The Montrose album kicked my butt up down left and right. One of the best albums ever. It made me follow the band and I have everything Ronnie Montrose ever did. He is a guitar God that deserves much more notoriety. If this album was not in your record collection you did not have crap in my opinion.
Me too! went to every Montrose concert I could afford. Tickets were only $15 but the gas and food made it harder...Last time I saw Ronnie I didn't know he had cancer. He was gone within a year....He definitely does not get proper respect.
"If this album was not in your record collection you did not have crap in my opinion." So....if the album IS in a collection, that collection is crap????!?
I grew up in a place called Winterland in SF and used to see Montrose there on $2 Tuesdays after that followed Sammy knowing he would go on to be one of the greatest American rock singers and also seeing him on $2Tuesday. Got Ronnies signature on a picture I took at Winterland when he played at a friend of mines pub in Pleasanton. He still had all the chops on guitar as I remembered. RIP Ronnie you were one of the best.
I know it must be hip” to not believe anything good about Sammy Hagar but he was phenomenal with Montrose and kicked Van Halen up a notch when he joined, that wouldn’t have happened otherwise. Paper Money was an excellent album. It’s one I keep buying every time my old record wears out. Will forever be a Ronnie Montrose fan and miss him dearly.
Yeah, he was only the lead singer on multiple successful groups (Montrose, Van Halen, Chickenfoot, etc.) and had a successful solo career.🤣@@dalemcmillen5065
Saw Ronnie Montrose and Gamma in Phoenix, AZ. The headliner was was Eddy Money. The other band was Santana. Ronnie and Carlos did a dueling guitar encore. Eddy came out scatting. Incredible show.
The 1st Montrose album is legendary. In 1974 when I was 12 yrs old, cuts from that album were THE MOST played tunes I heard screaming out of 8 track stereos in concert w the roar of big block V8's w headers in muscle cars from that era (Cuda's, Challengers, SS Chevelles etc) while they were doing burn outs in parking lots, LOL. "Get on yo' bad motah' scootah and ride"
@@MarkMay-cr6bv Oh yes. I remember one time walking by this guy who had a 71 black Cuda with a 426 Hemi. This happened in 75. He decided to show off so he laid the baddest burnout I have ever seen that went on for like a minute. The smoke was so thick that I couldn't see 5 feet in front of me, LOL.
@@pythonflying Now it's a cacophany of noise that doesn't qualify as music. I know I sound like an old "get off my lawn" guy, but the standards for POP music are at an all time low. I'm a musician who plays gigs (classic 70's rock and 80's metal) so I am qualified to speak on this...
Unfortunalty Ronnie had major issues going back from Edgar Winter all the way back to when he was a kid. I am sure he would of been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophernaic if he would of been checked out when he was young. Sad, he had it all yet he let the inner voices destroy himself. R.I.P. Ronnie.
Saw Ronnies last live show in Modesto CA. He was still amazing but apparently was terminally ill with cancer. He raffled off a guitar as a cancer fundraiser that night. His instrumental album Open Fire is sadly overlooked by almost everyone. Ronnie is greatly missed.
Got to see Hagar's first tour in Sacramento. Montrose came out to play Bad Motorscooter after Hagar started the song off with a lap steel sitting at the edge of the stage.
One of my all time favorite guitar players . I do rock candy in my live show and it brings down the house as recently as last weekend, everyone knows it
I am surprised that the video omits the original Montrose band reunion on Sammy Hagar’s song “Leaving the Warmth of the Womb” from his 1997 solo album ‘Marching to Mars.’
The late Ronnie Montrose, RIP, was hard to deal with. Thus, the spin-offs: Sammy Hagar went solo, Denny Carmassi went to Heart ❤ and Alan Fitzgerald co-founded Night Ranger. Here, the parts were greater 🙌 than the sum! 🙄 Rare! 🤯
Who knows what happened back in the early days? I can tell you though in his later years, his band loved working with him and were devastated when he took his own life.
What happened to Montrose? Didn't want to know what happened to Van Halen. I know that story I clicked on this to hear about Montrose. You went away from the subject mattered and talked about Sammy Hagar.
warner Brothers Presents is an incredible album that I still listen to from back in the gotta listen to the whole thing days. Foghat Rock and Roll Outlaws is my next favorite.
Montrose first album is a classic, it brought something special beyond mere words. Talk about influencer. This was an anthem for single people, Sammy in VH they were older as was everyone and it was more for family age people.
Saw these guys in Dec. of '73, 2 months after that debut LP came out....started playing the bass after I heard that mind blowing debut LP. Bill Church was my early hero. I think Ronnie was a restless soul who just couldn't settle on one genre. From Montrose to Gamma to his killer Open Fire LP, he could do it all.
