LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 29, 2020…TEN YEARS AGO SLY STONE FILED A $50 MILLION LAWSUIT AGAINST HIS MANAGER. SLY ALLEGED 20 YEARS OF MISAPPROPRIATED ROYALTIES. SLY WAS FORCED TO LIVE IN HIS VAN. FIVE YEARS LATER STONE WAS AWARDED 5 MILLION DOLLARS. MAN I USED TO LOVE THIS BAND. HERE’S SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE WITH A HUGE JAM ON THE SONG “I WANT TO TAKE YOU HIGHER”
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 29, 2020…THIS STORY IS FASCINATING ! DESPITE THE FACT STEVIE NICKS SAID SHE WOULD NEVER GET MARRIED, ON THIS DATE IN 1983 SHE MARRIED HER BEST FRIEND’S HUSBAND !! NOW IT’S NOT AS SALACIOUS AS IT SOUNDS. HER BEST FRIEND AT THE TIME WAS DYING, AND STEVIE WANTED TO RAISE HER FRIEND’S BABY. HERE’S NICKS WITH THE EXPLANATION ON A SITUATION SHE LATER ADMITTED ‘I WASN’T THINKING’. BTW, THE MARRIAGE LASTED 3 MONTHS.
I DON’T THINK IT GETS ANY BETTER THAN THIS LIVE VERSION OF ‘EDGE OF SEVENTEEN’ FROM THE GREAT STEVIE NICKS
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 28, 2020…THE BAY AREA’S PAUL KANTNER DIED ON THIS DATE 3 YEARS AGO. KANTNER WAS A FOUNDING MEMBER, THE GUITARIST AND VOCALIST FOR JEFFERSON AIRPLANE AND LATER STARSHIP. IN THE 1960’S HE AND GRACE SLICK LEAD THE AIRPLANE TO 5 GOLD ALBUMS, AND THEN MORE SUCCESS IN THE 70’S AS STARSHIP. KANTNER WAS 74 WHEN HE PASSED. HERE’S KANTNER FROM A TV APPEARANCE WITH THE AIRPLANE ON THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS TV SHOW
HERE’S A GREAT INTERVIEW WITH KANTNER . ENJOY
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 28, 2020…TOM PETTY INVENTED THE ARTIST RESIDENCY BEFORE IT BECAME A THING ! IT WAS 1997 AND TOM PETTY WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF 8 NIGHT’S AT THE FILLMORE. THIS IS AUDIO FROM A SHOW PETTY PLAYED AT THE AT THE END OF THE FILLMORE RUN(FULL SHOW)
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 27, 2020…TWENTY THREE YEARS AGO AT THE METALLICA’S APPEARANCE AT THE AMA’S MADE IT ONE OF THE FEW TIMES IT WAS ACTUALLY WORTH WATCHING THIS TV AWARDS SHOW ! THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS FINALLY RECOGNIZED ROCK AND METALLICA PICKED UP THE AWARD FOR ‘BEST HARD ROCK ARTIST’. AND YES, WHEN YOU CLICK ON THE VIDEO, THAT IS PAT BOONE IN LEATHER ANNOUNCING THE WINNER !! HERE’S METALLICA ACCEPTING THE AWARD AND THEN PERFORMING ON THE AMA’S.
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 27, 2020…HAPPY 76TH BIRTHDAY TO PINK FLOYD DRUMMER NICK MASON. BECAUSE OF FEUDS AND PEOPLE DROPPING IN AND OUT OF THE GROUP OVER THE YEARS, MASON IS THE ONLY CONSISTENT MEMBER OF PINK FLOYD SINCE 1965. AND HE’S THE ONLY MEMBER OF PINK FLOYD TO BE FEATURED ON ALL OF THE GROUP’S STUDIO ALBUMS. IT’S ESTIMATED WITH ALBUM, CASSETTE, CD’S AND DOWNLOADS THAT PINK FLOYD HAS SOLD AN ESTIMATED 500 MILLION RECORDS WORLDWIDE. ONE SONG THAT MASON HAD A HAND IN WAS “TIME”. MASON CO-WROTE THIS EPIC SONG FROM DARK SIDE OF THE MOON. HERE’S A LIVE VERSION OF “TIME”.
