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AEROSMITH IN OAKLAND CIRCA 1983

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 7, 2020- JANUARY 7 1983 AEROSMITH WAS ON THE ROAD WITH THE ‘GET A GRIP’ TOUR, AND AEROSMITH PLAYED THE OAKLAND ARENA WITH PAT TRAVERS AS THE WARM UP ACT. THE ORIGINAL OPENING ACT FOR THE TOUR WAS MEGADETH, BUT MEGADETH WAS DROPPED 6 WEEKS INTO THE TOUR WHEN DAVE MUSTAINE WAS DOING A RADIO INTERVIEW AND TALKED SMACK ABOUT AEROSMITH, SAYING ‘WE THINK WE OUGHTA BE HEADLINING, BUT WE DON’T MIND, BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS THIS IS AEROSMITH’S LAST HARRAH’. MEGADETH WAS DROPPED IMMEDIATELY AS A WARM UP ACT ON THE TOUR. BTW, BY THE END OF THE TOUR ‘GET A GRIP’ SOLD 12 MILLION COPIES. HERE’S A HUGE SONG FROM THE CD, THIS IS ‘LIVIN’ ON THE EDGE’

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THE STYX CORNERSTONE TOUR

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 7, 2020-ON THIS DATE IN 1980 STYX WAS WRAPPING UP 3 SOLD OUT CONCERTS AT THE COW PALACE. THE SHOWS WERE PART OF THE “CORNERSTONE” TOUR. IT WAS A WORLDWIDE TOUR THAT SAW THE GROUP PLAY 88 DATES THAT SAW THE BAND HIT THE ROAD IN JANUARY 1980 AND WRAP THINGS UP AT THE END OF DECEMBER. HERE WAS THE SETLIST FROM THE CONCERT AT THE COW PALACE: Borrowed Time, Great White Hope, The Grand Illusion, Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man), Lady, Crystal Ball, Suite Madame Blue, Lights, Why Me, Eddie, Babe, Renegade,Come Sail Away ENCORE: Blue Collar Nights

HERE’S STYX WITH “BABE”, AND DENNIS DEYOUNG SPORTING THE BEST PORN ‘STACHE EVER !

photo thanks the talented Jimmy O’Sheehan Photography https://www.facebook.com/jimmyosheehan/

LED ZEP’S LAST STUDIO ALBUM

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 7, 2020-ON THIS DATE 40 YEARS AGO LED ZEPPELIN’S ‘IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR’ WAS CERTIFIED PLATINUM. THIS WOULD BE THE FINAL ZEPPELIN STUDIO ALBUM RELEASE BEFORE THE PASSING OF DRUMMER JOHN BONHAM. THE GROUP DISBANDED SHORTLY THEREAFTER. THE ALBUM ITSELF FEATURED UNIQUE MARKETING, WITH A PLAIN BROWN WRAPPER ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE RECORD. THE ACTUAL ALBUM JACKET FEATURED 6 DIFFERENT SLEEVES IN BLACK AND WHITE. IF YOU TOOK WATER TO THE SLEEVE IT WOULD PERMANENTLY GIVE YOU A COLORED PHOTO. HERE’S ZEPPELIN WITH A FANTASTIC LIVE VERSION OF THE FIRST SONG ON THE ALBUM. HERE’S ‘IN THE EVENING’

FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE!

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 6, 2020-SOME CALL IT THE GREATEST LIVE ALBUM EVER RECORDED. FORTY FOUR YEARS AGO PETER FRAMPTON RELEASED THE DOUBLE LIVE ALBUM ‘FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE!.’ THE ALBUM WAS RECORDED PRIMARILY AT THE WINTERLAND CONCERT VENUE IN SF. IT WAS THE NUMBER ONE ALBUM IN AMERICA FOR OVER 10 STRAIGHT WEEKS AND STAYED ON THE CHARTS FOR A WHOPPING 97 WEEKS, SELLING OVER AN ESTIMATED 11 MILLION COPIES. IN 1976 ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE READERS VOTED ‘FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE!’ AS THE ALBUM OF THE YEAR. HERE’S A TREAT, FRAMPTON PERFORMING ‘DO YOU FEEL LIKE WE DO’ IN THE SUMMER OF 1977 AT THE OAKLAND COLISEUM. MAYBE YOU’LL SPOT YOURSELF OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IN THE CROWD.

THE RED ROCKER AT HIS BEST

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 6, 2020…SAMMY HAGAR RELEASED THE ALBUM ‘STANDING HAMPTON’ ON THIS DATE IN 1982. IT WAS ORIGINALLY GOING TO BE TITLED ‘THERE’S ONLY ONE WAY TO ROCK’ UNTIL AN ENGLISH FAN TOLD HIM THE TERM ‘HAMPTON’ IS SLANG FOR THE WORD PENIS.THUS, ‘STANDING HAMPTON’ WAS THE NEW ALBUM TITLE ! THIS WAS SAMMY’S SIXTH STUDIO ALBUM AND HIS FIRST ALBUM FOR GEFFEN RECORDS. ‘STANDING HAMPTON’ WAS SAMMY’S FIRST EVER ALBUM TO GO PLATINUM, AND IT SPAWNED 5 HIT SINGLES. ONE OF MY FAVORITE HAGAR SONGS WAS ON THIS ALBUM, AND HERE’S SAMMY WITH A LIVE VERSION.

MALCOLM YOUNG

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 6, 2020- TODAY MALCOLM YOUNG WOULD HAVE BEEN 67 YEARS OLD. MALCOLM OF COURSE IS BEST KNOWN AS THE CO-FOUNDER OF AC/DC. HE WAS THE RHYTHM GUITARIST, BACKING VOCALIST AND SONGWRITER FOR THE GROUP. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF A BRIEF ABSENCE FROM THE BAND IN 1988, MALCOLM WAS WITH THE BAND FROM ITS INCEPTION IN NOVEMBER OF 1973 UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT DUE TO HEALTH REASONS IN 2014.

