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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 16, 2019-PSYCHO KILLER ….FA FA FA FA FA FAA FA FA FA… IT WAS FORTY TWO YEARS AGO TODAY FOR THE TALKING HEADS DEBUT ALBUM Talking Heads: 77 . THE ALBUM WAS A CULT CLASSIC ON COLLEGE RADIO STATIONS AND ACTUALLY BROKE THE BILLBOARD TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART HITTING NUMBER 92. IN 2003 “ROLLING STONE” MAGAZINE RANKED THE ALBUM AT #290 ON IT’S LIST OF “THE 500 GREATEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME.” THE SINGLE ‘PSYCHO KILLER’ WAS A HUGE HIT FROM THE RECORD. IT IS WRITTEN FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A SERIAL KILLER. ‘PSYCHO KILLER’ IS INCLUDED IN “THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME’S 500 SONGS THAT SHAPED ROCK AND ROLL” LIST.

 

HERE’S A LIVE VERSION OF PSYCHO KILLER FROM A 1978 TV APPEARANCE

 

 

FOO FIGHTERS DREAMFORCE BENEFIT CONCERT

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 15, 2019-FOUR YEARS AGO THE FOO FIGHTERS PLAYED THE DREAMFORCE BENEFIT CONCERT AT PIER 70 WITH THE PROCEEDS GOING TO THE UCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL. THE SHOW TOOK PLACE AT A TEMPORARY CONCERT PAVILION THE CITY BUILT AT PIER 70. LET’S BRING THE VENUE BACK !!!

THIS WAS THE FOO’S SETLIST FROM DREAMFORCE 2015:

All My Life

Times Like These

Learn to Fly

The Pretender

Big Me

Congregation

Walk

MTV Theme Song

Cold Day In The Sun

My Hero

Best Of You

Everlong

HERE ARE THE FOO FIGHTERS FROM PIER 70

PHOTO CREDIT-JIMMY O’SHEEHAN PHOTOGRAPHER TO THE ROCK GODS https://www.facebook.com/jimmyosheehan/

DIRE STRAITS

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 15, 2019- IT WAS ON THIS DATE IN 1988 MARK KNOPFLER HELD A PRESS CONFERENCE TO OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCE THE BREAK-UP OF DIRE STRAITS. THEY WERE ACTIVE AS A GROUP FROM 1977-1988, AND THEN AGAIN FOR A BRIEF REUNION WHEN THEY REFORMED

FROM 1991-1995. THEY WERE ONE OF THE WORLDS BIGGEST SELLING BANDS

SELLING OVER 100 MILLION ALBUMS. LAST YEAR DIRE STRAITS WAS INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME.

HERE’S AN INCREDIBLE LIVE VERSION OF MONEY FOR NOTHING FROM THE GROUP’S APPEARANCE AT LIVE AID

photo thanks-aherrero

METALLICA’S “THE DAMAGED JUSTICE” TOUR

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 14, 2019-IT WAS 1989 AND METALLICA PLAYED THE CONCORD PAVILION AS PART OF “THE DAMAGED JUSTICE” TOUR. THE TOUR WAS METALLICA’S FOURTH MAJOR TOUR AND IT WAS A MASSIVE ENDEAVOUR COVERING 219 SHOWS OVER FIVE LEGS. THE NAME OF THE TOUR IS BELIEVED TO BE DERIVED FROM THE COVER OF METALLICA’S 4TH ALBUM ‘…AND JUSTICE FOR ALL’ OR BY THE SONG ‘DAMAGE INC.’ FROM THE GROUP’S PREVIOUS ALBUM ‘MASTER OF PUPPETS.’ THE LINE-UP FOR THE TOUR WAS JASON NEWSTED, KIRK HAMMETT, LARS ULRICH AND JAMES HETFIELD. THE SHOW WAS OFF THE HOOK, WITH METALLICA COMING OUT FOR THREE ENCORES. THIS IS THE SETLIST FROM THE CONCERT AT THE CONCORD PAVILION:

The Ecstasy of Gold (Taped intro)

Blackened

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

Harvester of Sorrow

The Four Horsemen

Bass Solo

Master of Puppets

Fade to Black

Seek & Destroy

…And Justice for All

Encore:

Creeping Death

One

Guitar Solo

Battery

Encore 2:

Last Caress

Am I Evil?

Damage, Inc.

Encore 3:

Breadfan

HERE’S 2 HOURS OF CONCERT VIDEO FROM METALLICA’S 88-89 TOUR

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PINK FLOYD-LEARNING TO FLY

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 14, 2019-PINK FLOYD RELEASED THE FIRST SINGLE ‘LEARNING TO FLY’ FROM THEIR 13TH ALBUM ‘A MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON’ ON SEPTEMBER 14TH 1987. THIS WAS THE FIRST PINK FLOYD ALBUM WITHOUT THEIR FOUNDING MEMBER ROGER WATERS. ROGERS AND DAVID GILMOUR HAD BEEN SEETHING AT EACH OTHER FOR YEARS, BUT THEY MANAGED TO PUT THEIR DISDAIN OF EACH OTHER ASIDE UNTIL 1983 WHEN ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE. WHEN THE FLOYD ALBUM ‘THE FINAL CUT’ WAS RELEASED IN ‘83, ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE GROUP WENT THEIR SEPARATE WAYS, WITH GILMOUR AND WATERS BOTH RELEASING SOLO ALBUMS IN 1984.

