LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 12, 2019…TODAY BRAD DELP, THE LEAD SINGER OF BOSTON, WOULD HAVE BEEN 68 YEARS OLD. ON MARCH 9, 2007

DELP COMMITTED SUICIDE BY CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING AT HIS HOME IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. HE DIED FROM THE SMOKE OF 2 CHARCOAL GRILLS HE LIT INSIDE HIS SEALED MASTER BEDROOM. HE WAS FOUND BY POLICE WITH A NOTE CLIPPED TO HIS SHIRT WHICH READ “MR. BRAD DELP. I AM A LONELY SOUL.”

SIX MONTHS BEFORE BRAD TOOK HIS LIFE HE DROPPED BY THE BONE STUDIOS, AND I HAVE TO TELL YOU, BRAD DELP WAS ONE OF THE NICEST GUYS I HAD EVER MET. HE DROPPED BY THE SHOW TO PLUG A BEATLES SIDE PROJECT HE WAS INVOLVED WITH CALLED ‘BEATLE JUICE’

BRAD DELP, YOU ARE MISSED.

DELP WAS FROM THE NEW HAMPSHIRE AREA, AND THIS IS A TOUCHING DOCUMENTARY THAT WAS DONE IN HIS HONOR.

HERE’S DELP IN CONCERT WITH WITH BOSTON CIRCA 1976

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 12, 2019…IT WAS 40 YEARS AGO THE CARS RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘LET’S GO’

THIS WAS THE FIRST SINGLE RELEASED FROM THE CARS SECOND ALBUM ‘CANDY-O’ AND IT KEPT THE MOMENTUM ROLLING FROM THE CARS SPECTACULAR FIRST ALBUM BECOMING THE CARS BIGGEST HIT UP TO THAT POINT IN THEIR CAREER. IT WAS THE SUMMER HIT OF 1979. ON THE STRENGTH OF THE SUCCESS OF ‘LET’S GO’ THE CARS SOLD OVER 4 MILLION COPIES OF THE ALBUM ‘CANDY-O’

GUITARIST RIC OCASEK WROTE ‘LET’S GO’ BUT BASS PLAYER BENJAMIN ORR HANDLED LEAD VOCALS ON THE RECORD.

HERE’S AN APPEARANCE ON THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL FROM 1979 WITH THE CARS PERFORMING ‘LET’S GO’

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 11, 2019…I THINK A COUPLE TIMES IN OUR LIVES WE HAVE TO MAKE AN IN IMPORTANT DECISION. YOU COME TO A FORK IN THE ROAD AND IT HAS A PROFOUND EFFECT ON YOUR LIFE. IT WAS ON THIS DATE IN 1960 THAT DRUMMER TOMMY MOORE HAD ONE OF THOSE MOMENTS. TOMMY MOORE HAD ENOUGH OF A GUY NAMED JOHN LENNON AND DECIDED TO RETURN TO HIS JOB AS A FORKLIFT DRIVER INSTEAD OF CONTINUING ON WITH THE BEATLES.

WHEN HE DIDN’T APPEAR FOR A GIG ONE NIGHT, THE BAND WENT TO HIS FLAT TO BEG HIM TO COME BACK INTO THE FOLD. HIS GIRLFRIEND AT THE TIME TOLD THE BAND TO “PISS OFF”.

MOORE CONTINUED TO WORK IN LIVERPOOL AND DIED OF A BRAIN HEMORRHAGE IN 1981.

THIS IS SOME VIDEO FROM THE SGT. PEPPERS CHANNEL. THE BEST PART OF THE VIDEO IS THE CLUB OWNER WHO THREATENED JOHN LENNON, SAYING HE’D NEVER WORK AGAIN. TOMMY MOORE APPEARS AT THE 7:40 MARK !!! HE’S DESCRIBED AS A WALKING TRAGEDY.

