LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 25, 2019-TWO YEARS AGO, AFTER 3 GREAT SHOWS IN THE BAY AREA AT THE GREEK THEATRE, TOM PETTY RETURNED TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TO PERFORM AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL. IT WAS THE LAST CONCERT ON PETTY’S 40TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR. WHO KNEW IT WOULD BE LAST PERFORMANCE EVER. TOM PETTY WOULD DIE SEVEN DAYS LATER OF AN ACCIDENTAL OVERDOSE. THE SINGER HAD BEEN TAKING SEVERAL PAIN MEDICATIONS, INCLUDING FENTANYL AND OXYCODONE, TO TREAT A FRACTURED HIP AND OTHER ISSUES. 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.

A TRUE ROCK AND ROLL LEGEND, TOM PETTY PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF SIXTY SIX.

HERE’S PETTY’S LAST CONCERT IN ITS ENTIRETY

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 24, 2019- ‘DAY ON THE GREEN’ WERE RECURRING BIG FESTIVAL CONCERTS PRESENTED BY BILL GRAHAM AND HIS COMPANY BILL GRAHAM PRESENTS(BGP). THEY STARTED IN 1973 AND CONTINUED INTO THE EARLY 1990’S. THE LAST ‘DAY ON THE GREEN’ THAT WAS OVERSEEN BY GRAHAM WAS IN OCTOBER 1991, JUST BEFORE HE DIED IN A HELICOPTER CRASH. SUBSEQUENT SHOWS WERE HELD IN 1992 AND AGAIN BETWEEN 1994-1997. THE SECOND ‘DAY ON THE GREEN’ TO BE HELD AFTER GRAHAM’S DEATH WAS ON SEPTEMBER 24, 1992 FEATURING GUNS ‘N ROSES AND METALLICA. FOR G N’R IT WAS PART OF THE GROUP’S ‘USE YOUR ILLUSION’ TOUR. METALLICA WAS ON THEIR “1992 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR.” IT TRULY WAS A HEADBANGER’S WET DREAM.

HERE’S THE SETLIST FROM GUNS AND ROSES:

Welcome to the Jungle

Mr. Brownstone

Live and Let Die

Attitude

Bad Obsession

It’s So Easy

Double Talkin’ Jive

Civil War

Patience

Matt Sorum Drum Solo

You Could Be Mine

Slash Guitar Solo

Speak Softly Love

November Rain

Sweet Child O’ Mine

Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door

Encore:

Don’t Cry

Paradise City

THIS IS FANTASTIC CONCERT FOOTAGE FROM G N’R

AND NOW THE SETLIST FROM OUR HOMETOWN HEROES METALLICA:

The Ecstasy of Gold (Taped intro)

Creeping Death

Harvester of Sorrow

Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

Sad but True

Wherever I May Roam

Of Wolf and Man

For Whom the Bell Tolls

The Unforgiven

The Shortest Straw

Bass Solo

Guitar Solo

Fade to Black

Master of Puppets

Seek & Destroy

Whiplash

Encore:

Nothing Else Matters

Am I Evil?

Last Caress

One

Encore 2:

Enter Sandman

AS AN ADDED TREAT, HERE’S THE FULL METALLICA SET

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 24, 2019- ON THIS DATE 28 YEARS AGO NIRVANA RELEASED ‘NEVERMIND’ AND BECAME ONE OF THE BIGGEST BANDS OVERNIGHT. HERE ARE SOME LITTLE KNOWN FACTS SURROUNDING ‘NEVERMIND’:

-The baby boy on the cover of ‘Nevermind’ was almost a girl. The photographer did two shoots and really liked a photograph he took with a baby girl, but the band’s record label insisted “we want the dick.”

-‘Nevermind’ was originally titled ‘Sheep.’ The title was a Cobain manifesto on conformity.

