LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOVEMBER 15, 2019…TWENTY SEVEN YEARS AGO, OZZY OSBOURNE ANNOUNCED HIS RETIREMENT. OFFICIALLY OZZY DECLARED “WHO WANTS TO BE TOURING AT 46 !!” AT THE TIME, OZZY WAS 45. ITS INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT SINCE THE RETIREMENT ANNOUNCEMENT OZZY HAS RELEASED 8 SOLO ALBUMS, 1 BLACK SABBATH LP AND HAS ANOTHER SOLO RECORD SET FOR RELEASE IN 2020. HE WAS ALSO INVOLVED WITH 12 SOLO TOURS AND 3 BLACK SABBATH TOURS. HE’S NOW 72 AND WILL BE PART OF OUR BONE BASH SET FOR JULY 2020!
HERE’S THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS LAST YEAR PLAYING DURING THE SOLAR ECLIPSE
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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOV 15 2019…DOOBIE BROTHER HISTORY HAPPENED ON THIS DAY IN 1974 WHEN THE DOOBIE BROTHERS RELEASED ‘BLACK WATER’. THIS WAS ACTUALLY THE FOURTH SINGLE TAKEN FROM THE ALBUM ‘WHAT WERE ONCE VICES ARE NOW HABITS’ AND BECAME THE DOOBIE BROTHERS FIRST # 1 HIT. THE DOOBIE’S GUITARIST PATRICK SIMMONS WROTE THIS SONG AND SANG LEAD. THE FUNNY THING IS ‘BLACK WATER’ WASN’T SEEN AS HAVING HIT POTENTIAL. THE RECORD COMPANY MADE IT THE “B” SIDE OF ‘ANOTHER PARK,ANOTHER SUNDAY.’
TOM JOHNSTON EXPLAINED THE UNLIKELY SUCCESS: “That’s a story that could have happened back then, but would never ever happen now: Roanoke, Virginia picked that tune up and started playing it in heavy rotation, and somebody in Minneapolis who I guess knew somebody in Roanoke heard the song and decided to follow suit, and it ended up becoming our first #1 single. That was Pat’s first single. And oddly enough, it was never looked at as a single by the record company. I remember when I first heard it was #1, we were in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and we were just getting ready to go on stage, and then I guess Bruce [their manager Bruce Cohn] must have told us. I think we were already aware of the fact that it was getting airplay, but nobody was really paying a lot of attention. And then all of a sudden it became #1 and we were paying attention. I remember I went in and congratulated Pat backstage, and we’ve been playing it ever since.”
HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR ‘BLACK WATER’ FROM THE DOOBIES
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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOV 14, 2019…HAPPY B’DAY TO STYX’S JAMES YOUNG. TODAY THE GUY BEST KNOWN AS THE LEAD GUITARIST OF STYX TURNS THE BIG 7-0. KNOWN AS “JY” TO MEMBERS OF STYX AND STYX FANS,
HE CAN DO IT ALL. HE’S A SONGWRITER, SOINGER, AND GUITARIST THAT ALSO PLAYS KEYBOARDS AND EVEN LEARNED TO PLAY CLARINET AT THE AGE OF 5. YOUNG, WHO HAS APPEARED ON ALL STYX ALBUMS, TENDS TO WRITE MORE OF THE HARD ROCK SONGS FOR STYX. HE’S MOST NOTABLE TRACKS ARE ‘MISS AMERICA’ AND ‘SNOWBLIND.’
