LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 28, 2019…LYNYRD SKYNYRD AND TED NUGENT ROCKED THE SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE ON THIS DAY IN 1994. FOR SKYNYRD, IT WAS PART OF OF THEIR “ENDANGERED SPECIES” TOUR. FOR NUGENT, HE WAS COMING OFF OF THE DAMN YANKEES TOUR AND EMBARKED ON A NORTH AMERICAN TOUR OF HIS OWN.

HERE ARE THE SETLISTS OF BOTH NUGENT AND SKYNYRD:

TED NUGENT

Intro (Taped)

Stormtroopin'

Wang Dang Sweet Poontang

Free-For-All

Snakeskin Cowboys

Just What the Doctor Ordered

Don't Tread on Me

Shapes of Things

Fred Bear

Cat Scratch Fever

Stranglehold

The Great White Buffalo

LYNYRD SKYNYRD

Down South Jukin'

Saturday Night Special

Heartbreak Hotel

Things Goin' On

The Last Rebel

Whiskey Rock-a-Roller

I Know a Little

That Smell

Comin' Home

The Ballad of Curtis Loew

You Got That Right

What's Your Name

Simple Man

Gimme Three Steps

Sweet Home Alabama

Free Bird

HERE’S THE NUGE IN CONCERT

AND HERE’S A FULL CONCERT FROM SKYNYRD ON THE 1994 TOUR

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 28, 2019…RICHARD WRIGHT, THE ORIGINAL KEYBOARDIST FOR PINK FLOYD, WOULD HAVE BEEN 76 TODAY. WRIGHT WAS A MASTER ON THE KEYBOARD AND A GREAT VOCALIST. HE PERFORMED ON ALL BUT ONE OF PINK FLOYD’S ALBUMS AND WAS PART OF ALL OF HEIR TOURS. HE WAS AN OFTEN OVERLOOKED MEMBER OF PINK FLOYD AND SUPPLIED VOCALS AND SOMETIMES LEAD VOCALS ON TRACKS LIKE ‘TIME’ AND ‘REMEMBER A DAY.’

WRIGHT DIED ON SEPTEMBER 15TH, 2008 AT THE AGE OF 65 FROM CANCER.

WRIGHT’S DEATH BROUGHT PINK FLOYD TO A FORMAL END, WITH DAVID GILMOUR STATING “IT WOULD BE WRONG TO RESUME TOURING WITHOUT HIM.”

HERE’S THE LAST TIME THEY ALL PLAYED TOGETHER. IT WAS THE LIVE 8 IN LONDON SHOW 2005

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 28, 2019…FORTY NINE YEARS AGO THE KINKS RELEASE THE SONG ‘LOLA’. THE SONG IS ABOUT A GUY WHO MEETS A GIRL IN A CLUB WHO TAKES THE GUY HOME AND ROCKS HIS WORLD. THE TWIST COMES WHEN WE FIND OUT THAT LOLA IS A MAN. RAY DAVIES CLAIMS THAT THE INCIDENT WAS INSPIRED BY A TRUE SITUATION EXPERIENCED BY THE BAND’S MANAGER. HOWEVER, THERE ARE CONFLICTING REPORTS OFFERED UP BY MEMBERS OF THE BAND AND THEN RAY DAVIES HIMSELF. DAVIES REVEALED IN AN INTERVIEW TO Q MAGAZINE IN 2016 THAT:

"The song came out of an experience in a club in Paris. I was dancing with this beautiful blonde, then we went out into the daylight and I saw her stubble. So I drew on that but colored it in, made it more interesting lyrically."

THERE WAS ALSO SPECULATION FUELED BY A 2004 ARTICLE IN ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE, THAT THIS SONG WAS ACTUALLY INSPIRED BY BY THE FAMOUS ACTRESS CANDY DARLING, WHO KINKS LEAD SINGER RAY DAVIES ALLEGEDLY DATED FOR A BRIEF PERIOD IN TIME . CANDY REALLY MADE A NAME FOR HERSELF.

SHE WAS ALSO MENTIONED IN LOU REED’S ‘WALK ON THE WILD SIDE’ ("Candy came from out on the island, in the backroom she was everybody's darling”)

RAY DAVIES ALSO SAID:

"I wrote Lola to be a great record, not a great song. Something that people could recognize in the first five seconds. Even the chorus, my two-year-old daughter sang it back to me. I thought, 'This must catch on.'"

HERE’S A LITTLE TRIVIA CONCERNING THE LYRICS. THE LINE:

"You drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry cola" was recorded as "it tastes just like Coca-Cola."

THE BBC (BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION) REFUSED TO PLAY IT BECAUSE OF THE COMMERCIAL REFERENCE, SO RAY DAVIES FLEW FROM NEW YORK TO LONDON TO CHANGE THE LYRIC TO GET IT ON THE AIR.

HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR ‘LOLA’ FROM THE KINKS

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 27, 2019…MAN I USED TO LOVE BILL GRAHAM’S ‘DAY ON THE GREEN’ CONCERT FESTIVALS. THEY WERE EPIC EVENTS GENERALLY HELD ON THE LAWN AT THE OAKLAND COLISEUM.

THIRTYNINE YEARS AGO IT WAS “DAY ON THE GREEN #2” FEATURING

BLACK SABBATH, CHEAP TRICK, JOURNEY, MOLLY HATCHET, SHAKIN’ STREET, AND THE BABYS.

HERE ARE THE SETLISTS FROM THIS FULL DAY OF MUSIC AND A SAMPLE FROM EACH BAND:

MOLLY HATCHET

Gator Country

It's All Over Now

Dreams

Flirtin' With Disaster

Bounty Hunter

THE BABYS

Back on My Feet Again

Every Time I Think of You

Midnight Rendezvous

Isn't It Time

Head First

Rock and Roll Is Alive and Well

CHEAP TRICK

Hello There

I Want You to Want Me

Surrender

Ain’t That a Shame

Dream Police

Goodnight Now

BLACK SABBATH

Supertzar

(Taped intro)

War Pigs

Neon Knights

N.I.B.

Black Sabbath

Heaven and Hell

Iron Man

Guitar Solo

Orchid

Die Young

Paranoid

JOURNEY

Departure

Majestic

Where Were You

Just the Same Way

Lovin' You Is Easy

Too Late

Kohoutek

People and Places

Precious Time

Lights

Stay Awhile

Dixie Highway

Homemade Love

Anytime

Walks Like a Lady

La Do Da

Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'

Wheel in the Sky

Any Way You Want It

Patiently

Like a Rock

Line of Fire

HERE’S JOURNEY FROM A TV APPEARANCE 10 DAYS BEFORE THE “DAY ON THE GREEN” CONCERT

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 27, 2019…40 YEARS AGO AC/DC RELEASED THE ALBUM AND THE SINGLE ‘HIGHWAY TO HELL.’

THE ALBUM WAS THE FIRST ALBUM FROM THE GROUP TO SELL OVER 1 MILLION COPIES.

MORE SIGNIFICANTLY IT WAS AS ANGUS YOUNG PUT IT “WAS THE ALBUM THAT BROKE US IN AMERICA.”

‘HIGHWAY TO HELL’ WAS ALSO THE LAST ALBUM TO FEATURE LEAD SINGER BON SCOTT, WHO DIED NINE MONTHS LATER AFTER AN EVENING OVER DRINKING IN LONDON.

THE TITLE FOR THE ALBUM STARTED OUT AS A JOKE. ANGUS YOUNG DESCRIBED THE GROUPS 1978 TOUR SCHEDULE AS “A F***ING HIGHWAY TO HELL.”

THEIR FIRST MILLION SELLING ALBUM DID NOT COME EASY. THE GROUP WAS UNDER INTENSE PRESSURE TO PRODUCE A HIT ALBUM BY THEIR RECORD COMPANY. MALCOLM AND ANGUS YOUNG WERE FORCED TO MAKE A TOUGH DECISION. THEY HAD TO FIRE THEIR BROTHER GEORGE WHO HAD PRODUCED ALL OF THE GROUPS PREVIOUS ALBUMS. MUTT LANGE WAS EVENTUALLY BROUGHT IN TO PRODUCE THE ALBUM. WHAT RESULTED WAS A NO BULLSHIT STRAIGHT AHEAD ROCK AND ROLL ALBUM THAT WAS RADIO FRIENDLY AND PRODUCED HITS. FORTY YEARS LATER ‘HIGHWAY TO HELL’ HAS RACKED UP TOTAL DOWNLOADS AND ACTUAL ALBUM SALES WHICH NOW TOTALS THE EQUIVALENT OF 22 MILLION COPIES.

HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR THE TITLE TRACK

THE SECOND SINGLE FROM THE ALBUM ‘TOUCH TOO MUCH’ (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

AND FINALLY ‘GIRLS GOT RHYTHM’

Watch a piece of raw chicken breast crawling off a restaurant table in the video below.

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 26, 2019…QUEEN’S DRUMMER ROGER TAYLOR TURNS 70 TODAY. TAYLOR ACTUALLY STARTED OFF PLAYING AND STUDYING GUITAR, AND CAN PLAY THE UKULELE, BUT BECAME A DRUMMER WHEN HE REALIZED HE HAD A NATURAL APTITUDE FOR DRUMMING. HIS UNDERSTANDING OF OTHER INSTRUMENTS HAS SERVED HIM WELL AS A SONGWRITER. AS A SONGWRITER HE HAS CONTRIBUTED ONE OR TWO TRACKS PER QUEEN ALBUM AND WROTE ‘INNUENDO’ AND ‘UNDER PRESSURE.’ HE ALSO HAS A NATURAL FALSETTO VOCAL RANGE WHICH PLAYED A HUGE PART IN THE OVERALL SOUND OF QUEEN’S SOUND.

