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EPIC DAY ON THE GREEN, METALLICA, & PASSING OUT

AS WE ARE CURRENTLY GOING THROUGH A CONCERT DRY SPELL BECAUSE OF THE CORONA VIRUS, I’M SITTING HERE LONGING FOR THE DAYS OF EPIC DAYS ON THE GREEN. BILL GRAHAM’S DAYS ON THE GREEN WERE THE FIRST PROTOTYPES OF “FESTIVAL” SHOWS. THEY WERE TYPICALLY THE SHOWS WERE HELD ON THE LAWN OF THE OAKLAND COLISEUM. THE DAY ON THE GREEN CONCERTS WERE A SUMMER SERIES THAT GRAHAM STARTED IN 1973 AND CONTINUED UNTIL SHORTLY AFTER HIS DEATH IN 1991. FORTY TWO YEARS AGO IT WAS THE SECOND OF TWO NIGHTS FOR THE EAGLES DAY ON THE GREEN AT THE OAKLAND COLISEUM ( MAY 28 & 30TH). THE LINE UP FEATURED THE EAGLES, FOREIGNER, HEART, THE ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION, AND STEVE MILLER.

HERE’S A FULL CONCERT FROM THE EAGLES CIRCA 1977

HERE’S SOME LIVE HEART 1977

LIVE STEVE MILLER 1977

FOREIGNER LIVE 1977

ON THIS DATE 17 YEARS AGO METALLICA PERFORMED AT SAN QUENTIN FOR THE PRISONERS AND SHOT THE FINISHING SCENES FOR THE VIDEO ST.ANGER. THIS ALSO MARKED THE DEBUT OF ROBERT TRUJILLO IN METALLICA. ST. ANGER WON A GRAMMY FOR “BEST METAL PERFORMANCE” AND WAS NOMINATED FOR “BEST ROCK VIDEO” AT THE 2003 MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS. 

 

IT WAS ON THIS DATE IN 1999 LENNY KRAVITZ WALKED OFFSTAGE AT A SHOW IN NEW JERSEY AFTER PERFORMING 40 MINUTES, AND COLLAPSED FROM HEAT EXHAUSTION. THE SHOW TOOK PLACE AT THE PNC BANK ARTS CENTER IN HOLMDEL, NEW JERSEY. HIS BAND CONTINUED TO PLAY FOR ANOTHER 15 MINUTES WITHOUT HIM BEFORE THE SHOW WAS STOPPED. KRAVITZ WAS TREATED BY A DOCTOR ON SITE AT THE ARENA AND LEFT ON HIS OWN. KRAVITZ WAS PERFORMING IN BELL BOTTOM JEANS AND A FUR COAT ON STAGE BEFORE HE SUFFERED FROM THE HEAT EXHAUSTION. NEW RULE FOR ROCKERS, WHEN ITS 90 DEGREES, DON’T PERFORM IN A FUR COAT !! THIS IS VINTAGE LENNY KRAVITZ

photo thanks-facebook.com/lennykravitz 
Metallica photo thanks-jay greinsky

 

BANG THAT THONG

A Thai man with an unhealthy obsession with “used” flip-flops has been arrested for stealing more than 120 pairs and then having sex with ‘em. The man would reportedly wear the “thongs”, caress and kiss them before eventually making love to them. And this inspired the boys in the back, who teamed up with Sisqo to remake his classic hit song.