I have to tell this story. I bought one of the Ronnie Montrose limited edition of 500 signed CD's from him. I ordered it, paid for it and 6 weeks later still did not have it. I sent an email to the business I bought it from and got a short response. It's coming. Well 2 weeks later still no CD. So sent another email and complained saying I bought this cd. I should have had it a month ago easily even if it was late and I would like to have my CD. Well guess who was answering these emails? It was Ronnie, apparently that project was all him. He recorded it, created the store to buy it and he was the only one selling them. He was mad because I complained and explained that he had a lot going on, was touring and mailed them when he was home and had time to read the orders. I said I was sorry for complaining and about 2 weeks later it showed up. I rarely play it. Don't want to scratch it. I believe it is called Open Fire and it's really good.
I purchased my copy of the non-autographed consumer version CD of Open Fire at Tower Records. He might have been selling the autographed copies exclusively. I doubt he did a separate recording for the limited edition CD though.
Montrose didn't have the best inter-personal skills. If I recall, he did have some influence in getting City Kidd's (aka Telsa's) contract to put out an album.
Montrose was a great band , saw them in the 70s , even when Ron James took over vocals , when Sammy left .Jump on It , is a great album , as were all the others . Paper Money was my favorite .
It was called space station number 9 not number 5. I saw Queen Kansas mahogany rush and Montrose in St Louis in the early 1970s it cost $3.95 for all four bands General seating and what a show it was however you had to fight to get the best seats since it was General seating and I mean that literally especially since St Louis is a fighting City😢😮😅 it was worth every punch😅 hahaha
My first concert was at the Checkerdome, Ted Nugent in 78, I was so pissed when I walked in with my Dad. He had a habit of getting the cheaper version of something I wanted and I thought he got me again, he loved to tell the story of how I cussed him out when we walked in an I heard Sammy singing, and I cussed him and said you lied, this is that guy who Montrose fired, not Ted Nugent, lol. Sammy was the opener. Great memories of the Arena/Checkerdome. Him and my Mom ran the bar at the Arena Bowl till the day it closed.
@@kikiki4592 hahaha you don't say so you're a Saint Louis person as well. I think I may be a little older than you because I remember seeing Emerson Lake and Palmer at the old arena Annex which was the Arena Bowl. I've seen almost every concert that came to St Louis at the arena including Rush The Who and Emerson Lake and Palmer who I also saw at Kiel. Kiel Auditorium is where I saw Montrose. Do you by chance remember the KSHE kite flying contest in 1974 and 75 I saw Rush open up for Charlie Daniels in 1974 it was Rush first tour and the concert Drew 80000 people to Forest Park the other concert was Kiss and all of those shows were like St Louis is Woodstock. Due to radio station KSHE we had a music scene in St Louis that was pretty much second to no one.. I'm 66 years old and I still live here which is getting kind of scary especially downtown hahaha all right then nice to hear from a fellow St Louis Ian
@@robwarren6729 my bad.. you're absolutely right I had a feeling I had it wrong so I dug up the album and checked it is indeed space station number 5.. congratulations to you because I'm seldom wrong when it comes to 1960s and 1970s rock
@@kikiki4592 I saw Ted Nugent at the Super Jam Busch Stadium 1977 Gypsy was also on the bill and a couple others I think Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane play it's been so long ago and I was so high and drunk I can't really recall everyone but they're about six different groups on the bill
I was living in the SF Bay Area and saw them many times. I still feel had they stayed together with Sammy they would have been a super group. Albums were great but even better live,
whenever people talk about Ronnie Montrose's session work they seldom mention the hot licks he put onto the only album by the Bay Area band Bonnaroo. Montrose is listed in the credits and I'd guess that's his solo on the song "Sally Ann".
This was one of the Bands I never listen to. But I remember many White Guys having that name on the Jackets and Notebooks . So no doubt this was a Monster of a Band.
True, though the video does show Sammy and Schon jamming, yet that was not from that band, the video is circa 76-77 when Schon was still rocking the afro.
@@kikiki4592Neal Schon was still with journey in 1976 I saw them open up for Emerson Lake and Palmer those were the days when Journey was still a progressive rock band and they were great before Steve f a i r y came along and turn them into a bubblegum pop band😅
@@edljnehan2811 I know I was just referring to the guy who mention no HSAS, though in this video there is footage of Hagar and Schon jamming on stage and it is in black and white and Schon had the afro he rocked in the 70's unlike in the 80's when him and Hagar made the album together. I prefer the Roile/Dunbar eras as well. Journey owe Goodfellas and time a lot of money, they were not this legendary band they make them out to be now back then, they were REO level, aka shit, another band ruined by a limp singer.