– If you look closely Kiss actually appear on the back cover of the album. The rear photo is actually a collage Cobain made up of Dante’s Inferno paintings, Chim Chim the monkey and if you look very closely you’ll see miniature figures of Kiss, one of his favorite bands growing up.

– The announcer in the ‘In Bloom’ video is former ‘People’s Court’ host Doug Llewelyn

– Nirvana were kicked out of their own ‘Nevermind’ release party. The bash at a tiny Seattle club got messy as Cobain and his the band showed up drunk and started tossing around a watermelon filled with ranch dressing from the buffet. The group were eventually shown the door and kicked out of their own party.

-Nirvana almost split up after an argument over ‘Nevermind’ royalties. Six months after the album dropped, and a month after his marriage to Courtney Love, Cobain suddenly demanded a much larger slice of the royalties, and he demanded it take effect retroactively. Novoselic and Grohl almost quit the band in protest.

-‘Nevermind’ was the album that knocked Michael Jackson’s ‘Dangerous’ off the top of the charts.

-‘Nevermind’ spent a total of 252 weeks on the Billboard 200 albums charts.

HERE’S NIRVANA FROM NEVERMIND

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 23, 2019- TODAY THE MAN KNOWN UNIVERSALLY AS “THE BOSS” TURNS 70 YEARS OLD. BORN 1969 LONG BRANCH, NEW JERSEY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN GAINED WORLDWIDE FAME IN 1975 FOR THE ALBUM ‘BORN TO RUN.’ DURING A CAREER THAT HAS SPANNED 5 DECADES SPRINGSTEEN HAS SOLD MORE THAN 135 MILLION ALBUMS, WON 20 GRAMMY AWARDS, TWO GOLDEN GLOBES, AN ACADEMY AWARD, AND A TONY AWARD. IN 1999 HE WAS INDUCTED INTO BOTH THE SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME AND THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME. HE RECIEVED THE KENNEDY CENTER HONORS IN 2009 AND WAS AWARDED THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM IN 2016.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE BOSS !

HERE’S ONE OF MY FAVORITE SPRINGSTEEN TRACKS

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 22, 2019- 1987 SAW AEROSMITH’S COMEBACK ALBUM ‘PERMANENT VACATION’ AND THE RELEASE OF THE SINGLE ‘DUDE (LOOKS LIKE A LADY).’

‘DUDE’ WAS A SONG THAT MARKED THE FIRST COLLABORATION WITH THE BAND AND AN OUTSIDE SONGWRITER. THIS WAS AT THE INSISTENCE OF THE BAND’S RECORD COMPANY AND AT FIRST WENT OVER LIKE A FART IN CHURCH. THE BAND DIDN’T WANT AN OUTSIDE WRITER. ACCORDING TO AN INTERVIEW WITH DESMOND CHURCH:

“They had never written with an outside writer, and they were not happy to see me. They were going along with it (to please the label), but they were not that happy about it.

Steven (Tyler) was much more friendly, as he is, and was very generous, really, and showed me a song that they had started called ‘Cruisin’ for the Ladies.’ I listened to that lyric, and I said, ‘You know what, that’s a very boring title.’ And they looked at me like, ‘How dare you?’ And then Steven volunteered, sheepishly, and said that when he first wrote the melody he was singing ‘Dude Looks like a Lady.’ It was kind of a tongue twister that sounded more like scatting. He got the idea because they had gone to a bar and had seen a girl at the end of the bar with ginormous blonde rock hair, and the girl turned around and it ended up being Vince Neil from Motley Crue. So then they started making fun of him and started saying, ‘That dude looks like a lady, dude looks like a lady, dude looks like a lady.’ So that’s how that was born. That’s the true story of how that was born. So I grabbed onto that and I said, ‘No, that’s the title of the song.'”

HERE’S THE VIDEO FOR ‘DUDE (LOOKS LIKE A LADY)’. QUICK NOTE, THAT’S JOE PERRY’S WIFE BILLIE PRETENDING TO PLAY THE SAX ONSTAGE.