BIRTHDAY GAL, BOWIE, AND ROCK ANTHEM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MELISSA ETHERIDGE. TODAY MELISSA TURNS 59 YEARS YOUNG. ETHERIDGE IS ONE OF ROCK’S GREAT FEMALE ICONS. SHE BURST ON THE SCENE WITH HER DEBUT ALBUM FOR WHICH SHE WON HER FIRST GRAMMY AWARD. IN THE PAST 30 YEARS MELISSA ETHERIDGE IS TIED WITH CELINE DION FOR THE 5TH MOST TOP 40 ALBUMS AMONG WOMEN. SHE’S SOLD OVER 16 MILLION RECORDS. SHE’S RECEIVED 15 GRAMMY NOMINATIONS OVER THE YEARS, WINNING TWO GRAMMY AWARDS, AN OSCAR FOR “BEST ORIGINAL SONG IN 2007, AND APPEARED ON BROADWAY IN GREEN DAY’S ROCK OPERA “AMERICAN IDIOT”. IN 2016 SHE RELEASED THE SONG ‘PULSE’. SHE WROTE THE SONG IN REACTION TO THE MASS SHOOTINGS THAT TOOK PLACE IN ORLANDO JUNE 12, 2016. SHE TOLD ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE: “We want to try to make sense. We want to try to heal. We want to bring some meaning, some purpose. We also want to put it down forever in history. That’s how I’m coping.” ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE SONG ‘PULSE’ BENEFIT EQUALITY FLORIDA, THE STATE’S LARGEST LGBT CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATION. IN 2004 ETHERIDGE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER, AND SHE UNDERWENT SURGERY AND CHEMOTHERAPY. SHE RETURNED TO THE STAGE IN 2005 AT THE GRAMMY AWARDS, AND DESPITE BEING BALD FROM THE CHEMO, SHE PERFORMED AN INCREDIBLE TRIBUTE TO JANIS JOPLIN. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MELISSA ETHERIDGE. HER TALENT IS SECOND TO NONE AND I LOVE EVERYTHING SHE STANDS FOR. HERE’S HER GUTSY AND AWESOME TRIBUTE TO JANIS JOPLIN.

THIRTY YEARS AGO, DAVID BOWIE ROCKED THE SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE. THE DATE WAS MAY 29TH 1990. IT WAS PART OF BOWIE’S “SOUND AND VISION TOUR”. IT WAS A GREATEST HITS TOUR INTENDED TO RETIRE HIS BACK CATALOGUE OF HITS FROM LIVE PERFORMANCES. THE TOUR WAS 7 MONTHS LONG, SPANNED 27 COUNTRIES AND BOWIE PERFORMED 108 SHOWS. THE TOUR GROSSED 20 MILLION DOLLARS. HERE’S WHAT WAS PLAYED AT SHORELINE, COURTESY OF SETLIST.COM: Space Oddity, Changes, TVC15, Rebel Rebel, Ashes to Ashes, Fashion, Life on Mars?, Blue Jean, Let’s Dance, Pretty Pink Rose, Stay, Sound and Vision, Ziggy Stardust, China Girl, Station to Station, Young Americans, Suffragette City, Fame, “Heroes” Encore: Panic in Detroit, The Jean Genie

HERE’S BOWIE LIVE IN 1990 WITH SUFFRAGETTE CITY 

FORTY SEVEN YEARS AGO ALICE COOPER RELEASED AN ANTHEM, THE SINGLE SCHOOL’S OUT. IT WAS THE FIRST SINGLE ISSUED FROM THE ALBUM OF THE SAME NAME. COOPER SAID HE WAS INSPIRED TO WRITE THE SONG WHEN ANSWERING THE QUESTION: “What’s the greatest three minutes of your life?”. Cooper said: “There’s two times during the year. One is Christmas morning, when you’re just getting ready to open the presents. The greed factor is right there. The next one is the last three minutes of the last day of school when you’re sitting there and it’s like a slow fuse burning. I said, ‘If we can catch that three minutes in a song, it’s going to be so big.'” IT WAS BIG. IT WENT TO NUMBER 7 ON THE BILLBOARD SINGLES CHARTS AND IS EVERY KID’S THEME SONG WITH THE END OF SCHOOL YEAR. ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE RANKED THE SONG ON THEIR LIST OF “THE 500 GREATEST SONGS OF ALL-TIME”, AND VH1 NAMED IT #35 ON THEIR LIST OF “THE BEST HARD ROCK SONGS OF ALL-TIME.” HERE’S ALICE FROM A TV APPEARANCE IN 1972

HERE’S A LIVE VERSION OF ALICE COOPER FROM ALICE COOPER: TRASHES THE WORLD

 

 

 

 

 

 

bowie photo thanks-Rosana Prada
etheridge photo thanks-bobnjeff

MR. SKIN’S MUST WATCH THIS WEEK

Lamont & Tonelli talked to Mr. Skin for his weekly fun bags forecast. This morning Mr. Skin talked about National Masturbation Day, including great masturbation moments in cinema like Shannon Elizabeth in American Pie, Sarah Silverman in I Smile Back, Lili Simmons from Bansee on Cinemax and Natalie Krill in Blow Her Mouth. Plus, with the recent launch of HBO Max, Mr. Skin talks about Anna Kendrick in Love Life.