I'm lost I seen Montrose at cobo hall Detroit they backed up AC/DC . They were really good guy left that out. Pretty sure it was 1981 hells bells tour .
The first two Gamma albums were excellent. Gamma 3 was disappointing by comparison. Twenty years later (early 2000s) they recorded and released Gamma 4, and it has some fine songs on it (eg 'Last Man on Earth', 'Darkness to Light' and 'Out of These Hands').
I saw Montrose twice in the Summer of 74, at Winterland ballroom. Ronnie was a petulant Jerk. Sammy got into a screaming match with him and literally forced Montrose to come back and play an encore.
How about doing Focus one of the greatest groups of Maestro musicians in the Rock Community. From a musicianship standpoint they're even up there with Emerson Lake and Palmer😮
@@ronniefarnsworth6465 what's funny funny how do you mean funny like I'm here to entertain you funny like I'm a clown like I'm here to amuse you tell me what the fuk is funny about me
@@ronniefarnsworth6465 what is so funny about that have you ever seen Focus perform and I know you're not laughing at Emerson Lake and Palmer who actually took yes on tour with them as a opening act which helped get yes started in the first place
@@ronniefarnsworth6465 I don't think it's nice you laughing you see my mule don't like people laughing he gets the crazy idea you're laughing at him now if you were to apologize like I'm sure you will the night convention that you really didn't mean it
Every video and story I’ve ever seen on Ronny Montrose shows him as a severe malcontent who was almost impossible to get along with. The first Montrose album was really the pinnacle of his career and he did little more than slide into obscurity from there. I remember when he was mentioned as one of the best guitarist in rock but in the end he left a fairly small legacy. The fact that he murdered himself shows that he was probably never very stable or level headed.
I'm sure that Ronnie had his struggles in life. Who doesn't? I met him a couple of times before he died through mutual musician friends and he was very kind and had a great sense of humor. He was respected and well thought of by others in the music industry. This can be seen if you watch the tribute concert performed in San Francisco a few months after his death. It's posted here on RUclips.
You two are crazy, Sammy and Ronnie together would have been one of the best band around if they would have stayed together. He did not work with Eddie Van Halen if he wasn't A Great singer and front man. I would hate to know who your front man would be if you didn't like Sammy
The record companies- entertainment companies- and A&R killed a lot of great bands. They weren't willing to sign the whole band. They only wanted to sign one guy. This was in an effort to limit litigation and control the product. Radio programming wiped out a lot of great talent.
Sammy Hagar performed with so many other groups (or group names), it's hard to keep track. It's can't forget Robert Christgau's putdown of Sammy as a schmuck. He must have some redeeming qualities, or Sammy has changed with age.
Montrose was jealous of Sammy Hagar, because Sammy is a smokin' guitar player and Montrose wanted the entire spotlight, as Sammy was more talented....too bad, as that was a great band - Montrose and Hagar!
@@user-lg3cg1vs8cyou’re right he’s wrong. Ronnie was jealous of attention, but he certainly wasn’t envious of Ted Nugent’s guitar playing. Ronnie was a far more accomplished, diverse player than Nugent.
Personal opinions of course but ,Your smoking some bad stuff.. got you all foggy in the brain. Douchebag Dave never could hold a candle to Sam vocally or as a musician in any way. Van hagar made more albums, sold more albums, and lasted longer than with Dave. So what sucked ?
@@CashMullen-ng4sr it may be a mediocre Channel but take it from a real troll me you are a mediocre troll. There are so many better ways you could have hit him with that I'm an expert at the insult and I wish I had time to teach you
Bullshit, the record has been rocked the fuck out by rock radio since the day it was released. Van Halen even covered them when they were a bar band. As Dave has said, he would never sing a Sammy song....WRONG, just like you. ruclips.net/video/knCkIToQXL0/видео.html
@@kikiki4592and of course you're absolutely right that album was huge here in St Louis especially on the Progressive underground radio stations of the day like KSHE.. man Montrose could Rock live and I still have the album Montrose.. I always thought Sammy Hagar sucked Ronnie Montrose was the true star of that band and a hell of a guitar player😊
@@edljnehan2811 Sweet Meat rocked my youth too, brother, lol. Used to reside in Bevo then Shrewsbury. Used to go out out to the old station in Crestwood and beg for extra tickets, singles or anything they could give out. Miss our Ruth, she was a badass.
