LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 1, 2019…HEY DEADHEADS, TODAY JERRY GARCIA WOULD HAVE BEEN 77 YEARS OLD.

THE SINGER, SONGWRITER AND GUITARIST WAS BEST KNOWN AS THE LEAD GUITARIST AND AS A VOCALIST WITH THE GRATEFUL DEAD.

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 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.”

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

-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

HERE’S A FULL DEAD CONCERT FROM 1983. ENJOY

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 1, 2019…HAPPY 60TH BIRTHDAY TO DEF LEPPARD’S LEAD SINGER JOE ELLIOTT

HERE ARE SOME QUICK NOTES ON JOE ELLIOTT:

-THE LAST JOB HE HAD BEFORE HE HIT IT BIG WITH DEF LEPPARD WAS IN A STEEL FACTORY FOR 8 POUNDS(10 BUCKS) A WEEK

-HE PLAYS DRUMS, GUITAR, AND KEYBOARD

-HE SANG FOR A DAVID BOWIE COVER BAND CALLED “CYBERNAUTS” AND MOTT THE HOOPLE COVER BAND CALLED “DOWN ‘N’ OUTS”

-RICK SAVAGE HIRED JOE ELLIOT TO SING IN HIS BAND WITHOUT HEARING HIM SING A NOTE

-HE MADE UP THE NAME “DEAF LEOPARD” WHICH WAS LATER CHANGED TO DEF LEPPARD

-IN HIS WILL HE PICKED SONGS HE WANTS PLAYED AT HIS FUNERAL. THEY ARE ‘ANTHEM’ BY THE SENSATIONAL ALEX HARVEY BAND, ‘ALL THE YOUNG DUDES’ AND ‘REST IN PEACE’ BOTH BY MOTT THE HOOPLE

-HE FORMED DEF LEPPARD IN 1977

-PYROMANIA SOLD OVER 12 MILLION COPIES BUT THE BAND HAD A 7 YEAR DEBT WITH THE RECORD COMPANY WHICH TOOK AWAY ALL THE MONEY FROM SALES OF THE RECORD.

-HE DIDN’T START MAKING MONEY WITH DEF LEPPARD UNTIL AFTER THE ‘HYSTERIA’ ALBUM IN 1983

-HE ONCE INVESTED IN A SPORTS BAR IN SHEFFIELD. IT WAS A MONEY PIT AND HE LOST 100,000 POUNDS ( APPROXIMATELY $125,000)

-HE HAS A NET WORTH OF $70 MILLION DOLLARS

NOTHING LIKE EARLY DEF LEPPARD

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 31, 2019…LET HISTORY SHOW THIS WAS THE DAY WHEN ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE FOR THE EAGLES. ON THIS DAY IN 1980 THE EAGLES SPLIT UP AFTER A FIGHT ON STAGE BETWEEN DON FELDER AND GLENN FREY. THEY SPENT THE ENTIRE NIGHT TELLING EACH OTHER ABOUT THE BEATING EACH OF THEM PLANNED FOR THE OTHER PERSON BACKSTAGE. AFTER THE SHOW, THE BAND BROKE UP, BUT THEY STILL HAD A COMMITMENT TO THE RECORD COMPANY TO MAKE A LIVE RECORD FROM THE TOUR.AS A RESULT, THE ALBUM WAS MIXED ON OPPOSITE COASTS. THE BAND WORKED ON THEIR PARTS IN MIAMI, GLENN FREY LEFT THE GROUP AND STAYED IN L.A.

GLENN FREY REFUSED TO TALK TO THE OTHER MEMBERS, AND THE THREE PART HARMONIES FOR THE RECORD WERE MIXED BY SENDING THE AUDIO VIA FEDEX. THE LIVE ALBUM’S LINER NOTES SAID “THANK YOU AND GOOD NIGHT.”

HERE’S A GREAT ARTICLE ABOUT THE FIGHT BETWEEN GLENN FREY AND DON FELDER

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HERE’S A TAKE FROM BOTH SIDES ON THE BAD FEELINGS BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM

GLENN FREY (AT THE 9 MINUTE MARK)

AND NOW DON FELDER’S TAKE ON THE SITUATION

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 31, 2019…HOW’S THIS FOR A GREAT BILL -TWELVE GREAT BANDS AT SHORELINE WITH FULL SETS FROM ALL THE GROUPS, INCLUDING THE BLUES TRAVELLERS , SHERYL CROW, BIG HEAD TODD AND THE MONSTERS,THE BLACK CROWES AND THE ALLMAN BROTHERS. IT WAS PART OF THE H.O.R.D.E. FESTIVAL

