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SOMETHING

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES- OCT 6, 2019….FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY THE BEATLES RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘SOMETHING’ AS THE A-SIDE OF A BEATLES 45. THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME A GEORGE HARRISON SONG WAS GIVEN THE DISTINCTION OF BEING THE A-SIDE. THE B-SIDE WAS THE LENNON/MCCARTNEY TRACK ‘COME TOGETHER.’ ‘SOMETHING’ REACHED NUMBER ONE ON THE SINGLES CHART IN NOVEMBER. HARRISON ACTUALLY OFFERED THE SONG TO JOE COCKER PRIOR TO THE BEATLES, DUE TO THE DIFFICULTY HE FACED GETTING MORE THAN TWO SONGS ON EACH BEATLES ALBUM. IT IS DESCRIBED AS A LOVE SONG TO PATTI BOYD, HARRISON’S FIRST WIFE, ALTHOUGH HARRISON OFFERED DIFFERING SOURCES OF INSPIRATION IN LATER INTERVIEWS:

“I had written Something on the piano during the recording of the White Album. There was a period during that album when we were all in different studios doing different things trying to get it finished, and I used to take some time out. So I went into an empty studio and wrote Something”.

JOHN LENNON STATED THAT ‘SOMETHING’ WAS THE BEST SONG ON THE ALBUM ‘ABBEY ROAD.’

HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR THE BEATLES ‘SOMETHING.’

KEVIN CRONIN’S BDAY

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES- OCT 6, 2019….HAPPY SIXTY EIGHTH BIRTHDAY TO KEVIN CRONIN OF REO SPEEDWAGON. CRONIN IS BEST KNOWN AS THE LEAD SINGER AND RHYTHM GUITARIST OF REO AND AS A HOST OF THE INFOMERCIAL ADVERTISING TIME LIFE’S ULTIMATE ROCK BALLADS (WHICH FEATURE TRACKS FROM REO SPEEDWAGON). CRONIN HAS WRITTEN OR CO-WRITTEN MANY OF THE GROUP’S HITS INCLUDING ‘KEEP ON LOVING YOU’ ‘CAN’T FIGHT THIS FEELING’ ‘TIME FOR ME TO FLY’ ‘ROLL WITH THE CHANGES’ AND ‘DON’T LET HIM GO.’ REO’S BIGGEST SELLING ALBUM WAS ‘HI INFIDELITY’ WHICH SOLD OVER 10 MILLION COPIES. BTW, THE WEBSITE “CELEBRITY NET WORTH” HAS KEVIN CRONIN WITH A NET WORTH OF 25 MILLION DOLLARS. WHEN HE’S NOT SINGING, CRONIN CAN RENT HIMSELF OUT AS A STUNT DOUBLE FOR GARTH ON “WAYNE’S WORLD.”

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEVIN CRONIN.

HERE’S A FANTASTIC SONG FROM REO

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OZZY AND BONE BASH

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES- OCT 6, 2019….LAST YEAR WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE BIGGEST BONE BASH IN THE HISTORY OF ALL BONE BASHES !! HOWEVER, AT THE LAST MINUTE BONE BASH 18 WITH OZZY OSBOURNE WAS POSTPONED. OZZY WAS ADMITTED TO THE HOSPITAL HOURS BEFORE THE GATES WERE TO OPEN. THE CONCERT WAS INITIALLY POSTPONED TEN DAYS UNTIL OCTOBER 16TH, AND WAS ULTIMATELY POSTPONED AGAIN, PUSHED BACK TO JULY 25, 2020. IT ALL STARTED WHEN OZZY WAS HOSPITALIZED THREE TIMES LAST YEAR WITH STAPH INFECTIONS IN HIS RIGHT HAND. THEN HE WAS HOSPITALIZED WHEN THE FLU HE CONTRACTED DEVELOPED INTO PNEUMONIA AND IT RESULTED IN A STINT IN THE ICU ! AFTER BEING DISCHARGED HE FELL AT HOME AND AGGRAVATED OLD INJURIES FROM A SERIOUS 2003 ATV ACCIDENT THAT ALMOST KILLED HIM. OZZY TAKE CARE AND WE’LL SEE YOU IN 2020.

