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THE DEATH OF DAVID BOWIE

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 10, 2020-TWO DAYS AFTER HIS BIRTHDAY AND THE RELEASE OF HIS ALBUM ‘BLACKSTAR’ THE WORLD WAS SHOCKED WITH THE NEWS OF DAVID BOWIE PASSING AWAY. HIS 2016 DEATH REALLY CAME AS A JOLT TO MUSIC FANS. BOWIE DIED IN HIS NEW YORK CITY APARTMENT OF LIVER CANCER, WHICH HE HAD KEPT SECRET. AFTER HIS PASSING, BOWIE’S FAMILY HAD REVEALED HE HAD BEEN DIAGNOSED 18 MONTHS EARLIER. THE DAY FOLLOWING HIS DEATH, FANS FLOCKED TO THE MUSIC SITE VEVO, AND STREAMED HIS MUSIC VIDEOS A TOTAL OF 51 MILLION TIMES, SETTING A RECORD FOR WEBSITE. THE PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 36 MILLION TIMES IN A 24 HOUR PERIOD SET BY ADELE. HERE’S A BOWIE CONCERT FROM THE GLASS SPIDER TOUR. GREAT CAMERA WORK AND AUDIO. BTW, YES, YOU WILL SEE FRAMPTON ON GUITAR

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MICHAEL SCHENKER TURNS 65 TODAY

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 10, 2020… HAPPY 65TH BIRTHDAY TO MICHAEL SCHENKER. SHENKAR WAS AN EARLY MEMBER OF THE SCORPIONS, JOINED UFO IN 1978 AS THEIR LEAD GUITARIST, AND THEN WENT ON TO FORM THE MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP. THIS IS FANTASTIC VIDEO OF SCHENKER WHEN HE RECENTLY PLAYED IN THE BAY AREA AND CLOSED OUT THE SHOW WITH UFO CLASSIC

HERE’S SOME EARLY SCHENKER WITH UFO, A LIVE VERSION OF ‘DOCTOR DOCTOR’

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ROD STEWART IS 75

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’

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVE MATTHEWS

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 9, 2020…HAPPY 53RD BIRTHDAY TO DAVE MATTHEWS. DAVE MATTHEWS WAS BORN IN SOUTH AFRICA. HIS FATHER WAS AN EMPLOYEE OF IBM, AND AT THE AGE OF 2, THE FAMILY MOVED TO VIRGINIA. THEN THE FAMILY MOVED BACK TO SOUTH AFRICA WHEN HE WAS 13. MATTHEWS THEN MOVED BACK TO AMERICA WHEN HE WAS 18 BECAUSE HE WAS DRAFTED AND DIDN’T WANT TO FIGHT FOR A RACIST COUNTRY.

DURING THE PERIOD FROM 2000 TO 2010, THE DAVE MATTHEWS BAND HAS EARNED MORE MONEY, AND SOLD MORE CONCERT TICKETS THAN ANY OTHER BAND IN AMERICA.

HERE’S AN ENTIRE DAVE MATTHEWS CONCERT, ENJOY !!

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1984 REVISITED

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 9, 2020- TODAY IS THE 36TH ANNIVERSARY OF VAN HALEN’S ‘1984’. IT WAS THE SIXTH VAN HALEN ALBUM, AND THE LAST ONE UNTIL ‘A DIFFERENT KIND OF TRUTH’ IN 2012 TO FEATURE DAVID LEE ROTH. ROTH LEFT THE GROUP IN 1985. ‘1984’ AND VAN HALEN’S DEBUT ALBUM ARE THE BAND’S BEST SELLING ALBUMS. EACH HAS SOLD OVER 10 MILLION COPIES. BTW, THIS MIGHT BE THE HOTTEST WOMAN EVER TO APPEAR IN A VAN HALEN VIDEO. HERE’S ‘I’LL WAIT’

RENEGADE

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 9, 2020-IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT EXACTLY 41 YEARS AGO STYX RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘RENEGADE’. THE SONG TELLS THE STORY OF A MAN THAT WAS CONVICTED OF A CRIME AND WAS HEADING TO THE GALLOWS TO DIE. ENCLOSED IN THE LYRICS ARE A LETTER TO HIS MOTHER. RENEGADE WAS WRITTEN BY TOMMY SHAW WHO ALSO SANG LEAD VOCALS, WHILE JAMES YOUNG SUPPLIED THE LEAD GUITAR RIFFS. HERE’S STYX WITH A LIVE VERSION OF RENEGADE

