Posted on Sep 17, 2009 under Dave Lamont, Kelli Craig, Shappy, Today in Rock |
They made the announcement on who is joining the show. Kelly Craig will be there one day a week and they hired Shappy full time as the production manager. They also announced that Dave Lamont will be back Friday mornings for a sports talk.
- 1923 - Hank Williams was born.
- 1933 - The first 33 1/3 RPM record and players are launched by RCA Victor. (a.k.a. “singles”, “12 inch”, etc..)
- 1967 - The Doors make their only appearance on the Ed Sullivan show. Even though the band agrees to change the line “Girls we couldn’t get much higher” in the song “Light My Fire“, they sing it anyway. They are banned from the show.
- 1967 - The Who play “My Generation” at the Smothers Brothers comedy tour. Keith Moon (drummer) places explosives in his drum to set off a flash explosion. Unfortunately, he doesn’t realize it was already done by the stage crew. The resulting blast damages Pete Townsend’s hearing.
- 1975 - Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” goes gold.
- 1976 - Queen host a free concert in London’s Hyde Park. 15,000 attend.
- 1991 - Guns ‘N Roses release the “Use Your Illusion I & II” albums. It can be purchased either as a double album or two single albums.
- 1997 - Fleetwood Mac reunite and starts a tour to support “The Dance” album.
- 2006 - The cartoon likeness of the White Stripes, along with the voices of Meg and Jack, appear in a surreal segment of The Simpsons. Bart is a drummer who crashes into Meg’s kit. Following a brief chase the Stripes end up on a garbage barge.
Posted on Sep 11, 2009 under Dave Lamont, Guests, Interviews, Show Topics, South Florida events |
I don’t know how much or how often I’ll be able to make posts like this since I do start work at 7am Mon-Fri but I’ll see if I can and update the post as the show goes on.
Dave Lamont is back, even if it is just for the day, I’m sure most people appreciate hearing his voice back on the radio.
The interview with Alice Cooper went extremely well. Alice is performing at the Pompano Beach Amphitheater (tickets start at $33). Alice announced that $1 of every ticket will go to the food bank. Alice also commented that even though he loves to play golf, his “character” on stage hates golf. 
There will also be a contest where one person will win the opprotunity to “throw out the balloons” during the concert’s closer, “School’s Out” (which Alice said is the main “party” song). Alice was a great interview, down to earth and he at least tried to be funny.
Ben Bailey from the Cash Cab was on talking about the Cash Cab and his comedy shows. Ben actually had to go to a cab school and get licensed to drive a cab before he could do the show, including a drug test and background check (neither of which he was “prepared’ for). Ben is also appearing at the Improv Comedy Club in Hollywood this weekend. Tickets are still available.
Posted on Sep 11, 2009 under Dave Lamont, Today in Rock |
First, a big welcome back to Dave Lamont. They should bring him back to the show.
- 1943 - Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead - drummer) was born.
- 1953 - Tommy Shaw (Styx / Damn Yankees - guitarist) was born.
- 1963 - “The Great White Wonder“, a collection of Bob Dylan songs, appears in L.A. record stores. It`s thought to be the first bootleg and reportedly sells over 350,000 copies.
- 1964 - Laurie Yarham wins a Mick Jagger impersonation contest in London. Um, wait, he looks a lot like Mick’s younger brother, Chris? (It was Chris who won the contest - I wonder if he got to keep the prize?)
- 1967 - Harry Connick, Jr. was born.
- 1967 - The Beatles single “All You Need is Love” officially hits 1,000,000 sales. They also start filming “The Magical Mystery Tour“.
- 1977 - One of the oddest Christmas carols is recorded. Bing Crosby sings a duet with David Bowie. Crosby sings “Little Drummer Boy” while Bowie sings “Peace on Earth“.
- 1979 - The Who launch their first US concert with Kenney Jones (who replaced Keith Moon). Tom Petty & The Hearbreakers also launch a US tour.
- 1986 - The MTV Video Music Awards held in both Universal City (CA) and New York has a live performance by Van Halen broadcast from New Haven, CT.
- 1987 - Peter Gabriel’s hit “Sledgehammer” cleans house at the MTV music awards winning best male performance, best overall performance in a video, best concept video, and several others. Aerosmoth perform “Walk This Way” with Run DMC.
- 1996 - David Bowie is the first major recording artist to release a song (”Telling Lies”) exclusively on the Internet.
- 1996 - A major, though typical, argument between Liam and Noel Gallagher results in the cancellation of the remaining dates on an Oasis U.S. tour.
- 2005 - Jimi Hendrix’s childhood home is relocated across the street from the legendary guitarist’s grave site. The lot is purchased by the treasurer of the James Marshall Hendrix Foundation. The house, the subject of a four year court battle, was moved from its original site in 2001.
- 2007 - Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder performs at the Toronto International Film Festival for the world premiere of the movie Body Of War, a documentary about an Iraq war veteran paralyzed by a bullet wound. Vedder composed two songs for the film saying he was motivated to contribute music partly by the deaths of nine fans during the band’s set at Denmark’s Roskilde Festival in ‘00. “I have a hard time thinking that . . . Dick Cheney or George Bush (have) had this close an experience with tragic death right in front of them,” states Vedder.
- 2007 - Heart frontwoman Ann Wilson’s debut solo album “Hope & Glory” is released. The set’s first single is a remake of Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song.” “Our version starts a little like a little dot on the horizon, but by the time it’s done you’ve been overrun by all the barbarians,” says Wilson. The album has 11 covers including “Goodbye Blue Sky” (Pink Floyd), “We Gotta Get Out of This Place” (The Animals) and “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall” (Bob Dylan). Sister Nancy, Wynonna, Lucinda Williams and k.d. lang contribute.
- 2007 - Genesis release their “Turn It On Again” compilation. It is a two disc set with 34 tracks that include works from Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins.
- 2008 - The Eagles cancel their Houston, TX show due to hurricane Ike.
Posted on May 26, 2009 under Dave Lamont, HarryOki, Ron Brewer |
This week’s “season finale” of HarryOki was Dave Lamont vs. (Young) Ron Brewer.
OK, does Ron really know Faith No More? (I’m calling a set up)
OK - I missed a lot of the real version but Dave Lamont did win (I guess he whipped Ron’s ass).
Posted on May 12, 2009 under Dave Lamont, HarryOki |
Its always good to hear Dave Lamont on the show - he was always good and its still depressing that he is gone - hopefully Paul’s “call” helped him get a good gig.
As for HarryOki - Dave easily beat Ralphie May.
Posted on May 05, 2009 under Dave Lamont, Show Topics |
HarryOki this morning had a great guest caller- Dave Lamont!
Dave Lamont beat out Dom Hererra - it was good to have Dave back.
BUT – Quiet Riot COVERED “Cum on Feel the Noize” - it was originally done by Slade (IMO Quiet Riot killed it).
This week’s Harryoki was pretty easy for me.
Posted on Sep 05, 2008 under Callers, Dave Lamont |
It’ll be good to hear him again. I’m not a huge sports fan but this is one I’ll stick around for.
I agree, Dave know about as much as you can know about local and college sports.
Dave called in from Louisisana, he will be covering on ESPN classic next week and will not be doing th FAU game. Dave is rooting for the Miami Hurricanes as a fan but the Gators as a “football” person in this week’s game in Gainesville.
Dave’s pick the Gators by 17 points.
Dave’s call was quick but as usual, he gave some great information.
