LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 20, 2019…THIS DAY IN 1992 MARKED ANOTHER ‘DAY ON THE GREEN’ AT THE OAKLAND STADIUM, HOWEVER IT MARKED A SAD OCCASION. IT WAS THE FIRST DAY ON THE GREEN TO BE HELD WITHOUT BILL GRAHAM AFTER HIS UNTIMELY DEATH IN 1991. GRAHAM WAS THE ORIGINATOR OF THE ‘DAY ON THE GREEN’ CONCEPT, AND THEY HAVEN’T BEEN THE SAME SINCE. BTW, A TICKET TO THE SHOW SET YOU BACK $28.50

HERE’S THE SET LIST FROM THE SHOW 27 YEARS AGO:

Land of Confusion

No Son of Mine

Driving the Last Spike

Old Medley

Dance on a Volcano

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

The Musical Box

(closing section)

Firth of Fifth

I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)

(with snippets of "That's All",… more )

Stagnation

(Instrumental)

Throwing It All Away

Fading Lights

Jesus He Knows Me

Home by the Sea

Second Home by the Sea

Hold on My Heart

Domino

Drum Duet

I Can't Dance

Encore:

Tonight, Tonight, Tonight

Invisible Touch

Turn It On Again

AND HERE’S A TASTE OF WHAT THE CONCERT WAS LIKE.

GENESIS FROM 1992 PERFORMING “LAND OF CONFUSION”

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 19, 2019…IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE HEART’S ANN WILSON TURNS 69 TODAY. WILSON FIRST CAME TO PROMINENCE WITH HER SISTER NANCY FRONTING THEIR BAND HEART. THE ALBUM ‘DREAMBOAT ANNIE’ IN 1973 WAS THE FIRST OF A STRING OF HIT ALBUMS AND SINGLES THAT HAS SPANNED OVER 46 YEARS. WITH HEART SHE HAS SOLD OVER 35 MILLION ALBUMS AND WAS ELECTED INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME IN 2013.

HAPPY 69TH BIRTHDAY TO HEART’S ANN WILSON

ANN WILSON HAS ALWAYS BEEN ONE OF MY FAVORITE SINGERS. FIRST LET’S GO BACK TO HEART FROM 1976

AND HERE’S ANN BELTING OUT A COVER OF THE BLACK CROWES ‘SHE TALKS TO ANGELS’

AND FINALLY, CHECK OUT THIS TRIBUTE TO LED ZEPPELIN AT THE KENNEDY CENTER HONORS. IT BROUGHT ROBERT PLANT TO TEARS, AND I ACTUALLY WELL UP WITH EVERYTIME I WATCH IT. IT’S TRULY AN AMAZING PERFORMANCE

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 19, 2019…1982 SAW OZZY AND THE “DIARY OF A MADMAN” TOUR INVADE OAKLAND. THIS WAS OZZY’S SECOND TOUR AS A SOLO ARTIST AND WAS IN SUPPORT OF HIS SECOND ALBUM ‘DIARY OF A MADMAN’

THIS WAS ALSO GUITARIST RANDY RHOADS LAST TOUR. ON MARCH 19,1982 HE DIED IN A PLANE CRASH AT A SMALL AIRPORT IN FLORIDA AS A KNUCKLEHEAD PILOT TOOK RHOADS ON A JOYRIDE IN A SMALL PLANE AND CRASHED THE AIRCRAFT ATTEMPTING TO BUZZ THE BAND’S TOUR BUS.

THE BAND TOOK A TWO WEEK BREAK AFTER HIS DEATH. OZZY AND HIS WIFE SHARON RESTARTED THE TOUR WITH GUITARIST BERNIE TORME. HE ONLY LASTED A FEW SHOWS BEFORE HE WAS REPLACED WITH THE BAY AREA’S BRAD GILLIS.

