LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 16, 2019…IT WAS 31 YEARS AGO AND “THE MONSTERS OF ROCK” TOUR HIT CANDLESTICK. THE LINE UP FEATURED VAN HALEN, SCORPIONS, METALLICA, DOKKEN, and KINGDOM COME.

THE TOUR WAS PUT TOGETHER BY VAN HALEN IN SUPPORT OF THE ALBUM OU812, AND HIT 23 CITIES. THE TOUR PLAYED TO OVER 2 MILLION PEOPLE, AND INCLUDED OVER 970 TONS OF EQUIPMENT THAT TRAVELLED WITH THE SHOW. VAN HALEN HEADLINED, AND PLAYED FOR 2 HOURS AND 20 MINS EVERY NIGHT. THEY WERE THE ONLY BAND THAT PLAYED AFTER SUNSET ON THE TOUR. THE SCORPIONS WERE ALLOTTED 90 MINUTES A NIGHT, AND METALLICA PLAYED FOR SLIGHTLY OVER 60 MINUTES.

HERE’S VAN HALEN’S SETLIST:

Summer Nights

There's Only One Way to Rock

Panama

Bass Solo

Runnin' With the Devil

Why Can't This Be Love

Mine All Mine

Drum Solo

You Really Got Me

Sucker in a 3 Piece

When It's Love

Eagles Fly

I Can't Drive 55

Best of Both Worlds

Guitar Solo

Black and Blue

Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love

Encore:

A.F.U. (Naturally Wired)

Rock and Roll

HERE’S THE SCORPIONS SETLIST:

Blackout

Big City Nights

Every Minute Every Day

Rhythm of Love

Bad Boys Running Wild

Make It Real

Coast to Coast

Still Loving You

Don't Stop at the Top

Can't Live Without You

Coming Home

The Zoo

No One Like You

Rock You Like a Hurricane

Dynamite

HERE’S METALLICA’S SETLIST:

Taped intro-The Ecstasy of Gold

Creeping Death

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

Harvester of Sorrow

Whiplash

Fade to Black

Seek & Destroy

Master of Puppets

Encore:

Last Caress

Am I Evil

Battery

(with "Damage Inc." intro)

THIS DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE TOUR IS THE GREATEST, JUST TO SEE A YOUNG LARS ULRICH ( HE LOOKS LIKE A KID IN THIS VIDEO)

HERE’S AN MTV SPECIAL COVERING THE EVENT

POSTER AVAILABLE@WOLFGANG’S https://www.wolfgangs.com/posters/van-halen/poster/CAN880716.html

The Doobie Brothers will be at Wente Vineyards in Livermore on Wednesday, September 11th.

Tickets go on sale on Monday, July 15th at 10am through: www.wentevineyards.com

Click here to purchase tickets.

Photo: Andrew Steinmetz

Since the release of the Lifetime docuseries, “Surviving R. Kelly”...Things are not looking good the Grammy award winning singer.

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 15, 2019…IT WAS ON THIS DATE IN 1973 GRAND FUNK RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘WE’RE AN AMERICAN BAND’. THE SONG CAME AT A CRITICAL TIME FOR THE BAND. IN 1972, THEY LEFT THEIR MANAGER, WERE EMBROILED IN LAWSUITS, AND REALIZED THEY NEEDED A HIT RECORD OR THEIR CAREER WAS “GOING TO GO INTO THE TOILET.” THEIR NEW MANAGER TOLD THEM,

'Why don't you just write songs about what you do: you're out here on the road, you're going to this hotel, you go to different places, there's people, you come into town...'

GRAND FUNK’S DRUMMER THEN WROTE A SONG ABOUT ALL THE LITTLE THINGS THAT WERE HAPPENING TO THE BAND WHILE THEY WERE ON THE ROAD, AND THEY WERE ALL TRUE. DON BREWER EXPLAINED

"Up all night with Freddie King, I've got to tell you, poker's his thing. Freddie King was the opening act for us, the great Blues guitar player from Texas. It always struck me as funny that he would make his band play poker with him every night. We used to sit in on some of the poker games, and that's where that line came from. His band, he'd pay them, and then he'd go win all the money back so they were broke and they'd have to keep playing for him - it was a great deal. A lot of people don't understand the Freddie King part because they don't know who Freddie King is. Anybody who knows about Freddie King immediately picks it up. People who don't say, 'What are you saying, that Focus can't sing?'"

REGARDING THE LINE, “FOUR CHIQUITAS IN OMAHA,” DON BREWER SAID IT WAS A SITUATION THAT TRANSPIRED WHEN THEY CHECKED INTO A HOTEL IN OMAHA, NEBRASKA:

"There were four groupies in the lobby waiting to see the band, Four young chiquitas' sounded a lot better than 'four young groupies' or 'four young girls.'"

