LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOV 18, 2019…TWO YEARS AGO TODAY MARKS THE PASSING OF AC/DC’S MALCOLM YOUNG. MALCOLM WAS BEST KNOWN AS THE CO-FOUNDER, RHYTHM GUITARIST, BACKING VOCALIST AND SONGWRITER FOR THE GROUP.EXCEPT FOR A BRIEF ABSENCE IN 1988, MALCOLM YOUNG WAS WITH AC/DC FROM THE BAND’S BEGINNING IN NOVEMBER 1973 UNTIL RETIRING IN 2014 TO RECEIVE TREATMENT FOR DEMENTIA. HE DIED FROM THE DISEASE ON THIS DATE IN 2017.
HERE’S A GREAT VIDEO OF THE LAST TIME THE BAND PLAYED WITH MALCOLM.
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOV 18, 2019…TWELVE YEARS AGO, AS A TRIBUTE TO THE LATE LEAD SINGER BON SCOTT, AC/DC RELEASED THE ULTIMATE AC/DC BOX SET ‘BONFIRE.’ THE FIVE DISC BOX SET WAS RELEASED IN 1997 AND INCLUDED A TWO DISC SOUNDTRACK TO THE MOVIE ‘LET THERE BE ROCK,’ SOME EARLY UNRELEASED TRACKS, A LIVE UNRELEASED LIVE RECORDING FROM THE ATLANTIC RECORDS STUDIO IN NEW YORK AND A REMASTERED VERSION OF ‘BACK IN BLACK.’ THE BOX SET ALSO INCLUDED A POSTER, A BACKSTAGE PASS, KEY RING AND OTHER TRINKETS ALONG WITH A LARGE BOOK OF LINER NOTES AND RARE PICTURES OF THE EARLY BON SCOTT YEARS. A MUST FOR AC/DC FANATICS.
HERE’S A GREAT VERSION OF ‘LET THERE BE ROCK’
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOV 18, 2019…PUT 57 CANDLES ON THAT BIRTHDAY CAKE FOR METALLICA’S KIRK HAMMETT. PERSONALLY, I FREAKIN’ LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS GUY. HE’S ONE OF THE MOST DOWN TO EARTH GUYS YOU’LL EVER MEET AND HE IS ONE OF THE MOST TALENTED MOTHERFU*#@$S ON EARTH. WE WERE INTRODUCED TO HIM IN 2000 AT METALLICA’S CONCERT AT 3COM PARK WHEN HAMMETT REQUESTED TO MEET US BECAUSE HE LISTENED TO THE SHOW!! WTF ! JUST A GREAT DUDE. HAMMETT WAS RANKED 11TH ON “ROLLING STONE” MAGAZINE’S LIST OF THE TOP 100 GUITARISTS OF ALL-TIME. IN APRIL 2009, ALONG WITH FELLOW METALLICA MEMBERS LARS ULRICH, JAMES HETFIELD, ROBERT TRUJILLO, FORMER MEMBERS JASON NEWSTED AND THE LATE CLIFF BURTON, WAS INDUCTED INTO THE “ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME”
THIS IS COOL, KIRK GIVES A GUITAR LESSON ON HOW TO PLAY “MASTER OF PUPPETS”
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOV 18, 2019…THIS IS A HUGE DAY IN METALLICA HISTORY. NOVEMBER 18 1997 SAW THE RELEASE OF ‘RELOAD’ THE SEVENTH STUDIO METALLICA ALBUM. THE RECORD WAS A FOLLOW-UP TO LOAD AND WAS THE LAST METALLICA ALBUM TO FEATURE BASSIST JASON NEWSTED. RELOAD DEBUTED AT #1 ON THE BILLBOARD CHARTS AND TO DATE HAS SOLD 8,900,000 COPIES WORLDWIDE.
HERE’S ONE OF MY FAVORITE METALLICA SONGS FROM ‘RELOAD’
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOV 17, 2019…TODAY WOULD HAVE BEEN DUANE ALLMAN’S 73RD BIRTHDAY. ALLMAN DIED OCT 29,1971 FOLLOWING A MOTORCYCLE CRASH. ALLMAN LOST CONTROL OF HIS MOTORCYCLE ON A WHILE TRYING TO SWERVE TO AVOID A TRACTOR-TRAILER AND WAS THROWN FROM THE BIKE. THE MOTORCYCLE BOUNCED INTO THE AIR, LANDED ON ALLMAN AND SKIDDED ANOTHER 90 FEET WITH ALLMAN PINNED UNDERNEATH. DUANE ALLMAN WAS THREE WEEKS SHY OF HIS 25TH BIRTHDAY. THAT DAY THE WORLD LOST A TRUE GUITAR GOD.
