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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 29, 2019…IT WAS ON THIS DATE IN 2015 BILLBOARD MAGAZINE ANNOUNCED THAT SLASH WOULD REJOIN GUNS ‘N ROSES TO HEADLINE COACHELLA. THIS LEAD TO THE “NOT IN THIS LIFETIME….” TOUR. THIS WAS A HUMONGOUS ANNOUNCEMENT AS NO ONE BELIEVED THAT THE CORE OF THE GROUP WOULD EVER COME TOGETHER ( INCLUDING MEMBERS OF THE BAND, THUS THE NAME “NOT IN THIS LIFETIME TOUR”). IT MARKED THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE “USE YOUR ILLUSION TOUR” IN 1993 THAT AXL ROSE, DUFF MCKAGAN AND SLASH HAVE ALL BEEN ON THE SAME STAGE. THE TOUR IS RANKED AS THE SECOND HIGHEST RANKING TOUR OF ALL-TIME IN TERMS OF GROSS REVENUE, RAKING IN MORE THAN $563 MILLION DOLLARS. HERE’S PRO VIDEO AND AUDIO OF G’NR’S 2016, 2017 & 2018 “NOT IN THIS LIFETIME…”TOUR

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 28, 2019..EDGAR WINTER CELEBRATES HIS 73RD BIRTHDAY TODAY . EDGAR WINTER IS THE YOUNGER BROTHER OF LATE MUSICIAN JOHNNY WINTER. BOTH HE AND JOHNNY WERE BORN WITH ALBINISM. IN 1972, EDGAR BROUGHT TOGETHER A GROUP OF MUSICIANS TO FORM ‘THE EDGAR WINTER GROUP’. THE ORIGINAL GUITARIST FOR THE GROUP WAS THE BAY AREA’S RONNIE MONTROSE. THEY HIT IT BIG WITH THE ALBUM ‘THE ONLY COME OUT AT NIGHT’. THE ALBUM STAYED IN THE TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART FOR OVER 80 WEEKS.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EDGAR. HERE’S FRANKENSTEIN FROM ‘THEY ONLY COME OUT AT NIGHT’

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 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…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