The line, "Sweet Sweet Connie was doing her act" is about Connie Hamzy, a famous groupie known as "Sweet Connie." Some of her rumored conquests include Brewer, John Bonham, Keith Moon, Huey Lewis, Peter Criss, and Bill Clinton (when he was governor of Arkansas). This song made her famous, and in 2010 VH1 ran a special about her life. According to Hamzy, she didn't have "the whole band," as stated in the lyrics, but she came pretty close - Mark Farner was a holdout.

HERE’S GRAND FUNK AND ‘WE’RE AN AMERICAN BAND’

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 15, 2019…ON THIS DATE IN 1975 THE ROLLING STONES KICKED OFF THE FIRST OF TWO CONSECUTIVE NIGHTS AT THE COW PALACE. IT WAS THE “MADE IN THE SHADE” TOUR. THIS TOUR MARKED THE FIRST TOUR FOR THE GROUP WITH RONNIE WOOD. HE WAS REPLACING MICK TAYLOR WHO LEFT THE BAND EARLIER IN THE YEAR. WOOD WAS ANNOUNCED AS A TOURING GUITARIST AT FIRST, AND WASN’T NAMED AN OFFICIAL MEMBER OF THE STONES UNTIL AFTER THE TOUR IN DECEMBER.

THIS TOUR ALSO SAW THE STONES EMBRACE THEATRICAL STAGE PROPS. A GIANT INFLATABLE PENIS WAS ADDED TO THE SHOW. THE BAND NICKNAMED IT “TIRED GRANDFATHER” SINCE IT SOMETIMES MALFUNCTIONED.

HERE WAS THE SETLIST AT THE COW PALACE:

Honky Tonk Women

All Down the Line

If You Can't Rock Me / Get Off of My Cloud

Star Star

Gimme Shelter

Ain't Too Proud to Beg

(The Temptations cover)

You Gotta Move

(Mississippi Fred McDowell cover)

You Can't Always Get What You Want

Happy

Tumbling Dice

It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It)

Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)

Fingerprint File

Angie

Wild Horses

That's Life

(Billy Preston cover) (performed by Billy Preston)

Outa-Space

(Billy Preston cover) (performed by Billy Preston)

Brown Sugar

Midnight Rambler

Rip This Joint

Street Fighting Man

Jumpin' Jack Flash

HERE’S A GREAT SONG FROM THE THE 1975 TOUR

Poster available at wolfgang’s https://www.wolfgangs.com/posters/the-rolling-stones/poster/COW750715.html

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 15, 2019…HAPPY 63RD BIRTHDAY TO GUITAR VIRTUOSO JOE SATRIANI. EARLY IN HIS CAREER, SATRIANI WORKED AS A GUITAR INSTRUCTOR. TWO OF HIS MORE FAMOUS STUDENTS ARE STEVE VAI AND KIRK HAMMET. SATCH QUICKLY TURNED HEADS WITH HIS TECHNICAL PROWESS ON SONGS LIKE ‘SATCH BOOGIE’ ‘ALWAYS WITH ME, ALWAYS WITH YOU’ SURFING WITH THE ALIEN’ AND FLYING IN A BLUE DREAM.’

HE ALSO HAD STOPS ALONG THE WAY WITH ARTISTS LIKE MICK JAGGER, DEEP PURPLE, CHICKENFOOT AND THE G4 EXPERIENCE.

HAPPY 63RD BIRTHDAY SATCH.

LET'S GO SURFIN' TO CELEBRATE.

photo thanks-George Laoutaris

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 15, 2019…FRESH OFF THE GUNS N ROSES NORTH AMERICAN TOUR AND THE RECORDING STUDIO, SLASH IS BACK ON THE ROAD AGAIN, THIS TIME WITH MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS

TONIGHT’S SHOW KICKS OFF THE FIRST DATE ON THE BAND’S MINI CONCERT TOUR.

TONIGHT’S SHOW IS THE FIRST DATE ON THE TOUR THAT COVERS 16 DATES THIS SUMMER. THEN SLASH GOES BACK INTO THE STUDIO TO FINISH WORK ON THE NEW GUNS ‘N ROSES ALBUM, AND THEN HEADS BACK OUT ON THE ROAD WITH GNR FOR A EUROPEAN AND SOUTH AMERICAN TOUR.

