LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 23, 2019-TODAY LEGENDARY DRUMMER KEITH MOON WOULD HAVE BEEN 73 YEARS OF AGE. WITH THE WHO, KEITH MOON SOLD OVER 100 MILLION ALBUMS. HE WAS VOTED THE SECOND GREATEST DRUMMER IN HISTORY IN A POLL OF ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE
READERS. MOON DIED ON SEPTEMBER 7,1978 AFTER TAKING 32 CLOMETHIAZOLE TABLETS.
THIS IS VINTAGE KEITH MOON. IN 1973 THE WHO PLAYED THE COW PALACE. KEITH MOON PASSED OUT AFTER ACCIDENTALLY TAKING 2 HITS OF PCP. A 19 YEAR OLD FAN IN THE STANDS HAD TO SIT IN FOR MOON ON THE DRUMS. HERE’S THE ENTIRE CONCERT
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 22, 2019-TODAY ALICE IN CHAINS’ LAYNE STALEY WOULD HAVE BEEN 52 !
STALEY DIED AT THE AGE OF 34. THE LEAD SINGER OF ALICE AND CHAINS WAS FOUND DEAD IN HIS APARTMENT IN SEATTLE WASHINGTON. AFTER NO ONE HAD HEARD FROM HIM FOR 2 WEEKS, POLICE WERE CALLED IN TO BREAK DOWN THE DOOR TO HIS APARTMENT. INSIDE THEY FOUND STALEY’S BODY SURROUNDED BY DRUGS, SQUALOR AND DRUG PARAPHERNALIA. STALEY’S 6’1” BODY WAS REDUCED TO 86 POUNDS, AND IN HIS HAND WAS A SYRINGE LOADED WITH ANOTHER DOSE OF HEROIN AND COCAINE. THE AUTOPSY AND TOXICOLOGY REPORT PLACED THE DATE OF HIS DEATH, WHICH WAS RULED ACCIDENTAL, AT APRIL 5.
I READ A GREAT ARTICLE ON STALEY’S LAST DAYS IN “GUITAR WORLD” MAGAZINE. THEY TALKED TO RANDY BIRO, A MUSICIAN WHO CONTRIBUTED VOCALS TO ALICE IN CHAINS ‘JAR OF FLIES’ EP.
BIRO WAS AT A PARTY AND SOMEONE TOLD HIM THAT LAYNE STALEY WANTED TO SEE HIM. HERE’S HIS RECOLLECTION OF THAT EVENT:
“Great, where is he?”
“He’s right behind you.”
Biro turned around. “I’m looking past this really skinny, fucked-up looking guy trying to see where Layne is, and it was Layne. I felt really awkward.”
“He had a baseball cap on, he had glasses down to the end of his nose, and not very many teeth. It shocked me at first. It looked like death. It was gross.” Jim Elmer doesn’t know exactly when Layne’s tooth loss started, but thinks it was around 1995 or 1996 and said it was a gradual process.
Layne invited Biro to check out his condo, which was around the corner from the bar. He described Layne as being very proud about his home. Layne had a massive rear-projection TV. “The fucking thing was huge. I’d never seen a TV that big. He had gotten it through the label some way, and all he did was sit there and get high and play video games all day.”
Biro, who was clean, asked, “Wow, have you got anything?”—referring to drugs.
“Yeah, but I’m not gonna give it to you.”
“Why not?”
“Because you’re clean. I’m not gonna be part of this. If you need to go do that, you do it somewhere else. I don’t want to be part of it. I don’t want you to end up like me again.” That was the last time Biro saw him.
LAYNE STALEY’S DEATH WAS SUCH A WASTE OF TALENT AND ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF A GREAT MUSICIAN THAT DIED WAY TOO YOUNG.
