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STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN’S B’DAY

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES- OCT 3, 2018…TODAY WOULD HAVE

BEEN STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN’S 65TH BIRTHDAY. STEVIE RAY PASSED AWAY ON AUGUST 27, 1990 AT THE AGE OF THIRTY FIVE. SRV WAS PERFORMING AT AN ALL STAR JAM AT THE ALPINE MUSIC RESORT IN EAST TROY, WISCONSIN FEATURING THE LIKES OF BUDDY GUY, ERIC CLAPTON, ROBERT CRAY AND HIS BROTHER JIMMIE VAUGHAN. STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN TOOK THE LAST SEAT ON A HELICOPTER LEAVING THE CONCERT VENUE. THE HELICOPTER CRASHED INTO A NEARBY HILLSIDE SOON AFTER TAKE OFF, TAKING THE LIFE OF VAUGHAN AND MEMBERS OF ERIC CLAPTON’S TOURING STAFF.

THE IDEA THAT CLAPTON GAVE UP HIS SEAT AT THE LAST SECOND ON THE ILL-FATED FLIGHT IS A MYTH. AS CLAPTON REVEALED IN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, THERE WERE FOUR HELICOPTERS CHARTERED TO FLY MUSICIANS BACK TO CHICAGO. STEVIE WAS ON BOARD A DIFFERENT HELICOPTER.

HERE’S A FULL STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN CONCERT FROM 1985

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CHRONIC MASTURBATOR CAUGHT IN OKLAHOMA

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Police in Tulsa, Oklahoma have arrested an older man after numerous complaints that he exposed himself in the middle of a park.

The older man was identified as Stephen Olsen and was seen pulling his pants down and touching himself in a sexual manner. Police gathered the suspect’s information and were able to arrest Olsen on Tuesday.

Police announced the arrest in a news release with the subject line: “Chronic Masturbator Caught.”

Olsen was booked into jail on two counts of indecent exposure.

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STING

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES- OCT 2, 2018…TODAY STING IS 68 YEARS OLD. STING WAS THE MAIN SONGWRITER, LEAD SINGER, AND BASSIST OF ‘THE POLICE’ FROM 1977-1984. STING THEN WENT SOLO IN 1985. SOLO AND WITH THE POLICE COMBINED STING HAS SOLD OVER 110 MILLION ALBUMS. WITH ‘THE POLICE ‘ STING WON 17 GRAMMY AWARDS AND WON THE “SONG OF THE YEAR” FOR ‘EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE.’ THIS YEAR HE WON AN AWARD FROM BMI FOR ‘EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE’ BECOMING THE MOST PLAYED SONG IN RADIO HISTORY. STING WAS INDUCTED INTO THE “ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME” AS A MEMBER OF THE POLICE IN 2003. HAPPY BIRTHDAY STING ! AT SIXTY EIGHT YEARS OLD I WONDER HOW LONG THOSE TANTRIC SESSIONS ARE LASTING NOW ?

HERE’S STING FROM HIS BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION NINE YEARS AGO

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TOM PETTY R.I.P.