HERE’S STYX FROM SF’S WINTERLAND PERFORMING ONE OF JAMES YOUNG’S BEST SONGS
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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOV 14, 2018…TWENTY TWO YEARS AGO THE ROLLING STONES PLAYED THE FIRST OF 4 SOLD OUT NIGHTS AT THE OAKLAND COLISEUM. THE WARM UP ACT…PEARL JAM ! IT WAS PART OF THE STONES “BRIDGES TO BABYLON TOUR”. THE TOUR WAS A WORLDWIDE YEAR-LONG VENTURE THAT HAD THE BAND ON THE ROAD FROM 1997-1998. THE “BRIDGES TO BABYLON TOUR” GROSSED 0VER $274 MILLION DOLLARS($432 MILLION DOLLARS IN 2019 MONEY) BECOMING THE SECOND-HIGHEST GROSSING TOUR AT THAT TIME , BEHIND THEIR OWN “VOODOO LOUNGE TOUR” OF 1994-1995. THIS WAS THE SETLIST FROM THE CONCERT: (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (But I Like It), Let’s Spend the Night Together, Flip the Switch, Gimme Shelter, Anybody Seen My Baby?, Saint of Me, 19th Nervous Breakdown, Out of Control, Star Star, Miss You, All About You, Wanna Hold You
B-Stage
Little Queenie, The Last Time, You Got Me Rocking, Sympathy for the Devil, Tumbling Dice, Honky Tonk Women, Start Me Up, Jumpin’ Jack Flash
A SPECIAL TREAT,THIS IS CONCERT FOOTAGE FROM PEARL JAM 22 YEARS AGO AS THE OPENING ACT FOR THE STONES IN OAKLAND
HERE’S GREAT VIDEO OF THE STONES WITH A WARM-SHOW FOR THE TOUR. IT WAS IN A BAR IN CHICAGO. WTF, CAN YOU IMAGINE WALKING IN AND THE STONES ARE PLAYING YOUR FAVORITE BAR !!!
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOV 13, 2019..BABY HUEY SPORTED A 24 HOUR BONER ON THIS DATE EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO BECAUSE GREEN DAY RELEASED THEIR GREATEST HITS ALBUM “INTERNATIONAL SUPERHITS!”
THE RECORD WAS A COLLECTION OF ALL OF THE GROUP’S SINGLES RELEASE BETWEEN 1994 AND 2000, AS WELL AS A FEW NUGGETS THROWN IN INCLUDING A PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACK ‘POPROCKS AND COKE.’ A DVD TITLED ‘INTERNATIONAL SUPERVIDEOS’ WAS RELEASE SIMULTANEOUSLY, FEATURING 15 OF THE BAND’S MUSIC VIDEOS SPANNING THE SAME TIME PERIOD. WORLDWIDE SALES FOR BOTH PROJECTS WERE OVER 2 MILLION UNITS. HERE’S A FULL GREEN DAY CONCERT, OR AS WE CALL IT AROUND HERE, 2 HOURS AND 16 MINUTES OF “HUEY BLISS”
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOV 12, 2019..HAPPY SEVENTY FOURTH BIRTHDAY TO NEIL YOUNG. TO COMMEMORATE THIS ROCK ICON’S SPECIAL DAY, HERE ARE SOME NEIL YOUNG FACTOIDS:
-NEIL YOUNG’S FATHER IS CANADIAN SPORTS WRITER SCOTT YOUNG AND HE’S THOUGHT OF AS A NATIONAL ICON.
-NEIL NEARLY DIED AT THE AGE OF 7 WHEN HE CAUGHT POLIO. IT WAS 1951 AND WAS THE LAST MAJOR OUTBREAK OF THE DISEASE IN ONTARIO.
-THAT YEAR THE FAMILY MOVED TO FLORIDA FOR 6 MONTHS TO ENABLE NEIL TO REGAIN HIS STRENGTH.
