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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES- OCT 22, 2019…HAPPY 74TH BIRTHDAY TO MOUNTAIN GUITARIST LESLIE WEST. MOUNTAIN IS A BAND THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN HUGE, BUT THEY WERE HAUNTED BY ONE BAD DECISION. THEY PLAYED WOODSTOCK(AND KILLED AT WOODSTOCK), BUT A MANAGEMENT DECISION ON WAS MADE NOT TO PUT THEM IN THE MOVIE BECAUSE OF ROYALTIES. AS IT TURNS OUT, PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE FROM THE MOVIE BECAME STARS BECAUSE THEY WERE PART OF THE LEGACY OF WOODSTOCK. THE PERFORMERS NOT IN THE MOVIE, WELL FOR THEM IT WAS MUCH TOUGHER SLEDDING. BESIDES WEST’S WORK WITH MOUNTAIN, HE HAS RELEASED 15 SOLO ALBUMS. AS OF LATE, LESLIE HAS UNDERGONE SOME HEALTH PROBLEMS, LOSING A LOWER LEG TO DIABETES. IN HIS RECOVERY, HE STILL CONTINUES TO ROCK AND IS STILL PERFORMING.
HERE’S WEST WITH ‘MOUNTAIN’ AND A RARE TV APPEARANCE. DAMN, HE CAN PLAY GUITAR
photo thanks-Wilson Bilkovich
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES- OCT 22, 2019..TODAY MARKS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF GO LED ZEPPELIN II.
THE ALBUM IS NOW RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AND GREATEST ALBUMS IN ROCK HISTORY. WHAT’S REALLY AMAZING IS THE JIMMY PAGE PRODUCED ALBUM WAS RECORDED OVER 6 MONTHS IN BETWEEN FOUR EUROPEAN AND THREE AMERICAN TOURS. TO DATE, LED ZEPPELIN II HAS SOLD OVER 22 MILLION COPIES WORLDWIDE.
HERE’S A GREAT LIVE VERSION OF HEARTBREAKER
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES- NOV 21, 2019…TWO YEARS AGO GN’R’S “NOT IN THIS LIFETIME…TOUR” HIT THE OAKLAND ARENA. THIS STARTED OUT AS THE TOUR NO ONE THOUGHT WOULD EVER HAPPEN AND TURNED INTO ONE OF THE LONGEST AND BIGGEST GROSSING TOURS IN ROCK HISTORY. THE TOUR STARTED ON APRIL 1, 2016 AND IS SET TO WRAP UP ON NOVEMBER 2ND OF THIS YEAR. THE “NOT IN THIS LIFETIME….TOUR “ CONSISTED OF 11 LEGS, 159 SHOWS, AND RANKS AS THE THIRD HIGHEST GROSSING TOUR RAKING IN OVER $563 MILLION DOLLARS.
CHECK OUT THESE VIDEOS:
WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE
SWEET CHILD
YOU COULD BE MINE
PARADISE CITY
NOVEMBER RAIN
photo thanks-jimmy sheehan photography-simply the best https://www.facebook.com/jimmyosheehan/
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES- OCT 21, 2019…FORTY TWO YEARS AGO MEAT LOAF RELEASED THE ALBUM ‘BAT OUT OF HELL.’ IT WAS MEAT LOAF’S SECOND ALBUM BUT HIS FIRST COLLABORATION WITH JIM STEINMAN.
PRODUCED IN 1975 IT WAS SHOPPED AROUND FOR TWO YEARS BEFORE A SMALL RECORD COMPANY PICKED IT UP FOR RELEASE IN 1977. WHEN THE ALBUM FINALLY TOOK OFF IT BECAME ONE OF THE TOP SELLING ALBUMS OF ALL-TIME SELLING OVER 43 MILLION COPIES.
THIS IS MEAT LOAF AT HIS BEST
photo-ksan archives
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES- OCTOBER 21, 2019…HAPPY 77TH BIRTHDAY TO GUITARIST ELVIN BISHOP. BISHOP FIRST GAINED RECOGNITION AS AN ORIGINAL MEMBER OF ‘THE PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND.’ AFTER RECORDING THREE ALBUMS WITH ‘TPBBB,’ BISHOP PACKED HIS BAGS AND MOVED TO THE BAY AREA. HE BECAME A REGULAR AT THE FILLMORE, JAMMING WITH THE LIKES OF HENDRIX, CLAPTON, AND B.B KING BEFORE EMBARKING ON A SOLO CAREER. IN 1975 HE HIT IT BIG WITH THE SONG ‘FOOLED AROUND AND FELL IN LOVE.’ BISHOP WAS INDUCTED INTO THE “ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME” AS A MEMBER OF OF ‘THE PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND’ IN 2015 AND WAS INDUCTED INTO THE “BLUES HALL OF FAME” AS A SOLO ARTIST IN 2016.
THIS IS LIVE FROM “THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL” FROM 1976, ELVIN BISHOP WITH MICKEY THOMAS ON LEAD VOCALS WITH ‘FOOLED AROUND AND FELL IN LOVE’ (AND MICKEY IS SPORTING A CLASSIC 70’S JEAN JUMPSUIT MAY I ADD) !!
