LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 25, 2020…IT WAS 1973 AND ALICE COOPER RELEASED THE ALBUM ‘BILLION DOLLAR BABIES’. THIS WAS THE 6TH STUDIO ALBUM FROM ALICE COOPER, AND , UP TO THAT DATE, IT WAS HIS BEST SELLING ALBUM. ALICE COOPER SAID, THE “WHOLE IDEA BEHIND THE BILLION DOLLAR BABIES ALBUM WAS EXPLOITING THE IDEA THAT PEOPLE DO HAVE SICK PERVERSIONS.” THE ALBUMS TITLE COMES FROM THE FACT THAT COOPER AND THE BAND WERE SURPRISED ABOUT THEIR SUCCESS. ACCORDING TO COOPER 2 YEARS BEFORE THE ALBUM, THE BAND WAS STRUGGLING AND LIVING IN A FRIENDS BASEMENT. IT BLEW THEIR MIND THAT 2 YEARS LATER, PEOPLE WERE THROWING MONEY AT THEM.  IT WAS ON THE BILLION DOLLAR BABIES TOUR THAT COOPER HIRED A MAGICIAN TO HELP WITH THE EFFECTS OF THE SHOW, AND COOPER WAS DECAPITATED WITH THE GUILLOTINE. CLASSIC COOPER AND FOR THIS REASON ALONE I CONSIDER HIM THE GREATEST SHOWMAN IN ROCK. HERE’S ALICE IN THE GUILLOTINE

HERE’S A GREAT VIDEO FROM ONE OF THE BIG HITS OF THE ALBUM. THIS ONE HAS LIMOS ,BOOZE, AND ROLLING SKATING CHIMPS ! ALICE COOPER’S ELECTED

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 25, 2020…36 YEARS AGO ‘JUMP’ STARTED A 5 WEEK RUN AT NUMBER 1 ON THE SINGLES CHARTS. DAVID LEE ROTH WROTE THE LYRICS TO THE SONG AFTER SEEING A NEWS REPORT ABOUT A MAN WHO WAS THREATENING TO COMMIT SUICIDE BY JUMPING OFF A HIGH BUILDING. ROTH THOUGHT THAT ONE OF THE ONLOOKERS OF SUCH A SCENE WOULD PROBABLY SHOUT “GO AHEAD AND JUMP.” HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR ‘JUMP’

A 21 year-old athlete, who was free-balling, had to have 18 stitches after impaling his scrotum on a pole while pole vaulting. Footage of Zach McWhorter’s accident was shared on his TikTok page, where the cringeworthy accident has now been watched 20 million times. The student, who studies at BYU in Provo, Utah, was rushed to hospital by his urologist dad afterwards, with medics stitching up the agonizing injury.

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POLE VAULTER SNAGS SCROTUM:
“There was a hole in it.”
Today, BYU pole vaulter Zach McWhorter laughs about this very private injury.
His dad is his coach & ironically also a urologist who quickly stitched up the injury.
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— Jim Spiewak (@JimSpiewak) February 21, 2020

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 24, 2020…TWENTY EIGHT YEARS AGO KURT COBAIN MARRIED COURTNEY LOVE ON A BEACH IN WAIKIKI, HAWAII. THE PRESS AT THE TIME REPORTED THAT THE COUPLE WERE EXPECTING A BABY. THE REPORTS PROVED TRUE AS COURTNEY LOVE AND KURT BECAME PARENTS 7 MONTHS LATER IN AUGUST OF 1992 WITH THE BIRTH OF THEIR ONLY CHILD FRANCES BEAN COBAIN. HERE’S A GREAT “BEHIND THE MUSIC’ ON COURTNEY LOVE

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 24, 2020…FORTY FIVE YEARS AGO LED ZEPPELIN RELEASED THE ALBUM ‘PHYSICAL GRAFFITI.’ IT WAS THE GROUP’S SIXTH STUDIO ALBUM AND THE RECORDING OF THE ALBUM WAS DISRUPTED WHEN THE GROUP’S BASSIST AND KEYBOARDIST JOHN PAUL JONES SAID HE WAS THINKING OF QUITTING THE BAND. THE RUMOR WAS HE WAS GOING TO BECOME A CHOIRMASTER AT WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL, ALTHOUGH HE JUST WANTED TO TAKE A REST FROM ZEPPELIN’S TOURING SCHEDULE. THE GROUP DECIDED ON A DOUBLE ALBUM SO THEY COULD FEATURE SONGS THAT WERE LEFT OVER FROM THEIR PREVIOUS ALBUMS LED ZEPPELIN III, LED ZEPPELIN IV, AND HOUSES OF THE HOLY. ‘PHYSICAL GRAFFITI’ DEBUTED AT NUMBER ONE IN BOTH ENGLAND AND THE USA, AND IN THE UNITED STATES THE ALBUM IS 16 TIMES PLATINUM, SELLING OVER 16 MILLION COPIES. YOU WANT TO SEE SOMETHING GREAT? HERE’S ZEP PERFORMING ‘KASHMIR’ LIVE