@@kikiki4592okay I just got this message I lived in Shrewsbury at the Georgetown apartments from 1974 to 1976 I even went to Affton High in my final year of high school which was 1976 before that I went to Southwest High from 1972 to 75.. I lived near Bevo Mill as well also on Chippewa and Kingshighway and originally Watson and Marquette. Me and my buddies used to hang out at the old KSHE radio station concert window where we would share a joint with the radio DJ in exchange for him taking requests on what we wanted to hear. That was as you know right behind the 66 Drive-In where they used to have concerts like Foghat. Yeah I know all of the DJs Mark close Rich Dalton John Hewlett and of course the great Ted habeck. I forgot to tell you that ELP show at the arena Annex was in 1970 and I'm pretty sure yes opened up that show it was either that one or the next one it's hard to remember but yes we're a brand new band😮 Small World brother and some great memories unfortunately I'm still in St Louis which is getting real bad I mean you don't want to leave your house unless you're carrying a hand Cannon😅
@@kikiki4592 Grandma Ruth Hutchins she was the mother of the general manager I remember right after she left Rich Dalton took over the KSHE classic show which by the way is still on Sunday from 8:00 to 12:00 noon with John Hulett as host. KSHE is now the longest running rock radio station in the world not just the country the world
The Montrose album kicked my butt up down left and right. One of the best albums ever. It made me follow the band and I have everything Ronnie Montrose ever did. He is a guitar God that deserves much more notoriety. If this album was not in your record collection you did not have crap in my opinion.
Well said... It was in my collection.
Me too! went to every Montrose concert I could afford. Tickets were only $15 but the gas and food made it harder...Last time I saw Ronnie I didn't know he had cancer. He was gone within a year....He definitely does not get proper respect.
"If this album was not in your record collection you did not have crap in my opinion." So....if the album IS in a collection, that collection is crap????!?
Rock Candy holds up very well even to this day!
THIS ⬆️
Hard, Sweet and Sticky
Yes it does.
So does Rock the Nation!
@@othgmark1 The entire Warner Brothers Presents Montrose album is incredible.
Loved Montrose!!!! Ronnie was incredibly talented, and shoulda been much bigger than he was. Sammy rocks. Good times back in the day!!.👍🎸🥁🇺🇸❤️
I grew up in a place called Winterland in SF and used to see Montrose there on $2 Tuesdays after that followed Sammy knowing he would go on to be one of the greatest American rock singers and also seeing him on $2Tuesday. Got Ronnies signature on a picture I took at Winterland when he played at a friend of mines pub in Pleasanton. He still had all the chops on guitar as I remembered. RIP Ronnie you were one of the best.
I loved Winterland! Saw Montrose with Edgar Winter there. Frankenstein!
Saw Montrose @ Winterland back in 1976. Sammy Hagar had just went solo and was his opening act. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
I know it must be hip” to not believe anything good about Sammy Hagar but he was phenomenal with Montrose and kicked Van Halen up a notch when he joined, that wouldn’t have happened otherwise. Paper Money was an excellent album. It’s one I keep buying every time my old record wears out. Will forever be a Ronnie Montrose fan and miss him dearly.
Sammy sucks
Yeah, he was only the lead singer on multiple successful groups (Montrose, Van Halen, Chickenfoot, etc.) and had a successful solo career.🤣@@dalemcmillen5065
JELLY you are, must be a roth grouper@@dalemcmillen5065
@@dalemcmillen5065Nope. Sammy was great singer and guitarist.
Just saw Sammy a week ago and still is great!!
Bad Motor Scooter was my favorite song !
I'm so glad Hagar gave props to Michael Anthony to include him in his endeavors. Anthony was used by Van Halen and not given credit for his talent.
Saw Ronnie Montrose and Gamma in Phoenix, AZ. The headliner was was Eddy Money. The other band was Santana. Ronnie and Carlos did a dueling guitar encore. Eddy came out scatting. Incredible show.
The 1st Montrose album is legendary. In 1974 when I was 12 yrs old, cuts from that album were THE MOST played tunes I heard screaming out of 8 track stereos in concert w the roar of big block V8's w headers in muscle cars from that era (Cuda's, Challengers, SS Chevelles etc) while they were doing burn outs in parking lots, LOL. "Get on yo' bad motah' scootah and ride"
I was 16 in 1974 and in just one spot-on paragraph you brought back a flood of great memories and emotions. Thanks! Couldn't agree more.
@@MarkMay-cr6bv Oh yes. I remember one time walking by this guy who had a 71 black Cuda with a 426 Hemi. This happened in 75. He decided to show off so he laid the baddest burnout I have ever seen that went on for like a minute. The smoke was so thick that I couldn't see 5 feet in front of me, LOL.