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES- OCT 18, 2019…THIRTY EIGHT YEARS AGO THE ROLLING STONES SOLD OUT CANDLESTICK PARK FOR BACK TO BACK SHOWS. THE FIRST SHOW WAS HELD OCT 17, 1981, AND TODAY MARKS THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE SECOND CONSECUTIVE CONCERT (OCT. 18, 1981). IT WAS ALL PART OF THE STONES “1981 AMERICAN TOUR” IN SUPPORT OF THE ALBUM ‘TATTOO YOU.’ IT WAS THE LARGEST GROSSING TOUR OF 1981 WITH 52 MILLION DOLLARS IN TICKET SALES FOR 50 CONCERTS. BTW, ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION IN 2019 MONEY, THAT’S THE EQUIVALENT OF $ 149,560,000 DOLLARS IN TODAY’S MONEY. ROUGHLY 3 MILLION CONCERT GOERS ATTENDED THE SHOWS, SETTING NUMEROUS SALES ATTENDANCE RECORDS. THE ENTIRE TOUR WAS PROMOTED BY BILL GRAHAM.
THIS VIDEO IS HD QUALITY FROM A PERFORMANCE A COUPLE NIGHTS AFTER THE SAN FRANCISCO SHOWS (UNFORTUNATELY ALL OF THE CANDLESTICK VIDEO IS OF VERY POOR QUALITY).
ALSO ON THE BILL AT CANDLESTICK WAS GEORGE THOROGOOD. HERE’S AN OUTSTANDING VERSION OF ‘ONE BOURBON,ONE SCOTCH, ONE BEER.’ NOTICE THE ‘SAN MATEO’ HAT ON ELVIN BISHOP
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES- OCT 17, 2019…LYNYRD SKYNYRD RELEASED THE ALBUM ‘STREET SURVIVORS’ 42 YEARS AGO.THREE DAYS AFTER THE LAUNCH OF THE RECORD, 3 MEMBERS OF THE BAND DIED IN A PLANE CRASH. THE CRASH KILLED RONNIE VAN ZANT,ALLEN COLLINS,AND STEVIE GAINES. GAINES’ OLDER SISTER, BACKUP SINGER CASSIE GAINES, THE PILOT, CO-PILOT, AND THE GROUP’S ASSISTANT MANAGER ALSO DIED IN THE CRASH. MOST WHO SURVIVED THE CRASH WERE SEVERELY INJURED.THE ORIGINAL COVER FOR THE ALBUM WAS PULLED FROM THE SHELVES.
HERE’S THE ALTERNATE COVER
THIS IS THE ORIGINAL LYNYRD SKYNYRD LINE-UP PERFORMING ‘SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL’ IN SAN FRANCISCO AT ‘WINTERLAND’ A YEAR BEFORE RELEASING THE SONG ON ‘STREET SURVIVORS’
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES- OCT 17, 2019…GROWING UP, THIS WAS MY FAVORITE HARD ROCK ALBUM. IT WAS 1973 AND ON THIS DAY MONTROSE RELEASED THEIR SELF TITLED ALBUM “MONTROSE.” THE GROUP WAS SPECTACULAR. FEATURING THE GUITAR WIZARDRY OF RONNIE MONTROSE, DENNY CARMASSI ON DRUMS, BILL CHURCH ON BASS AND THE RECORDING DEBUT OF A YOUNG SAMMY HAGAR ON VOCALS, THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST UNDERRATED ALBUMS IN THE HISTORY OF ROCK. POWERED BY TRACKS LIKE ‘BAD MOTOR SCOOTER’ ‘MAKE IT LAST’ ‘SPACE STATION #5’ AND ‘ROCK CANDY’ SOME CRITICS HAVE GONE AS FAR AS LABELING THIS ALBUM AS “THE FIRST AMERICAN HEAVY METAL ALBUM.” KERRANG MAGAZINE HAS RANKED THIS RECORD AS THE “4TH BEST METAL ALBUM OF ALL-TIME.” AN INTERESTING NOTE, IN EUROPE IT WAS RELEASED UNDER THE TITLE ‘ROCK THE NATION.’ THE ARTWORK WAS SWITCHED, WITH THE RECORD COMPANY REPLACING THE BAND’S PHOTO WITH THAT OF A LARGE BUSTED BLONDE SPORTING A PINK SEE THROUGH BLOUSE. HERE’S THE EUROPEAN COVER:
THIS IS MONTROSE FROM 1974 PERFORMING ‘BAD MOTOR SCOOTER’
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES- OCT 17, 2019…ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS I LOVE METALLICA ( OTHER THAN THE FACT THEY AN OUTSTANDING BAND), IS THIS GROUP GOES OUT OF THERE WAY TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR FANS AND REALLY INCLUDE THE FANS IN EVERYTHING. ELEVEN YEARS AGO, METALLICA OPENED UP THEIR REHEARSALS TO FANS AND CONTEST WINNERS AT THE COW PALACE. THESE WERE REHEARSALS FOR THE “WORLD MAGNETIC TOUR” WHICH LAUNCHED 4 DAYS LATER IN ARIZONA. I WAS THERE AND THE REHEARSALS WERE SPECTACULAR. HERE’S THE FIRST SONG PLAYED ON OPENING NIGHT OF THE TOUR.