HERE’S SOME VINTAGE BEATLES

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 11, 2019…FRANK BEARD IS CELEBRATING HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY TODAY !! IRONICALLY, UP UNTIL 2013 BEARD WAS THE ONLY MEMBER OF THE GROUP NOT TO HAVE A BEARD. HE FINALLY GAVE INTO PRESSURE AND GREW A SMALL ONE. THE BAND CALLS IT THE “ZZ TOP GOATEE”.

A LITTLE FRANK BEARD TRIVIA. HE WAS ONCE FIRED FROM THE BAND BY THE BAND’S MANAGER BILL HAM FOR OVERINDULGING AT A CONCERT. ACCORDING TO BEARD:

“WHEN THAT HAPPENED DUSTY QUIT BECAUSE HE FIRED ME ! HAM CHANGED HIS MIND.”

HAPPY 70TH BIRTHDAY FRANK BEARD.

HERE’S A GREAT LIVE VERSION OF ‘WAITIN’ FOR THE BUS/JESUS JUST LEFT CHICAGO’

THIS GUY IS A GREAT DRUMMER. LISTEN TO HIM POUND THE SKINS ON THIS LIVE VERSION OF ‘LA GRANGE’

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 11, 2019…33 YEARS AGO TODAY VAN HAGAR’S 5150 TOUR ROCKED THE BAY AREA. THIS WAS THE BAND’S FIRST TOUR WITH SAMMY AS THE LEAD VOCALIST AND THE FIRST TOUR FOR VAN HALEN WITH A SECOND GUITARIST. IT WAS IN SUPPORT OF THE BAND’S FIRST ALBUM WITH HAGAR, 5150.

THE TOUR STARTED IN MARCH OF 1986 AND LASTED FOR A LITTLE OVER SEVEN MONTHS WITH THE BAND PLAYING 111 SHOWS.

ACCORDING TO SAMMY HAGAR:

"We were selling records faster than they could print them and we were selling out every show, We felt invincible."

HERE’S THE SETLIST FROM THAT GREAT NIGHT AT THE OAKLAND ARENA:

1. You Really Got Me
   There's Only One Way to Rock
   Summer Nights
2. Get Up
3. Drum Solo
4. Dreams
5. 5150
6. Bass Solo
7. Panama
8. Best of Both Worlds
9. Love Walks In
10. Good Enough
11. Guitar Solo
12. I Can't Drive 55
    Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
13. Encore:
14. Why Can't This Be Love
15. Make it last
16. Rock and Roll
    

HERE’S VAN HALEN WITH A LIVE VERSION OF “BEST OF BOTH WORLDS” FROM 5150.

photo thanks-Rogelio A. Galaviz C.

In the security footage below, former Boston Red Sox star David Ortiz is shot at a club in his home country, the Dominican Republic. Reports say David Ortiz is currently recovering from surgery.

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 10, 2019…TWO YEARS AGO ROGER WATERS PLAYED THE OAKLAND ARENA AND IT WAS ONE OF THE BEST SHOWS I’VE EVER SEEN. ROGER WATERS HAD HIS ADVANCE TEAM AT THE ARENA 3 DAYS BEFORE THE SHOW TO SET THE ACOUSTICS JUST RIGHT TO MAKE THE COLISEUM SOUND LIKE A CONCERT HALL. THE LIGHT SHOW, LASERS AND VISUALS WERE STUNNING. AND THE PERFORMANCE WAS OFF THE HOOK.