MAGIC OF THE FOO FIGHTERS, US FESTIVAL, & JOHN FOGERTY

YOU CAN’T STOP ROCK N’ ROLL. THE FOO FIGHTERS ALWAYS PUT ON A GREAT SHOW, AND WHEN THEY PLAYED AT THE BOTTLEROCK MUSIC FESTIVAL 3 YEARS AGO THE HAD A SET THAT WENT A FEW MINUTES LONGER THAN SCHEDULED. HOWEVER SOMETHING INCREDIBLE HAPPENED.  THE FOO FIGHTERS HAD THE POWER TURNED OFF DURING THEIR LAST SONG @ 2017 BOTTLEROCK. NOW WHAT DOUCHEBAG MAKES THAT CALL TO TURN THE POWER OFF WHEN THE GROUP IS IN THE LAST SONG OF THE SET ? THEN SOMETHING MAGICAL HAPPENED. THEY JUST KEPT ON PLAYING !! WITHOUT THE POWER, AND THE CROWD SANG ALONG. ONE OF THE MANY REASONS TO LOVE THE FOO FIGHTERS…HERE’S VIDEO.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BAY AREA NATIVE JOHN FOGERTY. TODAY JOHN TURNS 75 YEARS OF AGE. FOGERTY WAS BORN IN BERKELEY AND GREW UP IN EL CERRITO AND CONSIDERS THE BAY AREA HOME. FOGERTY HIT IT BIG WITH HIS BAND CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL AND WAS ONE OF THE MOST PROLIFIC HIT MACHINES IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC WITH 22 SONGS AT OR NEAR THE TOP OF THE CHARTS IN 5 YEARS ! THE GROUP BROKE UP IN 1971 AND HE RELEASED A SOLO ALBUM IN 1975, BUT WAS FORCED INTO A LONG HIATUS BECAUSE HIS RECORD COMPANY (FANTASY RECORDS, WHICH HE DESPISED) OWNED THE RIGHTS TO ANY MUSIC HE MADE. IT WASN’T UNTIL 1985 HE SETTLED HIS DISPUTE WITH THE RECORD COMPANY AND WAS ABLE TO RELEASE THE SOLO  ALBUM ‘CENTERFIELD’. THINK OF IT, THESE RECORD COMPANY WEASELS BASICALLY PREVENTED HIM FROM RELEASING MUSIC FOR 10 YEARS. THE ONLY BRIGHTSIDE ACCORDING TO FOGERTY, WAS IT ENABLED HIM TO AVOID THE WHOLE DISCO ERA (FOGERTY’S STANCE IS “DISCO SUCKS” !!) HAPPY BIRTHDAY TODAY TO JOHN FOGERTY. HERE’S THE BIRTHDAY BOY WITH CCR PERFORMING AT WOODSTOCK 1969 (THE QUALITY OF THE VIDEO HAS BEEN ENHANCED AND IT IS SPECTACULAR)

 

AND FINALLY IT WAS 1983 AND A HUGE 3 DAY MUSIC FESTIVAL TOOK PLACE JUST OUTSIDE OF SAN BERNARDINO. THE US FESTIVAL 1983. THE LINEUP WAS INCREDIBLE, AND INCLUDED VAN HALEN, THE PRETENDERS, U2, THE CLASH, INXS, STEVIE NICKS, DAVID BOWIE, JOE WALSH, MOTLEY CRUE, THE SCORPIONS, OZZY OSBOURNE, TRIUMPH, JOHN COUGAR AND JUDAS PRIEST.  WHAT’S INCREDIBLE TO ME IS TICKETS WERE ONLY 20 BUCKS A DAY TO GET IN !! TOTAL ATTENDANCE WAS 570,000 PAYING CUSTOMERS. THE FESTIVAL LOST 12 MILLION DOLLARS !! RUH ROH !! MAYBE THEY SHOULD HAVE CHARGED A FEW MORE BUCKS. PLUS THERE WERE 2 REPORTED DEATHS. HERE’S THE ENTIRE SET FROM VAN HALEN