HERE’S STALEY WITH ALICE IN CHAINS AND THE VIDEO FOR ‘DOWN IN A HOLE’
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 22, 2019-IT WAS ON THIS DATE IN 1980 FOGHAT ROCKED THE OAKLAND ARENA. I USED TO LOVE FOGHAT. THE ORIGINAL MEMBERS OF FOGHAT ARE ALL BRITISH. IRONICALLY, THE GROUP NEVER CHARTED IN ENGLAND, BUT ENJOYED ALL OF THEIR SUCCESS IN NORTH AMERICA. FOGHAT ENJOYED GREAT COMMERCIAL SUCCESS, RACKING UP 8 GOLD RECORDS, ONE PLATINUM, AND ONE DOUBLE PLATINUM ALBUM. THE CREME DE LA CREME WAS DEFINITELY THE ALBUM ‘FOOL FOR THE CITY’ WHICH BOASTED THE ANTHEM ‘SLOW RIDE.’
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 21, 2019- IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT IT’S EXACTLY 29 YEARS AGO ALICE IN CHAINS RELEASED THEIR EXCELLENT DEBUT ALBUM ‘FACELIFT.’ HERE ARE SOME INTERESTING FACTS SURROUNDING AIC AND ‘FACELIFT’:
-FACELIFT BOASTED 4 SINGLES ‘WE DIE YOUNG’ ‘BLEED THE FREAK’ ‘SEA OF SORROW’ AND ‘MAN IN THE BOX’
-FACELIFT SOLD MORE THAN 1 MILLION COPIES WITHIN THE FIRST 12 MONTHS OF BEING RELEASE, AND TO DATE HAS RACKED UP TOTAL SALES AND DOWNLOADS OF 4.5 MILLION COPIES.
– DRUMMER SEAN KINNEY PLAYED DRUMS ON THE RECORD WITH A BROKEN HAND. ACCORDING TO KINNEY: “I cut my cast off in the studio and kept a bucket of ice by the drum set,I tried not to do that again—your first big break, and you f–k it up.”
– THE LYRICS TO ‘MAN IN THE BOX’ ARE CRYPTIC “FEED MY EYES, CAN YOU SEW THEM SHUT/JESUS CHRIST DENY YOUR MAKER, HE WHO TRIES WILL BE WASTED.” WHEN ASKED WHAT THEY WERE ABOUT, LAYNE STALEY SAID THEY WERE CRITICIZING MEDIA CENSORSHIP, BUT “I was really, really stoned when I wrote it.”
-MAN IN THE BOX EARNED THE GROUP A GRAMMY NOMINATION FOR “BEST HARD ROCK PERFORMANCE’
-LAYNE STALEY CLOSED HIS LAST EVER AIC PERFORMANCE BY SINGING ‘MAN IN THE BOX’
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 21, 2019-AUG 21 1990 JANE’S ADDICTION RELEASED THE ALBUM ‘RITUAL DE LO HABITUAL.’ Ritual de lo habitual
IT WAS THE BAND’S FINAL STUDIO ALBUM BEFORE THEIR INITIAL BREAK UP IN 1991
THE RECORD BOASTED TWO HIT SINGLES ‘STOP’ AND ‘BEEN CAUGHT STEALING’
THE ALBUM ALSO FEATURED TWO DIFFERENT ALBUM COVERS. ONE FEATURED BOTH MALE AND FEMALE NUDITY. THE OTHER COVER (KNOWN AS “THE CLEAN COVER”), SHOWED ONLY THE BAND NAME, THE ALBUM NAME, AND THE TEXT OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT.
COMMERCIALLY THE ALBUM WAS HUGE. ACCOUNTING FOR DOWNLOADS AND ACTUAL ALBUM SALES, TO DATE ‘RITUAL DE LO HABITUAL’ HAS SOLD OVER 3 MILLION COPIES
I’M DEDICATING THIS SONG TO HOUSEWIFE’S STAR ‘KIM RICHARDS’. HERE’S JANE’S ADDICTION WITH ‘BEEN CAUGHT STEALING’
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 20, 2019-PHIL LYNOTT WAS A FOUNDING MEMBER, THE LEAD SINGER , PRINCIPAL SONGWRITER, AND BASS PLAYER OF THIN LIZZY. TODAY WOULD HAVE BEEN HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY. LYNOTT DIED ON JANUARY 4TH 1986 OF HEART FAILURE AND PNEUMONIA AFTER BEING IN A COMA FOR EIGHT DAYS FOLLOWING A DRUG OVERDOSE.