THINGS COULD HAVE TURNED OUT DIFFERENTLY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY. IN 1970, TAYLOR TURNED DOWN AN OFFER TO BECOME THE DRUMMER FOR GENESIS, WHICH LED TO PHIL COLLINS JOINING INSTEAD.

INSTEAD HE WENT ON WITH BRAIN MAY AND FREDDIE MERCURY TO FORM QUEEN.

TO SHOW YOU HOW DIVERSE TAYLOR IS MUSICALLY CHECK THIS OUT. HE WROTE, SANG AND PERFORMED ALMOST EVERY INSTRUMENT ON THIS SONG FROM THE ALBUM ‘NEWS OF THE WORLD’

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 26, 2019…HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICK JAGGER. TODAY MICK IS 76! JAGGER’S CAREER HAS SPANNED OVER 5 DECADES.

IN 1950, HE AND KEITH RICHARDS WERE CLASSMATES IN GRADE SCHOOL. AFTER SEPARATING, THEY HAD A CHANCE ENCOUNTER AGAIN ON A SUBWAY PLATFORM IN JULY OF 1960 AND RENEWED THEIR FRIENDSHIP. THAT CHANCE MEETING BY THE AUTUMN OF 1963 RESULTED IN THE EVENTUAL FORMATION OF ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL SONG-WRITING TEAMS IN THE WORLD.

MICK JAGGER AND THE ROLLING STONES HAVE SOLD A TOTAL OF OVER 237 MILLION ALBUMS. HIS NET WORTH IS ESTIMATED TO BE AROUND $ 360 MILLION DOLLARS.

JAGGER HAS BEEN MARRIED AND DIVORCED ONCE. THAT MARRIAGE WAS TO BIANCA JAGGER. HIS MARRIAGE TO JERRY HALL TOOK PLACE IN 1990IN BALI, BUT WHEN SHE LEFT HIM FOR CHEATING ON HER, THE MARRIAGE WAS FOUND BY THE COURTS TO BE NULL AND VOID AND WAS THROWN OUT OF THE COURTS ! HE HAS 8 CHILDREN WITH 5 DIFFERENT BABY MAMAS. HE ALSO HAS 5 GRANDCHILDREN AND 1 GREAT GRANDCHILD. HIS KIDS RANGE IN AGE FROM 48 TO 2 YEARS OLD.

JAGGER RECENTLY UNDERWENT EMERGENCY HEART SURGERY WHERE SURGEONS REPLACED A VALVE ON HIS HEART. THIS IS THE RECOVERY VIDEO JAGGER POSTED DAYS AFTER THE SURGERY

JAGGER IS CURRENTLY ON TOUR WITH THE STONES ON THE “NO FILTER” TOUR AND WILL BE IN THE BAY AREA AUGUST 18TH AT LEVI'S STADIUM

HERE’S JAGGER WITH THE STONES FROM A TV APPEARANCE THE BAND MADE IN 1969

AND THE SAME SONG YEARS LATER WITH THE OFFICIAL STONES PROMO VIDEO

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 26, 2019…THIS ONE WAS BILLED AS ‘A VERY SPECIAL DAY ON THE GREEN.’ ON HIS BIRTHDAY IN 1978 THE STONES HEADLINED DAY ON THE GREEN # 4. IT WAS A SHOW THAT WASN’T EVEN SUPPOSED TO TAKE PLACE. THE ROLLING STONES DIDN’T PLAN ON PLAYING THE BAY AREA ON THEIR 1978 TOUR. BUT BILL GRAHAM MANAGED TO GET ONE MORE SHOW OUT OF THEM, ADDING THE OAKLAND SHOW AT THE END OF THE TOUR. THE SHOW ANNOUNCED TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE EVENT. AFTER THE OPENING ACTS OF SANTANA, EDDIE MONEY, PETER TOSH, AND TOOTS AND MAYTAL, THE ROLLING STONES PLAYED 19 SONGS. IT WAS ALSO MICK JAGGER’S 34TH BIRTHDAY.

IT WAS ‘A VERY SPECIAL DAY ON THE GREEN’

THIS IS ACTUAL FOOTAGE FROM THE ROLLING STONES ‘DAY ON THE GREEN’

HERE’S SOME LIVE STONES FROM THE SAME TOUR IN 1978 (GREAT QUALITY)

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Lamont & Tonelli talked to Mr. Skin for his weekly fun bags forecast, including "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" star Margot Robbie and a nip slip from Megan Rapinoe at the ESPY Awards.