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NOT THE WAY YOU WANT TO SPEND CINCO DE MAYO 

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MAY 5, 2020…IN 1995 DRUMMER STEVEN ADLER OF GUNS N’ ROSES FAME CELEBRATED CINCO DE MAYO IN A VAN NUYS CALIFORNIA COURTROOM. HE WAS ARRAIGNED ON CHARGES OF HEROIN POSSESSION. ADLER HAD BEEN KICKED OUT OF THE GROUP 5 YEARS PRIOR DUE TO HIS ADDICTION. YOU KNOW YOU’VE GOT A DRUG PROBLEM WHEN A BAND THAT WRITES A SONG ABOUT HEROIN  (‘MR. BROWNSTONE’ ) SAYS YOU’VE GOT A DRUG PROBLEM AND THEY’VE HAD ENOUGH !

 

ADLER WASN’T INCLUDED ON THE RECENT GUNS N’ ROSES REUNION TOUR, BUT WAS INVITED BACK TO PLAY “ONE OR TWO SONGS”. HERE’S A COMPLETE ARTICLE ON HOW AWKWARD IT GOT AT ONE OF THE SHOWS WHEN THEY TURNED THE LIGHTS ON HIM AND HAD TO TELL HIM TO LEAVE THE STAGE.

Watch Guns N’ Roses awkwardly kick former drummer Steven Adler offstage

 

 

HERE’S ONE OF THE ADLER APPEARANCES. THIS CONCERT WAS IN ARGENTINA

 

 

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LAMONT & TONELLI PRESENT KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF

Listen to Lamont and Tonelli’s new song “Keep Your Hands To Yourself.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICK MARS

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MAY 4, 2020…HAPPY 69TH BIRTHDAY TO MOTLEY CRUE’S MICK MARS. IN APRIL OF 1980 MARS PUT AN AD IN A SMALL LOS ANGELES NEWSPAPER AS A “LOUD, RUDE, AGGRESSIVE GUITAR PLAYER” LOOKING FOR A BAND. THE AD WAS ANSWERED BY NIKKI SIXX AND TOMMY LEE WHO WERE LOOKING TO PUT TOGETHER A BAND. MOTLEY CRUE WAS BORN. 

MARS IS A FANTASTIC FREAKIN’ GUITARIST. CHECK OUT THIS GUITAR SOLO GOING INTO DR.FEELGOOD.

 

 

photo thanks-Alec

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKE DIRNT

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MAY 4, 2020…PUT 48 CANDLES ON A CAKE TODAY FOR MIKE DIRNT OF GREEN DAY AND CELEBRATE HIS BIRTHDAY. HIS REAL NAME IS MICHAEL RYAN PRITCHARD. HIS NICKNAME IN SCHOOL WAS “DIRNT” BECAUSE HE CONSTANTLY PLAYED AIRBASS AND MADE THE SOUND “DIRNT DIRNT DIRNT” WHEN PRETENDING TO PLUCK THE STRINGS. DIRNT CAN BE SEEN IN THE ABOVE PICTURE WITH GREEN DAY STALKER BABY HUEY ANXIOUSLY WAITING FOR SECURITY TO REMOVE “THE HUE-STER” FROM THE RESTRICTED AREA. HERE’S THE ENTIRE SET FROM GREEN DAY WHEN THEY PERFORMED AT GREEN DAY IN 1994. IT STARTS OFF WITH DIRNT GIVING ONE OF THE GREATEST CONCERT INTROS I’VE EVER SEEN. 

photo-Baby Huey-certified Green Day Fan And Stalker

WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MAY 3, 2020…TWENTY SEVEN YEARS AGO MARKED THE WORLDWIDE RELEASE OF GUNS N’ ROSES’ SINGLE ‘CIVIL WAR’. THE SONG ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON A CHARITY  ALBUM RELEASED IN 1990 TO BENEFIT ROMANIAN ORPHANS  ‘NOBODY’S CHILD:ROMANIAN ANGEL APPEAL’, AND THEN ON THE GUNS N’ ROSES ALBUM ‘USE YOUR ILLUSION 2’.

THE TRACK IS A PROTEST SONG AGAINST WAR. DUFF MCKAGAN EXPLAINED WHERE THE SONG CAME FROM IN A RADIO INTERVIEW:

“Basically it was a riff that we would do at soundchecks. Axl came up with a couple of lines at the beginning. I went in a peace march, when I was a little kid, with my mom. I was like 4 years old. For Martin Luther King. And that’s when: ‘Did you wear the black arm band when they shot the man who said: ‘Peace could last forever?’ It’s just true-life experiences, really.'”THE SONG TOUCHES ON CIVIL RIGHTS, THE VIETNAM WAR, AND HAS AN ENTIRE VERSE ABOUT PRESIDENT KENNEDY’S ASSASSINATION

THE SPEECH AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SONG IS FROM COOL HAND LUKE: “What we have here is failure to communicate…”. 

IT’S ALSO INTERESTING TO NOTE THIS WAS THE ONLY SONG ON BOTH ‘USE YOUR ILLUSION’ ALBUMS TO FEATURE STEVEN ADLER ON DRUMS. EVERY OTHER TRACK HAD MATT SORUM, WHO REPLACED ADLER IN THE GROUP.

HERE’S A GREAT LIVE VERSION OF ‘CIVIL WAR’

THE EXCELLENT “ROCKS”

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MAY 3, 2020…ON MAY 3 1976 AEROSMITH RELEASED ARGUABLY THEIR BEST ALBUM. IT WAS THE GROUP’S 4TH STUDIO ALBUM AND CAME ON THE HEELS OF THEIR BIGGEST SUCCESS UP TO THAT POINT ‘TOYS IN THE ATTIC’.

