LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 13, 2020- THREE YEARS AGO TWO MEMBERS OF TOWER OF POWER WERE HOSPITALIZED AFTER BEING HIT BY A TRAIN. LONG TIME DRUMMER DAVID GARIBALDI AND BASS PLAYER WERE WALKING ACROSS THE TRACKS ON THEIR WAY TO ‘OSHI’S’ IN OAKLAND, WHEN THEY WERE STRUCK. MIRACULOUSLY, BOTH SURVIVED THE ACCIDENT AND ARE CURRENTLY IN THE GROUP’S CURRENT LINE UP. HERE’S VIDEO EXPLAINING WHAT HAPPENED THE NIGHT IT TOOK PLACE(BTW PROPS TO ANN MAKOVEC FOR DOING THE REPORT FLAWLESSLY WHILE SOMEONE STARTING USING A LOUS COMPRESSOR WHEN SHE STARTED DOING THE REPORT)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2yATI1oKM

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 13, 2020-FORTY SEVEN YEARS AGO DEEP PURPLE FOLLOWED UP THE ALBUM ‘MACHINE HEAD’ WITH ‘WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE’. THIS WAS THE SEVENTH STUDIO ALBUM FROM THE BAND, AND WAS THE FINAL STUDIO ALBUM WITH SINGER IAN GILLAN AND BASSIST ROGER GLOVER ( UNTIL ‘PERFECT STRANGER’ CAME OUT IN 1984). INTERNAL IN FIGHTING AND TENSIONS IN THE GROUP RESULTED IN THE BAND BREAKING UP AFTER THE TOUR IN SUPPORT OF THIS ALBUM. COMMERCIALLY THE ALBUM WAS HUGE. THE BIG SINGLE FROM THE ALBUM WAS THIS SONG

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 12, 2020- ON THIS DATE IN 1971 THE SINGLE ‘ME AND BOBBY McGEE’ WAS RELEASED IN AMERICA. JOPLIN RECORDED THE SONG FOR INCLUSION ON HER ‘PEARL’ ALBUM ONLY A FEW DAYS BEFORE HER DEATH IN OCTOBER 1970. JOPLIN ACTUALLY PLAYS GUITAR ON THE SONG. THE SONG WAS JOPLIN’S ONLY #1 SINGLE, AND IS ONLY THE SECOND POSTHUMOUS # 1 SINGLE IN ROCK HISTORY. ( THE OTHER BEING ‘SITTIN’ ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY’)

THIS IS RARE AUDIO OF JOPLIN IN THE RECORDING STUDIO RECORDING ‘ME AND BOBBY McGEE’

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 12, 2020- LED ZEPPELIN’S SELF TITLED DEBUT OFFICIALLY IS 51 YEARS OLD TODAY. THE ALBUM WAS RECORDED USING ONLY 36 HOURS OF STUDIO TIME. A LITTLE KNOWN FACT ABOUT THIS ALBUM IS ROBERT PLANT HELPED WRITE MANY OF THE SONGS ON THE RECORD, BUT WAS LEFT OFF OF THE CREDITS BECAUSE HE WAS STILL UNDER CONTRACT WITH HIS FORMER RECORD COMPANY. LED ZEPPELIN MADE VERY LITTLE TELEVISION APPEARANCES. THEY FELT THEY COULDN’T CONTROL THE MIX, AND AFTER AN APPEARANCE ON FRENCH TV IN 1969, REFUSED TO DO TELEVISION. SO THIS IS A RARITY ! CHECK OUT THIS GEM OF A LIVE PERFORMANCE FROM 1969 WHEN THE BAND PERFORMED “DAZED AND CONFUSED” ON A PROMOTIONAL TOUR IN DENMARK...AMAZING !!

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 12, 2020…BORN BOB CUMMINGS, ROB ZOMBIE IS THE STAGE NAME FOR THE SINGER AND FILMMAKER WHO ROSE TO FAME AS THE LEAD SINGER OF ‘WHITE ZOMBIE’. ZOMBIE IS A BIG FAN OF HORROR FILMS, AND NAMED THE BAND AFTER THE 1932 MOVIE “WHITE ZOMBIE” WHICH STARRED BELA LUGOSI. HE DISBANDED THE GROUP ‘WHITE ZOMBIE’ IN 1998 AND WENT SOLO SHORTLY THEREAFTER. THE SONG ‘DRAGULA’ WAS ONE OF HIS FIRST SOLO EFFORTS. THE TITLE CAME FROM THE NAME OF GRANDPA'S CAR ON THE CLASSIC TV SHOW ‘THE MUNSTERS’.