HERE ARE THE SETLISTS FROM THE BLACK CROWES AND ALLMAN BROTHERS:

THE BLACK CROWES

Sting Me

Thorn's Progress Jam

Thorn in My Pride

Gone

Sometimes Salvation

Wiser Time

Sister Luck

High Head Blues

A Conspiracy

Jealous Again

Remedy

FROM LATER ON IN THE TOUR, THEY STOPPED BY THE LETTERMAN SHOW AND THIS IS TRULY A ONCE IN A LIFETIME VERSION OF THE GROUP COVERING THE JOE COCKER CLASSIC “FEELIN’ ALRIGHT”

THE ALLMAN BROTHERS

Set I

Sailin' 'Cross the Devil's Sea

Statesboro Blues

Blue Sky

The Same Thing

Southbound

(with Sheryl Crow)

Soulshine

Seven Turns

Midnight Rider

(with Sheryl Crow)

Jessica

Mountain Jam

Jessica

Set II

No One to Run With

Back Where It All Begins

In Memory of Elizabeth Reed

One Way Out

Whipping Post

TWO WEEKS AFTER THIS SHOW THE ALLMAN BROTHERS PLAYED WOODSTOCK. HERE’S A GREAT VERSION OF ‘WHIPPING POST’

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 30, 2019…TWENTY THREE YEARS AGO ALICE IN CHAINS RELEASED THE LIVE ALBUM ‘UNPLUGGED.’ HERE ARE SOME QUICK TIDBITS CONCERNING ‘UNPLUGGED’:

-THE CONCERT WAS RECORDED ON APRIL 10,1996, AND IT AIRED ON MTV ON MAY 28,1996

-THIS MARKED THE FIRST CONCERT FOR ALICE IN CHAINS IN TWO AND A HALF YEARS

-THIS ALBUM DEBUTED AT #3 ON THE BILLBOARD CHARTS, AND WAS ACCOMPANIED BY A HOME VIDEO RELEASE

-THIS SHOW MARKED THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF SECOND GUITARIST SCOTT OLSEN

-JERRY CANTRELL PLAYED THE SHOW EXTREMELY SICK WITH FOOD POISONING, AFTER EATING A BAD HOT DOG EARLIER IN THE DAY

-THIS PERFORMANCE WAS ONE OF THE LAST PERFORMANCES WITH SINGER LAYNE STALEY. THE BAND DID 4 MORE SHOWS WARMING UP FOR KISS BEFORE STALEY WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL AND THE BAND HAD TO TAKE ANOTHER HIATUS

-MIKE INEZ'S BASS HAD THE PHRASE “FRIENDS DON’T LET FRIENDS GET HAIRCUTS…” WRITTEN ON IT, WHICH WAS A MESSAGE TO METALLICA SITTING IN THE AUDIENCE. THEY RECENTLY HAD THEIR HAIR CUT SHORT

THIS IS ALICE IN CHAINS UNPLUGGED, WITH A GREAT VERSION OF ‘ROOSTER’

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 30, 2019…JULY 30 1972 MARKED THE AMERICAN RELEASE OF ‘30 DAYS IN THE HOLE’

THE SONG WAS WRITTEN BY HUMBLE PIE LEAD SINGER STEVE MARRIOTT. THE TRACK IS ABOUT GETTING BUSTED FOR DRUGS AND GETTING SENT TO JAIL. MARRIOTT GOT THE IDEA AFTER PLAYING A SHOW IN KENTUCKY, WHERE HE LEARNED THAT GETTING CAUGHT WITH DRUGS EARNED YOU 30 DAYS IN JAIL. HE WAS THINKING OF A FRINED THAT WAS SENT TO JAIL FOR HAVING A JOINT.

MARRIOTT WAS MAKING THE POINT THAT DRUGS WERE PART OF CULTURE( JUST AS ALCOHOL WAS A GENERATION BEFORE) AND THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH POT. THIS SONG IS ONE OF THE EARLY PROPONENTS FOR LEGALIZATION!!

THERE ARE SEVERAL DRUG AND ALCOHOL REFERENCES IN THE SONG.

“RED LEBANESE” AND “BLACK NAPOLESE” ARE FORMS OF HASH, AND OF COURSE “NEWCASTLE BROWN” IS AN ALE.

HERE’S A COLLAGE VIDEO OF HUMBLE PIE WITH THE ALBUM VERSION OF ‘30 DAYS IN THE HOLE’

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 30, 2019…36 YEARS AGO TODAY MARKED THE FIRST DAY ON THE GREEN OF 1983. “NUMBER #1” AS IT IS REFERRED TO FEATURED NIGHTRANGER ( THEY TOOK THE PLACE OF GARY MOORE), BRYAN ADAMS, TRIUMPH, EDDIE MONEY, AND JOURNEY.

