Yea Sammy can sing. I’ve seen him live solo 3 times. Twice before he was in Van Halen and also once with Van Halen on their first album together. 5150 I think it was
@@dennisjohnson2772 And now Cheap Trick is opening for Rod Stewart on this year's tour, i didn't see that coming, totally 2 different sounds but i guess this isn't as surprising as when Van Halen had Kool & the gang open for them before..
Yes he could. I saw Montrose open for everyone in the 70's. Opened for Kiss, Foghat, Aerosmith, BOA, Rainbow, Blue Oyster Cult, Y&T, and some my brain can't pull up at the moment.
That motorcycle sound is definitely being made on Montrose' guitar, and yes it can be reproduced live. Motley Crue would do much the same thing many years later on one of their songs (Kickstart My Heart). God bless!!
Living in Scotland I had difficulty in 1974 with the lines "... just remember I don't live too far " contrasted with " You'll be there in less than a day " . Glasgow and Edinburgh are on opposite coasts of Scotland , and are 40 odd miles apart !. Then there's the line "... I'd come out to your place , but I'm afraid of your Dad ! "
Brad, you like Sammy's voice because he's the singer of Van Halen. After Roth left the band. Remember Poundcake? That's Sammy Hagar - The Red Rocker he is still touring with his band The Circle, check them out.
The drum lick in "Rock Candy" from this same album will knock your socks off. Ronnie Montrose' best guitar lick is "Town Without Pity". Sammy Hagar (who later sang for Van Halen) was no longer with the band for that one. I listened to a dude sing "Make it Last" from this album in a Karaoke Bar. It floored everyone in the joint. Jaw dropping good.
Fun fact between Sammy being in Montrose and Van Halen, he was doing his solo work and lived out on a ranch. He was auditioning a bass player who didn't need to bring an amp as one was provided. The bass player was a girl and Sammy said when she rolled up on a motorcycle with her bass/gig/bag strapped on her back, "I hired her on the spot".
It's a slide doing the motor sound. That's a glass, metal or ceramic tube worn on the finger that you slide up and down the strings (rather than pressing them down with your fingers). People have also used beer or pop bottles, glass medicine bottles, socket wrenches, or pretty much anything that will slide on the strings, but normally it's a tube worn on a finger made especially for that. You've heard a bunch of slide guitar. Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers is famous for it.
@@ianhampton1208 ...Derek Trucks, Billy Gibbons, a lot of the old blues players, and the list goes on. Trying to get good myself. Not too hard to play slide but hard to do it well.
Yeah, I saw Ronnie a couple times in the 70s and once in the 80s, you bet he could do this live. You should do Space Station #5 off the same album next, that album, and the next one were utter fire and established Ronnie Montrose as one of the best guitarists of the era. Those albums also introduced us to Sammy Hagar on vocals and led to his stellar career. More Montrose! Enjoy. 🎸
Saw Montrose do this live several times and the motorcycle shifting gears is easy to do with some good distortion, a slide and a good tremolo arm on your guitar!
Having seen Sammy Hagar do this live with his solo band I can attest to the fact that yes, they can do this live and the motor scooter sound is done on a lap played steel guitar with a bottleneck.
Hell Yeah!! Love Some Montrose!! Got to do “ Rock Candy” next or anything off that album is killer!! Try “Paper Money” off of their second album by that name!! Montrose was definitely a bad ass on guitar!! Please do some of Sammy Hager’s solo catalog!! He has some great songs to get into “Red”,”I Can’t Drive 55” plus many more!! The Red Rocker can get you Movin’‼️💯🔥
Motley Crue does the motorcycle sounds on Dr. Feelgood. This song was written by Sammy & a true story lol. Ronnie played with Edgar Winter & others. He was doing video game music for Sega in the 90's. His band Gamma had some songs on the radio that were good like Thunder & Lightning. RIP Ronnie 🤟
Montrose always pushed passed the limit on guitar tone. Their debut album rocks really hard -- "Rock the Nation", "Bad Motor Scooter", "Space Station #5", "Rock Candy" -- Check out some of those when you're ready for more from them. Also check out Sammy Hagar "Plain Jane" and "I've Done Everything for You" from 1979. And for something different, check out his 1977 cover of the Patti Smith classic "Free Money".
Make it Last....Rock Candy..........guitar rock classics. Still one of my top 5 albums. Saw Montrose with Foghat back in 1976 in Greensboro, NC. Heck of a show!!!
I MISSED THIS VIDEO EARLIER FOR SOME REASON, EVEN THOUGH I HAD REQUESTED THAT BRAD AND LEX REACT TO IT. A really cool and under-rated song by Montrose and Sammy Hagar! 3:08 Really glad Lex likes it too! Wish I had a terrific girl to groove to music with. Lucky Brad!!!
I saw Montrose in the mid 70's and yes, he did the intro live (using a slide on the guitar - a lap steel). Ronnie Montrose was an incredible and innovative guitarist (R.I.P.). He was a huge influence to many famous rock guitarists, including Eddie Van Halen.
I have to agree, I always see Hagar as the Montose front man and tend to forget his stint with Van Halen, but yes the dude for sure has the Rocker pipes.
Hey guys what's up! Greetings from South Florida! I didn't really get into Montrose, but they were a totally solid band. Young Sammy Hagar. You guys rock! God bless you! Peace!