IN 1986 GILMOUR RECONVENED PINK FLOYD WITHOUT ROGER WATERS, AND WATERS WENT BANANAS. HE THOUGHT HE WOULD BE THE ONE TO DECIDE IF THE BAND WOULD CONTINUE. THE LAWYERS GOT RICH AS WATERS TOOK PINK FLOYD TO COURT, AND EVENTUALLY A SETTLEMENT WAS WORKED OUT.

‘LEARNING TO FLY’ IN THIS CONTEXT, IS THE GROUP FIGURING OUT HOW TO FLY WITHOUT ROGER WATERS.

HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FROM PINK FLOYD

R.I.P. Eddie Money

Eddie Money has passed away. The singer and songwriter had recently been diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer. He was 70 years old.

His family released the following statement, “The Money Family regrets to announce that Eddie passed away peacefully early this morning. It is with heavy hearts that we say goodbye to our loving husband and father. We cannot imagine our world without him. We are grateful that he will live on forever through his music.”

More HERE

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVE MUSTAINE

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 13, 2019-HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISHES GOING OUT TO GUITARIST DAVE MUSTAINE. TODAY DAVE TURNS 58.

MUSTAINE IS BEST KNOWN AS THE FORMER LEAD GUITARIST OF METALLICA, AND AS THE CO-FOUNDER, LEAD GUITARIST AND LEAD VOCALIST OF MEGADETH. A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO MUSTAINE ANNOUNCED HIS CANCER DIAGNOSIS ON SOCIAL MEDIA. HE IS CURRENTLY UNDERGOING TREATMENT AS PART OF A PLAN THAT HIS DOCTOR’S FEEL HAS A “90% SUCCESS RATE.”

OUR GOOD VIBES GO OUT TO MUSTAINE ON HIS BIRTHDAY

THIS IS A GREAT VIDEO OF MUSTAINE WITH MEGADETH PERFORMING ‘TRUST’

photo thanks-Nicolas Sesta

J. GEILS BAND-CENTERFOLD

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 13, 2019-THIRTY EIGHT YEARS AGO THE J. GEILS BAND HIT PAYDIRT WITH THE RELEASE OF THE SINGLE ‘CENTERFOLD.’ THIS SONG IS ABOUT A GUY WHO HAD A CRUSH ON A SWEET, INNOCENT GIRL IN HIS CLASSROOM IN HIGH SCHOOL. YEARS LATER, HE’S SKIMMING THROUGH A GIRLIE MAGAZINE AND SEES HIS CRUSH AS THE CENTERFOLD, AND HIS MIND IS BLOWN. RATHER THAN BEING EXCITED, HE IS DISAPPOINTED, AS HIS MEMORY “HAS BEEN SOLD.”

THE SONG WAS THE NUMBER ONE SONG IN THE US FOR 6 WEEKS AND BILLBOARD HAS IT RANKED AT #66 ON IT’S LIST OF “THE TOP SONGS OF ALL-TIME.”

HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR ‘CENTERFOLD’

“FOR UNLAWFUL CARNAL KNOWLEDGE” AT SHORELINE

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 13, 2019- ON THIS DATE IN 1991 VAN HALEN BROUGHT THE “FOR UNLAWFUL CARNAL KNOWLEDGE” TOUR ( OR THE F.U.C.K. TOUR AS IT WAS CALLED) TO SHORELINE FOR THE FIRST OF TWO SOLD OUT NIGHTS. THIS WAS THE HOTTEST TOUR IN THE WORLD AND WITH THE ALBUM AT NUMBER ONE, VAN HALEN REMAINED ONE OF THE BIGGEST BANDS ON THE PLANET. THE TOUR WAS ONE OF THE LONGER TOURS IN THE BAND’S HISTORY, SPANNING OVER 99 DATES AND WAS ONE OF THE FEW TOURS OF 1991 THAT FLOURISHED AT THE BOX OFFICE DURING A RECESSION. THIS TOUR ALSO FEATURED THE FIRST TIME EVER THAT KEYBOARDS WERE NOT PERFORMED LIVE BY EDDIE VAN HALEN. KEYBOARD AND PIANO PARTS WERE PRE-RECORDED BY EDDIE AND PLAYED BACK DURING CONCERTS.

HERE IS THE SETLIST FROM VAN HAGAR AT THE SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE:

Poundcake

Judgement Day

Spanked

Runaround

When It’s Love

There’s Only One Way to Rock

Bass Solo

Drum Solo

A.F.U. (Naturally Wired)

Panama

Why Can’t This Be Love

Finish What Ya Started

Eagles Fly

Guitar Solo

Best of Both Worlds

I Can’t Drive 55

The Dream Is Over

Encore:

Jump

Top of the World

ONE OF THE BEST VIDEOS EVER WAS FROM “FOR UNLAWFUL CARNAL KNOWLEDGE”. HERE’S THE VIDEO FOR ‘RIGHT NOW’

photo thanks-Rogelio A. Galaviz C.