HERE’S THE SETLIST FROM THE SHOW AT THE OAKLAND-ALAMEDA COUNTY COLISEUM ARENA:

2. Taped Introduction
3. Diary of a Madman
4. Over the Mountain
5. Mr. Crowley
6. Crazy Train
7. Revelation (Mother Earth)
8. Play Video
9. Steal Away (The Night)
10. Suicide Solution
11. Brad Gillis Guitar Solo
12. Drum Solo
13. Goodbye to Romance
14. I Don't Know
15. Believer
16. Flying High Again
17. Iron Man
    Children of the Grave
18. Encore:
19. Paranoid

HERE’S OZZY WITH A LIVE VERSION OF “OVER THE MOUNTAIN’

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 18, 2019…ON THIS DATE IN 1973 THE ‘STORIES’ RELEASED A COVER OF ‘BROTHER LOUIE’, A SONG THAT HAD BEEN A HUGE HIT IN ENGLAND BY THE BAND HOT CHOCOLATE. THE SONG IS ABOUT A ROMANCE BETWEEN A WHITE MAN AND A BLACK WOMAN. ERROL BROWN THE LEAD SINGER FOR HOT CHOCOLATE, CO-WROTE THE SONG. BROWN WAS BORN IN JAMAICA AND WAS RAISED BY A SINGLE MOTHER WHO MOVED HIM TO ENGLAND WHEN HE WAS YOUNG. HE TOLD “MELODY MAKER” THAT THIS SONG WAS INSPIRED BY REAL LIFE EXPERIENCES:

"That comes from early dating in a place where there's a majority of white people. That was fine for us because we grew up and rubbed shoulders with other nationalities so it wasn't a heavy thing. But in those days a lot of white parents never had anything to do with black people. It was understandable – they just didn't know what was going on, apart from what they read in books or saw on TV."

THE SPOKEN INTERLUDES IN THE HOT CHOCOLATE SONG WERE PRETTY CONTROVERSIAL, USING GRAPHIC RACIAL EPITHETS THAT WERE ENOUGH TO SCARE MANY RADIO STATIONS AWAY FROM PLAYING THE RECORD.

APPROXIMATELY 6 MONTHS AFTER THE HOT CHOCOLATE VERSION, THE STORIES RECORDED THE SONG AND RELEASED IT AS A SINGLE. THEIR VERSION LEFT OUT THE SPOKEN PARTS AND A VERSE WHERE LOUIE MEETS THE GIRLS PARENTS. THE STORIES VERSION WENT TO # 1 AND STAYED ON THE CHARTS FOR CLOSE TO 4 AND A HALF MONTHS. IT WAS THE ONLY HIT FOR THE STORIES.

HERE’S ‘BROTHER LOUIE’ WITH THE ‘STORIES’ PERFORMING ON THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL CIRCA 1973

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 18, 2019…THIRTY FIVE YEARS AGO VAN HALEN RELEASED ‘PANAMA’ THE THIRD SINGLE FROM THE ALBUM ‘1984’

SOME TRIVIA CONCERNING VAN HALEN’S PANAMA:

-This was one of the last Van Halen songs recorded with David Lee Roth as lead singer. -Some of the scenes in the video where David Lee Roth is doing fun stuff like riding in a convertible, was footage shot for the "Jump" video but not used. Both videos were co-directed by Pete Angelus, who also did "Hot For Teacher."

-During the bridge of the song, after Roth says, "I can barely see the road from the heat comin' off it," you can hear the sound of a car revving in the background. The car is Eddie Van Halen's 1972 Lamborghini Miura S. Van Halen has stated that he is an avid car collector.

-According to David Lee Roth, he wrote the song with a stripper in mind that he met in Arizona. The song came about after an interview Roth gave in the early '80s; the interviewer accused him of only writing lyrics about sex, drugs, and fast cars. Sometime either during or after the interview, Diamond Dave realized he'd never actually written a song about fast cars, so he started working on the lyrics to "Panama," which he later admitted he had been writing about a stripper he knew without realizing it. The finished lyrics were inspired by both the stripper and the car.

-In the video, Michael Anthony played a bass shaped like a bottle of Jack Daniel's whiskey, which the company custom made for him. This was a product placement coup, since MTV had a strict policy against advertising within videos - they made ZZ Top remove a shot of Schlitz beer from one of their clips before they would air it. By integrating the product into Anthony's bass, there was no good way to remove it, and MTV wasn't about to turn down a Van Halen video in 1984.

