THAT GIBBONS WAS THE BEST DURING AN APPEARANCE HE MADE ON “THE TONIGHT SHOW.” HE WAS RANKED AT #32 ON “ROLLING STONE” MAGAZINE’S LIST OF “THE 100 GREATEST GUITARISTS OF ALL-TIME.” GIBBONS WAS INDUCTED INTO THE “ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME” AS A MEMBER OF ZZ TOP IN 2004. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BILLY ! HERE’S GIBBONS AND THE BOYS WITH SOME VINTAGE ZZ TOP
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 16, 2018..ON THIS DATE IN 1966 JIMI HENDRIX RELEASES HIS FIRST SINGLE ‘HEY JOE’. THE SONG IS ABOUT A MAN WHO IS ON THE RUN AND PLANS TO GO TO MEXICO AFTER SHOOTING HIS UNFAITHFUL WIFE. IT WAS RECORDED BY NUMEROUS ARTISTS BEFORE HENDRIX RELEASED THE SONG AND IT BECAME THE MOST RECOGNIZABLE VERSION. JIMI’S VERSION IS LISTED AS #201 ON “ROLLING STONE” MAGAZINE’S LIST OF “THE 500 GREATEST SONGS OF ALL-TIME.” A LITTLE TRIVIA, ‘HEY JOE’ WAS THE LAST SONG HENDRIX PERFORMED AT WOODSTOCK IN 1969, AND AS A RESULT WAS THE FINAL SONG PLAYED AT THE FESTIVAL. HERE’S HENDRIX WITH HIS VERSION OF ‘HEY JOE’
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 15, 2019…AEROSMITH ‘DREAM ON’ FORTY SIX YEARS AGO AEROSMITH PERFORMED ‘DREAM ON’ ON AMERICAN BANDSTAND. TALK ABOUT BITING THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU. JOE PERRY WOULD LATER SAY HE DIDN’T REALLY LIKE THE SONG, BUT KNEW THE BAND NEEDED A BALLAD IF THEY WANTED TO GET RADIO AIRPLAY ! IN AN INTERVIEW STEVEN TYLER EXPLAINED THE MEANING BEHIND THE SONG: “It’s about the hunger to be somebody: Dream until your dreams come true. This song sums up the shit you put up with when you’re in a new band. Most of the critics panned our first album, and said we were ripping off the Stones. That’s a good barometer of my anger at the press, which I still have. ‘Dream On’ came of me playing the piano when I was about 17 or 18, and I didn’t know anything about writing a song. It was just this little sonnet that I started playing one day. I never thought that it would end up being a real song.” IT TURNED OUT TO BE AEROSMITH’S SIGNATURE SONG. THIS IS MY FAVORITE VERSION OF ‘DREAM ON’…I TEAR UP LIKE A BABY WHENEVER I WATCH THE VIDEO
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 14, 2019…HAPPY 70TH BIRTHDAY TO AC/DC’S CLIFF WILLIAMS. WILLIAMS JOINED AC/DC AS THEIR BASSIST IN 1977 WHEN HE REPLACED MARK EVANS, AND HAS BEEN CRANKING IT OUT ON BASS AND BACKING VOCALS UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT FROM THE GROUP IN SEPTEMBER OF 2016 (AT THE END OF THE “ROCK OR BUST” TOUR). RECENT REPORTS HAVE WILLIAMS BACK IN THE LINE-UP FOR AN AC/DC ALBUM AND REUNION IN 2020. CLIFF WAS INDUCTED INTO THE “ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME” WITH THE REST OF AC/DC IN 2003. HAPPY B’DAY TO CLIFF WILLIAMS. HERE’S CLIFF AND THE BOYS WITH THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR THUNDERSTRUCK
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 14, 2019…ON THIS DATE IN 1979 THE CLASH RELEASED THE ALBUM ‘LONDON CALLING’. TODAY MARKS THE OFFICIAL UNITED KINGDOM RELEASE DATE. IT WAS OFFICIALLY RELEASED IN AMERICA IN JANUARY OF 1980.THIS WAS THE THIRD ALBUM FOR THE CLASH, AND IT EXPLODED. THE ALBUM SOLD OVER 5 MILLION COPIES, AND ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE RANKS IT AS NUMBER 8 ON IT’S LIST OF THE “TOP 500 ALBUMS OF ALL-TIME”. HERE’S THE CLASH WITH THE TITLE TRACK FROM THIS LANDMARK ALBUM
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 14, 2019…ON THIS DATE 6 YEARS AGO, THE BLACK CROWES PLAYED WHAT WAS BILLED AS THEIR FINAL SHOW EVER AT THE BILL GRAHAM CIVIC AUDITORIUM. I FREAKIN’ LOVE THE BLACK CROWES. THEY HAVE SOLD OVER 35 MILLION ALBUMS, AND ALWAYS PUT ON A GREAT SHOW. AFTER THE BREAK-UP THE BAND SPLINTERED OFF INTO VARIOUS PROJECTS THE TWO MOST NOTABLE BEING RICH ROBINSON,WHO FORMED THE BAND ‘MAGPIE SALUTE’ WITH A COUPLE OF FORMER CROWE MEMBERS. BROTHER RICH ROBINSON LIVES IN THE BAY AREA AND FORMED THE ‘CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD’ . HERE WAS THE SETLIST FROM THE FINAL SHOW (FROM SETLIST.COM)
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THE GOOD NEWS IS, THE BROTHERS ROBINSON HAVE BURIED THE HATCHET AND ANNOUNCED A 2020 TOUR IN SUPPORT OF THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF ‘SHAKE YOUR MONEYMAKER.’ THE GROUP HAS 2 DATES SCHEDULED FOR THE BAY AREA, SEPTEMBER 8TH AT THE CONCORD PAVILION, AND SEPTEMBER 9TH AT THE SHORELINE AMPHITHEATER.
HERE’S THE “FINAL CONCERT” FROM 2013 IN ITS ENTIRETY
Photos From: DailyMail.com
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