LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 16, 2019…ON THIS DATE IN 1972 DAVID BOWIE RELEASED ‘THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS’

THE ALBUM IS A LOOSE CONCEPT ALBUM BASED ON BOWIE’S ALTER EGO ZIGGY STARDUST, A FICTIONAL BISEXUAL ROCK STAR WHO ACTS AS A MESSSENGER FOR EXTRATERRISTERAL BEINGS. BEFORE THE ALBUM’S RELEASE, BOWIE TOLD AN INTERVIEWER:

“What you have there on that album when it does finally come out, is a story which doesn’t really take place, it’s just a few little scenes from the life of a band called Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, who could feasibly be the last band on Earth—it could be within the last five years of Earth. I’m not at all sure. Because I wrote it in such a way that I just dropped the numbers into the album in any order that they cropped up. It depends on which state you listen to it in.”

IT WAS BOWIE’S FIFTH ALBUM AND IT WAS HUGE. AS OF 2016 THE ALBUM HAD SOLD OVER 7.5 MILLION COPIES. IT ALSO WAS SELECTED FOR PRESERVATION IN THE NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY BEING DEEMED “CULTURALLY, HISTORICALLY, OR ARTISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT” BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

THE ALBUM FEATURED ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOWIE SONGS

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 16, 2019…THE EAGLES PLAYED THE OAKLAND ARENA IN 1972. IT WAS PART OF A TOUR IN SUPPORT OF THEIR SELF TITLED DEBUT ALBUM. THE SHOW ONLY CONSISTED OF 5 SONGS. THEY WERE THE OPENING ACT FOR YES. THIS WAS THE EAGLE’S SETLIST FOR THE EVENING:

1. Take It Easy
2. Witchy Woman
3. Peaceful Easy Feeling
4. Nightingale
5. Earlybird

HERE ARE THE EAGLES CIRCA 1972

THIS IS A FANTASTIC VERSION OF ‘TAKE IT EASY FROM 1973

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 15, 2019…HERE I GO AGAIN IS A SINGLE THAT WAS ACTUALLY RECORDED 3 TIMES WITH 3 SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT VERSIONS.

THE ORIGINAL ‘HERE I GO AGAIN’ WAS INITIALLY RELEASED ON THE 1982 WHITESNAKE ALBUM 'SAINTS AND SINNERS’. DAVID COVERDALE RE-RECORDED IT AND RE-MIXED THE SONG IN 1987 FOR THE SELF TITLED ALBUM ‘WHITESNAKE’. THE GROUP THEN WENT BACK INTO THE STUDIO FOR ANOTHER “RADIO-MIX” VERSION AND IT THAT BECAME A MONSTER HIT, BECOMING A NUMBER ONE SINGLE IN OCTOBER OF 1987. THE SONG WAS ALSO RANKED AS #17 ON VH1’S LIST OF THE “100 GREATEST SONGS OF THE 80’S.”

THE SONG DOCUMENTS THE BREAKDOWN OF HIS FIRST MARRIAGE. I CAN’T THINK OF A BETTER WAY TO GET OVER HIS FIRST MARRIAGE THAN MARRY THE MODEL THAT WAS WRITHING ALL OVER THE JAGUAR CARS IN THE VIDEO FOR THIS SONG. HE MARRIED TAWNY KITAEN IN 1989 (THEY WERE DIVORCED 2 YEARS LATER).

THE VIDEO WAS GREAT ! HERE’S WHITESNAKE WITH TAWNY KITAEN AND THE VIDEO THAT TOOK OVER MTV

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 15, 2019…NIGHT RANGER GUITARIST BRAD GILLIS IS 62 YEARS YOUNG TODAY. GILLIS IS A GREAT GUY AND THE RESIDENT OF LAFAYETTE LISTENS TO THE BONE ! BRAD IS AN EXCELLENT GUITARIST AND HAS NOT ONLY CUT HIS TEETH WITH NIGHT RANGER BUT HAS ALSO PLAYED WITH OZZY OSBOURNE AND HAS A COUPLE OF SOLO ALBUMS. INTERESTING TRIVIA CONCERNING GILLIS, HE AND DRUMMER KELLY KEAGY ARE THE ONLY MEMBERS OF NIGHT RANGER TO HAVE APPEARED IN EVERY INCARCERATION OF THE BAND AND ALL STUDIO RELEASES. HOWEVER, SINCE KEAGY MISSED A COUPLE OF SHOWS FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN 2017, BRAD GILLIS IS THE ONLY MEMBER TO HAVE APPEARED IN EVERY LIVE PERFORMANCE IN THE BAND’S HISTORY.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRAD GILLIS, YOU’RE ONE OF THE GOOD ONES.