THE GROUP RECORDED THIS ALBUM A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY. INSTEAD OF GOING INTO A RECORDING STUDIO THEY USED A MOBILE RECORDING UNIT AND BACKED IT UP TO THEIR WAREHOUSE PRACTICE PLACE IN AN EFFORT TO CAPTURE MORE OF A LIVE FEEL TO THE RECORD. IT FREAKIN’ WORKED. ‘ROCKS’ SMASHED THROUGH THE TOP TEN ALBUM CHARTS, PEAKING AT # 3. THE ALBUM WAS DRIVEN BY 4 TOP 40 SINGLES, ‘BACK IN THE SADDLE’ ‘HOME TONIGHT’ ‘LAST CHILD’ AND ‘SICK AS A DOG’.

BRAD WHITFORD HAD THIS TO SAY ABOUT THE  ALBUM: “That’s probably my favorite Aerosmith record,I liked it because it was basically live and very little production or overdubs on it. It was just Aerosmith kind of in the raw, and that’s the way I always wanted Aerosmith to do it, but of course we got involved in some pretty serious production and stuff like that, which I wasn’t a big fan of. You know, some of it’s cool. But Aerosmith, just on its own, is such a powerhouse. I always thought that’s how it should be. That’s how I thought it should be done, just like Rocks.”

ACCORDING TO JOE PERRY: “The cover showed five diamonds, one for each of us. We saw the record as a jewel, the culmination of all our angst and anger and excitement and joy as go-for-broke rock and rollers. Rocks was the ultimate soundtrack to the party we were throwing for our fans at every one of our live shows.”

’ROCKS’ IS ONE OF AEROSMITH’S BEST ALBUMS, AND IT HAS GONE ON TO SELL CLOSE TO 8 MILLION COPIES WORLDWIDE.  HERE’S A LIVE VERSION OF ‘BACK IN THE SADDLE’  

 

 

1980 MEMORIES-BOB SEGER IN OAKLAND

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MAY 2, 2020…HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE BEEN AT THIS CONCERT? IT WAS ON THIS DATE IN 1980 BOB SEGER PLAYED A SOLD OUT SHOW AT THE OAKLAND ALAMEDA COUNTY ARENA. ACCORDING TO SETLIST.COM THIS WAS SEGER SERVED UP:

  • Feel Like a Number

  • Travelin’ Man
    Beautiful Loser

  • Still the Same

  • Mainstreet

  • Old Time Rock & Roll

  • Against the Wind

  • Her Strut

  • The Horizontal Bop

  • Fire Lake

  • Betty Lou’s Gettin’ Out Tonight

  • We’ve Got Tonight

  • The Fire Down Below

  • Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man

  • Night Moves

  • Hollywood Nights

  • Rock and Roll Never Forgets

  • Let It Rock

HERE’S A VIDEO OF THE 16TH SONG OF THE EVENING ‘HOLLYWOOD NIGHTS’.

 

 

 

photo thanks-Little Jimmy Sheehan

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOU GRAMM 

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MAY 2, 2020…HAPPY 70TH  BIRTHDAY TO THE ORIGINAL LEAD SINGER OF FOREIGNER LOU GRAMM. GRAMM WAS THE SINGER ON ALL OF FOREIGNER’S HITS AND AS A RESULT WAS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL ROCK VOCALISTS OF THE LATE 1970’S AND 1980’S. HE ALSO CO-WROTE MOST OF THE SONGS FOR THE GROUP. GRAMM WAS INDUCTED INTO THE SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME IN 2013. GRAMM AND CO-FOUNDER MICK JONES HAD A VOLATILE RELATIONSHIP THAT HAS SEEN GRAMM LEAVE THE BAND THREE TIMES. IN 2012 HE STRUCK OUT ON HIS OWN AND NOW PERFORMS AS “LOU GRAMM THE ORIGINAL VOICE OF FOREIGNER”. FOREIGNER WITH LOU GRAMM IS ONE ONE OF THE WORLD’S BEST SELLING BANDS OF ALL-TIME, RACKING UP SALES OF MORE THAN 80 MILLION RECORDS. 

HERE’S LIVE FOREIGNER WITH LOU GRAMM HANDLING VOCALS FROM A SHOW CIRCA 1978

 

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HEY JOE, WHERE YOU GOING WITH THAT GUITAR IN YOUR HAND?

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MAY 1, 2020..ON THIS DATE IN 1967 JIMI HENDRIX RELEASED HIS FIRST SINGLE ‘HEY JOE’ IN THE U.S. ( IT WAS RELEASED FOUR MONTHS EARLIER IN THE U.K.). THE SONG IS ABOUT A MAN WHO IS ON THE RUN AND PLANS TO GO TO MEXICO AFTER SHOOTING HIS UNFAITHFUL WIFE. IT WAS RECORDED BY NUMEROUS ARTISTS BEFORE HENDRIX RELEASED THE SONG, BUT HENDRIX’S RENDITION BECAME THE MOST RECOGNIZABLE VERSION. JIMI’S VERSION IS LISTED AS #201 ON “ROLLING STONE” MAGAZINE’S LIST OF “THE 500 GREATEST SONGS OF ALL-TIME.” A LITTLE TRIVIA, ‘HEY JOE’ WAS THE LAST SONG HENDRIX PERFORMED AT WOODSTOCK IN 1969 AND AS A RESULT WAS THE FINAL SONG PLAYED AT THE FESTIVAL. HERE’S HENDRIX WITH HIS VERSION OF ‘HEY JOE’