LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 8, 2019…HIS REAL NAME IS DAVE EVANS, BUT THE WORLD KNOWS HIM AS ‘THE EDGE’, THE LEAD GUITARIST, KEYBOARDIST, AND BACKING VOCALIST WITH U2. TODAY THE EDGE TURNS 57. AS A MEMBER OF U2 SINCE ITS INCEPTION, THE EDGE HAS WON 22 GRAMMY AWARDS AND HAS BEEN INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME. U2’S 360° TOUR OF 2009-2011 IS THE HIGHEST ATTENDED AND HIGHEST GROSSING CONCERT TOUR IN HISTORY.

LET’S CELEBRATE HIS BIRTHDAY WITH AN OUTSTANDING U2 JAM WITH BB KING

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 8, 2019…FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY THE PHOTO SESSION FOR THE COVER OF THE BEATLES 'ABBEY ROAD’ ALBUM TOOK PLACE ON THE CROSSING OUTSIDE THE ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS. PHOTOGRAPHER IAIN MCMILLAN BALANCED ON A STEP-LADDER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD TOOK 6 SHOTS OF JOHN, RINGO, GEORGE, AND PAUL WALKING ACROSS THE STREET WHILE A POLICEMAN HEAD UP TRAFFIC. IMMEDIATELY AFTER TAKING THE PHOTOS THE BAND RETURNED TO THE STUDIO AND FINISHED UP WORK ON ‘THE END’ ‘I WANT YOU (SHE’S SO HEAVY)’ AND ‘OH! DARLING’

HERE’S A TREAT. HERE’S A FULL VIDEO OF BEATLES ROOFTOP CONCERT FROM 1969

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 7, 2019…HAPPY 61ST BIRTHDAY TO BRUCE DICKINSON OF IRON MAIDEN. DICKINGSON IS NOT ONLY A SINGER AND SONGWRITER FOR ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL BANDS IN HEAVY METAL (IRON MAIDEN HAS SOLD OVER 100 MILLION ALBUMS WORLDWIDE), HE’S ALSO A MILITARY HISTORIAN, A TV PRESENTER, A FICTION AUTHOR, A WORLD-CLASS MEMBER OF THE BRITISH FENCING TEAM, AND A FIRST OFFICER FOR THE COMMERCIAL AIRLINE ASTRUES. WTF !! DOES THIS GUY EVER SLOW DOWN ? IN 2015 THE IRON MAIDEN SINGER’S LIFE HIT A ROADBLOCK WHEN HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER AFTER A GOLF BALL SIZED TUMOR DEVELOPED ON HIS TONGUE.

DICKINSON HAS MADE A FULL RECOVERY AND IS CURRENTLY ON TOUR.

IRON MAIDEN IS COMING TO THE BAY AREA NEXT MONTH, PLAYING AT THE ORACLE ARENA IN OAKLAND ON SEPTEMBER 10TH.

HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO OF ONE OF MY FAVORITE MAIDEN SONGS.

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 6, 2019…38 YEARS AGO STEVIE NICKS RELEASED THE ALBUM ‘BELLA DONNA.’ FAMOUS AS ONE OF THE STARS OF FLEETWOOD MAC, THIS SOLO DEBUT PROVED THAT NICKS HAD ENORMOUS APPEAL AS A SOLO ARTIST.

STEVIE NICKS WAS DATING RECORD PRODUCER JIMMY IOVINE WHEN SHE WAS MAKING THIS RECORD. ACCORDING TO STEVIE, HE DIDN’T THINK THE ALBUM HAD A HIT ! THAT’S WHY HE HAD NICKS RECORD ‘STOP DRAGGIN’ MY HEART AROUND’ WITH TOM PETTY (WHO HE COINCIDENTALLY ALSO PRODUCED). IOVINE COULDN’T HAVE BEEN MORE WRONG. IT TURNED OUT BELLA DONNA HAD 3 HITS. ‘STOP DRAGGIN’ MY HEART AROUND ‘LEATHER AND LACE’ (WITH DON HENLEY) AND THE BIGGEST SONG ‘EDGE OF SEVENTEEN.’

BELLA DONNA TO DATE HAS SOLD OVER 8 MILLION COPIES WORLDWIDE.

HERE’S THE ORIGINAL VIDEO FROM 1981 FOR WHAT HAS TURNED INTO STEVIE’S SIGNATURE SONG

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 5, 2019…TWO YEARS AGO BAY AREA’S GREEN DAY ROCKED THE OAKLAND COLISEUM. IT WAS PART OF THE GROUP’S REVOLUTION RADIO TOUR.

BABY HUEY, THE BAND’S BIGGEST STALKER, WAS AT THE SHOW AND TOOK NOTES FOR US. HERE WAS THE SETLIST FROM THE EVENING:

Unity-Taped intro

(Operation Ivy song)

Bohemian Rhapsody-Taped intro

(Queen song)

Blitzkrieg Bop-Taped intro

(Ramones song)

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly-Taped intro

(Ennio Morricone song)

Know Your Enemy

(Fan brought on stage to sing)

Bang Bang

Revolution Radio

Holiday

Letterbomb

Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Longview

(Fan rocked the third verse)

Youngblood

2000 Light Years Away

Hitchin' a Ride

When I Come Around

Welcome to Paradise

Minority

Are We the Waiting

St. Jimmy

Knowledge

(Operation Ivy cover) (Fan brought on stage to play… more )

Basket Case

She

King for a Day

(Sax solo with instrumental… more )

Shout / Always Look on the Bright Side of Life / (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction / Hey Jude