HERE’S THE VIDEO FOR ‘DRAGULA’. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROB ZOMBIE

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 12, 2020- ON THIS DAY IN 1970 THE GROUP BADFINGER RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘COME AND GET IT’. THE SONG WAS ORIGINALLY RECORDED BY PAUL McCARTNEY AS A SOLO DEMO WHEN HE ARRIVED EARLY FOR AN ABBEY ROAD SESSION. SIR PAUL RECORDED THE LEAD VOCALS, ALL THE HARMONIES, AND PLAYED ALL THE INSTRUMENTS. THE SONG WAS FINISHED IN AN HOUR. McCARTNEY WAS CONTRACTED TO SUPPLY MUSIC FOR THE MOVIE ‘THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN’. HE OFFERED THIS SONG TO BADFINGER ALONG WITH THE CARROT HE WOULD PRODUCE IT AND 2 OTHER OF THE BAND’S SONGS FOR THE SOUNDTRACK.

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 11, 2020-ON JANUARY 11 1980, TOM PETTY RELEASED THE SINGLE REFUGEE. IT WAS THE FIRST OF TWO HIT SONGS FROM THE ALBUM ‘DAMN THE TORPEDOES’. PETTY WROTE THIS SONG BECAUSE HE WAS PISSED OFF AT HIS RECORD COMPANY FOR TRYING TO SELL HIS RECORDING CONTRACT TO ANOTHER COMPANY WITHOUT TELLING THE BAND. HE WAS SO UPSET WITH ‘ABC RECORDS’ IT SET THE TONE OF THE RECORD ON ‘DAMN THE TORPEDOES’ AND SPECIFICALLY ‘REFUGEE.’ THE BAND PERFORMED THIS SONG ON THEIR FIRST SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE PERFORMANCE, AND ACTUALLY SHOT A MUSIC VIDEO FOR REFUGEE BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T WANT TO APPEAR ON THE MERV GRIFFIN SHOW,

R.I.P. TOM PETTY. YOU WILL LIVE ON FOREVER WITH YOUR MUSIC. HERE’S THE VIDEO FOR REFUGEE

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 11, 2020…FORTY NINE YEARS AGO THE ALBUM "PEARL" BY JANIS JOPLIN WAS POSTHUMOUSLY RELEASED. THIS WAS ONLY THE SECOND SOLO RECORD RELEASE BY JOPLIN, AND THE LAST ALBUM THAT INVOLVED HER DIRECT PARTICIPATION. JOPLIN. ALL NINE SONGS ON ‘PEARL’ WERE PERSONALLY APPROVED AND ARRANGED BY JOPLIN. IT’S ALSO THE ONLY JOPLIN ALBUM RECORDED WITH ‘THE FULL TILT BOOGIE BAND’ HER FINAL TOURING GROUP. SADLY, ON OCTOBER 4,1970 JOPLIN WAS FOUND DEAD IN ROOM 105 OF THE LANDMARK HOTEL OF A HEROIN OVERDOSE. SHE LEFT $1500 IN HER WILL FOR A FUNERAL PARTY. THE PARTY WAS HELD OCT 26,1971 AT THE LION’S SHARE IN SAN ANSELMO. THE GRATEFUL DEAD PERFORMED.

THIS VIDEO WITH BLOW YOU AWAY. JOPLIN LIVE IN 1970.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uG2gYE5KOs

Felipe Esparza is performing at Tommy T's Comedy Club in Pleasanton.

Friday, January 10th at 7:30pm & 10:15pm

Saturday, January 11th at 7pm & 9:45pm

Sunday, January 12th at 7pm

For tickets and more info go to: www.tommyts.com

Listen to Lamont and Tonelli's interview with Felipe Esparza below.

Follow Felipe Esparza here.

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 10, 2020...HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ROD STEWART. STEWART IS ONE OF MUSIC'S BIGGEST SELLING ARTISTS, HAVING SOLD OVER 100 MILLION RECORDS. STEWART CAME INTO PROMINENCE AS A SINGER WITH ‘THE JEFF BECK GROUP’, AND THEN AS THE LEAD SINGER OF ‘THE FACES’ BEFORE STRIKING OUT ON HIS OWN AND HAVING A MONSTER SOLO CAREER. STEWART HAS 8 CHILDREN WITH 5 DIFFERENT BABY MAMA’S. HIS LATEST CHILD WAS BORN 8 YEARS AGO, WHEN STEWART WAS 67!

HERE’S STEWART PERFORMING ‘MAGGIE MAY’ ON THE BBC CIRCA 1971

THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES, ROD STEWART WITH JEFF BECK, THE VIDEO FOR ‘PEOPLE GET READY’