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TIME FOR SOME ZEN

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 29, 2020…IN 1988 ROBERT PLANT RELEASED HIS 4TH SOLO ALBUM “NOW AND ZEN.” THE ALBUM IS PLANT’S BIGGEST SELLING SOLO RECORD FEATURING A MINI LED ZEPPELIN REUNION, WITH JIMMY PAGE APPEARING ON THE SONGS ‘TALL COOL ONE’ AND ‘HEAVEN KNOWS’. ON THE LINER NOTES FOR THE ALBUM, PAGE’S PARTICIPATION IS NOTED WITH THE ‘ZOSO’ SYMBOL. THE ALBUM WAS HUGE FOR PLANT, GOING TRIPLE PLATINUM. THE SONG ‘TALL COOL ONE’ CONTAINED SAMPLES FROM 5 LED ZEPPELIN SONGS. PLANT SAMPLED ‘WHOLE LOTTA LOVE’ ‘DAZED AND CONFUSED’ ‘CUSTARD PIE’ ‘BLACK DOG’ AND ‘THE OCEAN.’ TRY AND CATCH ALL THE SAMPLES, HERE’S ‘TALL COOL ONE’

DAVID BYRON URIAH HEEP

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 28, 2020…ONE SINGER THAT LEFT US WAAAAAAY TOO SOON IS DAVID BYRON, THE ORIGINAL LEAD SINGER FOR URIAH HEEP. BYRON DIED ON THIS DATE IN 1985 AT THE AGE OF 38. HE DIED AT HIS HOME OF ALCOHOL RELATED COMPLICATIONS.URIAH HEEP’S BEST SELLING ALBUM ‘SWEET FREEDOM’ HAS SOLD OVER 6 MILLION COPIES. MAN, THIS GUY COULD SING. HERE’S BYRON FRONTING URIAH HEEP FROM A TV SHOW IN 1972.

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RUSH-TOM SAWYER

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 28, 2020…IT WAS 1981 AND ON THIS DATE RUSH RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘TOM SAWYER.’ ‘TOM SAWYER’ IS THE FIRST TRACK ON THE ALBUM ‘MOVING PICTURES’. ACCORDING TO GEDDY LEE, WHEN THE BAND FIRST RECORDED THE SONG, HE WAS DISAPPOINTED IN THE GROUP’S EFFORT IN THE STUDIO, BUT IT CAME TO LIFE IN THE MIX. GEDDY LEE CALLED IT IN MANY WAYS THE “QUINTESSENTIAL RUSH SONG.” ‘TOM SAWYER’ HAS BEEN PLAYED AT EVERY SINGLE RUSH CONCERT SINCE IT WAS RELEASED. THIS SONG HAS BEEN USED IN A TON OF MOVIES AND TV SHOWS. THE SONG WAS FEATURED ON AN EPISODE OF ‘FUTURAMA’ WHEN FRY PLAYS HIS “RUSH MIX-TAPE” WHEN PLAYING VIDEO GAMES. IT WAS ALSO FEATURED ON ‘FAMILY GUY’ WHEN CHESTER CHEETAH SNORTED CHEETOS WHILE LISTENING TO THE SONG. WHEN HE FINISHED HE YELLED OUT “THERE’S NO FU***NG DRUMMER BETTER THAN NEIL PEART.” MOVIES THAT HAVE USED THIS SONG ARE ‘I LOVE YOU,MAN’ ‘THE WATERBOY’ ‘FREAKS AND GEEKS’ AND ‘THE SOPRANO’S’

HERE’S A VERY YOUNG LOOKING RUSH PLAYING ‘TOM SAWYER’

STIFF UPPER LIP

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 28, 2020…TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY AC/DC RELEASED THE CD ‘STIFF UPPER LIP.’ THIS WAS THE 13TH INTERNATIONALLY RELEASE AC/DC ALBUM. IT WAS PRODUCED BY ANGUS AND MALCOLM’S OLDER BROTHER GEORGE YOUNG, AND WAS THE LAST AC/DC ALBUM HE PRODUCED BEFORE HIS DEATH IN 2017. MOST OF THE SONGS WERE WRITTEN WITH MALCOLM ON GUITAR AND ANGUS ON DRUMS !! THE ALBUM WAS SUPPOSED TO BE PRODUCED BY BRUCE FAIRBURN, WHO PRODUCED RAZOR’S EDGE, BUT FAIRBURN DIED IN MAY OF 1999. ANGUS AND MALCOLM QUICKLY GOT THEIR BROTHER GEORGE TO STEP IN. HERE’S THE TITLE TRACK FROM THE CD

IT HAPPENED IN CANADA

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 27, 2020…ON THIS DAY IN 1977 NEWS OF KEITH RICHARDS GETTING BUSTED FOR HEROIN POSSESSION ROCKED THE WORLD. RICHARDS WAS ARRESTED AT THE HARBOUR CASTLE HOTEL IN TORONTO, CANADA WHEN HIS ROOM WAS RAIDED BY 15 MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE. RICHARDS WAS CHARGED WITH POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO TRAFFIC, AND FACED 7 YEARS TO LIFE IN PRISON. HE WAS FREED ON BAIL WHICH WAS SET AT $25,000 CANADIAN. THE PRIME MINISTER’S WIFE WAS A HUGE STONES FAN, AND SOMEHOW, RICHARDS ENDED UP WITH ONE YEAR OF PROBATION, A SUSPENDED SENTENCE, AND HE HAD TO PUT ON A FREE CONCERT FOR THE BLIND. HERE’S THE NEWS STORY THAT RAN ON THE CBC NATIONAL NEWS WHEN THE VERDICT WAS ANNOUNCED