THIS IS AN AMAZING A LIVE VERSION OF ‘WHIPPING POST’ FROM 1970
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOV 17, 2019… IT WAS 1980 AND JOHN LENNON RELEASED THE ALBUM ‘DOUBLE FANTASY.’ THIS WAS THE SEVENTH AND FINAL STUDIO ALBUM RELEASED BY LENNON DURING HIS LIFETIME. THREE WEEKS AFTER LAUNCHING THIS LP LENNON WAS MURDERED BY A LUNATIC (MARK DAVID CHAPMAN) IN FRONT OF “THE DAKOTA,” LENNON’S RESIDENCE. ‘DOUBLE FANTASY’ WENT ON TO WIN THE GRAMMY FOR “ALBUM OF THE YEAR” AND WENT ON TO SELL OVER 10 MILLION COPIES.
LOVE THIS SONG
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOVEMBER 16, 2019..FIVE YEARS AGO BONO WAS RUSHED TO A HOSPITAL AFTER A ‘HIGH ENERGY BIKE ACCIDENT.’ THIS ACCIDENT WAS BAD AND REALLY EFF’D BONO UP. BONO WAS RIDING A BICYCLE IN NEW YORK WHEN HE TRIED TO AVOID ANOTHER RIDER AND CRASHED BREAKING HIS ARM IN SIX PLACES , FRACTURED HIS EYE SOCKET, HAND AND SHOULDER BLADE IN WHAT HE CALLED A “FREAK” ACCIDENT. BONO REVEALED THAT HE NOW HAS A TITANIUM ELBOW AND SAID HE “blanked out on impact and have no memory of how I ended up in New York Presbyterian with my humerus bone sticking through my leather jacket. Very punk rock as injuries go”.
THIS IS BONO DISCUSSING THE ACCIDENT ON ‘THE TONIGHT SHOW’
HERE’S SOME LIVE U2, AN ENTIRE CONCERT . ENJOY
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOVEMBER 16, 2019..ON THIS DATE FIFTY ONE YEARS AGO WE WERE FIRST INTRODUCED TO JOE COCKER WHEN THE GRAVELLY VOICED SINGER RELEASED HIS FIRST SINGLE, A REMAKE OF THE BEATLES ‘WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS.’ THIS IS PAUL MCCARTNEY COMMENTING ON COCKER’S VERSION:”it was just mind blowing, totally turned the song into a soul anthem and I was forever grateful for him for doing that.” IN 2001 COCKER’S VERSION OF THE SONG WAS INDUCTED INTO THE GRAMMY HALL OF FAME. THIS IS COCKER PERFORMING ‘WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS’ CIRCA 1969 AT WOODSTOCK WHERE IT BECAME AN ANTHEM FOR A GENERATION
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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOVEMBER 15, 2019…ON THIS DATE IN 1975 PINK FLOYD RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘HAVE A CIGAR.’ THIS SONG IS ABOUT CORPORATIONS AND HOW THEY CONTROL MUSICIANS. PINK FLOYD HATED
THE RECORD INDUSTRY AND WAS PEEVED AT THEIR LABEL AND THEIR PERSISTENT REQUESTS FOR A FOLLOW-UP TO THE GROUP’S MEGA ALBUM ‘DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.’
THIS WAS ONE OF THE LAST SONGS ADDED TO THE LP ‘WISH YOU WERE HERE’ AND WAS A TRACK THE BAND WAS HAVING DIFFICULTY GETTING THE RIGHT VOCALLY IN THE STUDIO. ROGER WATERS VOICE WAS FRIED FROM JUST SINGING ‘SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND’ AND GILMOUR DIDN’T FEEL HE WAS RIGHT FOR THE SONG. PINK FLOYD ENDED UP USING ENGLISH SINGER ROY HARPER TO HANDLE THE LEAD VOCALS ON “HAVE A CIGAR”. IT MARKS ONLY 1 OF 2 PINK FLOYD SONGS TO FEATURE EVER GUEST VOCALS. (THE OTHER SONG IS “GREAT GIG IN THE SKY”). IN AN INTERVIEW WITH MOJO MAGAZINE, GILMOUR RECALLED HOW HARPER ENDED UP PERFORMING ON THE SONG: “Roger had a go at singing it and one or two people were unkind about his singing. One or two people then asked me to have a go at it. I did, but I wasn’t comfortable. I had nothing against the lyrics. Maybe the range and intensity wasn’t right for my voice. I can distinctly remember Roy leaning on the wall outside Abbey Riad, while we were nattering away and (growls) ‘Go on, lemme have a go, lemme have a go.’ We all went, ‘Shut up Roy.’ But eventually we said, ‘Go on then, Roy, have your bloody go.’ Most of us enjoyed his version, though I don’t think Roger ever liked it.”
THIS IS THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR ‘HAVE A CIGAR’