R.I.P MALCOLM

THIS IS VINTAGE AC/DC FROM 1979, ENJOY

photo thanks-gordo ac/dc vault

photo thanks-Yves LeFouRire Dufour

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL BAYOU COUNTRY

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 5, 2020-FIFTY ONE YEARS AGO CCR RELEASED THE ALBUM ‘BAYOU COUNTRY.’ WHAT’S AMAZING ABOUT CCR IS THIS ALBUM WAS THE FIRST OF THREE ALBUMS THE BAND RELEASED IN 1969 ! ALL THREE ALBUMS WENT PLATINUM. THE BAND’S DEBUT ALBUM IN 1968 CONTAINED THE HIT ‘SUZIE Q’ BUT IT WAS THIS ALBUM THAT TURNED THE BAY AREA BAND INTO SUPERSTARS. ‘BAYOU COUNTRY’ FEATURED WHAT IS ARGUABLY JOHN FOGERTY’S MOST HERALDED SONG ‘PROUD MARY’, AS WELL AS WHAT HE ONCE SAID WAS HIS FAVORITE CCR SONG ‘BORN ON THE BAYOU’. THIS IS A REAL TREAT, HERE’S CCR PERFORMING ‘BORN ON THE BAYOU’ AT WOODSTOCK.

AEROSMITH’S DEBUT

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 5, 2020-IT WAS 47 YEARS AGO A YOUNG BAND FROM BOSTON RELEASED THEIR SELF TITLED DEBUT ALBUM. THIS IS THE ALBUM COVER FROM THE FIRST PRESSING OF THE ALBUM. ON THE ORIGINAL COVER, THE SONG ‘WALKIN THE DOG’ WAS MISPRINTINTED AS ‘WALKIN’ THE DIG’. IT WAS ONE OF MANY LITTLE THINGS THAT WENT WRONG WITH THE DEBUT. BAD DISTRIBUTION, POOR RECORD COMPANY SUPPORT AND NOT ENOUGH RADIO PLAY RESULTED IN THE LP INITIALLY BOMBED PEAKING AT # 163 ON THE CHARTS. HOWEVER, IN 1975 AEROSMITH RELEASED THEIR THIRD LP ‘TOYS IN THE ATTIC’ AND THINGS TOOK OFF FOR THE GROUP. THANKS TO THE BAND’S HIGH PROFILE, THE SINGLE ‘DREAM ON’ WAS REISSUED AND IT PEAKED AT # 6 ON THE CHARTS AND THE ALBUM IN 1976 RISING TO # 21 IN 1976. WHEN A SECOND PRESSING WAS ISSUED THE MISSPELLING WAS CORRECTED, AND A NEW COVER WAS ISSUED FEATURING NOTHING BUT THE BAND MEMBERS.

TO DATE AEROSMITH’S DEBUT ALBUM IS THE GROUP’S THIRD BIGGEST SELLING ALBUM. ACCOUNTING FOR STREAMING, DOWNLOADS AND ACTUAL RECORD SALES IT HAS SOLD OVER 16 MILLION COPIES TO DATE

HERE’S A GREAT VERSION OF ‘DREAM ON’

AEROSMITH’S COMEBACK

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 5, 2020- THIRTY TWO YEARS AGO AEROSMITH RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘ANGEL.’ IT WAS THE SECOND SINGLE FROM THEIR COMEBACK ALBUM ‘PERMANENT VACATION’.PRIOR TO THIS RECORD, THE BAND’S PREVIOUS HIT WAS A REMAKE OF ‘COME TOGETHER’ IN 1978. AFTER YEARS OF DRUG ADDICTION, AND POOR RECORD SALES, THE GROUP WAS CONVINCED BY THEIR RECORD COMPANY TO BRING IN OUTSIDE SONG WRITERS. THE FIRST SONG OFF THE ALBUM WAS ‘DUDE(LOOKS LIKE A LADY)’. WHEN THE BAND RELEASED ‘ANGEL’ IT CEMENTED THE GROUP’S COMEBACK, BECOMING AEROSMITH’S BIGGEST CHARTING SONG TO THAT POINT IN THE GROUP’S CAREER. TAKING YOU BACK TO 1988, HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FROM AEROSMITH

NIRVANA RECORD DEAL

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 4, 2020-NIRVANA SIGNED WITH GEFFEN RECORDS ON THIS DAY IN 1991. PRIOR TO SIGNING WITH GEFFEN, THE BAND RELEASED THEIR FIRST ALBUM ‘BLEACH’ THROUGH AN INDEPENDENT RECORD LABEL. THEIR FIRST ALBUM FOR GEFFEN WAS ‘NEVERMIND’. TAKING INTO ACCOUNT STREAMING, DOWNLOADS AND ACTUAL ALBUM SALES ‘NEVERMIND’ HAS NOW SOLD OVER 52 MILLION COPIES WORLDWIDE AND HAD BEEN CALLED ONE OF THE GREAT ROCK ALBUMS. NIRVANA HAS SOLD OVER 89 MILLION ALBUMS WORLDWIDE AND IS THE HIGHEST SELLING ACT WITH 4 ALBUMS OR LESS. ‘NEVERMIND’ IS THE SECOND BEST SELLING STUDIO ALBUM OF THE 90’S BY A GROUP. IT IS ONLY TOPPED BY METALLICA’S ‘BLACK ALBUM.’

HERE’S THE FIRST SINGLE RELEASED FROM ‘NEVERMIND’