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES- OCT 2, 2018…TWO YEARS AGO THE SOBERING REPORTS OF TOM PETTY’S DEATH LEFT EVERYONE STUNNED. IT WAS EARLY MORNING ON MONDAY OCTOBER 2, 2017 THAT REPORTS STARTED TO SURFACE THAT PETTY HAD PASSED AWAY. I REMEMBER BEING ON THE AIR AND GETTING REPORTS THAT HE HAD DIED, THAT HE WAS IN THE HOSPITAL, THAT HE HAD BEEN RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL AND EVERYTHING WAS GOING TO BE OKAY. THE PREMATURE DEATH REPORTS ON THE INTERNET RAN RAMPANT. PETTY WAS FOUND UNCONSCIOUS AT HIS HOME, WAS NOT BREATHING AND WAS IN CARDIAC ARREST. HE WAS RESUSCITATED AND RUSHED TO UCLA MEDICAL CENTER. TOM PETTY OFFICIALLY DIED AT 8:40 PM PDT. THE CORONER’S OFFICE LISTED THE CAUSE OF DEATH AS “MULTISYSTEM ORGAN FAILURE DUE TO RESUSCITATED CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST DUE TO MIXED DRUG TOXICITY.” A FULL REPORT FROM THE CORONER’S OFFICE LATER REVEALED TOM PETTY DIED OF AN ACCIDENTAL OVERDOSE. THE SINGER HAD BEEN TAKING SEVERAL PAIN MEDICATIONS, INCLUDING FENTANYL AND OXYCODONE, TO TREAT A FRACTURED HIP AND OTHER ISSUES. ACCORDING TO PETTY’S FAMILY AND THOSE CLOSE TO THE ROCKSTAR, DESPITE HAVING THE FRACTURED HIP, PETTY INSISTED ON KEEPING HIS COMMITMENT TO HIS FANS AND TOURED 53 DATES WITH A FRACTURED HIP, AND AS HE KEPT TOURING, IT WORSENED THE INJURY.

HERE’S THE LAST SONG FROM TOM PETTY’S LAST CONCERT

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WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES- OCT 1, 2019- ON THIS DATE IN 1968 JOE COCKER RELEASED ONE OF THE GREATEST REMAKES…EVER . THE SINGLE ‘WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS.’ THE BEATLES RECORDED IT A YEAR EARLIER, BUT NEVER RELEASED IT AS A SINGLE. THE BEATLES WERE SO IMPRESSED WITH COCKER’S VERSION THEY SENT HIM A TELEGRAM OF CONGRATULATIONS AND PLACED AN AD IN THE MUSIC TRADES PRAISING THE SONG. THE SONG WAS SOULFUL AND FEATURED MASTERFUL GUITAR WORK FROM JIMMY PAGE AND A BRILLIANT GOSPEL CHOIR SINGING BACKGROUND VOCALS. THE SONG WENT TO NUMBER ONE FOR COCKER AND IN 2001 WAS INDUCTED INTO THE GRAMMY HALL OF FAME.

HERE’S THE LATE GREAT JOE COCKER PERFORMING ‘WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS’

THE UNFORGETTABLE FIRE

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES- OCT 1, 2018…ON THIS DATE IN 1984 U2 RELEASED THE CD ‘THE UNFORGETTABLE FIRE.’ THIS RECORD IS CONSIDERED A LANDMARK ALBUM FOR THE GROUP AND WAS RELEASE 35 YEARS AGO TODAY. ‘THE UNFORGETTABLE FIRE’ STARTED A RUN FOR U2 OF NINE STRAIGHT ALBUMS THAT WOULD GO AT LEAST PLATINUM. THE HUGE SINGLE FROM THE ALBUM WAS ‘PRIDE(IN THE NAME OF LOVE).’ THIS WAS THE GROUP’S FIRST TOP 40 HIT IN AMERICA. THE SONG IS A TRIBUTE TO MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. THE BAND WAS INSPIRED TO WRITE THE SONG AFTER A TRIP TO THE CHICAGO PEACE MUSEUM IN 1983 AND VIEWING AN EXHIBIT DEDICATED TO KING. AT THE SAME CHICAGO MUSUEM THE ALSO SAW A DISPLAY ABOUT THE VICTIMS OF THE HIROSHIMA BOMBING CALLED ‘THE UNFORGETTABLE FIRE,” WHICH INSPIRED THE SONG AND PROVIDED THE TITLE OF THE ALBUM.

