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AEROSMITH TAKES OFF

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 19, 2020…IT WAS 46 YEARS AGO TODAY AEROSMITH GAVE US THE CLASSIC SINGLE ‘SAME OLD SONG AND DANCE’. IT WAS THE FIRST SONG ON THE ALBUM ‘GET YOUR WINGS’.  IT WAS THE SUMMER OF 1973 AND THE BAND WAS ALL LIVING TOGETHER IN 1 HOUSE IN BOSTON. JOE PERRY CAME UP WITH THE RIFF AND STEVEN TYLER MATCHED THE WORDS TO THE RIFF, WHICH REALLY DROVE THE SONG. THIS MIGHT BE THE ONLY SONG CONTAINING BOTH THE WORDS “HURDY GURDY” AND “CONSTIPATION.’ ‘SAME OLD SONG AND DANCE’ WAS ONE OF THE REASONS THIS ALBUM LASTED OVER A YEAR ON BILLBOARD’S TOP 100 ALBUM CHARTS, AND BASICALLY CEMENTED THE BAND’S FUTURE. THE SONG HAS BEEN A STAPLE AT AEROSMITH SHOWS SINCE ‘73, AND HAS BEEN FEATURED ON AEROSMITH COMPILATIONS INCLUDING ‘GREATEST HITS’ (1980) (WHERE THE SONG IS REMASTERED AND 52 SECONDS OF THE SONG IS EDITED OUT AND THE FIRST LINE FROM ONE VERSE IS CHANGED FROM “GOT YOU WITH YOUR COCAINE…” TO “SHADY LOOKING LOSER….” )

HERE’S A KICK ASS LIVE VERSION  OF ‘SAME OLD SONG AND DANCE’

THE INDUCTION OF TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS AND THE TALKING HEADS IN THE RRHOF

 

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 18, 2020… EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS WERE INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME. THE CLASS OF 2002 ALSO INCLUDED THE TALKING HEADS.

THE PERFORMANCE FROM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS MARKED THE LAST TIME BASSIST HOWIE EPSTEIN WOULD PUBLICLY PLAY WITH THE BAND. HE WAS IN HORRIBLE SHAPE DUE TO A HEROIN ADDICTION AND WOULD DIE A YEAR LATER. IT WAS ALSO THE FIRST AND LAST TIME STAN LYNCH PLAYED WITH THE BAND SINCE HE LEFT THE GROUP IN 1994. 

THE TALKING HEADS WERE INDUCTED AND DAVID BYRNE ACTUALLY LIFTED HIS PERSONAL EMBARGO ON A TALKING HEADS REUNION. HE HAD TURNED DOWN MEGA MILLION DOLLAR OFFERS IN THE PAST TO GET BACK TOGETHER WITH THE GROUP, BUT MADE THIS ONE EXCEPTION FOR THE INDUCTION CEREMONY, AND THE GROUP KILLED IT.

PETTY ACCEPTANCE SPEECH

PETTY TAKING THE STAGE TO PERFORM

TALKING HEADS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH

THE TALKING HEADS PERFORMING 

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JERRY CANTRELL 

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 18, 2020…BORN IN 1966, TODAY JERRY CANTRELL TURNS 54 !! CANTRELL IS BEST KNOWN AS THE FOUNDER, LEAD GUITARIST OF ALICE IN CHAINS. WHEN THE GROUP FIRST GAINED NOTORIETY, NATRELL WAS THE CO-LEAD SINGER OF ALICE IN CHAINS, HARMONIZING WITH LAYNE STALEY.  AFTER LAYNE STALEY’S DEATH IN 2002, CANTRELL TOOK OVER THE ROLE AS LEAD SINGER FOR THE GROUP, WITH WILLIAM DUVALL HARMONIZING WITH HIM ON NEW MATERIAL AND TAKING OVER STALEY’S ROLE. HERE’S SOME RANDOM JERRY CANTRELL TRIVIA:

