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Listen to Lamont and Tonelli’s interview with San Francisco 49ers Offensive Lineman Joe Staley.
Lamont & Tonelli talked to Mr. Skin for his weekly fun bags forecast, including Kirsten Dunst from “On Becoming A God In Central Florida” on Showtime. Plus, Alexandra Marcovici from “The Spy” on Netflix.
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 12, 2019- ON THIS DATE IN 2008 METALLICA RELEASED THEIR NINTH STUDIO ALBUM ‘DEATH MAGNETIC.’
THIS WAS THE FIRST ALBUM TO FEATURE BASSIST ROB TRUJILLO AND THE MUSIC WAS RIGHT ON POINT, WITH THE BAND MEMBERS SEEING EYE TO EYE IN A WAY THEY HADN’T IN YEARS. IN AN INTERVIEW LARS ULRICH HAD THIS TO SAY:
“We finally found out what our dynamic should be. At some point we just stopped competing and found out that we’re better off when we’re not trying to trump one another. It’s not about winning or losing an argument, it’s about appreciating the fact that the sum of both of us will always be better than either of us individually and we sort of depend on each other and need each other and are better off for having each other.”
THE ALBUM COVER DEPICTED A WHITE COFFIN AT THE BOTTOM OF A GRAVE. IT WAS ALSO SURROUNDED BY METAL SHAVINGS THAT FORMED A MAGNETIC PATTERN AROUND THE IMAGE. I THOUGHT IT LOOKED LIKE A HAIRY VAGINA !!! WHEN I TOLD THIS TO JAMES HETFIELD, HE STARTING EFF’ING WITH ME AND SUGGESTED I NEEDED PSYCHIATRIC HELP ! WELL I FOUND OUT LATER
THAT METALLICA WAS DEFINITELY AWARE OF THE DOUBLE-ENTENDRE. ACCORDING TO LARS:
“ Of course we knew what it kind of looked like. Those elements were with us from the very birth of that idea. When we were sitting around with David, our designer, and he was showing us different ideas, we were obviously well aware of that and we liked the abstractness and the many different ways it could be viewed, absolutely.”
‘DEATH MAGNETIC’ DEBUTED AT NUMBER ONE ON THE ALBUM CHARTS AND MARKED THE FIFTH STRAIGHT METALLICA ALBUM TO DEBUT AT # 1. ‘DEATH MAGNETIC’ WAS NOMINATED FOR SIX GRAMMY AWARDS, AND WON THREE.
HERE’S THE FIRST SINGLE FROM THE ALBUM ‘THE DAY THAT NEVER COMES’
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 12, 2019-LAST YEAR THE SAP CENTER IN SAN JOSE WAS HOPPING WITH THE FOO FIGHTERS. THE GROUP WAS ON THEIR “CONCRETE AND GOLD” TOUR WHICH SAW THE GROUP ON THE ROAD FOR CLOSE TO A YEAR AND A HALF PLAYING 113 SHOWS AND RAKING IN OVER $ 115,000,000.
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 12, 2019-ON THIS DATE IN 1975 PINK FLOYD RELEASED THE ALBUM ‘WISH YOU WERE HERE.’ THIS ALBUM RANKS IN THE TOP 50 ALBUMS OF ALL-TIME IS TERMS OF SALES. TO DATE IT HAS SOLD OVER 22,300,000 ALBUMS AND SITS AT NUMBER 41 ON THE TOP 50.
THE ALBUM FEATURES ONE OF THE GREATEST ALBUM COVERS EVER JUST BECAUSE IT WAS DONE BEFORE PHOTOSHOP AND THE PHOTOGRAPHERS ACTUALLY LIT A STUNTMAN ON FIRE 15 TIMES TO GET THE SHOT THAT WAS NEEDED. TWO DIFFERENT ALBUM COVERS WERE ISSUED AT THE TIME OF THE RELEASE, ONE FOR THE U.K. THE OTHER FOR NORTH AMERICA.
THE TITLE TRACK ‘WISH YOU WERE HERE’ WAS A RARE CASE OF PINK FLOYD’S PRIMARY SONGWRITERS ROGER WATERS AND DAVID GILMOUR ACTUALLY COLLABORATING ON A SONG ( THEY RARELY WROTE TOGETHER).
GILMOUR HAD THE OPENING RIFF AND WAS PLAYING IT IN THE STUDIO AT A FAST PACE WHEN ROGER WATERS ASKED HIM TO PLAY IT SLOWER. THE SONG WAS BUILT FROM THERE, WITH BOTH WRITING THE MUSIC FOR THE CHORUS AND VERSES TOGETHER, AND WATERS ADDING THE LYRICS.
HERE’S A GREAT LIVE VERSION OF ‘WISH YOU WERE HERE’
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 12, 2019-THIRTY YEARS AGO AEROSMITH RELEASED THE ALBUM ‘PUMP.’ DUE TO DRUG ABUSE AND IN-BAND SQUABBLING DURING THE LATE 70’S AND EARLY EIGHTIES, AEROSMITH AS A BAND DERAILED WITH JOE PERRY AND BRAD WHITFORD BOTH LEAVING THE LINE-UP. THE GROUPS BIG COMEBACK ALBUM WAS 1987’S PERMANENT VACATION, BUT THIS IS THE ALBUM THAT SLAMMED HOME THE COMEBACK AND SENT IT INTO ORBIT.
‘PUMP’ WAS THE GROUP’S 10TH ALBUM AND IT TERMS OF PURE ALBUM SALES IS THE BAND’S SECOND BIGGEST OF ALL-TIME, SELLING OVER 10,500,000 MILLION COPIES ( BEFORE STREAMS AND DOWNLOADS).
THE RECORD WAS DRIVEN BY FOUR HUGE SINGLES ‘JANIE’S GOT A GUN’ ‘THE OTHER SIDE’ ‘WHAT IT TAKES’ AND ‘LOVE IN AN ELEVATOR’
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 12, 2019-LIGHT 67 BIRTHDAY CANDLES TODAY FOR DRUMMER NEIL PEART. PEART IS BEST KNOWN AS THE LYRICIST AND ALL WORLD DRUMMER FOR RUSH. HE ANNOUNCED HIS RETIREMENT FROM MUSIC IN AN INTERVIEW WITH “DRUMHEAD MAGAZINE” ON DECEMBER 7TH, 2015. THE BAND’S 2016 DOCUMENTARY ‘TIME STAND STILL’ REVEALED PEART WAS BATTLING THROUGH ENORMOUS PHYSICAL PAIN THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE TOUR. GEDDY LEE LATER REVEALED IN AN INTERVIEW:
“Neil was struggling throughout that tour to play at his peak, because of physical ailments and other things that were going on with him. And he is a perfectionist, and he did not want to go out and do anything less than what people expected of him. That’s what drove him his whole career, and that’s the way he wanted to go out, and I totally respect that.”
PEART IS ALSO A WRITER, AND HIS MOST FAMOUS BOOK IS “GHOST RIDER” WHERE PEART TELLS THE STORY OF LOSING HIS 19 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER TO A CAR ACCIDENT AND HIS WIFE TO CANCER AND A BROKEN HEART IN THE SAME YEAR. AT A LOSS, PEART TOOK TO HIS BMW MOTORCYCLE AND TRAVELLED CANADA, THE USA, AND MEXICO SEARCHING FOR ANY KIND OF HEALING. IF YOU WANT TO READ SOMETHING TOUCHING, CHECK IT OUT.
SOME ARGUE HE WAS/IS THE BEST DRUMMER IN THE WORLD, HERE’S PEART WITH RUSH PERFORMING ‘TOM SAWYER’