-ALTHOUGH NEIL IS CANADIAN, HIS MOTHER “RAZZY” YOUNG WAS A MEMBER OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
-WHEN NEIL’S PARENTS DIVORCED IN 1961 SHE MOVED NEIL AND HIS BROTHER TO WINNIPEG
– WHILE IN WINNIPEG YOUNG DEVELOPED A GREAT FRIENDSHIP WITH RANDY BACHMAN, WHO WENT ON TO FAME WITH THE GUESS WHO AND BTO. BACHMAN’S KIDS STILL CALL YOUNG “UNCLE NEIL”
-EVEN THOUGH HE’S LIVED IN THE U.S. FOR YEARS, YOUNG HAS NEVER RENOUNCED HIS CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP
-IN THE MID 60’S YOUNG PLAYED IN A FUNK BAND THAT FEATURED FUTURE FUNK STAR RICK JAMES AND EVEN SHARED A TORONTO APARTMENT WITH JAMES
– YOUNG AND THE FUNK BAND WERE ALMOST MOTOWN STARS SIGNING A CONTRACT WITH BERRY GORDY’S COMPANY. JUST BEFORE ENTERING THE STUDIO JAMES WAS ARRESTED FOR GOING AWOL FROM THE US NAVY
– TO MOVE HIS EQUIPMENT FROM GIG TO GIG YOUNG BOUGHT A HEARSE.
– AT A SMALL GIG IN FORT WILLIAMS ONTARIO YOUNG CROSSED PATHS WITH STEVEN STILLS
– WHEN YOUNG WAS STUCK IN TRAFFIC ON SUNSET BLVD, STILLS NOTICED THE HEARSE, DID A U-TURN, AND WAVED YOUNG DOWN. THIS CHANCE MEETING LED TO THE FORMATION OF BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD
– NEIL HAS NEVER REVEALED THE IDENTITY OF ‘CINNAMON GIRL’
– WHEN HE JOINED CROSBY STILLS AND NASH TO BECOME CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG THEY BECAME A TRUE SUPER GROUP. YOUNG ACTUALLY WASN’T THE RECORD COMPANY’S FIRST CHOICE. THE POSITION WAS FIRST OFFERED TO STEVE WINWOOD
-YOUNG CURRENTLY LIVES IN REDWOOD CITY ON THE BROKEN ARROW RANCH
– INCLUDING SALES, DOWNLOADS, AND STREAMING NEIL YOUNG HAS SOLD THE EQUIVALENT OF OVER 84 MILLION ALBUMS
HERE’S VIDEO (PRO QUALITY) OF NEIL YOUNG IN CONCERT
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOV 12, 2019-HOW’S THIS FOR SH***Y LUCK. ON THIS DATE IN 1990 ROLLING STONE RONNIE WOOD CRASHED HIS CAR ON THE M4 MOTORWAY NEAR MARLBOROUGH, WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND. WOOD WAS TRYING TO TO WAVE OTHER CARS PAST THE CRASH WHEN HE WAS RUN OVER BY ANOTHER MOTORIST AND BROKE BOTH HIS LEGS.THIS IS WOOD WITH AN ALLSTAR CAST JAMMING TO ‘STAY WITH ME’. I DON’T KNOW WHO THE SINGER IS BUT HE DOES AN OUTSTANDING JOB ON VOCALS !! PLUS, I THINK THIS MAY BE WOOD’S DAUGHTER HANDING BACKUP VOCALS.
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOV 12, 2019.. TONIGHT SANTANA WRAPS UP HIS ‘SUPERNATURAL NOW TOUR’ AT SAN FRANCISCO’S CHASE CENTER. TONIGHT IS THE CULMINATION OF AN ONGOING TOUR COMMEMORATING THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF SANTANA’S PIVOTAL 1999 ALBUM SUPERNATURAL. THE TOUR ALSO MARKS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF SANTANA’S APPEARANCE AT WOODSTOCK AND IS IN SUPPORT OF THE MOST RECENT ALBUM ‘AFRICA SPEAKS.’ THE SUPERNATURAL TOUR CONSISTED OF ONLY 33 PERFORMANCES ACROSS NORTH AMERICA. TONIGHT’S CONCERT KICKS OFF AT 7:30 TONIGHT.
TO GET YOU IN THE MOOD HERE’S GREAT CONCERT FOOTAGE FROM A CONCERT EARLIER YEAR IN TEXAS IN FRONT OF A CROWD OF 74,000 FANS.