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JOPLIN WAS #1

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 27, 2020…ON THIS DATE IN 1971, FIVE MONTHS AFTER HER DEATH, JANIS JOPLIN STARTED A 5 MONTH RUN AT NUMBER ONE ON THE US ALBUM CHARTS WITH HER SECOND AND FINAL SOLO ALBUM ‘PEARL’. JOPLIN SANG ON ALL THE TRACKS EXCEPT FOR ‘BURIED ALIVE IN THE BLUES’ WHICH REMAINED ON THE ALBUM AS AN INSTRUMENTAL BECAUSE JOPLIN DIED BEFORE SHE COULD ADD HER VOCALS TO THE FULL TILT BOOGIE TRACK. THE SESSIONS FOR PEARL STARTED IN SEPTEMBER OF 1970, AND ENDED WITH HER UNTIMELY DEATH IN OCTOBER. THE A CAPELLA ‘MERCEDES BENZ’ WAS THE LAST SONG SHE RECORDED. IT WAS RECORDED ON OCTOBER 1,1970. SHE WAS FOUND DEAD 3 DAYS LATER DEAD FROM A HEROIN OVERDOSE. THE ALBUM ‘PEARL’ WAS CERTIFIED QUADRUPLE PLATINUM.

HERE’S JOPLIN SINGING ‘PIECE OF MY HEART’

ADRIAN !!!!!!!

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 27, 2020…ADRIAN SMITH THE GUITARIST FROM IRON MAIDEN, TURNS 63 TODAY. SMITH WAS BORN IN ENGLAND, AND BOUGHT HIS FIRST ALBUM WHEN HE WAS 15. THAT ALBUM WAS DEEP PURPLE’S MACHINE HEAD. HE STARTED UP A FRIENDSHIP WITH FUTURE MAIDEN GUITARIST DAVE MURRAY WHO HAD A BAND AT THE TIME, AND ONCE HE SAW HOW MANY GIRLS MURRAY WAS ATTRACTING, DECIDED HE WANTED TO PLAY THE GUITAR. HE QUIT SCHOOL AT 16 AND ENDED UP EVENTUALLY JOINING IRON MAIDEN IN 1980. HE WAS WITH THE GROUP FOR TEN YEARS, AND AFTER VARIOUS OTHER PROJECTS, REJOINED THE GROUP IN 1999 ‘TIL PRESENT. THIS FIGURE KIND OF SURPRISED ME. WITH IRON MAIDEN, ADRIAN SMITH HAS SOLD OVER 100 MILLION ALBUMS WORLDWIDE.HERE’S SMITH WITH IRON MAIDEN AND THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR ‘RUN TO THE HILLS’

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THE 41ST ANNIVERSARY OF CHEAP TRICK AT BUDOKAN

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 26, 2020…ON THIS DATE 41 YEARS AGO CHEAP TRICK BECAME SUPERSTARS IN AMERICA WITH THE RELEASE OF ‘CHEAP TRICK AT BUDOKAN.’ I SAY SUPERSTARS IN AMERICA BECAUSE THE GROUP WAS ALREADY HUGE IN JAPAN WHEN THEY CAPITALIZED ON THEIR POPULARITY BY RECORDING THIS RECORD IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCE OF 12,000 RABID FANS THAT AT TIMES WERE SCREAMING SO LOUD IT ALMOST DROWNED OUT THE BAND. STRANGELY ENOUGH, THIS RECORD WAS ALMOST NEVER RELEASED IN THE UNITED STATES, BUT IMPORT COPIES OF THE ALBUM STARTED FLOODING THE USA AND THE RECORD COMPANY WAS FORCED TO ISSUE THEIR OWN COPY. THE ALBUM REACHED NUMBER 4 ON THE TOP 100 ALBUM CHARTS AND PRODUCED 2 TOP FORTY SINGLES ‘I WANT YOU TO WANT ME’ AND ‘AIN’T THAT A SHAME.’ ROLLING STONE HAS RANKED THIS RECORD AT NUMBER 430 ON THEIR LIST OF “THE 500 GREATEST ALBUMS OF ALL-TIME.”

HERE’S THE OFFICIAL CHEAP TRICK VIDEO OF ‘AIN’T THAT A SHAME’ FROM THE BUDOKAN

DOES THIS ALBUM LABEL LOOK LIKE A COOTCHIE

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 26, 2020…ON THIS DATE IN 1970, THE BEATLES RELEASED THE ALBUM ‘HEY JUDE’. IT WAS ORIGINALLY TITLED “THE BEATLES AGAIN” BUT WAS RENAMED. THE ALBUM WAS ALSO RELEASED ON THE BEATLES APPLE LABEL. NOW I HAVE TO TELL YOU, THIS STORY SHOWS HOW UPTIGHT AND EFFED UP PEOPLE ARE. THE RECORD COMPANY WANTED TO CHANGE THE ARTWORK ON THE ACTUAL LABEL, BECAUSE A RECORD JOBBER COMPLAINED THAT HE AND HIS RETAIL OUTLETS WOULDN’T DISPLAY OR STOCK THE RECORD BECAUSE THE ACTUAL RECORD LABEL WAS “PORNOGRAPHIC.” HE STATED THE APPLE LOGO OF THE NOW FAMOUS CUT OPEN FRUIT ACTUALLY “DEPICTED A VAGINA”. APPLE STOOD THEIR GROUND, AND THE SINGLE ‘HEY JUDE’ SOLD OVER 8 MILLION COPIES IN THE US. HAHAHA, VAGINA POWER !

THIS IS GOLD, HERE’S THE BEATLES PERFORMING ‘HEY JUDE’ ON BRITISH TV.

BILLION DOLLAR BABIES

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