LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 4, 2019…A HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHOUT OUT TODAY TO LYNYRD SKYNYRD GUITARIST GARY ROSSINGTON. ROSSINGTON HAS THE DISTINCTION OF BEING THE BAND’S SOLE FOUNDING MEMBER. IN 2019 ROSSINGTON BECAME THE LAST ORIGINAL MEMBER OF LYNYRD SKYNYRD STILL ALIVE. TODAY HE’S 68. HERE’S A GREAT INTERVIEW WITH GARY ROSSINGTON TALKING ABOUT HIS MINDSET ON HIS CAREER AND HIS LONGEVITY. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO GARY ROSSINGTON
THIS SOME GREAT LIVE SKYNYRD (OUTSTANDING QUALITY)
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 4, 2019…ON THIS DATE IN 1982 THE WHO RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘EMINENCE FRONT’ FROM THE ALBUM ‘IT’S HARD.’ THIS IS THE ONLY SONG THE BAND HAS PLAYED FROM THE LP AFTER THE INITIAL POST RELEASE TOUR. PETE TOWNSHEND WROTE THE SONG AND IT TELLS THE STORY ABOUT DELUSIONS & DRUG USE OF THE RICH AND HEDONISTIC. DURING CONCERTS TOWNSHEND HAS INTRODUCED THE SONG WITH: “This song is about what happens when you take too much white powder; it’s called Eminence Front”. THIS IS A GREAT VERSION OF THE SONG. THE GUITAR WORK IS STELLAR
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 3, 2019…THE ‘PRINCE OF DARKNESS’ WAS BORN DECEMBER 3, 1948 IN BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND. OZZY IS ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. AT THE AGE OF 15 OZZY QUIT SCHOOL, AND AT THE AGE OF 17 WAS THE LEAD SINGER OF A BAND THAT WOULD EVENTUALLY BECOME BLACK SABBATH. TO DATE OZZY HAS SOLD OVER 100 MILLION ALBUMS. THIS IS VINTAGE OZZY
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 3, 2019..ON THIS DATE IN 1991 GUNS N’ ROSES RELEASED THEIR REMAKE OF PAUL McCARTNEY’S HIT ‘LIVE AND LET DIE’. IT WAS THE SECOND SINGLE RELEASED FROM THE ALBUM ‘USE YOUR ILLUSION I’. I KNOW WHEN I FIRST HEARD THE GROUP WAS COVERING THIS SONG, I THOUGHT “WHY !!?” BUT AFTER I HEARD IT, I THOUGHT “WOW, THIS VERSION WAS FANTASTIC!” THIS IS A GREAT VIDEO OF SLASH EXPLAINING HOW THE GROUP ACTUALLY ENDED UP COVERING THE TRACK
THIS IS THE OFFICIAL VIDEO OF ‘LIVE AND LET DIE’ FROM GN’R
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 3, 2019…IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY SCOTT WEILAND PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 48. WEILAND IS BEST KNOWN AS THE LEAD SINGER OF THE STONE TEMPLE PILOTS AND FOR HIS WORK WITH VELVET REVOLVER. WEILAND DIED ON DECEMBER 3, 2015 AFTER BEING FOUND IN CARDIAC ARREST ON HIS TOUR BUS JUST HOURS BEFORE A CONCERT. WEILAND AND HIS BAND ‘THE WILDABOUTS’ WERE IN BLOOMINGTON, MINNESOTA FOR A GIG LATER THAT EVENING. THE CORONER LISTED THE OFFICIAL CAUSE OF DEATH AS AN OVERDOSE OF COCAINE, ETHANOL AND METHYLENEDIOXYAMPHETAMINE (MDA). R.I.P. SCOTT…YOU’RE MISSED !
Lamont & Tonelli talked to Mr. Skin for his weekly fun bags forecast, including his list of the Top 10 Nude Scenes of 2019.