THIS IS A GREAT VIDEO OF A THIN LIZZY TV APPEARANCE FROM THE LATE 70’S
HAPPY 71ST BIRTHDAY ROBERT PLANT. PLANT WILL ALWAYS BE KNOWN AS
ONE OF THE GREATEST ROCK N ROLL FRONTMEN OF ALL TIME AS THE LEAD SINGER OF LED ZEPPELIN. FROM 1968 UNTIL THE DISBANDMENT OF THE GROUP IN 1980 WITH THE DEATH OF JOHN BONHAM, LED ZEPPELIN WERE ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL AND INFLUENTIAL ROCK BANDS IN HISTORY.
WITH LED ZEPPELIN PLANT IS THE EIGHTH BEST SELLING ARTIST OF ALL TIME WITH TOTAL ALBUM SALES AND DOWNLOADS
TOTALING OVER 200,459,000 COPIES.LED ZEPPELIN WAS SO SUCCESSFUL THAT THEY ACCOUNTED FOR ONE QUARTER OF ATLANTIC RECORDS PROFITS
KNOWN FOR HIS POWERFUL VOCAL RANGE
PLANT HAS NOW BEEN CRANKING IT OUT FOR OVER 50 YEARS, THE LAST 38 AS A SOLO ARTIST.
HE HAS WON 7 GRAMMY AWARDS , READERS OF HIT PARADER MAGAZINE VOTED PLANT THE GREATEST METAL SINGER OF ALL TIME, ROLLING STONE LISTED HIM AT 15 ON THEIR LIST OF THE TOP 100 SINGERS OF ALL TIME, AND
THE READERS OF THE MAGAZINE “CHEST-O-RAMA” DECIDED PLANT HAD THE BEST CHEST IN ROCK AND ROLL.
PLANT COMMENTED:
“I’m really greatly honoured although it’s hard for me to be eloquent on the subject of my chest.”
HERE’S SOLO ROBERT PLANT FROM THE ALBUM “ THE PRINCIPLE OF MOMENTS”.
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 20, 2019-TODAY DIMEBAG DARRELL WOULD HAVE BEEN FIFTY THREE YEARS OLD. THE PANTERA AND DAMAGEPLAN GUITARIST WAS KILLED WHEN A LUNATIC STORMED THE STAGE DURING A DAMAGEPLAN SHOW AT THE ALROSA VILLA CLUB IN COLUMBUS OHIO AND BEGAN FIRING SHOTS AT THE BAND AND THE CROWD. THREE OTHERS WERE KILLED BY THIS DICKHEAD BEFORE HE WAS SHOT BY THE FIRST RESPONDING OFFICER WHO TOOK HIM OUT WITH ONE SHOT.
DIMEBAG WAS LISTED BY GIBSON GUITARS AS THE FIFTH ON THEIR LIST OF “THE TOP TEN MOST INFLUENTIAL METAL GUITARISTS OF ALL TIME.”
DARRELL WAS BURIED IN A KISS KASKET ( GENE SIMMONS DONATED IT TO THE FAMILY) WITH EDDIE VAN HALEN’S BLACK AND YELLOW STRIPED GUITAR IN THE CASKET.
AFTER HIS BROTHER VINNIE’S DEATH IN 2018, HE WAS BURIED NEXT TO DARRELL, ALSO IN A KISS KASKET.
THIS IS VINTAGE DIMEBAG GIVING A BACKSTAGE GUITAR LESSON
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 20, 2019-PHIL LYNOTT WAS A FOUNDING MEMBER, THE LEAD SINGER , PRINCIPAL SONGWRITER, AND BASS PLAYER OF THIN LIZZY. TODAY WOULD HAVE BEEN HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY. LYNOTT DIED ON JANUARY 4TH 1986 OF HEART FAILURE AND PNEUMONIA AFTER BEING IN A COMA FOR EIGHT DAYS FOLLOWING A DRUG OVERDOSE.
THIS IS A GREAT VIDEO OF A THIN LIZZY TV APPEARANCE FROM THE LATE 70’S
