LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 13, 2020…THIRTY SIX YEARS AGO MARKED THE RELEASE OF THE CARS ‘HEARTBEAT CITY’. IT WAS THE 5TH STUDIO ALBUM FROM THE GROUP, AND IN TERMS OF COMMERCIAL SUCCESS IT WAS MASSIVE. ‘HEARTBEAT CITY’ WAS A HIT MACHINE, SPAWNING 5 TOP 40 SINGLES, AND SELLING OVER 4 MILLION COPIES IN AMERICA. 

HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR ‘DRIVE’ FROM THE CARS

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 13, 2020… FOURTEEN YEARS AGO, THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTED LYNYRD SKYNYRD AND BLACK SABBATH AS MEMBERS OF “THE CLASS OF 2006” IN THE RRHOF. HERE’S FOOTAGE OF LYNYRD SKYNYRD ACCEPTING THE AWARD

AND SKYNYRD PERFORMING WITH KID ROCK AS PART OF THE JAM SESSION

AND JUDGING BY THE CAMERA WORK  , THIS HAS GOT TO BE HOME VIDEO OF SKYNYRD PERFORMING ‘FREE BIRD’ AT THE HOF AWARDS SHOW

METALLICA INDUCTED BLACK SABBATH AND HERE’S SABBATH ACCEPTING THEIR  AWARD

AND HERE’S THE METALLICA PERFORMING FOR BLACK SABBATH AT THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME 

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 12, 2020…THREE YEARS AGO GUITARIST JOEY ALVES PASSED AWAY. ALVES WAS BEST KNOWN AS A KEY MEMBER OF THE BAND Y&T. HE JOINED GROUP IN 1974 WHEN THEY WERE STILL KNOWN AS ‘YESTERDAY AND TODAY’. AT THAT POINT THEY WERE JUST DOING COVERS. WHEN ALVES CAME ON BOARD, THE GROUP STARTED WRITING THEIR OWN MATERIAL. JOEY ALVES WAS A MEMBER OF Y&T FROM 1974-1989. HE DIED AT THE AGE OF 63 FROM ULCERATIVE COLITIS AND INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE. DAVE MENIKETTI IS NOW THE ONLY SURVIVING ORIGINAL MEMBER OF Y&T. HERE’S MEMORIES OF ALVES WITH Y&T FROM A SHOW IN SAN FRANCISCO CIRCA 1985

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 11, 2020…HOLY SCHNIKES !!! IT WAS 1970 AND ON THIS DATE CROSBY, STILLS, NASH AND YOUNG RELEASED WHAT WOULD BE THE NUMBER ONE ALBUM OF THE YEAR. THE ALBUM WAS A MASTERPIECE. STEVEN STILLS ESTIMATED THAT THE ALBUM TOOK AROUND 800 HOURS OF STUDIO TIME TO RECORD. DEJA VU GENERATED 3 TOP 40 SINGLES ‘TEACH YOUR CHILDREN’ ‘OUR HOUSE’ AND ‘WOODSTOCK’ AND SOLD OVER 8 MILLION COPIES. KEEP IN MIND THESE ARE 1970 NUMBERS ! NO ONE SOLD 8 MILLION COPIES OF AN ALBUM IN 1970 !  THIS ALBUM IS IN THE ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE’S TOP 500 GREATEST ALBUMS OF ALL-TIME. HERE’S RARE FOOTAGE OF C,S,N & Y FROM 1970

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 11, 2020…TWENTY SEVEN YEARS AGO QUIET RIOT RELEASED THEIR THIRD STUDIO ALBUM, AND IT WOULD PROVE TO BE A GROUND BREAKER FOR METAL BANDS. 

