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LEGENDARY DAY ON THE GREEN
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 22, 2019…31 YEARS AGO IT WAS A CLASSIC ‘DAY ON THE GREEN’ WITH PINK FLOYD AT THE OAKLAND COLISEUM FOR TWO NIGHTS-APRIL 22 & 23. MAN I MISS THE BILL GRAHAM “DAYS ON THE GREEN”. THESE SHOWS WERE PART OF THE ‘MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON’ TOUR. PINK FLOYD HADN’T TOURED SINCE 1981, AND WHEN ROGER WATERS LEFT THE GROUP IN 1985, HE BELIEVED THE GROUP WOULD NOT CONTINUE WITHOUT HIM. WATERS THREATENED LEGAL ACTION AGAINST DAVID GILMOUR AND NICK MASON, AS WELL AS ANY PROMOTER THAT PROMOTED A “PINK FLOYD” SHOW. HOWEVER, A LEGAL DEAL WAS WORKED OUT WITH WATERS AND THE TOUR WENT ON. THE FIRST SHOW IN OAKLAND AT THE COLISEUM WAS PLAYED TO A CROWD OF 78,000 PEOPLE. THE SECOND NIGHT WAS A SELLOUT WITH 90,000 FANS LOVING PINK FLOYD.
THIS WAS THE SETLIST FOR THE FIRST NIGHT OF DAY ON THE GREEN FROM SETLIST.COM
- Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
- Signs of Life
- Learning to Fly
- Yet Another Movie
- Round and Around
- A New Machine (Part 1)
- Terminal Frost
- A New Machine (Part 2)
- Sorrow
- The Dogs of War
- On the Turning Away
- One of These Days
- Time
- On the Run
- The Great Gig in the Sky
- Wish You Were Here
- Welcome to the Machine
- Us and Them
- Money
- Another Brick in the Wall Part 2
- Comfortably Numb
- Encore:
- One Slip
- Run Like Hell
THIS IS A CLASSIC COMMERCIAL ADVERTISING THE SECOND SHOW
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THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF PRINCE
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 21, 2019…PRINCE WAS 57 WHEN HE WAS FOUND ALONE AND UNRESPONSIVE IN HIS PAISLEY PARK STUDIO COMPOUND ON APRIL 21, 2016. AN AUTOPSY SHOWED PRINCE HAD DIED OF AN ACCIDENTAL OVERDOSE OF FENTANYL, A SYNTHETIC OPIOID 50 TIMES MORE LETHAL THAN HEROIN.
RIP PRINCE. HERE’S THE DEFINITIVE PRINCE SONG
photo props-Scott Penner
DAY ON THE GREEN 1994
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 21, 2019…25 YEARS AGO IT WAS “DAY ON THE GREEN” TIME WITH PINK FLOYD ! THE BAND ROCKED THE OAKLAND COLISEUM FOR 3 SOLD OUT SHOWS IN A ROW, APRIL 20TH,21ST, AND 22ND 1994.
HERE ARE A COUPLE OF VIDEOS AND SOME AUDIO FROM THE SHOWS.(APRIL 20,21,AND 22 1994)
AUDIO FROM APRIL 21 AND 22
Here’s vintage Pink Floyd in concert
photo credit-Mary
JOIN US TONIGHT FOR OUR DIRTY 30 ANNIVERSARY PARTY
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 20, 2019...TONIGHT THERE IS A HUGE 4/20 PARTY AT THE CONCORD PAVILLION WITH SAMMY HAGAR AND THE CIRCLE, DON FELDER (FORMERLY OF THE EAGLES) AND THE STONE FOXES.
IT’S THE FIRST CONCERT OF THE YEAR AT THE CONCORD PAVILLION.
TO PRIME YOU UP FOR TONIGHT HERE’S SAMMY HAGAR AND THE CIRCLE’S LATEST ‘CAN’T HANG’
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L.A. WOMAN
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 19, 2019...FORTY EIGHT YEARS AGO THE DOORS RELEASED THEIR 6TH STUDIO ALBUM ‘L.A. WOMAN’ AND THEIR FINAL STUDIO ALBUM TO FEATURE LEAD SINGER JIM MORRISON, WHO DIED 3 MONTHS AFTER THE ALBUM’S RELEASE. THIS WAS A GREAT ALBUM, DESPITE THEIR LONGTIME PRODUCER PAUL ROTHCHILD WALKING OUT ON THE BAND. ROTHCHILD ENDED AN EARLY LISTENING SESSION BY INSULTING THE DOOR’S MUSICAL DIRECTION AND WALKED OUT LEAVING THE GROUP WITHOUT A PRODUCER.
AS A RESULT, THE BAND CO-PRODUCED THE ALBUM WITH LONGTIME SOUND ENGINEER BRUCE BOTNICK. THE ALBUM CONTAINED THE HIT ‘LOVE HER MADLY’ WHICH PRECEDED THE ALBUMS RELEASE, AND ‘RIDERS ON THE STORM’.
IT ALSO BOASTED THE TITLE TRACK, A SONG RAY MANZAREK ONCE EXPLAINED AS:
"A song about driving madly down the LA freeway - either heading into LA or going out on the 405 up to San Francisco. You're a beatnik on the road, like Kerouac and Neal Cassady, barreling down the freeway as fast as you can go."
“Morrison recorded his vocals in the studio bathroom to get a fuller sound. He spent a lot of time in there anyway because of all the beer he drank during the sessions.”
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