LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 6, 2019…38 YEARS AGO RUSH PLAYED THE SECOND OF 2 SOLD OUT NIGHTS IN OAKLAND. IT WAS PART OF THE ‘MOVING PICTURES TOUR’. THE ORIGINAL ‘MOVING PICTURES TOUR’ HAD RUSH ON THE ROAD FROM SEPTEMBER 1980 TO JULY 1981.

ACCORDING TO RUSH.COM THIS WAS THE SETLIST:

1. 2112 Part I: Overture
2. 2112 Part II: The Temples of Syrinx
3. Freewill
4. Limelight
5. Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres Part I: Prelude
6. Beneath, Between & Behind
7. The Camera Eye
8. YYZ
9. Drum Solo
10. Broon's Bane
11. The Trees
12. Xanadu
13. The Spirit of Radio
14. Red Barchetta
15. Closer to the Heart
16. Tom Sawyer
17. Vital Signs
18. Natural Science
19. Working Man
20. Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres Part IV: Armageddon
21. By-Tor & The Snow Dog
22. In the End
23. In the Mood
24. 2112 Part VII: Grand Finale
25. Encore:
26. La Villa Strangiato

HERE’S RUSH AND TOM SAWYER FROM ‘MOVING PICTURES’

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 6, 2019…NINETEEN YEARS AGO AEROSMITH RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘THE OTHER SIDE’. IT WAS THE 4TH SINGLE RELEASE FROM THE HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL ALBUM PUMP. THIS SONG ACTUALLY MARKED A FIRST FOR AEROSMITH. IT WAS THE FOURTH SINGLE FROM A SINGLE ALBUM OF THEIRS TO PLACE IN BILLBOARD’S TOP 4O CHART. ONLY THE ALBUM ‘GET A GRIP’ EQUALLED THIS FEAT. ‘THE OTHER SIDE’ ALSO REACHED # 1 ON THE “MAINSTREAM ROCK” CHART, WHICH MARKED THE THIRD SINGLE FROM ‘PUMP’ TO DO SO.

THE VIDEO FOR THE SONG INCLUDED LIVE FOOTAGE DURING THE BAND’S SWING THROUGH THE SOUTH. SHOWS FROM NEW ORLEANS, SHREVEPORT, TALLAHASSEE, AND JACKSON WERE USED IN THE VIDEO.

THE VIDEO WON THE MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARD FOR “BEST ROCK VIDEO” IN 1991.

HERE’S THE AWARD WINNING VIDEO

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 6, 2019…41 YEARS AGO THE CARS RELEASED THEIR DEBUT ALBUM. THIS ALBUM WAS HUGE. IT SOLD 6 MILLION COPIES AND STAYED ON THE CHARTS FOR CLOSE TO 3 YEARS. BILLBOARD MAGAZINE RANKED IT AS NUMBER 4 ON THE TOP 10 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR. THEY WERE NAMED THE BEST NEW ARTIST OF 1978 BY “ROLLING STONE” AND “CREAM” MAGAZINES, AND LOST THE BEST NEW ARTIST GRAMMY TO A TASTE OF HONEY. ( NICE CALL GRAMMY AWARDS...NOT)

HERE’S SOME TRIVIA. THE MODEL ON THE COVER OF THE ALBUM WAS NATALIA MEDVEDEVA. SHE WAS A RUSSIAN MODEL, POET, AND SINGER. SHE ALSO POSED FOR PLAYBOY.

HERE ARE THE CARS FROM THAT GREAT DEBUT ALBUM

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 5, 2019…FORTY ONE YEARS AGO CHEAP TRICK RELEASED THEIR FIRST SINGLE ‘SURRENDER’

IT WAS FROM THE GROUP’S FIRST ALBUM ‘HEAVEN TONIGHT’. IN AMERICA IT ONLY WENT TO # 62. HOWEVER IN JAPAN IT WAS A NUMBER ONE SONG, AND WITH THE LATER SUCCESS THE BAND ENJOYED WITH THE SINGLES ‘CLOCK STRIKES TEN’ AND ‘I WANT YOU TO WANT ME’ IT LEAD TO THE RECORDING OF THE RECORDING OF THE BAND’S MOST POPULAR ALBUM ‘CHEAP TRICK AT BUDOKAN’.

THE SONG HAS BEEN DESCRIBED BY “ULTIMATE CLASSIC ROCK” AS:

“a tongue-in-cheek examination of the culture clash between the World War II generation and their hairy, reefer-smoking kids.”

THE ABOUT THE MOTHER BEING IN THE WACS IS A REFERENCE TO THE WOMEN’S ARMY CORPS, WHICH WAS ACTIVE DURING WORLD WAR II.

IF YOU’RE WONDERING WHY THE LYRICS "Now I had heard the WACs recruited old maids for the war " DON’T MAKE MUCH SENSE IT’S BECAUSE THEY WEREN’T WRITTEN THAT WAY. THE ORIGINAL LYRICS WERE DEEMED TOO RACY AND THE BAND WAS FORCED TO CHANGE THEM FOR THE RECORD. THE ORIGINAL LYRICS WERE: "Now I had heard the WACs were either old maids, dykes or whores."

GOD I WISH THEY WOULD HAVE KEPT THE ORIGINAL LYRICS !!