TO PRIME YOU UP FOR SOME LIVE OZZY

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GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES- OCT 5, 2018…OCTOBER 5, 1973 SAW ELTON JOHN RELEASE THE ALBUM ‘GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD.’ THIS WAS ELTON’S SEVENTH STUDIO ALBUM. DURING THE RECORDING OF THIS ALBUM THE WORKING TITLES WERE ‘WHISKEY & TONIC’ AND THEN ‘SILENT MOVIE.’ ELTON WROTE MOST OF THE MUSIC FOR THIS RECORD IN THREE DAYS WHILE STAYING AT THE PINK FLAMINGO HOTEL IN KINGSTON JAMAICA. BERNIE TAUPIN WROTE THE LYRICS IN TWO AND A HALF WEEKS. TO DATE ‘GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD’ IS ONE OF THE BEST-SELLING STUDIO ALBUMS OF ALL TIME WITH TOTAL SALES ACCOUNTING FOR STREAMING AND DOWNLOADS AT OVER 31 MILLION COPIES. HERE’S ELTON JOHN PERFORMING THE TITLE TRACK AT A CONCERT IN 1976. I LOVE THAT HE CALLED IT ONE OF HIS ‘OLD’ SONGS IN 1976 !!

LED ZEPPELIN III

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES- OCT 5, 2019…FORTY NINE YEARS AGO TODAY LED ZEPPELIN RELEASED ALBUM LED ZEPPELIN ‘III.’ THIS RECORD WAS A DEPARTURE FOR THE GROUP THAN THE PREVIOUS TWO ALBUMS AS IT WAS MORE ACOUSTICAL IN NATURE. ZEPPELIN HAD JUST COME OFF OF TWO MONSTER SELLING ALBUMS AND FROM 1968-1970 WENT FROM GETTING $1,500 A SHOW TO ONE OF THE TOP DRAWING BANDS IN THE WORLD DEMANDING AS MUCH AS 6 FIGURES A CONCERT. PLUS, IN THE SPAN OF 12 MONTHS THEY HAD PLAYED OVER 150 SHOWS WITH RELENTLESS TOURING. AT THE END OF THE TOUR ROBERT PLANT WANTED TO DECOMPRESS AND GET AWAY FROM IT ALL. HE RETREATED TO WALES AND INVITED JIMMY PAGE ALONG FOR THE RIDE. ACCORDING TO PLANT:“It was time to take stock, and not get lost in it all. And what better way to keep it real than at a place with no electricity, candles for light, water from a stream and an outside toilet?”

JOHN BONHAM GAVE THE PRESS A LITTLE INSIGHT ON THE DIRECTION OF THE RECORD WHEN ZEPPELIN REGROUPED FOR III: ‘’We’ll be recording for the next two weeks and we are doing a lot of acoustic stuff as well as the heavier side. There will be better quality songs than on the first two albums.’’

THE ALBUM WASN’T ALL ACOUSTIC. THE OPENING TRACK ‘IMMIGRANT SONG’ WAS INSPIRED BY THE GROUP’S VISIT TO ICELAND IN MID 1970 AND IT ROCKED !! ‘OUT ON THE TILES’ AND ‘CELEBRATION DAY’ WERE GREAT SONGS AND ‘SINCE I’VE BEEN LOVING YOU’ BOASTS ONE OF PAGE’S BEST GUITAR SOLOS.

LED ZEPPELIN III HAS TO DATE HAS SALES OF CLOSE TO 14,000,000 COPIES.

