LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 29, 2019- IT WAS 1992 AND ALICE AND CHAINS’ RELEASED THEIR SECOND STUDIO ALBUM ‘DIRT.’ THE ALBUM WAS FUELED BY FIVE SINGLES ‘WOULD’ ‘THEM BONES’ ANGRY CHAIR’ ‘ROOSTER’ AND ‘DOWN IN A HOLE’ ALL WITH MUSIC VIDEOS AND ALL OF THE VIDEOS IN HEAVY ROTATION ON MTV. ‘DIRT’ WENT ON TO SELL OVER 5 MILLION COPIES AND WAS NOMINATED FOR A GRAMMY AWARD. ‘WOULD’ WAS FEATURED IN CAMERON CROWE’S MOVIE “SINGLES” AND WAS NOMINATED FOR AN MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARD FOR “BEST VIDEO FROM A FILM.”
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 28, 2019-ON THIS DATE IN 1974 BAD COMPANY’S SELF TITLED DEBUT ALBUM HIT # 1 ON THE US ALBUM CHART. THE RECORD WAS AN INSTANT SUCCESS FOR BAD COMPANY AND FOR LED ZEPPELIN’S SWAN SONG LABEL. IT WAS THE VERY FIRST ALBUM TO BE RELEASED ON THE LABEL. THE GROUP WAS ACTUALLY FOUNDED A YEAR BEFORE THE RELEASE OF THE RECORD. MICK RALPHS LEFT MOTT THE HOOPLE, AND TEAMED UP WITH TWO FORMER MEMBERS OF FREE, DRUMMER SIMON KIRKE AND SINGER PAUL RODGERS. THE QUARTET WAS ROUNDED OUT WITH KING CRIMSON’S BASSIST BOZ BURRELL. PAUL RODGERS’ HAD A FASCINATION WITH THE JEFF BRIDGES FILM “BAD COMPANY” AND A PASSAGE WITH FROM A BOOK OF VICTORIAN MORALS WHICH RESULTED IN THE BAND GETTING ITS NAME. DRIVEN BY THE SUCCESS OF SINGLES ‘MOVIN’ ON’ ‘CAN’T GET ENOUGH’ AND GREAT ALBUM TRACKS LIKE ‘BAD COMPANY’ THE ALBUM HAS NOW SOLD OVER 7 MILLION COPIES AND DOWNLOADS AND HOLDS THE DISTINCTION AS ONE OF THE TOP 50 BEST SELLING ALBUMS OF THE 70’S.
THIS IS BAD COMPANY CIRCA 1974 PERFORMING ON DON KIRSHNER’S ROCK CONCERT
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 28, 2019-35 YEARS AGO TODAY ROBERT PLANT’S “PRINCIPLE OF MOMENTS” TOUR HIT THE OAKLAND ARENA. THE TOUR WAS SURPRISINGLY SHORT COVERING ONLY 20 SHOWS IN A MERE 37 DAYS. THE SHOW IN OAKLAND WAS THE THIRD LAST SHOW OF THE TOUR.
THIS IS THE SETLIST FROM ROBERT PLANT’S CONCERT IN OAKLAND:
In the Mood
Pledge Pin
Messin’ With the Mekon
Worse Than Detroit
Moonlight in Samosa
Fat Lip
Thru’ With the Two Step
Other Arms
Horizontal Departure
Wreckless Love
Slow Dancer
Like I’ve Never Been Gone
Big Log
Burning Down One Side
Little Sister
Stranger Here… Than Over There
HERE’S ROBERT PLANT WITH A GREAT SONG FROM “THE PRINCIPLE OF MOMENTS”
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 27, 2019-SAD DAY IN ROCK HISTORY…32 YEARS AGO METALLICA’S CLIFF BURTON LOST HIS LIFE WHEN THE BAND’S TOUR BUS CRASHED IN SWEDEN. METALLICA WAS ON THE EUROPEAN LEG OF THE ‘DAMAGE INC’ TOUR, WHEN THE TOUR BUS SKIDDED OFF THE ROAD. THE NIGHT BEFORE THE ACCIDENT THE BAND COMPLAINED THE SLEEPING CUBICLES ON THE BUS WERE “SHITTY AND UNCOMFORTABLE.” TO DECIDE WHO GOT THE PICK OF THE BUNKS, BURTON AND KIRK HAMMETT DREW CARDS. BURTON WON THE GAME BY CUTTING THE ACE OF SPADES, AND THEN TOLD HAMMETT “I WANT YOUR BUNK.” HAMMETT THEN RESPONDED “FINE TAKE MY BUNK, I’LL SLEEP UP FRONT, IT’S PROBABLY BETTER UP THERE ANYWAY.” AROUND 7A.M. SEPTEMBER 27, ACCORDING TO THE DRIVER, THE BUS HIT BLACK ICE AND SKIDDED OFF THE ROAD AND FLIPPED ONTO THE GRASS OF A NEARBY FIELD. BURTON WAS THROWN THROUGH THE WINDOW OF THE BUS, ONLY TO HAVE THE BUS LAND ON TOP OF HIM RESULTING IN HIS DEATH.
