Bobby Slayton is performing at the Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley on Tuesday, August 20th at 8pm.
For tickets and more info go to: www.throckmortontheatre.org
Listen to Lamont and Tonelli’s interview with Bobby Slayton below.
Follow Bobby Slayton here.
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 19, 2019-FIFTY FIVE YEARS AGO THE BEATLES KICKED OFF THEIR NRT AMERICAN TOUR AT THE COW PALACE IN DALY CITY. THEY MANAGED TO CRAM 17,130 PEOPLE INTO THE COW PALACE FOR THE CONCERT FEATURING 12 SONGS. HERE WAS THE SETLIST AT THE SHOW:
Twist and Shout
You Can’t Do That
All My Loving
She Loves You
Things We Said Today
Roll Over Beethoven
Can’t Buy Me Love
If I Fell
I Want to Hold Your Hand
Boys
A Hard Day’s Night
Long Tall Sally
AND WE ACTUALLY HAVE VIDEO FROM THE CONCERT AT THE COW PALACE
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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 19, 2019-ON THIS DATE IN 1980 AC/DC RELEASED ‘YOU SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG.’
BRIAN JOHNSON SAID THIS SONG IS THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE BAND’S CATALOGUE BECAUSE:
“It was the first song I wrote with the guys, and it has a special groovy beat that won’t let you go. It has such a special place in my heart, and I still love to sing it onstage. To me, it might be one of the best rock songs ever written – if I do say so myself.”
BTW IF YOU’RE A COLLECTOR OF VINYL THE EARLY PRESSINGS OF THE SINGLE ARE WORTH A FORTUNE BECAUSE THEY INSTEAD PLAY THE TRACK ‘SHAKE A LEG.’
GOING BACK TO 1980, HERE’S AC/DC
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 19, 2019- SO TWO WEEKS PRIOR TO BONE BASH X AEROSMITH WAS PLAYING STURGIS, SOUTH DAKOTA. IT WAS AT THIS GIG THAT SIXTY ONE YEAR OLD STEVEN TYLER FELL FROM THE STAGE. TYLER SUFFERED HEAD, NECK, AND SHOULDER INJURIES AND WAS AIRLIFTED TO A LOCAL HOSPITAL.
TYLER’S INJURY HAD A RIPPLE EFFECT ON BONE LISTENERS. AEROSMITH DAYS LATER WERE FORCED TO CANCEL THE REST OF THE TOUR. UNFORTUNATELY AEROSMITH WAS SCHEDULED TO PLAY BONE BASH X AT THE CONCORD PAVILLION ON AUGUST 19TH, WHICH MEANT ANOTHER BONE BASH HAD TO BE CANCELLED.
HERE’S TYLER’S FALL OFF THE STAGE (GRAINY VIDEO)
photo thanks-Daigo Oliva
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 18, 2019- TWENTY ONE YEARS AGO KID ROCK RELEASED ONE OF MY FAVORITE ALBUMS. THIS WAS KID’S FOURTH ALBUM, AND IT WAS GROUNDBREAKING. HIS GOAL IN MAKING THIS RECORD WAS TO MAKE A “REDNECK, SHIT-KICKING ROCK ‘N’ ROLL RAP RECORD.”
‘DEVIL WITHOUT A CAUSE’ WAS A HUMONGOUS ALBUM. COMMERCIALLY IT SOLD OVER 14 MILLION COPIES AND WAS DRIVEN BY TWO HUGE SINGLES
‘BAWITDABA’ AND ‘COWBOY.’
THIS IS A FREAKIN’ GREAT SONG
AND HERE’S THE ENHANCED VIDEO FOR COWBOY
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 18, 2019-TWENTY TWO YEARS AGO THE FOO FIGHTERS RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘EVERLONG.’
ACCORDING TO DAVE GROHL IN AN INTERVIEW WITH “MOJO” MAGAZINE”
HE WROTE THIS SONG DURING ONE OF THE LOWEST POINTS IN HIS LIFE.
GROHL WAS SLEEPING USING A SLEEPING BAG AND SLEEPING ON A FRIEND’S FLOOR AFTER HAVING JUST GONE THROUGH A DIVORCE. HE WAS BASICALLY HOMELESS, AND HAD NO ACCESS TO HIS BANK ACCOUNT.
IN ADDITION, HIS DRUMMER WILLIAM GOLDSMITH, AND GUITARIST PAT SMEAR, WERE ON THE VERGE OF QUITTING THE FOO FIGHTERS.
WITH ALL THIS GOING ON AROUND HIM, HE WROTE THIS LOVE SONG IN LESS THAN AN HOUR.
HERE’S A GREAT LIVE PERFORMANCE OF ‘EVERLONG’ ON THE LAST ‘LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN’
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 18, 2019-THIRTY THREE YEARS AGO BON JOVI RELEASED THE MEGA ALBUM ‘SLIPPERY WHEN WET.’