FROM ‘THE UNFORGETTABLE FIRE’. HERE’S U2 WITH PRIDE(IN THE NAME OF LOVE)’

STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN -SOUL TO SOUL

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 30, 2019- THIRTY FOUR YEARS AGO STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN RELEASED THE ALBUM ‘SOUL TO SOUL.’ THIS WAS VAUGHAN’S THIRD STUDIO ALBUM AND IT WAS A HAPPIER ALBUM IN TONE THAN PREVIOUS VAUGHAN EFFORTS. IT WAS A RECORD THAT FULFILLED STEVIE’S STATED GOAL OF CAPTURING THE WAY HE FELT AS A KID IN THE SUMMERTIME. IN A 1985 INTERVIEW WITH “GUITAR WORLD” VAUGHAN HAD THIS TO SAY: “I’m real close to it, and so it’s hard to get a good perspective on it, but there are a lot of rockin’ songs and then some like we’ve never played before. “There’s definitely blues in it — not less blues than before — but it’s a type of music we haven’t really tried before, some different kinds of changes. There are a few other players here and there that people won’t expect — some keyboards, some horns. But the moods are happier.”

HERE’S SRV WITH A LIVE PERFORMANCE OF A GREAT SONG FROM THE ALBUM. WHAT’S AMAZING IS VAUGHN BROKE A GUITAR STRING AT ABOUT THE 2 ½ MINUTE MARK AND SWITCHES GUITARS SEAMLESSLY.

STP-CORE

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 29, 2019- IT WAS 1992 AND STP LAUNCHED THEIR CAREER OFF IN A BIG WAY WITH THEIR DEBUT ALBUM ‘CORE.’ DRIVEN BY TRACKS LIKE ‘WICKED GARDEN’ ‘PLUSH’ ‘SEX TYPE THING’ ‘CREEP’ AND ‘DEAD AND BLOATED’ THE RECORD DOMINATED THE AIRWAVES. THE ALBUM PEAKED AT # 3 ON THE BILLBOARD ALBUM CHARTS. ‘PLUSH’ WON A GRAMMY IN 1994 FOR “BEST HARD ROCK PERFORMANCE” AND THE GROUP ALSO TOOK HOME THE HARDWARE FOR “BEST NEW ARTIST” AT THE 1993 MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS. ‘CORE’ ALSO CRACKED THE ALL-TIME TOP 1000 ALBUMS LIST, RANKED AT # 983. ACCOUNTING FOR DOWNLOADS,STREAMING AND ACTUAL ALBUM SALES, THE LATEST SALES FIGURES FOR ‘CORE’ HAVE IT SITTING AT JUST OVER 10 MILLION COPIES SOLD. ON SEPTEMBER 29, 2017 A 25 YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF ‘CORE’ WAS RELEASED. THE REISSUE INCLUDES A 25TH ANNIVERSARY SUPER DELUXE BOX SET(4CD’S,A DVD, AND A L.P), AN EXCLUSIVE ‘CORE’ 25TH ANNIVERSARY T-SHIRT, AND AN EXCLUSIVE CORE ANNIVERSARY LITHOGRAPH. THE 4 CD’S PRESENT A REMASTERED VERSION OF THE ALBUM, PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED DEMOS AND B-SIDES, AND PARTS OF 3 LIVE PERFORMANCES FROM 1993. THE PACKAGE ALSO INCLUDED THE REMASTERED ALBUM ON VINYL AND A DVD INCLUDING A 5.1 SURROUND SOUND MIX AND VIDEOS OF THE ALBUMS 4 OFFICIAL SINGLES.

THIS IS PURE GOLD. STP CIRCA 2000 PERFORMING AT THE HOUSE OF BLUES

ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 29, 2019-RUSH RELEASED THEIR LIVE ALBUM “ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE” FORTY THREE YEARS AGO. THIS WAS A DOUBLE LIVE ALBUM RUSH RECORDED IN THEIR HOMETOWN OF TORONTO DURING THEIR “2112 TOUR.” THIS WAS RUSH’S FIRST LIVE ALBUM AND ACCORDING TO THE LINER NOTES THE RECORD WAS INTENDED TO MARK THE “FIRST CHAPTER” OF RUSH. IT ALSO STARTED A TREND OF RUSH RELEASING A LIVE ALBUM AFTER EVERY FOUR STUDIO ALBUMS. THIS LASTED UNTIL 2003, WHEN THE GROUP RELEASED A LIVE ALBUM AND DVD OF EACH SUBSEQUENT STUDIO ALBUM’S TOUR.

HERE’S A FULL RUSH CONCERT FROM 1976