That’s right, it was everywhere. Nowadays you don’t hear rock music coming from cars anymore.
@@pythonflying Now it's a cacophany of noise that doesn't qualify as music. I know I sound like an old "get off my lawn" guy, but the standards for POP music are at an all time low. I'm a musician who plays gigs (classic 70's rock and 80's metal) so I am qualified to speak on this...
I fkn miss those days!
Unfortunalty Ronnie had major issues going back from Edgar Winter all the way back to when he was a kid. I am sure he would of been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophernaic if he would of been checked out when he was young. Sad, he had it all yet he let the inner voices destroy himself. R.I.P. Ronnie.
Saw Ronnies last live show in Modesto CA. He was still amazing but apparently was terminally ill with cancer. He raffled off a guitar as a cancer fundraiser that night. His instrumental album Open Fire is sadly overlooked by almost everyone. Ronnie is greatly missed.
Saw Sammy last year with Vic Johnson and Jason Bonham, with some young woman from Mexico on Bass. Great Band, Great show
Wow that's a lot of info I never knew I still have that original album 👍
Glad I could help
I still have it too. I think I was like 16 when I got it. loved it then, and STILL love it. At 66. 😊
April 23, 1974 Green Bay, WI Montrose w/Sammy Hagar, REO, and headliners Black Oak Arkansas, all for $4.50 ticket. What a night!
Got to see Hagar's first tour in Sacramento. Montrose came out to play Bad Motorscooter after Hagar started the song off with a lap steel sitting at the edge of the stage.
A video on 'The Tragically Hip' would be good after their singer passed away.
One of my all time favorite guitar players . I do rock candy in my live show and it brings down the house as recently as last weekend, everyone knows it
Should be titled "What happened to Hagar." Ronnie has 20 studio albums, incl. 4 Gamma
First time I saw them was in a movie theater in San Antonio. Great stage band, their fun on stage spilled into the crowd..
Loved his work in Gamma.
Me too!
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On the Hagar subject, you left out HSAS….?
I am surprised that the video omits the original Montrose band reunion on Sammy Hagar’s song “Leaving the Warmth of the Womb” from his 1997 solo album ‘Marching to Mars.’
The late Ronnie Montrose, RIP, was hard to deal with. Thus, the spin-offs: Sammy Hagar went solo, Denny Carmassi went to Heart ❤ and Alan Fitzgerald co-founded Night Ranger. Here, the parts were greater 🙌 than the sum! 🙄 Rare! 🤯
Who knows what happened back in the early days? I can tell you though in his later years, his band loved working with him and were devastated when he took his own life.
Montrose debut was one of the best american debuts EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...Ronnie and the lads had it going on right then. (rip)
Yes sir 👍.
Montrose first album kicks A$$ one of my all time favorites.... I play it regularly and loudly!!!
What happened to Montrose? Didn't want to know what happened to Van Halen. I know that story I clicked on this to hear about Montrose. You went away from the subject mattered and talked about Sammy Hagar.
warner Brothers Presents is an incredible album that I still listen to from back in the gotta listen to the whole thing days. Foghat Rock and Roll Outlaws is my next favorite.
Saw Montrose in 77. They rocked the place!
Montrose first album is a classic, it brought something special beyond mere words. Talk about influencer. This was an anthem for single people, Sammy in VH they were older as was everyone and it was more for family age people.
His debut album is the most awesome rock album released in 1973. You gotta listen to it.
Everyone I knew in HS had the Montrose album, brilliant.
Jump on it was an awesome album cover!!!!
That was one hell of a bush.
Saw these guys in Dec. of '73, 2 months after that debut LP came out....started playing the bass after I heard that mind blowing debut LP. Bill Church was my early hero. I think Ronnie was a restless soul who just couldn't settle on one genre. From Montrose to Gamma to his killer Open Fire LP, he could do it all.
❤ I loved Rock candy and Rock the nation .
I have to tell this story. I bought one of the Ronnie Montrose limited edition of 500 signed CD's from him. I ordered it, paid for it and 6 weeks later still did not have it. I sent an email to the business I bought it from and got a short response. It's coming. Well 2 weeks later still no CD. So sent another email and complained saying I bought this cd. I should have had it a month ago easily even if it was late and I would like to have my CD. Well guess who was answering these emails? It was Ronnie, apparently that project was all him. He recorded it, created the store to buy it and he was the only one selling them. He was mad because I complained and explained that he had a lot going on, was touring and mailed them when he was home and had time to read the orders. I said I was sorry for complaining and about 2 weeks later it showed up. I rarely play it. Don't want to scratch it. I believe it is called Open Fire and it's really good.
