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SEX TYPE THING

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 25, 2020…SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO THE STONE TEMPLE PILOTS RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘SEX TYPE THING.’ THIS IS A DRIVING ROCKER FROM STP’S DEBUT ALBUM, AND MAN IS IT DARK. THE SONG IS SUNG FROM THE RAPISTS POINT OF VIEW TRYING TO JUSTIFY HIS ACTIONS. SCOTT WEILAND WHO WROTE THE LYRICS EXPLAINED THE SONG IS SUPPOSED TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST RAPE, BUT THE MESSAGE IS OFTEN LOST IN THE MUSIC. WHEN SCOTT WEILAND REALIZED THAT FANS WEREN’T GETTING THE POINT OF THE SONG, HE ATTEMPTED TO MAKE HIS POINT BY SLIPPING ON A DRESS AND SINGING THE SONG WITH SMEARED LIPSTICK ON HIS FACE. HERE’S A GREAT LIVE VERSION OF THE SONG FROM A CONCERT IN 2001

VAN HALEN’S FINAL SAMMY HAGAR STUDIO ALBUM

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 24, 2020…TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO VAN HALEN RELEASED THE ALBUM “BALANCE”. IT WAS THE BAND’S 10TH STUDIO RELEASE, AND THE 4TH ALBUM TO FEATURE SAMMY HAGAR AS THE LEAD SINGER. COINCIDENTALLY ‘BALANCE’ ALSO MARKED FOUR CONSECUTIVE #1 ALBUMS FOR THE GROUP. IT WAS ALSO THE BAND’S LAST STUDIO ALBUM WITH SAMMY HAGAR AS THE LEAD SINGER. IT REACHED NUMBER ONE ON THE CHARTS WITHIN 3 WEEKS OF DEBUTING ON THE CHARTS, AND SOLD OVER 3 MILLION COPIES. THE PHOTO ON THE FRONT COVER OF TWINS ON THE TEETER TOTTER WAS MANUFACTURED FROM TWO PHOTOS OF THE SAME CHILD. THE PICTURE WAS PHOTOSHOPPED TO APPEAR AS CONJOINED TWINS. IT WAS RUMORED TO BE A PHOTO OF WOLFGANG VAN HALEN, BUT IT SHOULD BE NOTED IT IS NOT WOLFIE. DESPITE THE OVERWHELMING SUCCESS OF THE RECORD THE INFIGHTING WITHIN THE BAND WAS AT EPIC PROPORTIONS, AND AFTER THE BALANCE TOUR, MEMBERS WENT THEIR SEPARATE WAYS , ONLY TO REUNITE ONE MORE TIME FOR A 2004 TOUR THAT SAMMY HAGAR DESCRIBED AS “some of the most miserable, back-stabbing dark crap I’ve ever been involved with my whole life.”

HERE’S A SONG FROM BALANCE THAT SAMMY HAGAR WROTE ABOUT HIS EX-WIFE(FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF HIS EX-WIFE)

SKID ROW

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 24, 2020…SKID ROW IS THE SELF TITLED FIRST ALBUM BY SKID ROW, AND IT WAS RELEASED ON THIS DATE IN 1989. IT WAS A TOP TEN ALBUM ON BILLBOARD’S ALBUM CHARTS, AND FEATURED TWO TOP TEN SINGLES, ‘18 AND LIFE’ AND ‘I REMEMBER YOU’. SAY WHATEVER YOU WANT ABOUT SKIDROW, SEBASTIAN BACH CAN FREAKIN’ SING ! HERE’S A LIVE VERSION OF ‘18 AND LIFE’ FROM A CONCERT IN 1991

BIRTHDAY WISHES TO CHEAP TRICK’S ROBIN ZANDER

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 23, 2020…HAPPY 67TH BIRTHDAY TO CHEAP TRICK’S ROBIN ZANDER. ZANDER JOINED CHEAP TRICK AT THE AGE OF 20 AND HAS BEEN WITH THEM EVER SINCE. THE BAND ENJOYED EARLY SUCCESS IN JAPAN, AND EXPLODED TO SUPERSTARDOM IN 1979 WITH THE ALBUM ‘LIVE AT THE BUDOKAN’. WHEN ZANDER ISN’T ON TOUR WITH CHEAP TRICK, HE’S AT HOME WITH HIS WIFE , FORMER PLAYBOY PLAYMATE PAMELA STEIN. ZANDER WAS INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK & ROLL HOF IN 2016 AS A MEMBER OF CHEAP TRICK.

HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR SURRENDER

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SANTANA ‘SUPERNATURAL’

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 23, 2020…TWENTY YEARS AGO SANTANA KICKED OFF A 3 WEEK RUN WITH THE # 1 ALBUM. THE ALBUM WAS ‘SUPERNATURAL’. ‘SUPERNATURAL’ WON 8 GRAMMY AWARDS, INCLUDING ALBUM OF THE YEAR. IT ALSO WENT 15 TIMES PLATINUM, EVENTUALLY SELLING OVER 30 MILLION COPIES WORLDWIDE. GUEST ARTISTS ON THE ALBUM INCLUDE ROB THOMAS, EVERLAST, ERIC CLAPTON, LAURYN HILL, CASEY PORTER, CEE-LO GREEN, AND DAVE MATTHEWS. THE ALBUM WAS DRIVEN BY THE SONG OF THE YEAR ‘SMOOTH’ WITH ROB THOMAS. IT WAS OFFICIALLY THE FINAL #1 SONG OF 1999, AND ACCORDING TO BILLBOARD MAGAZINE, AS OF THE END OF 2018 IT’S THE SECOND MOST SUCCESSFUL SINGLE OF ALL-TIME. HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR ‘SMOOTH’