THE ALBUM WAS ‘METAL HEALTH’ AND IT WAS A GROUNDBREAKER BECAUSE IT WAS THE FIRST EVER HEAVY METAL ALBUM TO TOP THE BILLBOARD ALBUM CHARTS. ‘METAL HEALTH’ KNOCKED ‘SYNCHRONICITY’ BY THE POLICE OUT OF THE NUMBER ONE SPOT IN NOVEMBER OF 1983. THE ALBUM’S COMMERCIAL SUCCESS WAS FUELED BY 2 HIT SINGLES , ‘CUM ON FEEL THE NOIZE’ AND THE TITLE TRACK ‘METAL HEALTH’. NOW THIS MIGHT GET CONFUSING BECAUSE THE SINGLE ‘METAL HEALTH’ WAS THEN RETITLED ‘BANG YOUR HEAD (METAL HEALTH)’ AFTER THE ORIGINAL PRESSING. THE ALBUM ENDED UP SELLING OVER 6 MILLION COPIES. BTW, SOME GREAT TRIVIA ON THE ‘BANG YOUR HEAD (METAL HEALTH) VIDEO. IT WAS A STAPLE ON MTV, BUT WAS MADE ON THE CHEAP BY THE BAND, BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T HAVE ANY MONEY TO RECORD AN ELABORATE VIDEO. SO THEY MADE A DEAL WITH A LOCAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND RECRUITED STUDENTS TO FORM THE CROWDS FOR THE STAGE SCENES. HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 11, 2020…IN 1985 ERIC CLAPTON RELEASED THE ALBUM ‘BEHIND THE SUN,’ A RECORD MANY PEOPLE REFER TO THIS AS HIS COMEBACK ALBUM. IT WAS CLAPTON’S FIRST COLLABORATIVE PROJECT WITH PHIL COLLINS, AND THE RECORD WAS VERY WELL RECEIVED BOTH CRITICALLY AND COMMERCIALLY. THE MAKING OF THE ALBUM CAME AS AN ESCAPE TO CLAPTON, WHO WAS GOING THROUGH A TRIAL SEPARATION WAT THE TIME WITH HIS WIFE PATTIE BOYD. HIS TROUBLED MARRIAGE BECAME THE SUBJECT OF MOST OF THE ORIGINAL CLAPTON MATERIAL ON THE ALBUM. THE TWO BIG HITS FROM THE ALBUM WERE ‘SHE’S WAITING’ AND ‘FOREVER MAN.' IN SUPPORT OF THE ALBUM, CLAPTON PLAYED WITH PHIL COLLINS AT THE BENEFIT ‘LIVE AID’. HE PLAYED THE SONG ABOUT HIS FAILING MARRIAGE. HERE’S A LIVE VERSION OF ‘SHE’S WAITING’  

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 10, 2020…HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BOSTON CO-FOUNDER TOM SCHOLZ. TODAY SCHOLZ TURNS 73. SCHOLZ IS THE ONLY REMAINING ORIGINAL MEMBER OF BOSTON. HE MIGHT ALSO BE ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING PEOPLE IN ROCK AND ROLL. A GREAT MUSICIAN, HE’S ALSO AN ENGINEER AND AN INVENTOR. SCHOLZ INVENTED THE ‘ROCKMAN’ PORTABLE GUITAR AMPLIFIER.  BEFORE HIS CAREER AS A MUSICIAN, HE WAS WORKING AS A SENIOR PRODUCT ADVISOR FOR POLAROID. WHILE WORKING WITH POLAROID, HE TEAMED UP WITH BRAD DELP TO BASICALLY RECORD THE ENTIRE BOSTON DEBUT ALBUM IN HIS BASEMENT STUDIO. ( MOST OF WHAT ENDED UP ON BOSTON’S DEBUT ALBUM WERE TRACKS RECORDED IN SCHOLZ’S BASEMENT, MUCH TO THE RECORD COMPANIES CHAGRIN). BOSTON’S SELF TITLED DEBUT WAS THE BIGGEST SELLING DEBUT ALBUM BY ANY ARTIST UP TO THAT TIME, SELLING OVER 20 MILLION COPIES WORLDWIDE. HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR ‘MORE THAN A FEELING’

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 10, 2020…51 YEARS AGO LED ZEPPELIN RELEASED THEIR FIRST U.S. SINGLE. IT WAS THE FIRST SONG ON THEIR SELF TITLED DEBUT. JOHN BONHAM, JOHN PAUL JONES, AND JIMMY PAGE ARE CREDITED WITH WRITING THIS SONG, AND THERE IS NO CREDIT FOR ROBERT PLANT. THAT’S BECAUSE PLANT WAS CONTRACTUALLY TIED UP AT THE TIME AND DIDN’T WANT THERE TO BE LEGAL HASSLES, SO PLANT DIDN’T TAKE ANY WRITING CREDITS ON THE FIRST ALBUM. JIMMY PAGE EXPLAINED HOW THE SONG CAME TOGETHER IN HIS 2012 ROLLING STONE INTERVIEW: "John Paul Jones came up with the riff. I had the chorus. John Bonham applied the bass-drum pattern. That one really shaped our writing process. It was like, 'Wow, everybody's erupting at once." Jimmy Page passed his guitar through a Leslie Speaker to create a swirling effect. The Leslie contains a rotating paddle and was designed for organs, but some musicians used it to process guitars and vocals. Eric Clapton used it on "Badge." John Bonham used a device called a "Triplet" on his bass drum for this song to get a double bass pedal sound. He used the tip of his toe to flick the bass pedal back fast, creating an effect many drummers tried to copy. Jimmy Page explained in the BBC Book Guitar Greats, "'Good Times, Bad Times,' as usual, came out of a riff with a great deal of John Paul Jones on bass, and it really knocked everybody sideways when they heard the bass drum pattern, because I think everyone was laying bets that Bonzo was using two bass drums, but he only had one." 

WHEN THE BAND PLAYED AT THE O2 ARENA FOR A BENEFIT SHOW IN 2007 WITH JASON BONHAM SITTING IN ON DRUMS FOR HIS FATHER, THIS WAS THE FIRST SONG IN THE SET.  HERE’S THE DIGITALLY REMASTERED VERSION OF ‘GOOD TIMES BAD TIMES’ FROM ‘MOTHERSHIP’