LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 6, 2020…HAPPY 74TH BIRTHDAY TO PINK FLOYD GUITARIST AND CO-VOCALIST DAVID GILMOUR. GILMOUR JOINED PINK FLOYD IN 1968. WITH GILMOUR IN THE BAND, THE GROUP WENT ON A RUN OF SOME OF ROCK’S MOST SUCCESSFUL ALBUMS, INCLUDING ‘THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON’ ‘WISH YOU WERE HERE’ ‘ANIMALS’ AND ‘THE WALL’. GILMOUR AND PINK FLOYD HAVE SOLD OVER 250 MILLION ALBUMS WORLDWIDE. AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF ROGER WATERS IN 1985, GILMOUR AND PINK FLOYD CREATED 3 MORE PINK FLOYD ALBUMS BEFORE THE GROUP DISBANDED IN 2014.

HERE’S GILMOUR WITH AN OUTSTANDING UNPLUGGED VERSION OF ‘WISH YOU WERE HERE’

(photo thanks- Pat Johnson Studios http://www.patjohnson.com )

Lamont & Tonelli talked to Mr. Skin for his weekly fun bags forecast, this week Mr. Skin gave us a sneak peak to his "Whack-It Bracket."

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 5, 2020…TODAY JOHN FRUSCIANTE TURNS 50. FRUSCIANTE IS BEST KNOWN AS THE FORMER LEAD GUITARIST OF THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, FROM 1988-1992, AND A SECOND STINT FROM 1998-2009. FRISCIANTE RETURNED TO THE LINEUP AGAIN IN DECEMBER OF 2019. HE HAS RECORDED 5 STUDIO ALBUMS WITH THE BAND.

HE JOINED THE GROUP IN 1989 AT THE AGE OF 18, AND FIRST APPEARED ON THE ALBUM ‘MOTHER’S MILK’. THE GROUP’S FOLLOW-UP ALBUM ‘BLOOD SUGAR SEX MAGIK’ WAS A BREAKTHROUGH SUCCESS. IT WAS A MONSTER RECORD. THE ONLY PROBLEM WAS, IT WAS SO SUCCESSFUL, FRUSCIANTE COULDN’T DEAL WITH THE POPULARITY, AND QUIT IN 1992.  FRUSCIANTE BECAME A RECLUSE AND ENTERED A LONG PERIOD OF DRUG ADDICTION. IN 1998 HE COMPLETED DRUG REHAB AND REJOINED THE RHCP. THE FIRST ALBUM OUT OF THE GATES THIS TIME WAS ‘CALIFORNICATION’ AND IT SOLD OVER 16 MILLION COPIES. IN 2006, FRUSCIANTE AND THE PEPPERS RELEASED ‘STADIUM ARCADIUM’. THIS WOULD BE HIS THE 5TH AND FINAL ALBUM WITH THE PEPPERS, HOWEVER THE GROUP HAS ANNOUNCED A NEW ALBUM FOR 2020 WITH A TOUR. THIS GUY CAN SHRED ON GUITAR. HERE’S JOHN WITH THE RHCP WITH ‘GIVE IT AWAY’ 

photo props-Piyush Kumar

Samy The Psychic sits in with Lamont and Tonelli the first Wednesday of every month.

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 4, 2020…53 YEARS AGO THE ROLLING STONES RECORDED “LOVE YOU LIVE” AT 2 SECRET SHOWS AT THE EL MOCAMBO TAVERN IN TORONTO CANADA. THE SHOWS WERE ON MARCH 4TH AND 5TH AT THE SMALL CLUB IN T.O.. ONLY 4 SONGS WERE RECORDED AT THE NIGHTSPOT, BECAUSE KEITH RICHARDS ARRIVED LATE FOR REHEARSALS, AS HE AND HIS GIRLFRIEND ANITA PALLENBERG HAD BEEN ARRESTED FOR POSSESSION AND TRAFFICKING HEROIN WHEN THEIR HOTEL ROOM WAS RAIDED. ADDITIONAL SONGS TO FILL OUT THE ALBUM WERE RECORDED AT PERFORMANCES DURING THE 1975-1976 TOUR. ANOTHER GREAT STORY ABOUT THIS ALBUM IS THE COVER. THE PAID COMMISSIONED ANDY WARHOL TO DO THE ARTWORK. HOWEVER THE PENCIL SMEARS SEEN ACROSS THE FRONT WERE ADDED BY MICK JAGGER, MUCH TO THE DISMAY OF ANDY WARHOL.  THIS IS REALLY COOL. THE PROMO VIDEO FOR “IT’S ONLY ROCK AND ROLL”. IT HAS A DIFFERENT MIX THAN THE ACTUAL SONG THAT WAS RELEASED. 