I purchased my copy of the non-autographed consumer version CD of Open Fire at Tower Records. He might have been selling the autographed copies exclusively. I doubt he did a separate recording for the limited edition CD though.
He remastered his masterpiece (Speed of sound) and I have an autographed version of that release. Just sayin
Sammy Hagar is awesome the guy loves performing and has so much fun
What about the Montrose tour when Seattle band (and very first MTV Basement Tapes winner) Rail was his opening act and backing band?
Hagar stated Ronnie was a very difficult guy to get along with.
Yeah, how about Ronnie's contribution on "Power of Love" from Gary Wright's Dream Weaver album ?
Come on, that was just strumming one power chord.
I would have loved to hear at least 1 or 2 more records from the 1st line up
Montrose didn't have the best inter-personal skills. If I recall, he did have some influence in getting City Kidd's (aka Telsa's) contract to put out an album.
Yes and he wrote Little Suzi for them also.
"The man in the ship" from Gamma 2 is a kool tune.
Just plain BAD! 🤘🤘
Sad to think they came undone but we got "Hagar" & Gamma. Montrose & Moxy where the deal in the early to mid '70s 👍👍
Many thanx!
I agree 100%
Montrose was a great band , saw them in the 70s , even when Ron James took over vocals , when Sammy left .Jump on It , is a great album , as were all the others . Paper Money was my favorite .
I still have all 5 Montrose albums, Gamma 1 & Gamma 2.
Gamma 3 was mostly disappointing, but Gamma 4 (recorded 20 years later) has some fine songs.
It was called space station number 9 not number 5. I saw Queen Kansas mahogany rush and Montrose in St Louis in the early 1970s it cost $3.95 for all four bands General seating and what a show it was however you had to fight to get the best seats since it was General seating and I mean that literally especially since St Louis is a fighting City😢😮😅 it was worth every punch😅 hahaha
My first concert was at the Checkerdome, Ted Nugent in 78, I was so pissed when I walked in with my Dad. He had a habit of getting the cheaper version of something I wanted and I thought he got me again, he loved to tell the story of how I cussed him out when we walked in an I heard Sammy singing, and I cussed him and said you lied, this is that guy who Montrose fired, not Ted Nugent, lol. Sammy was the opener. Great memories of the Arena/Checkerdome. Him and my Mom ran the bar at the Arena Bowl till the day it closed.
@@kikiki4592 hahaha you don't say so you're a Saint Louis person as well. I think I may be a little older than you because I remember seeing Emerson Lake and Palmer at the old arena Annex which was the Arena Bowl. I've seen almost every concert that came to St Louis at the arena including Rush The Who and Emerson Lake and Palmer who I also saw at Kiel. Kiel Auditorium is where I saw Montrose. Do you by chance remember the KSHE kite flying contest in 1974 and 75 I saw Rush open up for Charlie Daniels in 1974 it was Rush first tour and the concert Drew 80000 people to Forest Park the other concert was Kiss and all of those shows were like St Louis is Woodstock. Due to radio station KSHE we had a music scene in St Louis that was pretty much second to no one.. I'm 66 years old and I still live here which is getting kind of scary especially downtown hahaha all right then nice to hear from a fellow St Louis Ian
No, it’s Space Station #5.
@@robwarren6729 my bad.. you're absolutely right I had a feeling I had it wrong so I dug up the album and checked it is indeed space station number 5.. congratulations to you because I'm seldom wrong when it comes to 1960s and 1970s rock
@@kikiki4592 I saw Ted Nugent at the Super Jam Busch Stadium 1977 Gypsy was also on the bill and a couple others I think Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane play it's been so long ago and I was so high and drunk I can't really recall everyone but they're about six different groups on the bill
Their first album was a monster! I remember when it was released and has been a staple in my rotation for 50 years!
I was living in the SF Bay Area and saw them many times. I still feel had they stayed together with Sammy they would have been a super group. Albums were great but even better live,
whenever people talk about Ronnie Montrose's session work they seldom mention the hot licks he put onto the only album by the Bay Area band Bonnaroo. Montrose is listed in the credits and I'd guess that's his solo on the song "Sally Ann".
Why was "Rock Candy" not cited? Sammy himself says THAT is the song other musicians ask him about.
Great video. Kinda disagree with the jump on it review but overall super video.
Fair enough
I learned the drums playing along with that album! Wore out the needle on the record player 😅
Ronnie wasnt a fan of the Heavy direction the band was taking. He wanted to play more bluesy and melodic material at the time.