HERE WAS THE SET PLAYED IN OAKLAND ACCORDING TO SETLIST.COM

1. Speak to Me
2. Breathe
3. One of These Days
4. Time
   Breathe (Reprise)
5. The Great Gig in the Sky
6. Welcome to the Machine
7. When We Were Young
8. Déjà Vu
9. The Last Refugee
10. Picture That
11. Wish You Were Here
12. The Happiest Days of Our Lives
    Another Brick in the Wall Part 2
13. Another Brick in the Wall Part 3
14. Set 2:
15. Dogs
    Pigs (Three Different Ones)
    Money
16. Us and Them
17. Smell the Roses
18. Brain Damage
19. Eclipse
20. Vera
    Bring the Boys Back Home
    Comfortably Numb

HERE’S SOME GREAT FOOTAGE FROM THE CONCERT

COMFORTABLY NUMB

WELCOME TO THE MACHINE

US AND THEM

BRAIN DAMAGE AND ECLIPSE

HIS VIEWS ON TRUMP

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 10, 2019…FORTY NINE YEARS AGO THE GREATEST PROTEST SONG EVER WAS RELEASED AS A SINGLE, EDWIN STARR’S ‘WAR.’

THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF THE SONG WAS RECORDED BY THE TEMPTATIONS. STARR’S VERSION OF WAR IS THE SONG THAT HAD SOME TEETH AND NOT ONLY HIT NUMBER 1 BUT ALSO IS ONE OF THE GREATEST PROTEST SONGS EVER RECORDED. STARR EARNED A GRAMMY NOMINATION IN 1971 FOR “BEST R&B MALE VOCAL”. IN 1999 STARR’S RECORDING OF ‘WAR’ WAS INDUCTED INTO THE GRAMMY HALL OF FAME.

HERE’S THE ORIGINAL VIDEO FOR ‘WAR’ FROM 1969

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 9, 2019…JON LORD WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST KEYBOARD PLAYERS IN ROCK HISTORY. TODAY HE WOULD HAVE BEEN 78 YEARS OF AGE. LORD WAS THE CO-FOUNDER OF DEEP PURPLE AND WAS CONSIDERED THE LEADER OF THE GROUP UNTIL 1970. TOGETHER WITH THE OTHER MEMBERS, HE COLLABORATED ON MOST OF THE BAND’S MOST POPULAR SONGS. LORD AND PAICE WERE THE ONLY CONTINUOUS PRESENCE IN THE BAND FROM 1968-1976. HE ALSO PLAYED WITH WHITESNAKE, PAICE ASHTON LORD, THE ATWOODS, AND THE FLOWER POT MEN. LORD PASSED AWAY ON JULY 16, 2012 AFTER BEING DIAGNOSED WITH PANCREATIC CANCER.

I THINK THIS IS THE ULTIMATE JON LORD SONG, A LIVE VERSION OF ‘LAZY’

HERE’S ‘HIGHWAY STAR’ FROM DEEP PURPLE

AND THIS IS PURE GOLD, HERE’S AN ISOLATED TRACK OF LORD ON DEEP PURPLE’S ‘HIGHWAY STAR’

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 9, 2019…NINETEEN YEARS AGO DON HENLEY PLAYED THE SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE. I WAS AT THIS SHOW AND THIS IS THE CONCERT THAT TURNED ME INTO A DON HENLEY FAN. THE SOUND WAS IMPECCABLE AND HENLEY WAS AT THE TOP OF HIS GAME TOURING IN SUPPORT OF THE THE ALBUM ‘THE END OF THE INNOCENCE’. HENLEY ENDED UP WINNING A GRAMMY AWARD FOR “BEST MALE ROCK VOCAL PERFORMANCE” FOR THIS RECORD. THE SETLIST FOR THE SHOW AT SHORELINE WAS:

1. Drivin' With Your Eyes Closed
2. Dirty Laundry
3. The End of the Innocence
4. If Dirt Were Dollars
5. Sunset Grill
6. New York Minute
7. The Heart of the Matter
8. Hotel California
9. Life in the Fast Lane
10. The Boys of Summer
11. Encore:
12. All She Wants to Do Is Dance
13. I Will Not Go Quietly
14. Desperado
15. The Last Worthless Evening

HERE’S DON HENLEY IN CONCERT ( FEATURING HENLEY SPORTING HIS LONG HAIR CIRCA 1990)

photo thanks-Steve Alexander