HERE’S MOTLEY CRUE (ENTIRE SET)

QUIET RIOT

JUDAS PRIEST 

OZZY

STEVIE NICKS

 

 

SCORPIONS

JOE WALSH

TRIUMPH

THE CLASH

 

 

 

 

 

foo fighter photo thanks-THE GREAT JIMMY O’SHEEHAN Jimmy O’Sheehan Photography 
fogerty photo thanks-photo thanks-ceedub13

 

 

Gunga Galunga-Golf Course Gator Fight

Well, a viral video has captured two alligators turning the 18th green of a South Carolina golf course into a real-life death match. A group of golfers at the Hilton Head Lakes golf course – came across the two gators locked onto each other with their powerful jaws while thrashing about. A fight that lasted over two hours. One of the alligators can be seen in the video with its giant mouth on top of the other alligator’s mouth, while the one underneath had its jaws locked onto the other’s leg. It’s an amazing video, so we decided to narrate it with a golf course legend.

Below is the highlight from the show.

DON’T HAVE A MASK? NO PROBLEM JUST USE YOUR UNDERWEAR

A woman stripped off and put her underwear over her face after a Ukrainian shop worker refused to serve her without a face mask on. The unidentified woman was filmed on a security camera at a “Nova Poshta” post office in Ukraine. Reports say she came to the post office to pick up a paackage and entered the room without wearing a face mask, which is against the country’s current quarantine laws. After one employee asked the woman to follow the rules, she took extreme measures to make sure she got her package. In the video below, she is seen pulling down her jeans, taking off her underwear and placing them over her face. She put her jeans back on while keeping her underwear over her head. Even though the video doesn’t show it, the employee ended up handing over the woman’s package. A spokesperson told local media: “Our employee asked the woman to put on a face mask and even gave her one for free. But the woman refused to use it.” The company said they do not condemn the customer’s actions and are not going to report her to the police.

PETTY, SEGER, SEGER & AEROSMITH WITH A SONG ABOUT ORAL

IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT 3 YEARS AGO  TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS ROCKED NAPA @ THE 2017 BOTTLEROCK MUSIC FESTIVAL. WHO KNEW THAT CATCHING THAT SHOW WOULD BE ONE OF OUR LAST OPPORTUNITIES TO WATCH PETTY IN CONCERT, WITH PETTY PASSING AWAY ONLY 128 DAYS LATER ON OCTOBER 2ND OF AN ACCIDENTAL DRUG OVERDOSE. HERE’S SOME GREAT CELL PHONE FOOTAGE OF PETTY AT BOTTLEROCK IN NAPA.

44 YEARS AGO AEROSMITH RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘LAST CHILD’ FROM THE ALBUM ‘ROCKS’. IN THE AEROSMITH BIOGRAPHY “WALK THIS WAY” BRAD WHITFORD EXPLAINED HOW THIS SONG CAME TOGETHER: “After rehearsal one day, I played this riff and Steven yells, ‘I love it!’ and started playing drums; he plays very different from Joey (Kramer) with a more jazzy approach, fun to work with. Joe (Perry) threw in a couple of chord changes, a D chord to an A, and then spiced up the chord a little.” THE LYRICS WERE BASED ON THE LIFE WITH THE BAND AT THAT TIME, AND ALL THE TIME THEY SPENT ON THE ROAD. PART OF THE SONG DEALS WITH THE TIME ON TOUR JUST BEFORE THE BAND WOULD COME HOME(“HOME SWEET HOOOMMMME”). SOME MEMBERS OF THE BAND AND CREW HAD WIVES AND GIRLFRIENDS, SO WHEN A TOUR WAS COMING TO A CLOSE, THEY WOULD REFRAIN FROM SEX WITH GROUPIES (EXCEPT ORAL) AS A COURTESY- THEY DIDN’T WANT TO BRING A SOCIAL DISEASE HOME WITH THEM.  HERE’S AN EPIC RENDITION OF THE SONG FROM AEROSMITH