DESPITE THE FACT THERE WERE MANY QUESTIONS SURROUNDING THE CLAIMS OF BLACK ICE CAUSING THE ACCIDENT, NOT ENOUGH EVIDENCE WAS FOUND TO FIND THE DRIVER AT FAULT AND NO CHARGES WERE BROUGHT AGAINST HIM.
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THIS IS REALLY COMPELLING STUFF FROM METALLICA ON THE NIGHT CLIFF BURTON DIED
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 26, 2019-‘WALLS AND BRIDGES’ FROM JOHN LENNON WAS RELEASED ON THIS DATE IN 1974. THIS ALBUM WAS WRITTEN, RECORDED AND RELEASED DURING LENNON’S 18 MONTH SEPARATION FROM YOKO ONO. LENNON CALLED THE 18 MONTHS HIS “LOST WEEKEND” OF PARTYING AND DRINKING. ‘WALLS AND BRIDGES’ WENT TO NUMBER ONE ON BILLBOARDS ALBUM CHARTS, AND THE SINGLE ‘WHATEVER GETS YOU THROUGH THE NIGHT’ WAS LENNON’S ONLY #1 SINGLE AS A SOLO ARTIST IN THE USA OR BRITAIN DURING HIS LIFETIME (THAT IS AMAZING) !
HERE’S A TELEVISION COMMERCIAL THAT WAS USED TO PROMOTE THE ALBUM
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 26, 2019-TODAY MARKS FIFTY YEARS SINCE THE BEATLES RELEASED THE ALBUM ‘ABBEY ROAD.’ THIS WAS THE BEATLES ELEVENTH ALBUM AND ALTHOUGH IT WAS THE LAST ALBUM TO BE RECORDED, IT WAS NOT THE LAST TO BE RELEASED. THAT DISTINCTION BELONGS TO THE ALBUM ‘LET IT BE.’ HERE ARE SOME QUICK FACTS YOU MAY OR NOT KNOW ABOUT ‘ABBEY ROAD’
-The recording sessions were the last in which all four of the Beatles participated together
-For the first time on a Beatles album, the front cover contained neither the group’s name nor the album title.This made the record company furious.
-Initially, the album wasn’t going to be called ‘Abbey Road.’ It was going to be called ‘Everest’ after the brand of cigarettes an engineer was smoking during the sessions.
– ‘Everest’ was nixed when a photo shoot was called for in the Himalayas
– ‘Abbey Road’ was chosen as a name because it provided the easiest option possible. Just walk outside and take pictures crossing the street.
– The iconic shot of the band crossing the intersection happened with a traffic cop holding up traffic and a photographer climbing up a stepladder to take the shot.
– The band only crossed the street 3 times (back and forth). The fifth of six shots taken was picked as the shot for the cover
-McCartney appears barefoot on the album cover because his shoes were too tight and he took them off
– John,Paul and Ringo were all wearing designer suits. George refused to put on a suit and just wore jeans.
-The designer that designed the suits for John, Paul and Ringo went on to design Jack Nicholson’s suit that he wore when he played The Joker in Batman
-This wasn’t the group’s final photo shoot. The four got together two weeks later, at John’s house for one last photo session. One of the pictures from that shoot was later used on the cover of the Hey Jude compilation album
– Abbey Road spent eleven weeks at #1 during its initial chart stay of 83 weeks.
-the first single released from the album was ‘Something’ making it the first George Harrison composition to become a Beatles A-side.
-Due to the difficulty he faced in getting more than two of his songs onto each Beatles album, Harrison first offered “Something” to Joe Cocker.
– John Lennon stated that ‘Something’ was the best song on Abbey Road.
HERE’S THE VIDEO FOR ‘SOMETHING’ FROM ‘ABBEY ROAD’
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 26, 2019-THIRTY SIX YEARS AGO TODAY MOTLEY CRUE RELEASED THEIR BREAKTHROUGH ALBUM ‘SHOUT AT THE DEVIL.’ THIS RECORD WAS THE GROUP’S EXCELLENT FOLLOW UP TO TO THEIR DEBUT ‘TOO FAST FOR LOVE’ AND IT WAS A HOME RUN. POWERED BY TRACKS ‘LOOKS THAT KILL’ ‘TOO YOUNG TO FALL IN LOVE’ AND THE TITLE TRACK ‘SHOUT AT THE DEVIL’ THE ALBUM WENT ON TO SELL OVER 4 MILLION COPIES. LATEST SALES FIGURES ADJUSTED FOR DOWNLOADS AND STREAMING HAVE THE FIGURE OVER 6 MILLION COPIES. ‘SHOUT AT THE DEVIL’ FOR ME WILL ALWAYS BE THE DEFINITIVE MOTLEY CRUE ALBUM.
THIS IS A TREAT. HERE’S THE CRUE PERFORMING AT THE 1983 US FESTIVAL (FULL SET)
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