TICKETS FOR TONIGHT’S SHOW AT THE WARFIELD RANGE ARE GOING FROM 45-75 BUCKS. THE DOORS OPEN AT 7, THE SHOW STARTS AT 8 PM. BTW, IT’S AN ALL AGES SHOW !

HERE’S A SAMPLE OF WHAT YOU'RE IN FOR TONIGHT AT THE WARFIELD.

A FULL SHOW FROM 2012 (PROFESSIONALLY SHOT, GREAT QUALITY)

photo thanks-https://www.facebook.com/jimmyosheehan/

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 15, 2019…HAPPY 53RD BIRTHDAY TO JASON BONHAM. JASON, THE SON OF THE GREAT JOHN BONHAM OF LED ZEPPELIN FAME, IS NOW ESTABLISHING HIMSELF AS ONE OF THE GREAT DRUMMERS IN ROCK AND ROLL. HIS FATHER JOHN DIED IN 1980, AND JASON HAS STEPPED IN FROM TIME TO TIME TO KEEP HIS MEMORY ALIVE.

IN 1988 HE TOOK HIS FATHER’S SPOT AT THE FIRST EVER LED ZEPPELIN REUNION AT THE ATLANTIC RECORDS 40TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT.

ON DECEMBER 10TH, 2007 JASON PLAYED DRUMS IN THE MOST ANTICIPATED CONCERT OF ALL TIME, THE LED ZEPPELIN REUNION AT THE O2 ARENA.

HE’S ALSO DONE WORK WITH PAUL RODGERS, SLASH, DAVID GILMOUR, JEFF BECK, UFO, FOREIGNER, AND JOE BONNAMASSA.

MOST RECENTLY HE’S BEEN BUSY WITH HIS OWN PROJECT “JASON BONHAM’S LED ZEPPELIN EXPERIENCE” ( WHICH WAS FORCED TO CHANGE ITS NAME BY ZEPPELIN TO “JASON BONHAM’S LED ZEPPELIN EVENING”)

HE IS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE CIRCLE, SAMMY HAGAR’S SUPERSTAR PROJECT.

THIS IS THE MOST TOUCHING VERSION OF STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN I’VE EVER SEEN. PLANT AND PAGE HAD NO IDEA JASON BONHAM WAS GOING TO BE APPEARING ON THE SONG, AND IT BROUGHT PLANT TO TEARS. AN INCREDIBLE VERSION FROM HEART AND JASON BONHAM

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

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 7, 2019…FORTY ONE YEARS AGO THE TALKING HEADS GAVE US THEIR SECOND STUDIO ALBUM ‘MORE SONGS ABOUT BUILDINGS AND FOOD’

THIS ALBUM PRODUCED THE GROUP’S FIRST TOP 30 SINGLE, A COVER OF AL GREEN’S ‘TAKE ME TO THE RIVER’. THIS SONG REALLY PROVED TO BE A BREAKTHROUGH FOR THE GROUP, WHOSE ONLY APPEARANCE ON THE CHARTS WAS ‘PSYCHO KILLER’ WHICH REACHED #92. THEIR RENDITION OF ‘TAKE ME TO THE RIVER’ EARNED THE BAND AN INVITATION TO PERFORM ON “AMERICAN BANDSTAND” WHICH GAVE THE TALKING HEADS THEIR FIRST HUGE TV EXPOSURE.

ACCORDING TO THE TALKING HEADS’ BASSIST TINA WEYMOUTH, THE TITLE OF THE ALBUM CAME ABOUT KIND OF ACCIDENTALLY:

“When we were making this album I remembered this stupid discussion we had about titles for the last album, At that time I said, 'What are we gonna call an album that's just about buildings and food?' And Chris said, 'You call it more songs about buildings and food.”

THE FRONT COVER OF THE ALBUM IS UNIQUE. IT’S AN ACTUAL PHOTOMOSAIC OF THE BAND COMPRISED OF 529 CLOSE UP POLAROID PHOTOGRAPHS.

HERE ARE THE TALKING HEADS WITH A LIVE VERSION OF ‘TAKE ME TO THE RIVER’

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 14, 2019…TONIGHT QUEEN PLAYS THE SAP CENTER. THE LINE-UP INCLUDES ORIGINAL BAND MEMBERS BRIAN MAY AND ROGER TAYLOR, WITH ADAM LAMBERT ON LEAD VOCALS.IT’S PART OF A 6 WEEK 23 DATE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR.

HERE’S A LINK TO LIVE NATION FOR TICKET INFO

livenation.com/events/966967-jul-14-2019-queen-adam-lambert-the-rhapsody-tour

AND HERE’S A TASTE OF WHAT’S IN STORE TONIGHT AT THE SAP CENTER IN SAN JOSE