HERE’S A NIGHT RANGER CONCERT THAT WAS AN MTV SPECIAL IN 1983

photo thanks-Sam Howzit

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 15, 2019…THE BAY AREA AND PETER FRAMPTON OVER THE YEARS HAVE A SPECIAL LOVE AFFAIR. FRAMPTON RECORDED ONE OF THE GREATEST LIVE ALBUMS IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC ‘FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE’ AT WINTERLAND AND IT WAS REALLY THE ALBUM THAT CHANGED HIS CAREER. HIS CURRENT FAREWELL TOUR WRAPS UP IN THE BAY AREA IN OCTOBER IN CONCORD. HE ALSO DID A THREE DAY GIG AT THE FILLMORE IN 1995 THAT WAS LEGENDARY. ON THIS DATE TWENTY FOUR YEARS AGO PETER FRAMPTON PLAYED THE SECOND OF THREE NIGHTS AT

THE FILLMORE.

HERE WAS THE SETLIST AT THE SHOW JUNE 15,1995 AT THE FILLMORE:

1. Day in the Sun
2. Lying
3. Lines on My Face
4. For Now
5. You
6. Waiting for Your Love
7. Show Me the Way
8. All I Wanna Be (Is by Your Side)
9. Talk to Me
10. Hang On to a Dream
11. Penny for Your Thoughts
12. Most of All
13. Can't Take That Away
14. Nassau
15. Baby, I Love Your Way
16. I Wanna Go to the Sun
17. ENCORE
18. I'm In You
19. Almost Said Goodbye
20. Do You Feel Like We Do
21. Off the Hook

HERE’S VINTAGE FRAMPTON FROM AN APPEARANCE ON THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL

Poster available @ Wolfgangs https://www.wolfgangs.com/posters/peter-frampton/poster/F193.html

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 14, 2019…AFTER PLAYING OAKLAND ON JUNE 13TH 1991 AC/DC PLAYED TO A SOLD OUT SHOW AT SHORELINE ON THIS NIGHT 28 YEARS AGO !

IT WAS PART OF THE MASSIVE RAZOR’S EDGE TOUR. THE TOUR WAS A YEAR LONG AND BROKE DOWN INTO 5 PARTS SPANNING THE WORLD. IT SAW THE BAND PLAY 160 DATES AND WAS ONE OF THE HIGHEST GROSSING TOURS OF 1991.

HERE’S WHAT WAS PLAYED AT SHORELINE:

Thunderstruck

Shoot to Thrill

Back in Black

Fire Your Guns

Sin City

Heatseeker

Who Made Who

Jailbreak

The Jack

Are You Ready

That's the Way I Wanna Rock 'n' Roll

Moneytalks

Hells Bells

High Voltage

You Shook Me All Night Long

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

Whole Lotta Rosie

Let There Be Rock

ENCORE

Highway to Hell

T.N.T.

For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)

HERE’S AC/DC FROM A SHOW IN ‘91

photo thanks-Ed Vill

Wow, this is insane. We can't believe someone would pay that much for tickets, but then again it is the last game ever at the Oracle Arena in Oakland.

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 13, 2019…24 YEARS AGO TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS PLAYED SHORELINE. IT WAS PART OF PETTY’S “DOGS WITH WINGS” TOUR.

HERE WAS WHAT WAS PLAYED AT SHORELINE:

1. Love Is a Long Road
2. You Don't Know How It Feels
3. Listen to Her Heart
4. I Won't Back Down
5. Free Fallin'
6. You Wreck Me
7. Diamond Head
8. Mary Jane's Last Dance
9. Cabin Down Below
10. Learning to Fly
11. Time to Move On
12. Girl on LSD
13. I Just Want to Make Love to You
14. Wildflowers
15. Yer So Bad
16. It's Good to Be King
17. Drivin' Down to Georgia
18. Refugee
19. Runnin' Down a Dream
20. Honey Bee
21. Encore:
22. American Girl
23. Alright for Now

PETTY USED THE TOUR TO RAISE FUNDS FOR THE NATIONAL VETERANS FOUNDATION.

