LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 10, 2019-TWENTY NINE YEARS AGO AC/DC RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘THUNDERSTRUCK.’ FOR MANY YEARS BOTH ANGUS AND MALCOLM YOUNG WOULD B.S. PEOPLE ON THE ORIGINS OF THE SONG. THEY WOULD OFTEN TELL THE STORY ABOUT HAVING THE INSPIRATION FOR THE SONG WHEN ANGUS WAS FLYING ON A PLANE THAT WAS HIT BY LIGHTNING AND ALMOST CRASHED. THEY WERE DICKING WITH PEOPLE.

WITH THE RE-RELEASE OF ‘THE RAZORS EDGE’ IN 2003, ANGUS EXPLAINED THE ORIGINS OF THE SONG IN THE LINER NOTES:

“It started off from a little trick that I had on guitar. I played it to Mal and he said, ‘Oh I’ve got a good rhythm idea that will sit well in the back.’ We built the song up from that. We fiddled about with it for a few months before everything fell into place. Lyrically, it was really just a case of finding a good title, something along the lines of ‘Powerage’ or ‘Highway To Hell.’ We came up with this thunder thing and it seemed to have a good ring to it. AC/DC = Power. That’s the basic idea.”

‘THUNDERSTRUCK’ WAS THE FIRST TRACK ON THE ALBUM ‘THE RAZORS EDGE’, BUT IT WASN’T RELEASED AS A SINGLE. THIS WAS DONE TO PROPEL MORE LUCRATIVE ALBUM SALES. IT HELPED ‘THE RAZORS EDGE’ SELL OVER 5 MILLION COPIES. EVEN THOUGH IT WAS NEVER RELEASED AS A SINGLE, ACCOUNTING FOR DOWNLOADS, RADIO AIRPLAY, VIDEO HITS AND STREAMING, ‘THUNDERSTRUCK’ HOLDS THE TITLE AS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL SONG OF 1990, WITH THE EQUIVALENT SALES OF 15,460,000 COPIES SOLD.

HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR AC/DC’S ‘THUNDERSTRUCK’

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 10, 2019-HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JOE PERRY. TODAY, HE’S LOOKING AT 69 ALL YEAR LONG. PERRY IS BEST KNOWN AS THE LEAD GUITARIST, SONGWRITER AND ONE OF THE FOUNDING MEMBERS OF AEROSMITH. WITH AEROSMITH PERRY HAS PUT TOGETHER RECORD SALES IN EXCESS OF 150 MILLION ALBUMS. PERRY HAS ALSO WON 4 GRAMMY AWARDS, BEEN INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME, WON 12 MTV MUSIC AWARDS, TWO PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS, 6 BILLBOARD AWARDS, 8 AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS, AND WAS ALSO MADE A MEMBER OF THE SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO GUITAR HERO JOE PERRY.

HERE’S JOE SHREDDING IT ON ONE OF MY FAVORITE AEROSMITH SONGS

photo thanks-Nat Ch Villa

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 9, 2019-FORTY EIGHT YEARS AGO JOHN LENNON RELEASED THE ICONIC ALBUM ‘IMAGINE.’ THIS IS THE BIGGEST SELLING AND MOST CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ALBUM OF LENNON’S SOLO CAREER. BMI NAMED THE SINGLE ‘IMAGINE’ AS ONE OF THE 100 MOST PERFORMED SONGS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. ‘IMAGINE’ EARNED A GRAMMY AWARD, AND WAS INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME AS ONE OF THE “500 SONGS THAT SHAPED ROCK AND ROLL.”

HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR THE TITLE TRACK ‘IMAGINE’

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 9, 2019- TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO STP RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘INTERSTATE LOVE SONG.’

SCOTT WEILAND WROTE THIS SONG ABOUT HIS RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS AND HIS GROWING HEROIN ADDICTION. WHEN STP WENT TO ATLANTA TO RECORD THE ALBUM ‘PURPLE’ HE PROMISED HIS FIANCÉ JANINA CASTANEDA HE WOULD STAY CLEAN. HE DIDN’T KEEP HIS PROMISE AND HE FELT LIKE A REAL S***HOLE WHEN HE WAS TELLING HER ON THE PHONE THAT EVERYTHING WAS ALRIGHT.

THE SONG IS WRITTEN FROM JANINA’S PERSPECTIVE, WITH WEILAND IMAGINING HER SEEING RIGHT THROUGH HIS LIES.

HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR ‘INTERSTATE LOVE SONG’