FORTY TWO YEARS AGO BOB SEGER RELEASED THE ALBUM ‘STRANGER IN TOWN’ AND IT WAS AN INSTANT SUCCESS IN NORTH AMERICA. WITHIN 4 WEEKS OF IT’S RELEASE THE ALBUM WAS CERTIFIED PLATINUM. IT CAME ON THE HEELS OF THE MEGA SUCCESSFUL ALBUM ‘NIGHT MOVES’, AND LIKE IT’S PREDECESSOR SOLD OVER 6 MILLION COPIES. THE RECORD BOASTED 4 HIT SINGLES ‘STILL THE SAME’ ‘HOLLYWOOD NIGHTS’ ‘WE’VE GOT TONIGHT’ AND ‘OLD TIME ROCK AND ROLL’ AND SOLIDIFIED SEGER AS ONE OF THE GREAT ROCK SONGWRITERS AND PERFORMERS OF THE 70’S AND 80’S.HERE’S A LIVE VERSION OF ‘STILL THE SAME’ FROM A CONCERT CIRCA 1978

THIRTY THREE YEARS AGO U2 RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘I STILL HAVEN’T FOUND WHAT I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR’ FROM THE ALBUM ‘THE JOSHUA TREE.’ IT WAS THE SECOND SINGLE RELEASED FROM THE EPIC ALBUM (THE FIRST SINGLE WAS  ‘WITH OR WITHOUT YOU’). IT BECAME THE GROUP’S SECOND CONSECUTIVE NUMBER ONE SINGLE. THE TRACK WAS INFLUENCED BY GOSPEL MUSIC. BONO WANTED THE JOSHUA TREE TO EXPLORE VARIOUS FORMS OF AMERICAN MUSIC THE GROUP EXPERIENCED WHEN IT WAS ON TOUR. I STILL HAVEN’T FOUND WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR RECEIVED TWO NOMINATIONS FOR GRAMMY AWARDS IN 1988, FOR BOTH “RECORD OF THE YEAR” AND “SONG OF THE YEAR”. ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE ALSO RANKS IT AT # 93 ON IT’S LIST OF “THE 500 GREATEST SONGS OF ALL TIME.” 

HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO 

 

 

 

 

 

 

petty photo thanks-Amber

STEVIE NICKS AND THE FIGHTERS OF FOO

STEVIE NICKS TURNS 72 TODAY. THIS WOMAN HAS DONE IT ALL. SHE’S BEEN REFERRED TO AS THE “QUEEN OF ROCK”. SHE’S A MEMBER OF FLEETWOOD MAC AND HAS A THRIVING SOLO CAREER. COLLECTIVELY SHE’S SOLD OVER 140 MILLION ALBUMS.  ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE HAS LISTED HER ON THEIR LISTS OF “THE 100 GREATEST SONGWRITERS OF ALL-TIME” AND “100 GREATEST SINGERS OF ALL-TIME”. SHE’S WON A GRAMMY AND HAS 5 GRAMMY NOMINATIONS AS A MEMBER OF FLEETWOOD MAC, AND HAS 8 GRAMMY NOMINATIONS AND 2 AMERICAN MUSIC AWARD NOMINATIONS AS A SOLO ARTIST. SHE’S THE ONLY WOMAN TO HAVE BEEN INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME TWICE, ONCE AS A MEMBER OF FLEETWOOD MAC IN 1998,AND THEN AS A SOLO ARTIST IN THE CLASS OF 2019. NOT BAD FOR  SOMEONE WHO ATTENDED SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY AND LEFT A SEMESTER BEFORE GRADUATING TO PURSUE A CAREER IN MUSIC. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE GREAT STEVIE NICKS. LET’S CELEBRATE WITH ONE OF STEVIE’S GREATEST SOLO HITS. 

HERE’S MY FAV STEVIE NICKS SONG. JAMMIN’ WITH TOM PETTY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AND HERE’S REASON NUMBER 5 MILLION TO LOVE THE FOO FIGHTERS. THREE YEARS AGO THE FOO FIGHTERS WERE GETTING READY FOR THEIR GIG AT BOTTLEROCK, AND PLAYED THE BLUE NOTE IN NAPA TO A CAPACITY CROWD OF 150 PEOPLE ! HERE’S CELL PHONE VIDEO FROM THAT SHOW

 

 

 

nicks photo thanks-Eva Rinaldi