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 2, 2019…SEVEN YEARS AGO THE KENNEDY CENTER AWARDS FEATURED WHAT I CONSIDER THE GREATEST LIVE PERFORMANCE OF A COVER THAT I’VE EVER SEEN. THE HONOREES FOR THE NIGHT INCLUDED BUDDY GUY, BALLERINA NATALIA MAKAROVA, DAVID LETTERMAN, DUSTIN HOFFMAN, AND LED ZEPPELIN. THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE EVENING WAS THE PERFORMANCE OF ‘STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN’ FROM ANN AND NANCY WILSON, WITH JASON BONHAM ON DRUMS. YOU KNOW YOU’VE DONE SOMETHING AMAZING WHEN JIMMY PAGE LOOKED GIDDY WITH EXCITEMENT AND ROBERT PLANT WAS BROUGHT TO TEARS. PLANT DIDN’T KNOW JASON WAS GOING TO BE THERE AND IT MADE HIM REFLECT ON BONZO.
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 2, 2019…ELEVEN YEARS AGO AC/DC’S “BLACK ICE” TOUR HIT THE ORACLE FOR THE FIRST OF TWO SOLD OUT SHOWS. THE ‘BLACK ICE’ TOUR WAS THE FIRST AC/DC TOUR IN 7 YEARS. THE LAST TIME THEY GROUP HIT THE ROAD WAS THE ‘STIFF UPPER LIP’ TOUR IN 2000-2001. THE ‘BLACK ICE’ TOUR IS A SIGNIFICANT TOUR IN THE HISTORY OF AC/DC BECAUSE IT MARKED THE LAST TOUR WITH MALCOLM YOUNG, WHO LEFT THE BAND IN ILL HEALTH IN 2014. IT WAS ALSO THE LAST TOUR WITHOUT PHIL RUDD ON DRUMS, WHO WAS CHARGED IN NOVEMBER OF 2014 FOR HIRING A HITMAN TO MURDER SOMEONE AND FOR POSSESSION OF DRUGS. THIS WAS ALSO THE LAST FULL TOUR TO FEATURE BRIAN JOHNSON, AS HE LEFT THE BAND HALFWAY THROUGH THE ‘ROCK OR BUST’ TOUR DUE TO HEARING PROBLEMS. THE “BLACK ICE” TOUR HAULED IN $ 441 MILLION DOLLARS MAKING IT THE FOURTH HIGHEST-GROSSING TOUR OF ALL-TIME (THAT’S THE EQUIVALENT OF CLOSE TO $ 528 MILLION DOLLARS IN 2019 MONEY).
HERE’S CONCERT FOOTAGE FROM A DUDE THAT HAD GREAT SEATS
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 1, 2019…IT WAS 1967 AND HENDRIX RELEASED THE ALBUM ‘AXIS:BOLD AS LOVE.’ THIS WAS THE SECOND STUDIO ALBUM FROM ‘THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE’ AND HENDRIX EXPRESSED DISMAY OVER THE ALBUM COVER ART. THE COVER (WHICH WAS PICKED BY HIS RECORD COMPANY) DEPICTED HENDRIX AND THE EXPERIENCE AS VARIOUS FORMS OF VISHNU. HENDRIX STATED THAT THE COVER WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE APPROPRIATE HAD IT HIGHLIGHTED HIS AMERICAN INDIAN HERITAGE. THE RELEASE DATE OF THE RECORD WAS ALMOST DELAYED WHEN HENDRIX LOST THE MASTER TAPE OF SIDE ONE OF THE LP. HE LEFT IT IN THE BACKSEAT OF A LONDON TAXI. WITH A DEADLINE LOOMING, HENDRIX AND HIS TEAM WERE FORCED TO REMIX SIDE ONE IN 1 NIGHT. HENDRIX LATER VOICED HIS DISAPPOINTMENT ABOUT HAVING TO RUSH THE FINAL MIX, AND FELT IT COULD HAVE SOUNDED BETTER IF HE WAS GIVEN MORE TIME. HERE’S A BEHIND THE SCENES LOOK AT THE RECORDING OF “LITTLE WING”
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 1, 2019…IF YOU WERE AT SAN FRANCISCO’S AVALON BALLROOM IN 1968 FOR A BENEFIT CONCERT, YOU SAW THE LAST TIME JANIS JOPLIN PERFORMED WITH BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING COMPANY. IS IT ME, BUT I FEEL NOTHING BEATS LIVE JOPLIN