HERE ARE THE AVAILABLE SETLISTS OF THE BANDS FROM THAT GREAT AFTERNOON IN OAKLAND:

NIGHT RANGER

Play Rough

Penny

At Night She Sleeps

Night Ranger

Sister Christian

Don’t Tell Me You Love Me

THIS IS CONCERT FOOTAGE FROM NIGHT RANGER FROM 1983

BRYAN ADAMS

The Only One

Don’t Leave Me Lonely

Cuts Like A Knife

Lonely Nights

This Time

Take Me back

Fits Ya Good

I’m Ready

THIS WAS PART OF THE ‘CUTS LIKE A KNIFE’ TOUR FOR BRYAN ADAMS. HERE’S A FULL SHOW FROM THE SAME TOUR

EDDIE MONEY

Two Tickets To Paradise

Shakin’

The Big Crash

Think I’m In Love

Baby Hold On

I THOUGHT WE’D SHOW THE MONEY-MAN SOME LOVE, WITH RARE FOOTAGE OF EDDIE MONEY PLAYING AT SF STATE IN 1975

TRIUMPH

Too Much Thinking

Magic power

Never Surrender

Allied Forces

Lay It On The Line

Rock And Roll Machine

Fight The Good Fight

AND HERE’S TRIUMPH AND A VIDEO FROM MTV WHEN THEY ACTUALLY PLAYED MUSIC VIDEOS !

JOURNEY

Chain Reaction

Wheel In The Sky

Line Of Fire

Send Her My Love

Still They Ride

Open Arms

No More Lies

Back Talk

Edge Of The Blade

Rubicon

Escape

After The Fall

Faithfully

Who’s Crying Now

Don’t Stop Believin’

Stone In Love

Keep on Runnin’

Separate ways

Lovin’ Touchin’ Squeezin’

THIS WAS PART OF THE FRONTIERS TOUR FOR JOURNEY.

THIS IS A FANTASTIC DOCUMENTARY ON THE BAND HIGHLIGHTING THAT TOUR

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 29, 2019…HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO GEDDY LEE. TODAY HE IS OLD ENOUGH TO DRAW A CANADA PENSION CHECK. HE’S 66 !

GEDDY IS THE LEAD VOCALIST, BASS PLAYER, AND KEYBOARDIST FOR THE SUPERGROUP RUSH. THE BAND RECENTLY WRAPPED UP THEIR FAREWELL TOUR AND GEDDY SAID IN AN INTERVIEW ON “TRUNK NATION” HE’S AT PEACE ON THE WAY RUSH ENDED. ACCORDING TO GEDDY NEIL PEART RETIRED AFTER THE GROUP’S LAST SHOW ON AUG 1, 2015:

“He hasn't just retired from Rush, he's retired from drumming. He's not drumming anymore, and he's living his life. Which is fine. Alex and I are cool with it. We're all still total pals. In fact, Alex and I were there just a few weeks ago visiting him. … And, of course, Alex lives very near to me, so we're constantly going out to dinner, 'cause he loves to drink everything in my wine cellar. We're still pals and we all talk, but that period of our life is done.”

HAPPY 66TH BIRTHDAY GEDDY, YOU AND THE BOYS ENJOY RETIREMENT !

HERE’S GEDDY AT HIS BEST WITH RUSH

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 29, 2019…IT WAS 53 YEARS AGO TODAY THAT “DATEBOOK” PUBLISHED MAUREEN CLEAVE’S INTERVIEW WITH JOHN LENNON WHERE HE REVEALED:

“We're more popular than Jesus now. I don't know which will go first – rock & roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

THIS ONE STATEMENT ALONE SET OFF CHRISTIANS WHO REACTED WITH OUTRAGE, ORGANIZING “BEATLE BONFIRES” BURNING THE GROUP’S RECORDS AND ANYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH THE BAND.

HERE WAS AN INTERVIEW THAT WAS DONE LATER CONCERNING HIS QUOTE

HERE’S A NUTCASE PROTESTING ! WTF WAS WRONG WITH SOCIETY THAT THIS WAS A GROUP OR A REPRESENTATIVE ORGANIZATION TO PUT ON THE NEWS AS A COUNTER OPINION !? THE HYPOCRISY THAT PEOPLE WERE OFFENDED BY LENNON’S COMMENTS AND PROTESTED THE BEATLES, AND THERE WAS NO OUTRAGE THAT THIS LUNATIC WAS ON THE NEWS AND THERE WAS NO BACKLASH TO THIS BIGOT ON THE NEWS BLOWS MY MIND !!

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