LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 29, 2019-SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO OZZFEST, THE ANNUAL FESTIVAL TOUR, ROCKED THE SHORELINE AMPHITHEATER. THE BAND LINE-UP FOR 2002 WAS ONE OF THE STRONGEST IN THE HISTORY OF THE FESTIVAL. HERE WERE THE BANDS THAT MADE UP THE BILL:

Seether

Chevelle

Glassjaw

Pulse Ultra

Down

The Used

Meshuggah

Hatebreed

Lostprophets

Rob Zombie

Black Label Society

Ozzy Osbourne

Ill Niño

P.O.D.

Otep

Mushroomhead

Adema

The Apex Theory

Switched

Neurotica

Tommy Lee

System of a Down

THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE SHOW OF COURSE, WAS OZZY. HERE WAS HIS SETLIST:

O Fortuna (Taped intro)

I Don’t Know

War Pigs

Mr. Crowley

Gets Me Through

Goodbye to Romance

Suicide Solution

Iron Man

I Don’t Want to Change the World

Road to Nowhere

Crazy Train

Encore:

Mama, I’m Coming Home

Bark at the Moon

Paranoid

IF YOU WANT TO RELIVE SOME OF THE MAGIC, HERE’S OZZY FROM OZZFEST

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The Bay Area’s own, The Doobie Brothers are coming back for two shows.

Wednesday, September 11th at Wente Vineyards in Livermore.

Tickets are on sale now through: www.ticketmaster.com

Thursday, September 12th at The Masonic in San Francisco.

For The Masonic show, The Doobie Brothers will be performing their landmark albums, Toulouse Street and The Captain and Me, in their entirety.

Tickets are on sale now through: www.livenation.com

Also, The Doobie Brothers Live From The Beacon Theatre is out now.

Listen to Lamont and Tonelli’s interview with Patrick Simmons from The Doobie Brothers.

Follow The Doobie Brothers here.

Here is Lamont and Tonelli’s latest video for “Antonio Brown Is Getting A New Helmet.”

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 28, 2019-ELEVEN YEARS AGO AC/DC RELEASED ‘ROCK ‘N’ ROLL TRAIN.’ IT MARKED THE FIRST NEW SINGLE FROM AC/DC IN EIGHT YEARS, WHICH UP TO THEN, WAS THE LONGEST GAP IN THE BAND’S HISTORY. THE STRENGTH OF THIS SINGLE HELPED THE ALBUM ‘BLACK ICE’ DEBUT AT NUMBER 1 ON THE ALBUM CHARTS, SELLING OVER 780,000 COPIES IN ITS FIRST WEEK. IT WAS AC/DC’S FIRST TOP CHARTING RELEASE IN THE U.S. SINCE THE ALBUM ‘FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK’ IN 1981. IN AMERICA, THE BLACK ICE ALBUM WAS RELEASED EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH WAL-MART AND SAM’S CLUB, AND THE BAND’S WEBSITE.

BRIAN JOHNSON EXPLAINED WHY THE BAND MADE THE EXCLUSIVE DEAL WITH WALMART:”A lot of people were saying ‘Ah man, you’re going to the big Wal-Mart, you’re selling out.’ Wal-Mart were the only big store to stock all of our albums, every single one of them, and they’ve never deviated. And they sold AC/DC shirts and pajamas for kids, which we thought was really cool.

THE SINGLE WAS HUGE FOR THE GROUP, AND ACTED AS A GREAT OPENING TO SONG ON THE “BLACK ICE TOUR.”