-CANTRELL’S FATHER, JERRY SR., IS A COMBAT VET OF THE VIETNAM WAR

-DUE TO THE STRAIN OF WAR, HIS PARENTS DIVORCED WHEN JERRY WAS 7. HE WAS RAISED BY HIS MOTHER

-HIS FATHER WAS THE MAIN SUBJECT OF THE SONG ‘ROOSTER’

-JERRY PICKED UP THE GUITAR FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THE AGE OF 12.HIS MOTHER WAS DATING A GUITAR PLAYER AND HE TAUGHT HIM A COUPLE OF CHORDS

-HE STARTED SERIOUSLY PLAYING THE ELECTRIC GUITAR AT THE AGE OF 17

-THE FIRST ALBUM HE OWNED WAS ELTON JOHN’S “GREATEST HITS”, A GIFT HE RECEIVED FROM JERRY SR. WHEN HE WAS 10.

-CANTRELL LEARNED TO PLAY GUITAR BY EAR, NO LESSONS

-HE WAS RAISED ON COUNTRY MUSIC

HERE’S CANTRELL WITH ALICE IN CHAINS AND THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR  ‘MAN IN THE BOX”

 

photo thanks-Morten Jensen

DRONE FOOTAGE SHOWS EMPTY ROADS IN ITALY AMID CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN

In the drone video below, it was filmed just outside the city of Milan, Italy. Do you think the Bay Area roads will look like this soon?

VAN HALEN III

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 17, 2020…IT WAS ST.PATRICK’S DAY 1998 AND VAN HALEN LAID A TURD. IT WAS THE BAND’S ONLY STUDIO ALBUM TO FEATURE SINGER GARY CHERONE, AND THE LAST VAN HALEN ALBUM TO BOAST MICHAEL ANTHONY. AFTER THIS ALBUM ANTHONY WAS REPLACED BY EDDIE’S SON WOLFGANG. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE BAND’S CAREER, A RECORD FROM VAN HALEN WAS WIDELY PANNED AND FAILED TO CATCH ON COMMERCIALLY.  IN MY OPINION, FANS WEREN’T WILLING TO BUY THE VAN HALEN BROTHERS LINE OF B.S. THAT “THEIR NEW SINGER WAS AMAZING, AND THEIR LAST SINGER SUCKED”. THEY DID THIS TWICE, WHEN ROTH LEFT, AND THEN WHEN SAMMY HAGAR LEFT.  IN MY OPINION, THE VAN HALEN BROTHERS CLEARLY UNDERESTIMATED SAMMY HAGAR’S POPULARITY. KEEP IN MIND THE 4 PREVIOUS STUDIO ALBUMS WITH SAMMY HAGAR SOLD 16 MILLION COPIES. VAN HALEN III SOLD ONLY 500,000 COPIES IN THE U.S.A. 

GARY CHERONE LEFT THE BAND SHORTLY AFTER THIS RECORD, AND IT WOULD BE MORE THAN A DECADE BEFORE VAN HALEN RELEASED ANOTHER FULL LENGTH STUDIO ALBUM.

HERE’S THE FIRST SINGLE FROM THE ALBUM. FOR MANY OF YOU IT WILL BE THE FIRST TIME HEARING THE SONG !!

 

 

DESOLATION ANGELS 

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 17, 2020…TODAY MARKS 41 YEARS FOR THE RELEASE OF ‘DESOLATION ANGELS’ FROM BAD COMPANY. IT WAS BAD COMPANY’S FIFTH STUDIO ALBUM. THE ALBUM PLACED AS HIGH AS # 3 ON BILLBOARD’S TOP ALBUM CHART, SPARKED BY TWO GREAT SINGLES ‘ROCK AND ROLL FANTASY’ AND ‘GONE GONE GONE’. ‘DESOLATION ANGELS’ WENT DOUBLE PLATINUM FOR THE GROUP, SELLING OVER 2 MILLION COPIES IN AMERICA.  PROVING HE HAS ONE OF THE BEST VOICES IN ROCK, HERE’S PAUL RODGERS AND BAD COMPANY WITH ‘GONE GONE GONE’

HERE’S BAD COMPANY WITH ‘ROCK AND ROLL FANTASY’