THIS IS A FANTASTIC DOCUMENTARY THE GROUP SHOT ON THE DOGS WITH WINGS TOUR

HERE’S PETTY IN CONCERT

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 13, 2019…THIRTY SIX YEARS AGO STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN AND DOUBLE TROUBLE RELEASED THE DEBUT ALBUM ‘TEXAS FLOOD’

STEVIE AND THE BOYS HAD BEEN A LIVE SENSATION AROUND TEXAS AND PUT IN AN OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE AT THE MONTREUX FILM FESTIVAL IN 1982 WHERE THEY CAUGHT THE EARS OF DAVID BOWIE AND JACKSON BROWNE. BROWNE OFFERED THE GROUP FREE USE OF HIS RECORDING STUDIO IN LOS ANGELES, WHERE STEVIE RAY AND DOUBLE TROUBLE RECORDED THIS ALBUM IN 3 DAYS ( KEEP IN MIND THE FIRST DAY WAS SPENT SETTING UP EQUIPMENT) SO IN ESSENCE THE ALBUM WAS RECORDED IN ONLY 2 DAYS, WITH NO OVERDUBS !

THE ALBUM HAS SOLD OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SINCE ITS ORIGINAL RELEASE.

HERE’S A LIVE PERFORMANCE FROM 1983 0F STEVIE RAY PERFORMING A GREAT TRACK FROM TEXAS FLOOD

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 12, 2019…HE WAS BORN BRAD CARLSON BUT THE WORLD KNOWS HIM AS BUN E. CARLOS, THE ORIGINAL DRUMMER FOR CHEAP TRICK.

NOT ONLY WAS BUN A FANTASTIC DRUMMER, BUT BEHIND THE SCENES HE WAS THE BAND’S CHIEF SET-LISTER AND ARCHIVIST, AND HE MAINTAINED RECORDINGS OF ALL THE BAND’S SHOWS.

HOWEVER THERE WAS A PROBLEM WITHIN THE BAND. ACCORDING THE CARLOS:

“Me and the singer don’t get along very good.”

ONE OF THE MAIN FALL-OUTS WITH LEAD SINGER ROBIN ZANDER HAPPENED IN 2009:

“I don’t like doing 25 songs. I think that just kills the audience. I think the show should be 17, 18, 19 songs and encores. Robin [Zander] wanted to do longer shows….The final straw was, we were offered 100 Sgt. Pepper shows in Las Vegas with a huge back-end. He only wanted to do 50. I said, “Why do you only want to do 50?” He said, “[Whiny voice] I have to take my daughter to kindergarten in September. I don’t want her to go to school in Las Vegas.” I smartly replied something like, “We’re scheduling shows around your daughter’s kindergarten classes?” Then he was like, “Fuck you, you fucking asshole.” Then I just hung up the phone. People tell me to get fucked, I hang up. That happened two days in a row.”

AFTER ANOTHER ARGUMENT IN 2010 CHEAP TRICK ISSUED A STATEMENT THAT CARLOS HAD STOPPED TOURING WITH THE BAND, BUT HE STILL REMAINED A BAND MEMBER. CHEAP TRICK GUITARIST’S SON DAXX WAS NAMED AS THE NEW CHEAP TRICK TOURING DRUMMER.

THE AGREEMENT WORKED OUT GREAT UNTIL HE WAS FORCED TO FILE A LAWSUIT AGAINST THE GROUP IN 2013. ACCORDING TO BUN E CARLOS:

“We just drew up a contract that said, “I don’t tour with the band, but I’m a full member of the band.” We’ve got all these corporations. The touring company said, “If you quit touring, you lose your vote.” I wasn’t going to let that happen. I’m a full member of the band. So we drew up a piece of paper, and a couple years later the check stopped coming. And then I had to sue them in federal court to get my money back. We did a settlement last spring and it’s all hunky dory. That’s the short story.”

ON FEBRUARY 2015 ROBIN ZANDER ANNOUNCED THE LAWSUIT WAS OVER:

“We’ve settled our differences. Bun E.’s a member of the band, but he’s not touring. … We’ve had our differences, but we’re all settled up now and hopefully we can forget about that era. These decisions that Cheap Trick makes, Bun E. is part of.”

SO CARLOS IS A BUSINESS PARTNER IN THE CHEAP TRICK MERCHANDISING BUSINESS AND REMAINS INVOLVED IN THEIR RELEASES OF OLDER MATERIAL WHICH HE PARTICIPATED IN THE RECORDING OF ( KEEP IN MIND HE WAS THE ONE WHO ARCHIVED ALL OF THE BAND’S EARLY MATERIAL)

AS FOR HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE BAND, ACCORDING TO BUN:

“any friendship we had went away when I had to file a federal lawsuit. That cost a bucket of fucking money. Going after these guys wasn’t pleasant. The friendship sort of frittered away there.”

HERE’S CHEAP TRICK FROM 1977 APPEARING ON DON KIRSHNER'S ROCK CONCERT