ALLEN COLLINS OF LYNYRD SKYNYRD

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 23, 2020…ON THIS DAY IN 1990 ALLEN COLLINS, GUITARIST FOR LYNYRD SKYNYRD, DIED OF PNEUMONIA. HE HAD BEEN ILL FOR SEVERAL MONTHS. COLLINS WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDING MEMBERS OF THE BAND AND HELPED CO-WRITE MANY OF THE BAND’S MAJOR HITS. HE ACTUALLY SURVIVED THE PLANE CRASH IN 1977 THAT KILLED 2 OTHER BAND MEMBERS. IN 1986, COLLINS WAS INVOLVED IN A CAR CRASH THAT KILLED HIS GIRLFRIEND AND LEFT HIM PARALYZED FROM THE WAIST DOWN. HERE’S A VIDEO FROM 1977 WHEN THE BAND INTRODUCED ‘THAT SMELL’ TO THE PUBLIC FOR THE FIRST TIME.

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LIGHT 71 BIRTHDAY CANDLES FOR STEVE PERRY

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 22, 2020…HAPPY 71ST BIRTHDAY TO STEVE PERRY. PERRY OF COURSE WAS JOURNEY’S LEAD VOCALIST FOR 10 YEARS, FROM 1977-1987. HE THEN WENT ON TO HAVE A MEGA SUCCESSFUL SOLO CAREER.

HE THEN FRONTED JOURNEY AGAIN FROM 1995-1996, LEAVING THE GROUP BECAUSE OF A CRIPPLING HIP INJURY THAT PREVENTED HIM FROM TOURING. DESPITE NUMEROUS OFFERS TO APPEAR WITH THE GROUP HE HAS NEVER RETURNED ALL BUT DISAPPEARING FROM THE PUBLIC SPOTLIGHT.

JON BON JOVI CALLED STEVE PERRY ‘THE VOICE’. HE IS RANKED BY ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE AS #76 ON THE LIST OF THE TOP 100 SINGERS OF ALL TIME. HERE’S JOURNEY WITH A LIVE VERSION OF “SEPARATE WAYS”…WHAT A FREAKIN’ AMAZING VOICE !

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METALLICA’S NOWHERE ELSE TO ROAM TOUR

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 22, 2020…ON THIS DATE IN 1993 METALLICA KICKED OFF THEIR ‘NOWHERE ELSE TO ROAM TOUR’. THE TOUR CONSISTED OF 77 SHOWS WORLDWIDE IN 3 LEGS, ALL IN SUPPORT OF THEIR 5TH STUDIO ALBUM ‘METALLICA’ (THE BLACK ALBUM). BETWEEN FEBRUARY 25 AND MARCH 2 THE BAND TAPED ALL THE SHOWS AND RELEASED THEIR FIRST LIVE ALBUM ‘LIVE SHIT: BINGE AND PURGE’. THE TOUR KICKED OFF IN KALAMAZOO MICHIGAN, AND WRAPPED UP ON JULY 4TH IN BELGIUM. HERE’S CONCERT FOOTAGE FROM MARCH 1ST, 1993 IN MEXICO CITY

MICHAEL HUTCHENCE INXS

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 22, 2020… TODAY MICHAEL HUTCHENCE OF INXS WOULD HAVE BEEN 60. HUTCHENCE DIED ON NOV 22 1997 AT THE AGE OF 37. HE WAS FOUND DEAD IN HIS HOTEL ROOM IN SYDNEY AUSTRALIA. THE OFFICIAL CAUSE OF DEATH WAS ASPHYXIATION DUE TO SUICIDE BY HANGING. IT WAS WIDELY REPORTED THAT HE WAS INTO “RISKY SEXUAL BEHAVIOR” AND IT WAS THOUGHT HIS DEATH WAS A RESULT OF AUTO -EROTIC ASPHYXIATION. HERE’S HUTCHENCE IN HAPPIER TIMES FRONTING INXS WITH ONE OF THEIR HUGE HITS

THE DAY GEORGE HARRISON GOT MARRIED

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 21, 2020…ON THIS DAY IN 1966 THE BEATLES GEORGE HARRISON MARRIED PATTIE BOYD. PAUL McCARTNEY SERVED AS HARRISON’S BEST MAN. THEY MET ON THE SET OF THE BEATLES MOVIE ‘A HARD DAY’S NIGHT’. THEY SEPARATED IN 1974 AND WERE DIVORCED IN 1977. BOYD HAS STATED THAT HER DECISION TO END THEIR MARRIAGE HAD MAINLY TO DO WITH GEORGE’S INFIDELITIES, INCLUDING HARRISON SLEEPING WITH RINGO’S WIFE. SHE SAID THE LAST YEARS OF THEIR MARRIAGE WERE FILLED WITH COCAINE AND BOOZE. PATTIE EVENTUALLY LEFT HARRISON FOR GEORGE’S BEST FRIEND, ERIC CLAPTON. THIS IS A FREAKIN’ SOAP OPERA !! HERE’S THE SONG THAT GEORGE WROTE FOR PATTIE. FRANK SINATRA CALLED THIS SONG “GREATEST LOVE SONG WRITTEN IN THE LAST 50 YEARS”