-This was one of the first songs recorded at Eddie Van Halen's 5150 studios. "5150" is California police code for a mentally unstable person causing a disturbance.

-The album cover, which showed a baby on the cover smoking a cigarette, caused a bit of controversy. Some record stores refused to stock it.

HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR VAN HALEN’S PANAMA

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 18, 2019…HAPPY 77TH BDAY TO SIR PAUL McCARTNEY. MCCARTNEY IS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL PERFORMERS AND COMPOSERS OF ALL TIME. HE FIRST GAINED WORLDWIDE SUCCESS WITH THE BEATLES, CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR AND INFLUENTIAL GROUPS IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC. AFTER THE GROUP BROKE UP IN 1969, MACA ACTUALLY THOUGHT HE WAS THROUGH AS A RECORDING ARTIST. IT NEVER OCCURRED TO HIM TO RECORD AS A SOLO ARTIST OR FORM A NEW BAND. IT WAS HIS WIFE LINDA WHO ENCOURAGED HIM TO CONTINUE MAKING MUSIC. MCCARTNEY HAS SAID THAT SHE USED “TOUGH LOVE” TO TELL HIM TO TELL HIM TO STOP FEELING SORRY FOR HIMSELF AND TO MAKE MORE MUSIC. AFTER THE GROUP DISBANDED IN 1970, HE PURSUED A SOLO CAREER AND FORMED THE BAND WINGS.

HE’S A TWO-TIME INDUCTEE IN THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME( AS A MEMBER OF THE BEATLES IN 1988 AND AGAIN AS A SOLO ARTIST IN 1999). HE IS ALSO WON 18 TIME GRAMMY AWARDS. MCCARTNEY HAS WRITTEN OR CO-WRITTEN 32 SONGS THAT HAVE REACHED # 1 ON THE BILLBOARD CHARTS. HE WAS KNIGHTED SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY IN 1997. PAUL MCCARTNEY IS ALSO ONE OF THE WORLD’S WEALTHIEST MUSICIANS WITH AN ESTIMATED WORTH OF $ 1.5 BILLION.

HAPPY 77TH BIRTHDAY PAUL MCCARTNEY.

HERE’S VINTAGE McCARTNEY FROM 1976

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 17, 2019…HAPPY 72ND BIRTHDAY TO THE BAY AREA’S GREGG ROLIE. GREGG IS A KEYBOARDIST EXTRAORDINAIRE AND IS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE BANDS SANTANA, JOURNEY, ABRAXAS POOL. HE CURRENTLY PERFORMS WITH THE GREGG ROLIE BAND AS WELL AS TOURS WITH RINGO STARR AND HIS ALL-STAR BAND. ROLIE IS A TWO TIME INDUCTEE INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME WITH SANTANA AND JOURNEY.

HERE’S A YOUNG GREGG ROLIE PERFORMING AT WOODSTOCK

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 17, 2019…BILL GRAHAM’S “DAY ON THE GREEN” CONCERTS WERE EPIC CONCERTS THAT REALLY WERE THE PROTOTYPES FOR FESTIVAL SHOWS. STAGED ON THE LAWN OF THE OAKLAND COLISEUM, THE DAY ON THE GREEN CONCERTS WERE A SUMMER SERIES OF CONCERTS THAT GRAHAM STARTED IN 1973 AND THEY CONTINUED UNTIL SHORTLY AFTER HIS DEATH AS A RESULT OF A HELICOPTER CRASH IN 1991. FORTY ONE YEARS AGO THE BAY AREA WAS TREATED TO ONE OF THESE MEGA CONCERTS.

THE LINEUP INCLUDED THE STEVE MILLER BAND, BOB SEGER, RONNIE MONTROSE, AND TOBY BEAU.

BTW IN 1978 THE COST OF A TICKET FOR A DAY ON THE GREEN WAS $12.50.

HERE’S SEGER WITH A LIVE PERFORMANCE OF “STILL THE SAME” FROM 1978.

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