LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 28, 2019..ON THIS DATE FOUR YEARS AGO LEMMY, THE LEAD VOCALIST AND BASSIST WITH MOTORHEAD DIED AT HIS HOME IN LOS ANGELES. LEMMY PASSED AWAY FOUR DAYS AFTER HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY FOLLOWING A SHORT BATTLE WITH A VERY AGGRESSIVE CANCER. WHEN MOTÖRHEAD OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED LEMMY’S PASSING ON THEIR OFFICIAL FACEBOOK PAGE, THEY NOTED THE CANCER HAD ONLY BEEN DIAGNOSED TWO DAYS EARLIER. KILLMISTER DIED FROM PROSTATE CANCER, CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA AND CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE. BTW, LEMMY SAID HE HAD STARTED SMOKING AT THE AGE OF 11, BUT 3 MONTHS BEFORE HIS DEATH IN SEPTEMBER OF 2015 HE WAS HOSPITALIZED WITH A LUNG INFECTION, SO DECIDED TO CUT HIS SMOKING DOWN TO ONLY 1 PACK A DAY. LEMMY ALSO CLAIMED THAT HE DRANK A BOTTLE OF JACK DANIELS A DAY SINCE HE WAS 3O YEARS OF AGE. TWO YEARS BEFORE HIS DEATH IN 2013 LEMMY QUIT DRINKING. A TRUE ROCK & ROLL LEGEND, R.I.P. LEMMY.

Here are Bob-O's picks for this weekend.

College:

Take Notre Dame give 3 to Iowa state

Take Ohio state (buy 1 pt) take 3 points

Pro's:

Take San Francisco (buy 1 point) take 4 points vs Seattle

Take Pittsburg give 2 points to Baltimore

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 27, 2019… IT WAS 1979 AND PAT TRAVERS AND CHEAP TRICK ROCKED THE OAKLAND ARENA. BOTH BANDS WERE AT THE HEIGHT OF THEIR SUCCESS. PAT TRAVERS WAS FLYING HIGH WITH HIS ‘LIVE GO FOR WHAT YOU KNOW’ ALBUM, AND CHEAP TRICK STRUCK MAJOR GOLD WITH ‘LIVE AT THE BUDOKAN’ AND THE ‘DREAM POLICE’ ALBUM. THE COST TO GET INTO THE SHOW? A TICKET SET YOU BACK $ 8.50 !

HERE’S PAT TRAVERS WITH SOME STRAIGHT AHEAD ROCK AND ROLL

HERE’S SOME VINTAGE CHEAP TRICK

AND A GREAT LIVE VERSION OF SURRENDER

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 27, 2019…HAPPY SEVENTY FIFTH BIRTHDAY TO GUITARIST AND PRODUCER MICK JONES. JONES IS BEST KNOWN AS THE LEAD GUITARIST AND CO-FOUNDER OF FOREIGNER. IN 1976 HE FORMED FOREIGNER WITH IAN MCDONALD AND RECRUITED SINGER LOU GRAM FOR THE GROUP. JONES CO-PRODUCED ALL OF THE BAND’S ALBUMS AND CO-WROTE MOST OF THE SONGS WITH LOU GRAMM. JONES IS THE ONLY REMAINING FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE GROUP AND IS THE ONLY PERSON TO PLAY ON EVERY SINGLE OF THE BAND’S ALBUMS. PRIOR TO FOREIGNER, JONES WAS A MEMBER OF ‘SPOOKY TOOTH’ AND WAS A MUCH IN DEMAND SESSION PLAYER PLAYING WITH THE ‘LESLIE WEST BAND’ AND APPEARING ON RECORDS FOR PETER FRAMPTON AND GEORGE HARRISON. JONES ALSO PRODUCED ALBUMS FOR OTHER GROUPS, INCLUDING VAN HALEN’S ‘5150’ BAD COMPANY’S ‘FAME AND FORTUNE’ BILLY JOEL’S ‘STORM FRONT’ AND THE CULT’S ‘BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL.’

THIS IS GREAT VIDEO FROM A 1981 TELEVISED CONCERT IN GERMANY(FANTASTIC QUALITY)

photo thanks-Magnus Rönnstedt

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 27, 2019…THOUGHT WE’D SHOW BAY AREA ROCKERS Y&T SOME LOVE BY TIPPING YOU OFF THAT THEY ARE PLAYING THEIR LAST BAY AREA SHOW OF THE YEAR TONIGHT AT CORNERSTONE CRAFT BEER & LIVE MUSIC IN BERKELEY. A GREAT VENUE TO SEE THE LEGENDARY DAVE MENIKETTI AND Y&T. YOU CAN GET ALL THE INFO AT WWW.YANDTROCKS.COM 