HERE’S THE OFFICIAL LED ZEP VIDEO FOR ‘THE IMMIGRANT SONG’

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRIAN JOHNSON

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES- OCTOBER 5, 2019…HAPPY 72ND BIRTHDAY TO FORMER AC/DC FRONTMAN BRIAN JOHNSON. I SAY FORMER BECAUSE DEPENDING ON THE SOURCE, JOHNSON EITHER STEPPED ASIDE FOR HEALTH REASONS OR WAS KICKED OUT OF THE BAND MIDTOUR. HOWEVER, LAST SUMMER BOTH BRIAN JOHNSON AND PHIL RUDD WERE SPOTTED TOGETHER OUTSIDE A RECORDING STUDIO WHERE IT WAS LATER CONFIRMED A NEW AC/DC ALBUM AND TOUR ARE IN THE WORKS.

HERE’S BRIAN AT HIS BEST WITH AC/DC

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LAMONT & TONELLI PREVIEW THE SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS MONDAY NIGHT GAME WITH HEAD COACH KYLE SHANAHAN

The San Francisco 49ers play against the Cleveland Browns this Monday at Levi’s Stadium. The Pregame Show begins at 4:15pm and kickoff is at 5:15pm. Stay tuned after the game for the Bone Crushing Postgame Show. Get every play of every game on the FM flagship radio station 107.7 The Bone.

Listen to Lamont and Tonelli’s interview with San Francisco 49ers Head Coach Kyle Shanahan.

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WATCH METALLICA & THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY PERFORMING THE MEMORY REMAINS

On October 9th, 2019, Metallica will release S&M2 to theaters worldwide. The concert film was recorded over 2 nights in September as Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony from the debut opening of the Chase Center.

For tickets and more info go to: metallica.film

Watch a preview clip of “The Memory Remains” below.

Watch the trailer below.

STEVIE NICKS BAY AREA 1983

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES- OCTOBER 4, 2019..THIRTY SIX YEARS AGO THE OAKLAND ARENA WAS ROCKING WITH STEVIE NICKS. IT WAS PART OF STEVIE’S “THE WILD HEART” TOUR WHICH WAS A NORTH AMERICAN ONLY TOUR IN SUPPORT OF HER SECOND ALBUM ‘THE WILD HEART.’ JOE WALSH WAS THE OPENING ACT ON THE TOUR AND STEVIE’S LOVE INTEREST AT THE TIME. THE TOUR AT THE TIME BROUGHT IN CLOSE TO 4.7 MILLION DOLLARS IN 1983, THE EQUIVALENT OF $ 12,100,000 IN 2019 DOLLARS. HERE’S THE SETLIST FROM THE OAKLAND CONCERT: Gold Dust Woman, Outside the Rain, Dreams, I Need to Know, Sara, If Anyone Falls, Leather and Lace, Stand Back, Beauty and the Beast, Gypsy, How Still My Love, Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around, Edge of Seventeen –Encore-Rhiannon

HERE’S STEVIE NICKS CIRCA 1983

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THE DEATH OF JANIS JOPLIN

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-OCT 4, 2019…ON THIS DATE IN 1970 JANIS JOPLIN WAS FOUND DEAD IN ROOM 105 OF THE LANDMARK HOTEL IN LOS ANGELES OF A HEROIN OVERDOSE. THE 1979 MOVIE ‘THE ROSE’ STARRING BETTE MIDLER WAS BASED ON JOPLIN’S LIFE. JANIS IS A MEMBER OF CLUB 27, A GROUP OF MUSICIANS THAT DIED AT THE AGE OF 27. JOPLIN, JIMI HENDRIX, BRIAN JONES AND JIM MORRISON ALL DIED AT THE AGE OF 27 BETWEEN 1969 AND 1971. SHE LEFT $1,500 IN HER WILL FOR A FUNERAL PARTY. THE PARTY WAS HELD IN SAN ANSELMO ON OCT 26 1971 WITH THE GRATEFUL DEAD PERFORMING FOR THE GUESTS. HER MUSIC IS TIMELESS, AND JOPLIN REMAINS ONE OF THE TOP SELLING ARTISTS OF ALL TIME, TO DATE SELLING OVER 18 MILLION COPIES.

HERE’S JOPLIN FROM 1968 AND AN APPEARANCE ON GERMAN TV