This was one of the Bands I never listen to. But I remember many White Guys having that name on the Jackets and Notebooks . So no doubt this was a Monster of a Band.
I completely forgot about Montrose until I saw this!
They got in their Bad Motor Scooter and rode.
I had Montrose on 8 trac.
If you are old enough to remember Montrose, you should probably have a good cardiologist.
Montrose were brill still listen now
their second album was so popish you'd think it was from a different band.
They didn't mention when Sammy did hagar schon arison scherve ????
True, though the video does show Sammy and Schon jamming, yet that was not from that band, the video is circa 76-77 when Schon was still rocking the afro.
@@kikiki4592Neal Schon was still with journey in 1976 I saw them open up for Emerson Lake and Palmer those were the days when Journey was still a progressive rock band and they were great before Steve f a i r y came along and turn them into a bubblegum pop band😅
@@edljnehan2811 I know I was just referring to the guy who mention no HSAS, though in this video there is footage of Hagar and Schon jamming on stage and it is in black and white and Schon had the afro he rocked in the 70's unlike in the 80's when him and Hagar made the album together.
I prefer the Roile/Dunbar eras as well. Journey owe Goodfellas and time a lot of money, they were not this legendary band they make them out to be now back then, they were REO level, aka shit, another band ruined by a limp singer.
Also no mention of Sammy selling tunes to the likes of Rick Springfield
I'm lost I seen Montrose at cobo hall Detroit they backed up AC/DC . They were really good guy left that out. Pretty sure it was 1981 hells bells tour .
Chicken Foot was a guest star on Aqua Teen Hunger force Invasion of the Body Snatchers
My x guitar player was on stage with Ronnie, his guitar player tommy got Ronnie's job and plays with gamma
The first two Gamma albums were excellent. Gamma 3 was disappointing by comparison. Twenty years later (early 2000s) they recorded and released Gamma 4, and it has some fine songs on it (eg 'Last Man on Earth', 'Darkness to Light' and 'Out of These Hands').
Do GTR, Please, thank you for all that you do. YOU ROCK!!!
I saw Montrose twice in the Summer of 74, at Winterland ballroom. Ronnie was a petulant Jerk. Sammy got into a screaming match with him and literally forced Montrose to come back and play an encore.
I wish Sammy had been able to join VH as soon as he left Montrose..the timing would have been perfect....
How about doing Focus one of the greatest groups of Maestro musicians in the Rock Community. From a musicianship standpoint they're even up there with Emerson Lake and Palmer😮
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@@ronniefarnsworth6465 what's funny funny how do you mean funny like I'm here to entertain you funny like I'm a clown like I'm here to amuse you tell me what the fuk is funny about me
@@ronniefarnsworth6465 what is so funny about that have you ever seen Focus perform and I know you're not laughing at Emerson Lake and Palmer who actually took yes on tour with them as a opening act which helped get yes started in the first place
@@ronniefarnsworth6465 I don't think it's nice you laughing you see my mule don't like people laughing he gets the crazy idea you're laughing at him now if you were to apologize like I'm sure you will the night convention that you really didn't mean it
Ronnie was a bad ass dude
James KO-tak. Skip JILL-ette. Denny Car-MOSS-i.
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Every video and story I’ve ever seen on Ronny Montrose shows him as a severe malcontent who was almost impossible to get along with.
The first Montrose album was really the pinnacle of his career and he did little more than slide into obscurity from there.
I remember when he was mentioned as one of the best guitarist in rock but in the end he left a fairly small legacy. The fact that he murdered himself shows that he was probably never very stable or level headed.
I'm sure that Ronnie had his struggles in life. Who doesn't? I met him a couple of times before he died through mutual musician friends and he was very kind and had a great sense of humor. He was respected and well thought of by others in the music industry. This can be seen if you watch the tribute concert performed in San Francisco a few months after his death. It's posted here on RUclips.
I saw Montrose in San Bernardino opened up for kiss in74 no hagar thank God
Sammy is a jock.
@@Cal-ge8vl Sammy is an as hole
You two are crazy, Sammy and Ronnie together would have been one of the best band around if they would have stayed together. He did not work with Eddie Van Halen if he wasn't A Great singer and front man. I would hate to know who your front man would be if you didn't like Sammy
The record companies- entertainment companies- and A&R killed a lot of great bands. They weren't willing to sign the whole band. They only wanted to sign one guy. This was in an effort to limit litigation and control the product. Radio programming wiped out a lot of great talent.
Sammy Hagar performed with so many other groups (or group names), it's hard to keep track. It's can't forget Robert Christgau's putdown of Sammy as a schmuck. He must have some redeeming qualities, or Sammy has changed with age.