HERE ARE SOME FUN FACTS:
-THE COVER ART OF THE ALBUM WAS A GARBAGE BAG WITH WATER SPLASHED ON IT. JON BON JOVI SAID THIS WAS THE COVER AFTER HE SAW THE ORIGINAL COVER THE RECORD COMPANY SELECTED WITH A BIG PINK BORDER AROUND IT
-THIS WAS THE ORIGINAL COVER
-SLIPPERY WHEN WET HAS SOLD OVER 28,000,000 COPIES
-THE ALBUM IS THE 33RD HIGHEST SELLING ALBUM OF ALL-TIME
-SLIPPERY WHEN WET SPENT 8 WEEKS AT # 1 ON THE ALBUM CHARTS
-IT WAS THE TOP SELLING ALBUM OF 1987
-THE SONGS FOR THE ALBUM WERE WRITTEN BY JON BON JOVI, RICHIE SAMBORA AND DESMOND CHILD IN RICHIE SAMBORA’S MOTHER’S BASEMENT.
-THE ALBUM PRODUCED 4 SINGLES ‘YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME’ ‘LIVIN’ ON A PRAYER’ ‘WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE’ AND ‘NEVER SAY GOODBYE’
-THE BAND CHOSE THE ALBUM NAME ‘SLIPPERY WHEN WET’ AFTER A VISIT TO A STRIP BAR IN VANCOUVER
-THIS RECORD WAS THE FIRST ROCK ALBUM TO FEATURE 3 HITS N THE TOP 10
– JON BON JOVI DIDN’T WANT TO INCLUDE ‘LIVIN’ ON A PRAYER’ ON THE RECORD BECAUSE HE DIDN’T THINK IT WAS A STRONG ENOUGH SONG. RICHIE SAMBORA SAID IT WOULD BE A HIT. THEY COMPROMISED AND RECORDED IT OVER, USING THE NEW VERSION ON THE ALBUM
HERE’S BON JOVI’S OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR “YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME”.
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 18, 2019-IT WAS ON THIS DATE IN 1987 THE SONG ‘HANGMAN JURY’ WAS RELEASED AS A SINGLE FROM AEROSMITH’S ALBUM ‘PERMANENT VACATION.’
THE SONG IS ACTUALLY BASED ON AN OLD BLUES SONG BY LEADBELLY. IT CONTAINS SOME OF THE SAME VERSES. IN ‘HANGMAN JURY’ A MAN’S WIFE GETS MAD AT HIM BECAUSE HE’S NOT MAKING ENOUGH MONEY, SO SHE DECIDES TO EITHER CHEAT ON HIM AND PROSTITUTE HERSELF. HIS RESPONSE IS TO KILL HER, BUT IT RESULTS IN A DEATH SENTENCE BY A HANGMAN JURY.
HERE’S A GREAT LIVE VERSION FROM A CONCERT IN 1988
photo thanks-Nat Ch Villa
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 17, 2019- THIS SONG WAS ORIGINALLY A HIT SONG FOR COUNTRY SINGER BILLY JOE ROYAL IN 1967. A YEAR LATER DEEP PURPLE RELEASED A BALLSY, ROCK VERSION AND IT PROVED TO BE THE GROUPS FIRST TOP TEN HIT. IN 2009 DEEP PURPLE’S KEYBOARD EXTRAORDINAIRE JON LORD TOLD “MOJO” MAGAZINE:
“Initially we thought it’s a bit too disco, or whatever the word was then.
But Ritchie (Blackmore) said it would work if we toughened it up a bit.”
HERE’S THE ORIGINAL VIDEO FOR ‘HUSH’ RELEASED BY DEEP PURPLE IN 1968
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 17, 2019-30 YEARS AGO GUNS N’ ROSES RELEASED ‘SWEET CHILD O’ MINE.’
THIS IS THE SONG THAT BROKE THE BAND. IT WAS RELEASED AS A SINGLE 1 YEAR AFTER THE ALBUM DEBUTED AND DROVE ALBUM SALES INTO THE STRATOSPHERE. THE SONG STARTED DURING A JAM SESSION AFTER SLASH JOKINGLY PLAYED A CIRCUS MELODY AND WAS CLOWNING STEVEN ADLER WHILE PLAYING. IZZY STRADLIN HAD HIM PLAY THE RIFF AGAIN WHILE DUFF ADDED A BASS LINE AND ADLER ADDED A BEAT. MEANWHILE, AXL ROSE WAS UPSTAIRS LISTENING TO THE JAM SESSION, AND HE WROTE SOME LYRICS.
WHEN THEY ALL PLAYED IT TOGETHER, ROSE WONDERED “WHERE DO WE GO? WHERE DO WE GO NOW?” THE BAND LOVED IT AND TOLD HIM HE HAD TO MAKE THAT PART OF THE SONG.
WITH STREAMING, DOWNLOADS, AND SALES ‘SWEET CHILD O’ MINE’ HAS SOLD OVER 18 MILLION COPIES.
HERE’S THE OFFICIAL ALTERNATE VIDEO VERSION
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