LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOV 8, 2019...FORTY EIGHT YEARS AGO LED ZEPPELIN RELEASED THE ALBUM IV (ZOSO) IN AMERICA. HERE ARE SOME LITTLE KNOWN FACTS SURROUNDING THE ALBUM:

-The album is actually untitled. Page made the decision because he was tired of criticism from music critics: "It was designed as our response to the music critics who maintained that the success of our first three albums was driven by hype and not talent. ... So, we stripped everything away, and let the music do the talking."

-Along with missing a title, the album cover also does not feature the band’s name. The group chose to do this to have some anonymity and keep from being pigeonholed by the press

-There is no printing anywhere on the front or back covers. There isn’t even a catalog number on the spine of the original LP

- to identify the album, many people called it Led Zeppelin IV, but it has also been referred to as Four Symbols, The Fourth Album, Untitled, Runes, The Hermit and ZoSo

- Jimmy wanted just one symbol on the album but decided to have each member design their own symbol

- symbols the band chose for themselves on the album art don't mean as much as you might think.

"They were put together pretty hastily, people have read so much into them over the years. When you get down to it, it sounds like John Paul Jones and John Bonham just said, 'Oh, we'll pick these, you know, sure, whatever,' they weren't that interested. Robert Plant picked the feather in the circle from some mystical account of some lost civilization that probably never existed. It was one of those hippie things that they thought was out there. Page's "Zoso," goes way back to the renaissance, really, but basically it's a representation of Capricorn from a document dating back to the 1500s. In those days, the way people drew astrological symbols was a lot more elaborate than just scales or fish, but it does derive from a symbol for Saturn, or for Capricorn. It's nothing satanic or anything like that."

-Some of the instruments John Paul Jones plays on the album are bass, electric piano, mellotron, mandolin, recorders and acoustic guitar.

- ‘Rock and Roll’ came from a spontaneous jam session when the guys were trying to complete the song ‘Four Sticks’

- ‘Rock and Roll’ had the working title ‘It’s Been a Long Time’

- There could have been more than eight songs on IV. Zep was always known to hold material back for other albums. Both ‘Boogie with Stu’ and ‘Black Country Woman’ from Physical Graffiti originally came from the IV sessions

-Robert Plant recorded the vocals for ‘Black Dog’ in two takes

-Contrary to rumors, there are no backwards messages on ‘Stairway to Heaven’

-The band started to record the album at Basing Street Studios in London. Jethro Tull was recording Aqualung there at the same time so they needed to find another studio

-At the suggestion of Fleetwood Mac, the band recorded most of the album at Headley Grange, a remote Victorian estate, where they used Ronnie Lane's Mobile Studio outside

-Robert Plant is the only one moving at real speed on ‘When the Levee Breaks.’ Zeppelin slowed down the mix so the drums really sounded booming and had this huge reverb to it from recording the drum sound in the stairway of the castle. According to Jimmy Page “the only sound on 'When the Levee Breaks' that's recorded in natural time is Plant's voice”

-While big parts of the record were recorded at Headley Grange hey did use a lot of other studios, including Island Studios and Sunset Sound

-Robert Plant once explained that the lyrics to ‘Stairway to Heaven’ were about a woman who always got what she wanted and never gave back

-The lyrics of ‘Misty Mountain Hop’ are based on a “Legalize Pot Rally” in London in 1968 where police arrested people for marijuana possession

-‘Four Sticks’ got its title because Bonham played with four drumsticks on it. He decided to do that after getting frustrated over the song not sounding right with just two sticks. He grabbed another set and hit the drums as hard as he could, recording the perfect take

-‘Going to California’ is rumored to be about singer Joni Mitchell. Plant was said to be infatuated with her and can be heard saying “Joni” in live performances after singing the lines “To find a queen without a king, they say she plays guitar and cries and sings. Plant once said that the lyrics for the song can be a little embarrassing but accurately depict his life in his early 20s, when he was struggling to find himself in the craziness of California

-Accounting for streaming, downloads, singles, total sales for Led Zeppelin IV stands at a staggering 57 million copies

HERE’S ZEPPELIN PERFORMING ‘MISTY MOUNTAIN HOP’ FROM IV

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOV 8, 2018...ON THIS DATE IN 1989 AEROSMITH WAS BACK ON TRACK WITH THEIR COMEBACK ALBUM ‘PUMP’ AND THE RELEASE OF THE SINGLE ‘JANIE’S GOT A GUN.’ THE SONG WAS THE SECOND SINGLE RELEASED FROM THE ALBUM AND IT PEAKED AT # 2 ON THE BILLBOARD ROCK CHARTS. STEVEN TYLER STARTED WRITING THE SONG IN HIS BASEMENT AND SAY’S IT TOOK 9 MONTHS TO FINISH THE LYRICS. HE CAME UP WITH THE TITLE ‘JANIE’S GOT A GUN’ AND THEN SAT ON IT "waiting for the oracle door to open." TYLER TOLD “ROLLING STONE “ MAGAZINE IT ONLY BECAME A SONG ABOUT CHILD ABUSE AFTER "I looked over at a Time magazine and saw this article on 48 hours, minute by minute, of handgun deaths in the United States." He continued: "Then I got off on the child-abuse angle. I'd heard this woman speaking about how many children are attacked by their mothers and fathers. It was f---ing scary. I felt, man, I gotta sing about this. And that was it. That was my toe in the door." ‘JANIE’S GOT A GUN’ WON THE BAND A GRAMMY AWARD IN 1990.

HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FROM 1989

Lamont and Tonelli interviewed Bob-O for his weekly Football picks.

Bob-O's Overall Record For The Season: 22-19-1

Bob-O's Overall Record For His Blue Plate Specials: 8-2

College:

Take LSU (buy 1 point) +7.5 vs Alabama

Take Iowa State +14.5 vs Oklahoma

Take Iowa +8 vs Wisconsin

Pro's:

Take Oakland +1 vs Los Angeles Chargers (Thursday Night Football)

Take San Francisco -6 vs Seattle (Monday Night Football)

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOV 7, 2019...TWENTY FOUR YEARS AGO ALICE IN CHAINS RELEASED THE SELF TITLED ALBUM ‘ALICE IN CHAINS’ WHICH WAS THE FOLLOW UP TO THEIR DEBUT ‘DIRT.’ THE ALBUM WAS ALSO COMMONLY CALLED THE ‘DOG ALBUM’ OR ‘TRIPOD.’ THE LP DEBUTED AT #1 AND WAS FUELED BY FOUR SINGLES ‘HEAVEN BESIDE YOU’ ‘GRIND’ ‘OVER NOW’ AND ‘AGAIN.’ DESPITE THE FACT THE BAND NEVER TOURED IN SUPPORT OF THIS RECORD, ‘TRIPOD’ SOLD MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES. HOWEVER THEY DID PLAY MTV UNPLUGGED IN APRIL OF 1996, AND OPENED FOR KISS FOR FOUR SHOWS ON THEIR SUMMER TOUR BEFORE LAYNE STALEY OVERDOSED ON HEROIN. HE RECOVERED, BUT IT FORCED 'AIC' OFF THE ROAD AGAIN. THIS ALBUM ALSO MARKED THE END OF AN ERA FOR THE BAND AS IT WAS THE LAST STUDIO RELEASE WITH STALEY ON VOCALS. HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR ‘HEAVEN BESIDE YOU.’

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOV 6, 2019...STEELY DAN RELEASED THE ALBUM ‘CAN’T BUY A THRILL’ AND THE SINGLE ‘DO IT AGAIN’ ON THIS DATE IN 1972. THIS WAS STEELY DAN’S DEBUT ALBUM AND IT FEATURED THREE GREAT SINGLES ‘DO IT AGAIN’ DIRTY WORK’ AND REELIN’ IN THE YEARS’ THAT DOMINATED THE AIRWAVES IN LATE 1972 AND LATER IN 1973. BTW THE FIRST SINGLE ‘DO IT AGAIN’ WAS DIFFERENT FROM THE VERSION ON THE ALBUM. THE SINGLE FEATURED A SHORTER INTRO AND EXTRO AND OMITTED THE ORGAN SOLO. TO DATE WHEN YOU INCLUDE STREAMING AND DOWNLOADS, ‘CAN’T BUY A THRILL’ HAS SOLD OVER 2.3 MILLION COPIES AND COUNTING.

HERE’S STEELY DAN PERFORMING ‘DO IT AGAIN’ ON THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOV 7, 2019...TWENTY SEVEN YEARS AGO U2 WAS ROCKIN’ A “DAY ON THE GREEN.” THE ZOO TV TOUR WAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST TOURS OF 1992 AND WAS AN ELABORATE MULTIMEDIA EVENT. THE STAGE SHOW FEATURED AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF VIDEO SCREENS DISPLAYING VISUAL DISPLAYS AND CLIPS, COMBINED WITH AN AWESOME LIGHT SHOW. A TOTAL OF 52 TRUCKS WERE USED TO TRANSPORT 1,200 TONS OF EQUIPMENT, 3 MILES OF CABLES, 200 WORKERS, 40 FORKLIFTS AND ONE 40 TON CRANE USED TO CONSTRUCT THE STAGE. IT WAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST TOURS OF THE YEAR WITH THE BAND GROSSING OVER 67 MILLION DOLLARS IN NORTH AMERICA IN 73 SHOWS. ALONG WITH BEING THE BIGGEST TOUR IN NORTH AMERICA, ZOO TV SOLD 5.3 MILLION TICKETS WORLDWIDE. DESPITE THE SUCCESS AT THE TICKET COUNTER THE BAND DIDN’T MAKE MONEY. U2 INCURRED SUCH HUGE EXPENSES THE ONLY THING THAT SAVED THE BAND WAS SELLING AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF TEE-SHIRTS. ACCORDING TO BONO "When we built Zoo TV, we were so close to bankruptcy that if five percent fewer people went, U2 was bankrupt. Even in our irresponsible, youthful and fatal disregard of such material matters, it was terrifying."

THE ‘ZOO TV TOUR’ WAS AWESOME AND THIS IS SOME GREAT VIDEO OF U2 IN ACTION

As Rodney Dangerfield said in the movie "Back To School" it's a jungle out there, you gotta look out for number one but don't step in number two. Unfortunately, someone forgot to tell the guy in the video below.

Holy sh*t... pic.twitter.com/iDyJEPjKVJ

— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) November 3, 2019

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