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 4, 2020…HAPPY 57th BDAY TO BAY AREA ROCKER AND FORMER METALLICA BASSIST JASON NEWSTED. THE WALNUT CREEK RESIDENT IS BEST KNOWN FOR BEING THE THIRD BASS GUITARIST IN THE BAND METALLICA. HE WAS WITH THE BAND FROM 1986 UNTIL HIS DEPARTURE IN JANUARY 2001. AFTER THE DEATH OF CLIFF BURTON, THE GROUP STARTED A SEARCH FOR A NEW BASSIST, AND AUDITIONED OVER 50 MUSICIANS. NEWSTEDT WAS THE LAST OF THE PEOPLE TRYING OUT, AND ENDED UP WITH THE GIG. METALLICA INVOLVED BURTON’S PARENTS IN THE DECISION TO FILL THE BASSIST’S POSITION, AND BOTH OF CLIFF’S PARENTS WERE PRESENT SO THEY WOULD KNOW WHO WOULD BE CARRYING ON WITH THEIR SON’S LEGACY AND WOULD “PASS CLIFF’S TORCH ON.” NEWSTED’S STUDIO DEBUT WITH THE BAND WAS THE E.P: ‘GARAGE DAYS RE-REVISITED’, AND FOLLOWED BY THE EPIC  ‘...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL’

HERE’S NEWSTEDT REUNITING WITH METALLICA IN 2011

Colin Quinn will be performing his new standup comedy show "The Wrong Side of History" at the Bing Concert Hall Studio at Stanford University in Stanford, CA.

Friday, March 13th at 7pm & 9pm

Saturday, March 14th at 7pm & 9pm

For more info go to: www.colinquinn.com

For tickets go to: www.stanfordlivetickets.org

Listen to Lamont and Tonelli's interview with Colin Quinn below.

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With everyone worried about the Coronavirus, people are stocking up with supplies including Lamont who bought $117 dollars worth of toilet paper.

This is what $117 dollars of toilet paper looks like in Lamont's backseat of his car.

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 3, 2020…FORTY THREE YEARS AGO BAD COMPANY RELEASED THEIR FOURTH ALBUM ‘BURNIN’ SKY.’ THE RECORD WAS ACTUALLY PUSHED BACK TO THIS DATE FROM AN EARLIER RELEASE IN LATE 1976 BECAUSE THEIR RECORD COMPANY DIDN’T WANT IT TO COMPETE WITH THE BAND’S THE CURRENT ALBUM ‘RUN WITH THE PACK.’  THE LP FEATURES THE EPIC SONG ‘BURNIN’ SKY’ AND PAUL ROGERS ONCE DESCRIBED TO “CLASSIC ROCK REVISITED” HOW IT CAME TO BE: "I had the chorus to that. It just popped into my head one day - The Sky Is Burning. I didn't know quite why the sky was burning and my soul was on fire. We needed material for the Burning Sky album. I was in a hotel in Paris the day before we were due to go into the sessions and I needed to write some songs. We had been on the road pretty heavily and we were pretty burned. I had the chorus and I worked the chords out for it. I worked out some verse chords. I went to the studio and I had them learn the chords but we had no lyrics at all. We counted it off and hit the button. We went into it, (singing) 'The sky is burning' and I wrote the lyrics on the spot. That was pretty amazing I thought. It was one take and I made the lyrics up as I went along."

THE ALBUM ‘BURNIN’ SKY’ HAS SOLD OVER 1.5 MILLION COPIES. HERE’S BAD COMPANY WITH A GREAT VERSION (PAUL ROGERS IN CONCERT CAN’T BE BEAT, WHAT A PHENOMENAL VOICE)