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BILLY CORGAN  

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 17, 2020…HAPPY 53RD BIRTHDAY TO BILLY CORGAN OF THE SMASHING PUMPKINS. CORGAN IS THE LEAD SINGER, SONGWRITER, GUITARIST AND THE SOLE PERMANENT MEMBER OF THE SMASHING PUMPKINS. CORGAN AND GUITARIST JAMES IHA FORMED THE PUMPKINS IN 1988. CORGAN MET BASSIST D’ARCY WRETZKY THEY GOT INTO AN ARGUMENT IN A BAR. HE JOINED THE BAND SHORTLY AFTERWARDS. THEY PLAYED AS A THREE PIECE WITH A DRUM MACHINE, UNTIL THEY ADDED JIMMY CHAMBERLIN ON DRUMS AFTER HE ANSWERED AN AD IN THE PAPER. 

HERE IS SOME SMASHING PUMPKINS AND BILLY CORGAN TRIVIA:

-THE PUMPKINS PLAYED THEIR FIRST GIG OPENING FOR JANES ADDICTION, AND WERE QUICKLY SIGNED TO A RECORD DEAL WITH VIRGIN RECORDS.

-CORGAN IS A NOTORIOUS PERFECTIONIST. HE PLAYED ALL THE INSTRUMENTS ON ‘SIAMESE DREAM’ HIMSELF, ALTHOUGH HIS BAND RECEIVED FULL CREDIT

-INTERNAL FIGHTING AND DRUG USE LED TO A BREAK-UP OF THE GROUP IN 2000.

-CORGAN HARDLY EVER PLAYS ANY OF HIS OLD SONGS. AFTER THE SMASHING PUMPKINS BROKE UP, HE WENT AT LEAST 4 YEARS WITHOUT PLAYING ANY OF THEIR SONGS.

-THE SMASHING PUMPKINS SOLD OVER 30 MILLION RECORDS WORLDWIDE IN THE 1990’S

HERE’S BILLY WITH THE PUMPKINS WITH ‘BULLET WITH BUTTERFLY WINGS’

 

photo thanks-Rafael da Silva Silva

 

HAPPY ST. PADDYS DAY  

HAPPY  ST. PATRICK’S DAY !!! TO CELEBRATE, HERE ARE SOME GREAT IRISH BANDS.

U2- “WHEN LOVE COMES TO TOWN”

THE DROPKICK MURPHYS “Kiss me, I’m Sh*tfaced”

THEM ‘GLORIA’

 

RORY GALLAGHER- ‘BAD PENNY’

 

FLOGGING MOLLY- ‘DRUNKEN LULLABIES’

THE CRANBERRIES- ‘ZOMBIE’

 

THE POGUES- ‘DIRTY OLD TOWN’

VAN MORRISON – FULL CONCERT

THIN LIZZY- ‘JAILBREAK’

THIN LIZZY- ‘WHISKEY IN THE JAR’

 

FACE DANCES 

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 16, 2020…ON THIS DATE IN 1981 THE WHO RELEASED THEIR 9TH ALBUM/CD ‘FACE DANCES.’ HERE’S SOME QUICK ‘FACE DANCES’  TRIVIA:

–  IT WAS ONE OF ONLY 2 WHO ALBUMS TO FEATURE KENNY JONES. JONES REPLACED MOON AFTER HIS DEATH IN 1978

– THE COVER WAS PUT TOGETHER BY PETER BLAKE, WHO PUT TOGETHER  THE BEATLES ‘SGT PEPPER’S’ COVER

– YOU BETTER YOU BET  WAS THE FIRST SINGLE FROM THE ALBUM; IT’S VIDEO WAS ONE OF THE FIRST VIDEOS ON MTV, AND        WAS THE FIRST VIDEO TO BE REPEATED.

– ANOTHER TRICKY DAY  WAS NEVER RELEASE AS A SINGLE, BUT STILL RANKED AS ONE OF THE HIGHEST PLAYED SONGS ON ROCK RADIO IN 1981

– FACE DANCES HAS SOLD OVER A MILLION COPIES IN THE UNITED STATES 

HERE’S THE WHO PERFORMING ‘ANOTHER TRICKY DAY’