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 26, 2020…TODAY WE WISH A HAPPY 65th BIRTHDAY TO EDDIE VAN HALEN. THE VAN HALEN BROTHERS BOTH STARTED OFF MUSICALLY PLAYING CLASSICAL PIANO. IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT WITH ALL THE TRAINING, EDDIE NEVER LEARNED HOW TO READ MUSIC. HE WOULD LEARN BY OBSERVING, AND WHEN HE PLAYED THE PIECES, WOULD BE TOLD HE HAD INTERESTING INTERPRETATIONS. HE THEN BOUGHT A DRUM SET, AND HIS BROTHER ALEX BOUGHT THE GUITAR, BUT WHEN EDDIE WAS OUT ON HIS PAPER ROUTE (THAT HE HAD TO PAY FOR HIS DRUMS) HIS BROTHER ALEX PLAYED HIS DRUMS. EDDIE SAID ‘FINE PLAY MY DRUMS, I’LL PLAY YOUR GUITAR’. THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS HAVE BEEN TOUGH ON EDDIE HEALTH WISE. YEARS OF JUMPING AROUND ON STAGE TOOK ITS TOLL ON HIS HIPS (HE’S HAD HIP REPLACEMENT SURGERY) AND HE ALSO BATTLED THROAT AND TONGUE CANCER. HERE’S TO WISHING HIM NOTHING BUT GOOD HEALTH, HAPPY BIRTHDAY EVH. HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VAN HALEN VIDEO FOR RUNNING WITH THE DEVIL
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 26, 2020…IT WAS ON THIS DATE IN 1973 THAT ELTON JOHN GRACED US WITH ‘DON’T SHOOT ME I’M ONLY THE PIANO PLAYER’. THIS WAS ELTON JOHN’S 6TH STUDIO RELEASE AND HIS 2ND STRAIGHT #1 ALBUM. THE SINGLE ‘CROCODILE ROCK’ MARKED ELTON’S FIRST OF A STRING OF #1 SINGLES IN AMERICA. THE ALBUM ALSO BOASTED ‘DANIEL’, WHICH STALLED AT #2. IRONICALLY THE RECORD COMPANY DIDN’T WANT TO RELEASE ‘DANIEL’ AS A SINGLE, BECAUSE THEY FELT IT WAS TOO LONG AND SOMBER TO BE A HIT. BERNIE TAUPIN CALLED IT “THE MOST MISINTERPRETED SONG HE AND ELTON HAVE EVER WRITTEN”, SAYING HE’S HEARD IT’S ANYTHING FROM A GAY ANTHEM TO A SONG ABOUT A FAMILY DISPUTE. TAUPIN ACTUALLY WROTE IT ABOUT VIETNAM VETS RETURNING HOME FROM WAR, ON HOW THE VETS WANTED TO GET BACK TO NORMAL LIFE. HE TOOK IT FROM A YOUNGER BROTHER’S PERSPECTIVE, MADE THE SOLDIER DISABLED AND WANTING TO GET AWAY. “HE MADE IT SPAIN, BECAUSE IT RHYMES WITH PLANE” HERE’S ELTON AND DANIEL ON WHAT LOOKS LIKE A BRITISH TV APPEARANCE CIRCA 1973
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 25, 2020…SADLY 3 YEARS AGO “ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND” FOUNDER AND DRUMMER BUTCH TRUCKS PASSED AWAY. THE CAUSE OF DEATH WAS A SELF INFLICTED GUNSHOT WOUND SADLY BROUGHT ON “reportedly after years of financial strife”. ALTHOUGH THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND BROKE UP AND REFORMED NUMEROUS TIMES, BUTCH TRUCKS REMAINED A CONSTANT IN THE GROUP’S LINE UP. THIS IS OUTSTANDING. HERE’S BUTCH TRUCKS WITH AN INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO ON HOW TO PLAY “WHIPPING POST” . R.I.P. BUTCH
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 25, 2020…’JAR OF FLIES’ IS THE 3RD STUDIO EP FROM ALICE IN CHAINS. IT WAS RELEASED ON THIS DATE 26 YEARS AGO AND WAS THE FIRST EP IN MUSIC HISTORY TO DEBUT AT #1 ON THE ALBUM CHARTS. IT HAS SINCE GONE ON TO SELL OVER 4 MILLION COPIES. ‘JAR OF FLIES’ FEATURED THE SONG ‘NO EXCUSES’. THE SONG IS ABOUT LAYNE STALEY’S BATTLE TO OVERCOME HEROIN ADDICTION. THE TITLE OF THE EP WAS TAKEN FROM A HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE PROJECT DONE BY JERRY CANTRELL. SOME TRIVIA FOR YOU, IN JAPAN, THE EP WAS TITLED ‘ANOTHER SIDE OF ALICE’
HERE’S ALICE IN CHAINS, WITH ‘NO EXCUSES’