THIS IS VINTAGE Y&T FROM 1985

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 26, 2019...HAPPY 56th BIRTHDAY TO LARS ULRICH. LARS IS BEST KNOWN AS THE DRUMMER AND CO-FOUNDER OF METALLICA. LARS WAS BORN IN DENMARK AND MOVED TO THE UNITED STATES WHEN HE WAS 16 IN ORDER TO TRAIN TO BECOME A PROFESSIONAL TENNIS PLAYER. HE GOT HERE AND SAID F*** THAT , I WANT TO ROCK, AND STARTED PLAYING DRUMS. HE FELL IN LOVE WITH ROCK & ROLL WHEN HE WENT TO HIS FIRST CONCERT (DEEP PURPLE). IT’S BEEN STATED THAT CATCHING A Y&T SHOW WAS ONE OF HIS DEFINING MOMENTS WHEN HE DECIDED HE WANTED TO BECOME A MUSICIAN. LARS WAS INDUCTED WITH HIS FELLOW METALLICA BANDMATES INTO THE ROCK & ROLL HOF IN 2009. HE WAS ALSO KNIGHTED IN HIS NATIVE COUNTRY OF DENMARK IN 2017.

HAPPY BDAY LARS. HERE’S LARS MAKING IT HAPPEN WITH METALLICA.

photo thanks-Raph_PH

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 26, 2019..FIFTY THREE YEARS AGO JIMI HENDRIX WROTE THE LYRICS TO ‘PURPLE HAZE’ IN HIS DRESSING ROOM BETWEEN SHOWS AT A CLUB IN LONDON. HENDRIX ACTUALLY CLAIMS THAT ‘PURPLE HAZE’ HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH DRUGS. HENDRIX SAID THAT THE SONG WAS INSPIRED BY A DREAM WHERE HE WAS WALKING UNDERWATER AND EVERYTHING WAS PURPLE. THE HAZE ENGULFED HIM AND IN THE DREAM HE WAS LOST. THE SONG ALSO INCLUDES ONE OF THE MOST MISHEARD LYRICS EVER “ SCUSE ME WHILE I KISS THE SKY”. MANY HAVE MISINTERPRETED THIS TO BE “SCUSE ME WHILE I KISS THIS GUY”.  HENDRIX ADDED TO THIS CONFUSION BY SINGING IT THAT WAY AND THEN POINTING TO ONE OF HIS BAND MEMBERS. HERE’S HENDRIX PERFORMING THE SONG AT THE ATLANTA POP FESTIVAL

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 25, 2019-JAMES BROWN DIED ON CHRISTMAS DAY 2006. BROWN WAS KNOWN AS THE ‘GODFATHER OF SOUL’. OVER THE COURSE OF HIS CAREER JAMES RELEASED 144 SINGLES AND HAD FIFTEEN #1 HITS. AT THE END OF THE 1960’S HE OWNED A PUBLISHING COMPANY, 3 RADIO STATIONS AND HIS OWN LEARJET. HE DIED ON THIS DATE IN 1973 OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE AFTER BEING HOSPITALIZED FOR PNEUMONIA. AFTER HORRIBLE LEGAL ISSUES AND FIGHTS, BROWN’S BODY WAS FINALLY LAID TO REST 76 DAYS AFTER HIS DEATH. HERE’S THE ‘GODFATHER OF SOUL’ AT HIS BEST. THIS IS AN APPEARANCE ON ITALIAN TV FROM 1971

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 25, 2019...MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MERRY CLAYTON. TODAY SHE TURNS 71. MERRY CLAYTON HAS PROVIDED BACKGROUND VOCAL TRACKS FOR NUMEROUS ARTISTS OVER HER CAREER. HER MOST NOTABLE WAS HER DUET WITH MICK JAGGER ON ‘GIMME SHELTER’. HER ROLE AS BACKGROUND SINGER IS FEATURED IN THE DOCUMENTARY ‘20 FEET FROM STARDOM’

HERE’S MERRY AND MICK JAGGER TELLING HER STORY

ANOTHER NOTABLE SONG THAT MERRY SANG ON WAS LYNYRD SKYNYRD’S ‘SWEET HOME ALABAMA’. HERE’S HER TAKE ON SUPPLYING VOCALS ON THIS CLASSIC SONG

CONVERSELY SHE ALSO COVERED NEIL YOUNG’S SOUTHERN MAN

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 23, 2019...HAPPY 55th BIRTHDAY TO PEARL JAM’S EDDIE VEDDER. EDDIE IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SEATTLE MUSIC SCENE, BUT ACTUALLY GREW UP IN CHICAGO AND SAN DIEGO. EDDIE’S FATHER LEFT THE FAMILY WHEN HE WAS 1 YEARS OLD, AND WAS RAISED BY HIS STEPFATHER, BELIEVING HIM TO BE HIS BIOLOGICAL FATHER. HE WROTE ABOUT THIS EVENT IN THE SONG ‘ALIVE’. “ROLLING STONE” MAGAZINE HAS VEDDER RANKED AT #7 ON A LIST OF THE “BEST LEAD SINGERS OF ALL TIME.” IN 2017 HE WAS INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK & ROLL HOF AS A MEMBER OF PEARL JAM. HERE’S GREAT CONCERT FOOTAGE OF EDDIE AND THE BOYS FROM A 2014 PEARL JAM SHOW (FULL CONCERT).

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