“ROLLING STONE” MAGAZINE CALLED ‘SURRENDER’ "the ultimate Seventies teen anthem" AND PLACED IT AT NUMBER 471 ON IT’S LIST OF “THE 500 GREATEST SONGS OF ALL-TIME”

HERE’S CHEAP TRICK WITH THE LIVE VERSION OF ‘SURRENDER’ FROM THE BUDOKAN

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 5, 2019…16 YEARS AGO METALLICA RELEASED THE CD ‘ST. ANGER’

THE BACKSTORY BEHIND THIS ALBUM IS COMPELLING. THE GROUP RENTED SOME OLD ARMY BARRACKS AT THE PRESIDIO AND CONVERTED THE BARRACKS INTO A MAKESHIFT STUDIO IN JANUARY 2001. JUST AS THE BAND WAS MAKING PLANS TO GET STARTED ENTER THE STUDIO AND RECORD THEIR FIRST ALBUM IN 5 YEARS, THE BAND WAS THROWN A HUGE CURVE BALL WITH JASON NEWSTED ANNOUNCING HE WAS LEAVING THE BAND ON JANUARY 17, 2001. THE GROUP WAS FORCED TO POSTPONE RECORDING.

APPREHENSIVE TO IMMEDIATELY START WRITING AND RECORDING WITH A NEW BASSIST, A DECISION WAS THEN MADE TO HAVE PRODUCER BOB ROCK TO FILL IN ON BASS FOR THE RECORDING OF THE PROJECT. THE BAND WOULD THEN FIND ANOTHER BASS PLAYER AFTER THE ALBUM WAS COMPLETED.

INTO THE STUDIO THE BAND GOES, ONLY TO THEN SEE RECORDING COME TO A HALT AGAIN WHEN JAMES HETFIELD ENTERED REHAB. HETFIELD RETURNED TO THE BAND IN APRIL OF 2002, BUT WAS ONLY ALLOWED TO WORK WITH THE BAND FROM NOON - 4 PM. DUE TO HIS PERSONAL PROBLEMS, AND METALLICA’S INTERNAL PROBLEMS, THE BAND WAS FORCED TO HIRE A PERSONAL ENHANCEMENT COACH. THANK GOD WITH ALL THIS GOING ON, THE GROUP COMMISSIONED A FILMMAKER TO RECORD THE DAILY DEVELOPMENTS AND ALL OF THIS IS DOCUMENTED IN THE BAND’S DOCUMENTARY ‘SOME KIND OF MONSTER’

WITH ALL OF THIS CHAOS AROUND THEM, THE ALBUM WAS FINALLY RECORDED FROM MAY 2002-APRIL 2003 AT THE BAND’S NEW STUDIO KNOWN AS “HQ”

HERE’S THE GRAMMY AWARD WINNING TITLE TRACK ST. ANGER

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 5, 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 IN 1991. ON JUNE 5, 1976 THE BAY AREA WAS TREATED TO ONE OF THESE MEGA CONCERTS.

THE LINEUP INCLUDED BOZ SCAGGS, TOWER OF POWER, SANTANA, JEFF BECK, JOURNEY, & NILS LOFGREN.

HERE’S AN ENTIRE “DAY ON THE GREEN” SET FROM SANTANA.

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 4, 2019…ON THIS DATE 35 YEARS AGO BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN RELEASED HIS MOST SUCCESSFUL ALBUM COMMERCIALLY, THE ALBUM ‘BORN IN THE USA’

THE ALBUM WAS DRIVEN BY 7 HIT SINGLES ‘DANCING IN THE DARK’ ‘BORN IN THE USA’ ‘GLORY DAYS’ ‘I’M GOING DOWN’ ‘MY HOMETOWN’ ‘ I’M ON FIRE AND ‘COVER ME’

THE RECORD SOLD OVER 30 MILLION COPIES AND WAS NOMINATED FOR A GRAMMY AS THE ‘ALBUM OF THE YEAR’

IT ALSO HOLDS THE DISTINCTION AS THE FIRST CD MANUFACTURED IN THE USA FOR COMMERCIAL RELEASE. IT WAS PRESSED WHEN CBS RECORDS OPENED UP THEIR MANUFACTURING PLANT IN INDIANA IN 1984. PRIOR TO THIS PLANT OPENING, ALL COMPACT DISCS WERE IMPORTED FROM JAPAN

HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR ‘BORN IN THE USA’

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 4, 2019…TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS, THE GEORGIA SATELLITES, AND DEL FUEGOS PLAYED THE CONCORD PAVILION 32 YEARS AGO. IT WAS PART OF PETTY’S ROCK N’ ROLL CARAVAN TOUR. THE TOUR HAD PETTY PLAYING THE CONCORD PAVILION ON JUNE 4,1987 AND A CONCERT THE NEXT EVENING AT THE SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE.

ACCORDING TO SETLIST.COM THIS WAS WHAT WENT DOWN FROM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS

1. Breakdown
2. Think About Me
3. American Girl
4. My Life/Your World
5. Here Comes My Girl
6. Listen to Her Heart
7. For What It's Worth
   (Buffalo Springfield cover)
8. The Waiting
9. Don't Come Around Here No More
10. It'll All Work Out
11. Spike
12. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
    (Bob Dylan & The Band cover)
13. Should I Stay or Should I Go
    (The Clash cover)
14. Even the Losers
15. Jammin' Me
16. Refugee
17. Encore:
18. You Got Lucky
19. Back in the U.S.A.

HERE’S ONE OF THE BEST LIVE VERSIONS OF BREAKDOWN. IT WAS PETTY PLAYING WINTERLAND IN SAN FRANCISCO THE NIGHT BEFORE THE VENUE WAS CLOSED FOREVER