HERE’S AC/DC PERFORMING ‘ROCK ‘N’ ROLL TRAIN’

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 27, 2019-ON THIS DATE IN 1991 EDDIE VEDDER AND PEARL JAM RELEASED THEIR DEBUT STUDIO ALBUM ‘TEN’

HERE’S SOME TRIVIA SURROUNDING ‘TEN’

-THE ALBUM WAS MADE ON A LOW BUDGET. THE BAND ONLY SPENT $ 25,000

RECORDING THE RECORD

-THE TRACK ‘ALIVE’ WAS ACTUALLY A DEMO RECORDING THAT WAS JUICED UP A LITTLE BIT WITH A DIFFERENT GUITAR SOLO

– THE LYRICS FOR ‘ALIVE’ ARE ABOUT A BOY WHO FINDS OUT HIS FATHER IS REALLY HIS STEPFATHER. VEDDER LATER REVEALED THAT THE SONG WAS A WORK OF FICTION BASED ON REALITY WHEN HE DISCOVERED HIS STEPFATHER WASN’T REALLY HIS DAD, AND THAT HIS BIOLOGICAL FATHER HAD DIED.

-THE “PEARL JAM” LETTERING ON THE ALBUM COVER WAS ACTUALLY A LIFE SIZE CUT OUT MADE BY JEFF AMENT. THE BAND WAS NOT SUPERIMPOSED OVER LETTERS, THE BAND WAS ACTUALLY DOING AN ALL-FOR-ONE POSE IN FRONT OF A GIANT WOODEN CUTOUT.

-EDDIE VEDDER DIDN’T GET ALONG WITH HIS STEPFATHER AND TOOK OUT HIS WRATH ON HIS WITH THE SONG ‘BETTER MAN.’ WHEN EDDIE BECAME A FATHER HE SAID HE WOULD DO EVERYTHING HE COULD TO BREAK THE CYCLE OF FAMILY DYSFUNCTION

-MIKE MCCREADY’S ALIVE SOLO WAS INSPIRED BY ACE FREHLEY OF KISS.

HE TOLD ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE “He’s what took them over the top with the feel he put into his leads. I really gravitated towards his vibrato. My lead for ‘Alive’ is based on ‘She,’ and that’s based on ‘Five to One’ by the Doors. I remember we were [doing the final mix for Ten] in Surrey, England. I thought about it like, I’m going to approach this like Ace did on ‘She.’”

-‘EVEN FLOW’ TOOK FOREVER TO RECORD. THE BAND WAS NEVER HAPPY WITH IT AND RECORDED IT APPROXIMATELY 70 TIMES.

-THE BAND WAS AMAZED BY EDDIE VEDDER’S ABILITY TO COME UP WITH LYRICS INSTANTANEOUSLY. VEDDER WROTE THE LYRICS TO ‘OCEANS’ WHILE LOCKED OUT OF THE BAND’S REHEARSAL SPACE.

-PEARL JAM’S RECORD LABEL WANTED TO RELEASE THE SONG ‘BLACK’ AS A SINGLE, BUT PEARL JAM REFUSED, SAYING IT WAS TOO PERSONAL OF A SONG AND ACCORDING TO EDDIE VEDDER IN A ROLLING STONE INTERVIEW: “That’s not why we wrote songs. We didn’t write to make hits.”

RADIO STATIONS PLAYED THE SONG ANYWAY, AND IT ENDED UP BEING A TOP THREE ROCK HIT IN 1993

-‘TEN’ WASN’T RELEASE ON VINYL UNTIL MORE THAN 3 YEARS AFTER IT CAME OUT ON C.D. WHEN TEN CAME OUT, RECORD LABELS WERE PHASING OUT VINYL FOR THE CHEAPER TO MAKE COMPACT DISCS. ‘TEN’ SOLD 10 MILLION COPIES WHEN A GOOD MAJORITY OF PEOPLE DIDN’T EVEN HAVE C.D. PLAYERS. JEFF AMENT IN AN INTERVIEW IN 2009 SAID “They didn’t let us put it out on vinyl, and that was a rough blow to us at the time ’cause I don’t think I even had a CD player.”

-IT TOOK THREE YEARS FOR THE COMPANY TO RELEASE A VINYL PRESSING

TEN HAS BEEN CERTIFIED 13X PLATINUM. HERE’S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY