Look at the beaver mug Lamont got for Chasta while he was in Canada last week.

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 12, 2019-DAMN THIS IS A GREAT RECORD ! 28 YEARS AGO METALLICA RELEASED ‘THE BLACK ALBUM’. THIS IS THE ALBUM THAT CATAPULTED METALLICA INTO THE STRATOSPHERE OF SUPERSTARDOM. HERE ARE SOME FACTOIDS AND TIDBITS ABOUT ‘THE BLACK ALBUM’:

-‘ENTER SANDMAN’ WAS ORIGINALLY ABOUT CRIB DEATH

- THE LYRICS WERE SO OFF PUTTING THAT BOB ROCK AND LARS ASKED JAMES HETFIELD TO CHANGE SOME LINES, TO WHICH HE INITIALLY RESPONDED “F--- YOU!”

-‘NOTHING ELSE MATTERS’ WASN’T INTENDED TO BE A METALLICA SONG OR TO BE PLAYED FOR OTHER PEOPLE. JAMES WROTE IT FOR HIMSELF BOUT MISSING PEOPLE WHILE HE WAS TOURING.

-‘THE BLACK ALBUM’ WAS AN ATTEMPT TO WRITE SHORTER MORE STREAMLINED SONGS BECAUSE THE BAND FELT THAT THE SONGS ON ‘...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL’ WERE , TO QUOTE JAMES HETFIELD “ …And Justice For All album sounds horrible, awful, can't f***ing stand it"

-‘SAD BUT TRUE’ WAS WRITTEN IN A HIGHER KEY AND WASN’T AS NEARLY AS HEAVY SOUNDING. BOB ROCK HEARD THE RIFF AND FELT THE SONG WAS SUCH A GREAT RIFF HE CALLED IT “THE KASHMIR OF THE 90’S” BUT CONVINCED THE BAND TO TUNE IT DOWN TO A D WHICH MADE THE SONG INTENSE AND GAVE IT MORE BALLS.

-KIRK HAMMETT GOT THE GUITAR LICK FOR ‘ENTER SANDMAN’ AFTER LISTENING TO AN ICE-T ALBUM

-JAMES HETFIELD’S VOCALS ON ‘NOTHING ELSE MATTERS’ AND ‘THE UNFORGIVEN’ WERE INSPIRED BY CHRIS ISAAK

-LARS ULRICH, KIRK HAMMETT AND JASON NEWSTED WERE ALL GOING THROUGH MESSY DIVORCES THROUGH THE MAKING OF ‘THE BLACK ALBUM’

-TO DATE THE RECORD HAS SOLD OVER 45,000,000 COPIES WORLDWIDE.

HERE’S METALLICA FROM ‘THE BLACK ALBUM’

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 12, 2019-44 YEARS AGO BAD COMPANY HIT PAYDIRT WITH THE RELEASE OF ‘CAN’T GET ENOUGH’

THIS WAS THE FIRST SINGLE FROM BAD COMPANY FROM THEIR SELF TITLED DEBUT ALBUM. IT STILL TO THIS DAY REMAINS THE HIGHEST CHARTING SINGLE FROM THE BAND THAT IS SAYING SOMETHING BEING BAD COMPANY RACKED UP NINE TOP 40 SINGLES FROM 1974 TO 1992.

‘CAN’T GET ENOUGH’ FUELED THE DEBUT ALBUM TO # 1 AS IT WENT ON TO SELL OVER 5 MILLION COPIES.

THE SONG WAS WRITTEN BY GUITARIST MICK RALPHS WHEN HE WAS STILL WITH MOTT THE HOOPLE. BUT MOTT THE HOOPLE AND THEIR RECORD COMPANY BOTH REJECTED THE SONG. OOOPSY !!! WHEN HE BROUGHT THE SONG TO HIS NEW BAND BAD COMPANY, THEY WERE MORE THAN HAPPY TO RECORD IT.

HERE’S PAUL RODGERS AND BAD COMPANY WITH A GREAT LIVE VERSION OF ‘CAN’T GET ENOUGH’

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 11, 2019- TWENTY YEARS AGO KISS UNVEILED THEIR STAR ON HOLLYWOOD’S WALK OF FAME. IT WAS THE 2,325TH STAR ISSUED ON THE WALK. AS PART OF THE CEREMONY, IT WAS ALSO DECLARED “KISS DAY.” THE BAND HAD RELEASE OVER 30 ALBUMS AND SOLD OVER 80 MILLION RECORDS WORLDWIDE. THE EXACT ADDRESS OF THE KISS STAR IS 7080 HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD (ON MARSHFIELD WAY AS IT MERGES ONTO HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD)

HERE’S VIDEO OF THE EVENT

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES AUGUST 11, 2019- ONCE AGAIN, I LAMENT, REMEMBER WHEN THE OUTSIDE LANDS MUSIC FESTIVAL BROUGHT IN GREAT ROCK ACTS !??! IT WAS THE SECOND NIGHT AT THE 2012 OUTSIDE LANDS MUSIC FESTIVAL AND THE HEADLINER WAS METALLICA. THIS WAS THE MOTHERLODE OF CONCERTS. HOMETOWN BOS, ROCK AND ROLL BABY !!

THIS SHOW WAS SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BAND’S “FULL ARSENAL TOUR”.

THIS IS THE SETLIST FOR METALLICA AT OUTSIDE LANDS:

The Ecstasy of Gold

(Taped intro)

Hit the Lights

Master of Puppets

Fuel

Ride the Lightning

Fade to Black

The Memory Remains

Hell and Back

Sad but True

Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

Orion

One

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Blackened

Nothing Else Matters

Enter Sandman

Encore:

Creeping Death

Battery

Seek & Destroy

METALLICA @ OUTSIDE LANDS 2012-ONE

NOTHING ELSE MATTERS

photo thanks-Alberto Cabello

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 10, 2019- IT WAS 2012 AND THE FOO FIGHTERS TOOK THE STAGE FOR THE FIRST NIGHT OF THE OUTSIDE LANDS MUSIC FESTIVAL. IT WAS A STOP IN THE GROUP’S “WASTING LIGHT TOUR” THAT SAW THE FOOS PLAY 99 SHOWS AROUND THE WORLD IN 10 DIFFERENT LEGS.

FIFTY ONE OF THE CONCERTS ON “THE WASTING LIGHT TOUR” WERE IN NORTH AMERICA.

HERE WAS THEIR SETLIST AT OUTSIDE LANDS:

White Limo

All My Life

Rope

The Pretender

My Hero

Learn to Fly

New Way Home

Walk

These Days

Aurora

Best of You

Everlong

HERE’S VIDEO OF THE FOOS AT OUTSIDE LANDS

AS AN ADDED BONUS, HERE’S A FULL CONCERT WITH PROFESSIONAL CAMERA WORK( I WAS GETTING TIRED OF WATCHING THE BACK OF THAT GUYS HEAD IN THE LAST VIDEO )!

photo thanks-Raph_PH

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES AUGUST 10, 2019-HAPPY 72ND BIRTHDAY TO IAN ANDERSON. ANDERSON IS KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AS THE FLUTE PLAYER, THE LEAD VOCALIST, AND THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THE BAND JETHRO TULL. ANDERSON AND JETHRO TULL HAVE RELEASE 30 STUDIO ALBUMS AND HAVE SOLD MORE THAN 60 MILLION COPIES SINCE THE BAND’S INCEPTION IN 1968. OVER THAT TIME, HE’S PLAYED OVER 3,000 CONCERTS IN OVER 40 COUNTRIES OVER 5 DECADES.

HERE’S IAN, WIELDING HIS FLUTE WITH A ROUSING PERFORMANCE OF ‘LOCOMOTIVE BREATH’

photo thanks-Nina

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 9, 2019- THREE YEARS AGO GUNS N’ ROSES: NOT IN THIS LIFETIME TOUR CAME TO SAN FRANCISCO’S AT&T PARK. NO ONE BELIEVED THAT THE CORE OF THE GROUP WOULD EVER COME TOGETHER ( INCLUDING MEMBERS OF THE BAND, THUS THE NAME “NOT IN THIS LIFETIME TOUR”).

IT MARKED THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE “USE YOUR ILLUSION TOUR” IN 1993 THAT AXL ROSE, DUFF MCKAGAN AND SLASH HAVE ALL BEEN ON THE SAME STAGE. THE TOUR IS RANKED AS THE SECOND HIGHEST RANKING TOUR OF ALL-TIME IN TERMS OF GROSS REVENUE, RAKING IN MORE THAN $563 MILLION DOLLARS.

HERE’S THE SETLIST FROM THE SHOW GUNS N’ ROSES PLAYED IN SAN FRANCISCO:

Setlist

Looney Tunes

(Taped intro)

The Equalizer

It's So Easy

Mr. Brownstone

Chinese Democracy

Welcome to the Jungle

Double Talkin' Jive

Estranged

Live and Let Die

Rocket Queen

You Could Be Mine

This I Love

Civil War

Coma

Speak Softly Love (Love Theme From The Godfather)

Sweet Child O' Mine

Better

Out Ta Get Me

Wish You Were Here

November Rain

Knockin' on Heaven's Door

Nightrain

Encore:

Patience

The Seeker

Paradise City

THIS IS GREAT VIDEO OF THE TOUR

photo thanks-superstar photographer Jim Sheehan https://www.facebook.com/jimmyosheehan/

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 9, 2019-TODAY MARKS THE 24 YEARS SINCE THE DEATH OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD’S JERRY GARCIA.

HERE ARE SOME THINGS YOU MIGHT OR MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT JERRY GARCIA:

-HIS FULL NAME IS JEROME JOHN GARCIA

-HE WAS NAMED AFTER BROADWAY COMPOSER JEROME KERN (WHO WROTE ‘THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT’ AND ‘OLD MAN RIVER’)

-GARCIA DIED ON AUGUST 9,1995 FROM A “DRUG-RELATED HEART ATTACK.”

-GARCIA WAS VIEWED BY MANY AS THE LEADER OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD ALTHOUGH HE DISAVOWED THE ROLE

- “ROLLING STONE” MAGAZINE RANKED HIM AS 13TH ON THEIR STORY OF THE “100 GREATEST GUITARISTS OF ALL TIME.”

-JERRY’S FIRST LOVE WAS COUNTRY MUSIC

-HIS FIRST RECORD WAS THE HANK WILLIAMS 45 CALLED ‘THE LOVE BUG ITCH’

-HIS FIRST PAYING GIG PAID HIM 5 DOLLARS

-HE WAS GOING TO FRAME THE FIRST CHECK, BUT CASHED IT A FEW DAYS LATER TO BUY CIGARETTES.

-AFTER SEEING THE BEATLES MOVIE “A HARD DAY'S NIGHT” GARCIA, BOB WEIR, AND ROB MCKERNAN FORMED A BAND CALLED THE WARLOCKS.

- THEY CHANGED THE NAME OF THE BAND FROM THE WARLOCKS TO THE “GRATEFUL DEAD”

-GARCIA ONCE SHARED A STORY ON HOW THEY CAME UP WITH THE NAME

THE “GRATEFUL DEAD”:

"We’d abandoned the Warlocks; it didn’t work anymore. One day we were all over at Phil [Lesh]’s house smoking DMT. He had a big Oxford dictionary, I opened it, and there was ‘grateful dead,’ those words juxtaposed. It was one of those moments, you know, like everything else on the page went blank, diffuse, just sorta oozed away, and there was GRATEFUL DEAD, big black letters edged all around in gold, man, blasting out at me, such a stunning combination. So I said, ‘How about Grateful Dead?’ and that was it.”

-“TOUCH OF GREY” WAS THE BAND’S ONLY TOP 10 HIT.

-THERE’S A SPECIES OF COCKROACH NAMED AFTER HIM. A DEAD LOVING TAXONOMIST DISCOVERED A SPECIES OF COCKROACH AND NAMED IT “CRYPTOCERCUS GARCIAI”

-TWO ASTRONOMERS NAMED AN ASTEROID AFTER HIM IN 1995

IN TRIBUTE, HERE’S GARCIA WITH THE DEAD

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 9, 2019-REMEMBER WHEN THE OUTSIDE LANDS MUSIC FESTIVAL BROUGHT IN GREAT ROCK ACTS !??! THERE WERE A COUPLE OF YEARS IN A ROW WHERE THE ORGANIZERS OF THE OUTSIDE LANDS MUSIC FESTIVAL ACTUALLY BOOKED SOME BIG NAME ROCKERS AS PART OF THE LINE-UP. THAT WAS DEFINITELY THE CASE 5 YEARS AGO WHEN TOM PETTY STOLE THE SHOW AS THE HEADLINER IN 2014.

HERE WAS PETTY’S SETLIST:

So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star

Mary Jane's Last Dance

American Dream Plan B

Into the Great Wide Open

Forgotten Man

I Won't Back Down

Free Fallin'

Spike

Tweeter and the Monkey Man

U Get Me High

Rebels

Friend of the Devil

Learning to Fly

Shadow People

I Should Have Known It

Refugee

Runnin' Down a Dream

Encore:

You Wreck Me

American Girl

I’VE GOT TO GIVE THIS PERSON CREDIT, BECAUSE THIS IS GREAT FOOTAGE OF TOM PETTY PERFORMING AT OUTSIDE LANDS. ENJOY

THIS IS ALSO GREAT FOOTAGE

photo thanks- Amber