LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES- OCT 13, 2019…ON THIS DATE FORTY NINE YEARS AGO, JANIS JOPLIN’S ASHES WERE SCATTERED AT STINSON BEACH IN MARIN COUNTY. JOPLIN WAS FOUND DEAD ON THE FLOOR BESIDE HER BED AT THE LANDMARK HOTEL IN HOLLYWOOD ON OCTOBER 4TH 1970. THE OFFICIAL CAUSE OF DEATH WAS AN OVERDOSE OF HEROIN, POSSIBLY COMBINED WITH THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL. SHE LEFT $1,500 IN HER WILL FOR A FUNERAL PARTY. THE PARTY WAS HELD IN SAN ANSELMO ON WITH THE GRATEFUL DEAD PERFORMING FOR THE GUESTS. HER MUSIC IS TIMELESS, AND JOPLIN REMAINS ONE OF THE TOP SELLING ARTISTS OF ALL TIME, TO DATE SELLING OVER 18 MILLION COPIES.

THIS IS AN OUTSTANDING COLLECTION OF LIVE PERFORMANCES FROM JOPLIN JOPLIN CIRCA 1969 AND 1970. ENJOY !

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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES- OCT 12, 2019…ON THIS DATE IN 1982 DON HENLEY RELEASED ‘DIRTY LAUNDRY’ THE FIRST SINGLE FROM HIS DEBUT SOLO ALBUM ‘I CAN’T STAND STILL.’ LYRICALLY THE SONG DESCRIBES MASS MEDIA SENSATIONALISM AND YELLOW JOURNALISM, MAKING FUN OF NEWS ANCHORS WHO ARE MORE CONCERNED WITH THEIR LOOKS THAN ACCURATELY REPORTING THE NEWS. DANNY KORTCHMAR WROTE THIS SONG WITH HENLEY AND DESCRIBED HOW HE CAME UP WITH THE MUSIC:"One night I set it up, ran it into an Echoplex and started banging out that part that you hear on the record. I was up into the wee hours banging away on this thing. That's when I recorded it, and when I played it for Don the next day, I said, 'I think this is 'Dirty Laundry.'' He said, 'Yeah, that's it. Record it and let's go.'" THERE ARE SOME GREAT GUITAR CONTRIBUTIONS ON THIS SONG. DANNY KORTCHMAR PLAYED THE BASIC PARTS, JOE WALSH DID THE FIRST GUITAR SOLO, AND STEVE LUKATHER OF TOTO DID THE SECOND SOLO. LUKATHER SAID HE DID HIS SOLO IN ONE TAKE AND IT’S ONE OF HIS FAVORITES.

HERE’S DON HENLEY WITH A LIVE VERSION OF ‘DIRTY LAUNDRY’