Still Breathing

Forever Now

Encore:

American Idiot

Jesus of Suburbia

Encore 2:

21 Guns

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

source-Baby Huey’s bedroom wall

HERE’S THE ENTIRE GREEN DAY SHOW

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 5, 2019…IT WAS 2009 AND AEROSMITH WAS TOURING AMERICA WITH ZZ TOP ON A GREAT DOUBLE BILL. ON AUGUST 5TH, THEY WERE THE HEADLINER’S IN STURGIS, SOUTH DAKOTA. IT WAS AT THIS GIG THAT 61 YEAR OLD STEVEN TYLER FELL FROM THE STAGE ONTO A COUPLE OF FANS. TYLER SUFFERED HEAD, NECK, AND SHOULDER INJURIES AND WAS AIRLIFTED TO A LOCAL HOSPITAL. ABOUT 30 MINUTES AFTER THE INCIDENT, JOE PERRY CAME OUT TO TELL THE CROWD THE REMAINDER OF THE SHOW WAS CANCELLED. 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)

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Bone Bash VII ½ archives

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 4, 2019…IT WAS AUGUST 4 2006 AND SAMMY HAGAR CAME TO THE RESCUE WITH BONE BASH VII ½ AT SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRETHE NIGHT BEFORE BONE BASH WAS TO TAKE PLACE, LYNYRD SKYNYRD’S JOHNNY VAN ZANT UNDERWENT AN EMERGENCY APPENDECTOMY AND BONE BASH VII WAS CANCELLED. IN STEPPED SAMMY HAGAR TO SAVE THE DAY ALONG WITH MICHAEL ANTHONY, THE WABOS, AND TESLA !

BONE BASH ARCHIVES

BIKINI FUN AT BONE BASH

WINNER OF THE BIKINI CONTEST

BONE BASH ARCHIVES

BONE BASH ARCHIVES

SAMMY DOPPELGANGER AT BONE BASH VII ½

ALL OF THE VIDEO FROM BONE BASH VII ½ IS WOBBLY BECAUSE IT SEEMS EVERYONE WAS DRUNK BY THE TIME SAMMY HIT THE STAGE, SO HERE’S SAMMY LIVE FROM CABO...IT WAS THE SAME VIBE !

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 3, 2019…HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO METALLICA'S JAMES HETFIELD. TODAY HE’S CELEBRATING HIS 56TH BIRTHDAY. HERE ARE SOME FACTOIDS ABOUT JAMES YOU MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE KNOWN:

-HIS MOTHER WAS A LIGHT OPERA SINGER, HIS FATHER A TRUCK DRIVER

-HETFIELD’S PARENTS DIVORCED WHEN HE WAS 13

-HIS PARENTS WERE VERY STRICT CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS, DISAPPROVING OF MEDICINE OR MEDICAL TREATMENT

-EVEN AS HIS MOTHER WAS DYING FROM CANCER MEDICINE WAS REJECTED

-THE UPBRINGING BECAME AN INSPIRATION FOR MANY OF JAMES’ LYRICS, MOST NOTABLY ‘DYERS EVE’ AND ‘THE GOD THAT FAILED.’

-AFTER HIS MOTHER’S DEATH HE WENT TO LIVE WITH HIS HALF BROTHER AT THE AGE OF 16.

-HE WAS 9 YEARS OLD WHEN HE TOOK UP THE PIANO

-HE STARTED PLAYING THE DRUMS AT THE AGE OF 12 WHEN HE STARTED PLAYING HIS HALF BROTHER DAVID’S SET.

-AT THE AGE OF 14 HE TOOK UP THE GUITAR

-HETFIELD IDENTIFIES AEROSMITH AS BEING HIS MAIN MUSICAL INFLUENCE, SAYING THEY ARE THE REASON HE WANTED TO PLAY THE GUITAR

-”GUITAR WORLD” MAGAZINE RANKED HETFIELD AND KIRK HAMMETT AT #2ON THEIR LIST OF “THE 100 GREATEST METAL GUITARISTS” POLL

-“ROLLING STONE” MAGAZINE HAS JAMES HETFIELD LISTED AT # 87 ON THEIR LIST OF “THE TOP 100 GUITARISTS OF ALL-TIME”

HERE’S METALLICA PERFORMING THE ENTIRE “DEATH MAGNETIC” ALBUM LIVE ON THE DEATH MAGNETIC TOUR.

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 3, 2019…IT WAS 1976 AND THE EAGLES ROCKED A “DAY ON THE GREEN.”

IT WAS A FANTASTIC YEAR FOR CONCERT GOERS IN 1976. THIS WAS “DAY ON THE GREEN” # 6 !!! BILL GRAHAM MANAGED THROW NINE “DAY ON THE GREEN” FESTIVALS THAT YEAR ! THE LINEUP FOR THIS CONCERT INCLUDED THE EAGLES, LINDA RONDSTADT, LOGGINS AND MESSINA, AND A BAND CALLED RENAISSANCE.

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HERE’S AN ENTIRE LINDA RONDSTADT CONCERT FROM 1976

AND MORE LINDA

LINDA RONDSTADT AT HER BEST (LISTEN TO HER INCREDIBLE VOICE AT THE END OF THIS SONG )

HERE ARE THE EAGLES FROM 1976

AND FROM 1977

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Josh Blue is performing this weekend at The Punch Line in San Francisco.

Friday, August 2nd at 7:30pm & 9:45pm

Saturday, August 3rd at 7:30pm & 9:45pm

For tickets and more info go to: www.punchlinecomedyclub.com

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