From everything I've learned about Montrose over the years, Ronnie Montrose happened to Montrose.
Space Station # 5
…duh, they ate too much Rock Candy, which was too hot and sticky.
Sweet too
I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't like sammy or van halen
1:14 also Sir Lord Baltimore
Steppenwolf is NOT heavy metal.
This should have been titled the works of Sammy Hagar. You didn’t cover Ronnie at all. No Gamma?
Sorry Montrose WAS NOT metal . just good rock
Montrose was jealous of Sammy Hagar, because Sammy is a smokin' guitar player and Montrose wanted the entire spotlight, as Sammy was more talented....too bad, as that was a great band - Montrose and Hagar!
You have no idea of what you are talking about. That's not what happened. Stop spreading shit.
Hook us up with Brewer and Shipley. Jim
Here's a metal band nobodytalks about bad brains
Bad Brains is a punk band...
Sammy’s voice
Um……. They got on their bad motor Scooter and rode?
Failed to mention HSAS. . .
Got sick and shot himself. that's what happened to Montrose.
Yet again, another person confusing Ronnie Monroes with Rick Derringer
Keep in mind that this channel spells quality with a K.
1st album was great, the follow up, Paper Money, was terrible.
He died.
What a joke......
sucks that's what happened
Good Job COD. Montrose was always jealous of Hagar or anyone that was better than him him. He didn’t like Ted Nugent either.
You are wrong.
@@user-lg3cg1vs8cyou’re right he’s wrong. Ronnie was jealous of attention, but he certainly wasn’t envious of Ted Nugent’s guitar playing. Ronnie was a far more accomplished, diverse player than Nugent.
Montrose was great, Van Hagar sucked.
Personal opinions of course but ,Your smoking some bad stuff.. got you all foggy in the brain. Douchebag Dave never could hold a candle to Sam vocally or as a musician in any way. Van hagar made more albums, sold more albums, and lasted longer than with Dave. So what sucked ?
Which was strange bc Sammy did more than a few really good songs during his solo career.
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Who really cares ?
Montrose fans, that is who, moron.
You would have cared if you grew up back then and listen to someone with more Talent then Michael Jackson or Prince😅
Your mom
@@CashMullen-ng4sr it may be a mediocre Channel but take it from a real troll me you are a mediocre troll. There are so many better ways you could have hit him with that I'm an expert at the insult and I wish I had time to teach you
Mediocre record by a mediocre band. Hagar's lyrics suck...always have. This record only got noticed after he joined van hagar.
Bullshit, the record has been rocked the fuck out by rock radio since the day it was released. Van Halen even covered them when they were a bar band. As Dave has said, he would never sing a Sammy song....WRONG, just like you.
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@@kikiki4592and of course you're absolutely right that album was huge here in St Louis especially on the Progressive underground radio stations of the day like KSHE.. man Montrose could Rock live and I still have the album Montrose.. I always thought Sammy Hagar sucked Ronnie Montrose was the true star of that band and a hell of a guitar player😊
@@edljnehan2811 Sweet Meat rocked my youth too, brother, lol. Used to reside in Bevo then Shrewsbury. Used to go out out to the old station in Crestwood and beg for extra tickets, singles or anything they could give out. Miss our Ruth, she was a badass.
@@kikiki4592okay I just got this message I lived in Shrewsbury at the Georgetown apartments from 1974 to 1976 I even went to Affton High in my final year of high school which was 1976 before that I went to Southwest High from 1972 to 75.. I lived near Bevo Mill as well also on Chippewa and Kingshighway and originally Watson and Marquette. Me and my buddies used to hang out at the old KSHE radio station concert window where we would share a joint with the radio DJ in exchange for him taking requests on what we wanted to hear. That was as you know right behind the 66 Drive-In where they used to have concerts like Foghat. Yeah I know all of the DJs Mark close Rich Dalton John Hewlett and of course the great Ted habeck. I forgot to tell you that ELP show at the arena Annex was in 1970 and I'm pretty sure yes opened up that show it was either that one or the next one it's hard to remember but yes we're a brand new band😮 Small World brother and some great memories unfortunately I'm still in St Louis which is getting real bad I mean you don't want to leave your house unless you're carrying a hand Cannon😅
@@kikiki4592 Grandma Ruth Hutchins she was the mother of the general manager I remember right after she left Rich Dalton took over the KSHE classic show which by the way is still on Sunday from 8:00 to 12:00 noon with John Hulett as host. KSHE is now the longest running rock radio station in the world not just the country the world