HAPPY 76TH BDAY TO JIMMY PAGE

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 9, 2020- HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE GREAT JIMMY PAGE, WHOS IS BEST KNOWN AS THE FOUNDER AND LEAD GUITARIST OF LED ZEPPELIN, AND IS CONSIDERED TO BE ONE OF, IF NOT THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL GUITARISTS OF ALL-TIME. THIS BLEW MY MIND. PAGE TOOK ONLY A FEW GUITAR LESSONS, AND IS MAINLY SELF TAUGHT ! PAGE WAS INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK & ROLL HOF TWICE. ONCE AS A MEMBER OF THE YARDBIRDS (1992) AND AS A MEMBER OF LED ZEPPELIN (1995). LED ZEPPELIN IS ONE OF THE GREATEST SELLING BANDS OF ALL-TIME, SELLING MORE THAN 300 MILLION ALBUMS. HERE’S PAGE AND THE OFFICIAL LED ZEPPELIN VIDEO FOR “THE OCEAN”

HERE’S AN AWESOME PERFORMANCE FROM LED ZEPPELIN CELEBRATING JIMMY PAGE’S BIRTHDAY AT A SHOW IN 1970

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DAVID BOWIE’S BIRTHDAY

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 8, 2020-TODAY WOULD HAVE BEEN DAVID BOWIE’S 73RD BIRTHDAY. HE WAS BORN DAVID ROBERT JONES, BUT CHANGED HIS NAME IN 1966 TO AVOID CONFUSION WITH DAVY JONES OF THE MONKEES. IN AN INTERVIEW HE SAID THAT THE NAME ‘BOWIE’ COMES FROM THE BOWIE KNIFE, THAT HE WAS LOOKING FOR A WORD THAT STOOD FOR ‘’TRUISM, AND CUTTING THROUGH THE LIES AND ALL THAT.’ BOWIE DIED FOUR YEARS AGO ON JANUARY 10, 2016 IN HIS NEW YORK CITY APARTMENT OF LIVER CANCER, WHICH HE HAD KEPT SECRET. AFTER HIS PASSING, BOWIE’S FAMILY HAD REVEALED HE HAD BEEN DIAGNOSED 18 MONTHS EARLIER. MAY HE REST IN PEACE, HERE’S CLASSIC BOWIE

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ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL PART II

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 8, 2020-ON THIS DATE FORTY YEARS AGO PINK FLOYD RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL PART II’ IN AMERICA. NOW THIS IS SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE PINK FLOYD RARELY ISSUED SINGLES FROM THEIR ALBUMS. THEY FELT THEIR SONGS WERE BEST APPRECIATED WHEN TAKEN INTO THE CONTEXT OF THE ALBUMS. THEIR PRODUCER AT THE TIME CONVINCED THEM THAT THIS WOULDN’T HURT ALBUM SALES, AND WHEN THE BAND GAVE IN IT BECAME THEIR ONLY #1 HIT. TWO MORE SONGS WERE ULTIMATELY RELEASED AS SINGLES FROM THE ALBUM, ‘RUN LIKE HELL’ AND ‘COMFORTABLY NUMB.’ TO DATE ACCOUNTING FOR DOWNLOADS, STREAMING AND ACTUAL SALES ‘ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL PART II’ HAS SOLD OVER 16.7 MILLION COPIES. HERE’S A TREAT, PINK FLOYD PERFORMING THE SONG IN CONCERT CIRCA 1980 (IT’S A LITTLE GRAINY, BUT IT IS VIDEO FROM 1980 FOR GOD’S SAKE)!

ROBBIE KRIEGER

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 8, 2020-HAPPY 74TH BIRTHDAY TO ROBBY KRIEGER. KRIEGER IS BEST KNOWN AS THE DOORS GUITARIST. A LOT OF PEOPLE DON’T KNOW THAT KRIEGER ACTUALLY LEARNED TO PLAY GUITAR WHILE LIVING IN THE BAY AREA. HE ATTENDED BOARDING SCHOOL IN MENLO PARK AND IT WAS WHILE HE WAS ATTENDING SCHOOL THAT HE DE-TUNED A UKULELE AND PLAYED ALONG WITH RECORDS. HE LATER WENT TO MEXICO ON A CHRISTMAS BREAK, AND BOUGHT A GUITAR AND LEARNED HOW TO PLAY FLAMENCO GUITAR. IT WAS WHILE AT MENLO SCHOOL HE FORMED A BAND AND PLAYED FLAMENCO, FOLK, BLUES AND JAZZ. ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE CALLS KRIEGER ONE OF THE “GREATEST GUITARISTS OF ALL TIME.” KRIEGER WROTE OR CO-WROTE MANY OF THE DOORS HITS.

HERE’S GREAT VIDEO OF THE DOORS PERFORMING IN EUROPE IN 1968