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 24, 2020…HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISHES GOING OUT TO GEORGE THOROGOOD. ONE OF THE REALLY GOOD GUYS IN ROCK AND ROLL, TODAY HE TURNS 70. THOROGOOD AND HIS GROUP THE DESTROYERS HAVE BEEN CRANKING OUT “NO-NONSENSE HIGH ENERGY BOOGIE BLUES ROCK” FOR OVER 46 YEARS WHEN HE CAME INTO PROMINENCE WITH HIS REMAKE OF ‘MOVE IT ON OVER.’ WITH HIS BAND THE DESTROYERS, THOROGOOD HAS SOLD OVER 15 MILLION ALBUMS AND HAS GIVEN US ROCK ANTHEMS LIKE ‘ONE BOURBON, ONE SCOTCH, ONE BEER’ ‘WHO DO YOU LOVE’ ‘I DRINK ALONE’ AND THE SONG 1077 THE BONE SIGNED ON THE AIR WITH, ‘BAD TO THE BONE.’ A MUST TO SEE IN CONCERT, TODAY WE WISH GEORGE THOROGOOD THE HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAYS.

HERE’S CLASSIC LIVE THOROGOOD

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 23, 2020…BORN ON THIS DATE IN 1944, JOHNNY WINTER WOULD HAVE BEEN 76. WINTER WAS A GREAT BLUES GUITARIST WHO HAD WORKED WITH RICK DERRINGER AND BROTHER EDGAR WINTER. IN 1969 HE RELEASE A SELF TITLED ALBUM THAT WENT TOP 30 ON THE BILLBOARD ALBUM CHARTS. HE DIED AT THE AGE OF 70 ON JULY 16,2014 IN GERMANY. IF YOU LOVE THE BLUES, DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND WATCH THIS VIDEO OF JOHNNY WINTER AND HIS BROTHER EDGAR AND THEIR VERSION OF ‘TOBACCO ROAD’

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 23, 2020…TODAY THE “OTHER GUITARIST” FOR AEROSMITH BRAD WHITFORD TURNS 68. WHILE JOE PERRY IS THE BAND’S BETTER KNOWN GUITARIST, AND WHITFORD IS KNOWN AS THE RHYTHM GUITARIST, THIS GUY SHREDS ON GUITAR, AND HAS CO-WRITTEN MANY TRACKS FOR THE GROUP INCLUDING ‘LAST CHILD’. HE ALSO PLAYS LEAD ON ‘SICK AS A DOG’ AND ‘BACK IN THE SADDLE’ AND SHARES LEAD DUTY WITH PERRY ON ‘TRAIN KEPT A-ROLLIN’ ‘DREAM ON’ AND ‘LOVE IN AN ELEVATOR’

WHATEVER HIS ROLE, BRAD WHITFORD BRINGS IT EVERY NIGHT ! HERE’S A GLORIOUS LIVE VERSION OF SWEET EMOTION...ENJOY ALL 7 ½ MINUTES !

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 23, 2020…TODAY IN 1978 THE GRAMMY AWARD FOR “ALBUM OF THE YEAR” WENT TO FLEETWOOD MAC FOR RUMOURS. THE GRAMMY COMMITTEE ACTUALLY HAD A TOUGH TIME SPLITTING UP THE AWARDS, BECAUSE THE “RECORD OF THE YEAR” WAS AWARDED TO THE EAGLES FOR ‘HOTEL CALIFORNIA’, AND THE “BEST POP PERFORMANCE” WAS AWARDED TO THE BEE GEES FOR ‘HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE’

IN 2018 THE ALBUM WAS SELECTED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS FOR PRESERVATION IN THE NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY, WITH THE ALBUM DEEMED ‘CULTURALLY, HISTORICALLY AND ARTISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT’

THE ALBUM HAS SOLD OVER 40 MILLION COPIES WORLDWIDE, MAKING IT ONE OF THE BIGGEST SELLING ALBUMS OF ALL TIME.

HERE’S FLEETWOOD MAC PERFORMING DREAMS CIRCA 1978

photo thanks-Lawren

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 22, 2020…PABLO HONEY WAS THE DEBUT ALBUM FROM THE ENGLISH ROCK BAND RADIOHEAD. THE NAME OF THE ALBUM ACTUALLY COMES FROM A PRANK CALL BY THE JERKY BOYS, WHERE THE PRANK CALLER SAYS TO THE VICTIM “PABLO HONEY, PLEASE COME HOME TO FLORIDA!” THE ALBUM CONTAINED ONE OF THE GREATEST ROCK SONGS EVER ‘CREEP.’ WHEN THE SONG WAS FIRST RELEASED, IT WAS ACTUALLY BANNED FROM THE BBC AIRWAVES FOR BEING TOO DEPRESSING. LEAD SINGER THOM YORKE WHO WROTE THE SONG HAS SAID THE SONG IS ABOUT BEING IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE AND NOT FEELING GOOD ENOUGH. HE DESCRIBES THE FEELING AS “THERE’S THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, AND THEN THERE’S THE REST OF US.”

HERE’S AN EXTENDED UNCENSORED VERSION OF ‘CREEP’