"well I gave it a shot and it shit back in my face... and I just quite my job makin' toothpicks out logs" oh boy.. Montrose was responsible for kickin rock and roll up several notches in the day, when this album came out it got real quickly and every rock band was scramblin like; "oh snap we can play like that? we gotta do that" and so the legend of rock and roll in the 70's was forever changed in the fall of 1973, trick er treat... :-) listen to anything pre 1972... NO ONE smashed it like Montrose, the album is one big trip, you listen to it entirely A to B ... trio.. Ronnie doesn't bust out an acoustic or grab a tambourine, they smash it the whole way..
Ronnie Montrose guitar is whats making those scooter sounds -Sammy was belting it out - the entire album was so good it is in my 6 disc player currently and people are blown away who have never heard it. Ronnie also was the guitar for Edgar Winter for that awesome live video of Frankenstein
That, my friends, is actually Sammy Hagar playing the revving motor sound. He does it live on the live album, Sammy Hagar - All Night Long'. Sammy, also from Van Halen and solo, was Montrose's First lead singer and second guitarist.
Wow a reaction you won't hear anywhere else. High School for me. At the same time Ronnie Montrose was doing session work on Van Morrison's tupelo honey and on Edgar Winters Frankenstein. Quite a diverse range of work in the same time frame
It's a guitar you can count on that because we're talkin early seventies I know what the guitar because I'm 60 years old and I had that album also see Montrose and concert back then. Another example would be the sound of the bird at the beginning and another spot during Freebird where Gary rossington does it on the guitar oh, the bird sound and then the whistle. Another really really good Mantra song is called rock candy check that out I'm sure you'll love it
Thanks Bill, for sharing your insight and actual correct information with them. They actually did do Rock Candy about 3 months back. So this was only the 2nd Montrose song they've done, so we still got Coming Home, Space Station, Got The Fire, Rock The Nations etc., to push for. Try to make more live streams, we can use some more people in there who know real music. Peace ☮️
from Wikipedia - The song was penned by frontman Sammy Hagar. Its introduction, a distorted electric slide guitar sound which closely emulates that of a revving motorcycle, became the defining component of the song. When the song was conceived before this guitar sound, the band and Ted Templeman were not impressed because they thought it was missing a "hook", to make it stand out. Ronnie Montrose stumbled upon it while messing with a slide and fuzz box one day in the studio. Playing his guitar in Open D tuning, Montrose improvised what became the motorcycle sound - although Templeman and engineer Donn Landee kept him going when they failed to get the recording tape rolling. When performed live by the original Montrose line up, Sammy Hagar would play the "motorcycle" introduction on a lap steel slide guitar. NOT with a whammy bar.
Montrose was founded in central California. The band moved to Northern California. I remember them while I was a boy! 👦 Montrose was a pre-supergroup. Late Ronnie Montrose on lead guitar. 🎸Denny Carmassi on drums. 🥁 Sammy Hagar on lead vocals and rhythm guitar 🎸 The next year, Alan Gerald was on bass guitar and keyboards. Why pre-supergroup? Sammy was the first member to leave; he went solo. Denny left to join Heart ❤ Alan left to form Night Ranger. RIP Ronnie Montrose 🎸
This album is an Iconic Album, their debut album. No bad song on this album. Ronnie Montrose and Sammy Hagar made an awesome team. I was fortunate to see them when they toured with album release. Superb show.try.(Space Station #5) or (Make It Last) from the same album
Saw Sammy do this with his band Chickenfoot. Sammy's son Aaron who sounds like a young Sammy did Space station #5 and Rock Candy from the same first Montrose album with the Wabo's as the opening act. Being a fan of that first Montrose album it was a special treat for sure.
It's guitar and a glass or metal finger slide, combined with amplifier effects like distortion. That's Sammy Hagar on vocals, of solo and Van Halen fame. Used to watch a young Jake E. Lee perform a cover of this song when I was a kid, and he would use a Jack Daniel's bottle for a slide. He went on to play for Ozzy.
story has it that sammy went to ronnie's house knocked on the door and said hey I'm sammy hagar heard you looking for a singer he said you got some songs went in side pulled three songs out a folder played make it last, bad motor scooter and rock candy and the rest is history
Sammy Hagar's best song is (One Way To Rock) Great Song! But! Must Watch/Listen to Van Halen's version w/ Sammy. From (Live Without A Net) Eddie Van Halen's guitar work is MIND BLOWING!
First concert I ever went Montrose opened for Lynyrd Skynyrd. I was 15. My Mom dropped off my friend and me and picked us up after. Had not smoked pot at that point. But it was all around us. Probably got a contact high 🤘
Sammy was with Montrose and Van Halen but he also had a very successful Solo career. Definitely check out . "MAS TEQUILA " by Sammy plus " 3 LOCK BOX " and " I CAN'T DRIVE 55 " and " HEAVY METAL " for the animated movie with the same name. And he has many more ...
That sound would be Ronny Montrose on guitar. They sound good live too, and Ronny makes his guitar playing look effortless, almost as if his playing is an afterthought. Lead singer is Sammy Hagar...17 when he started with the band as I recall...in his 70's now and still rocking. Lot of talent between those two.
Eddie Van Halen was a huge Montrose fan in the 70's when Sammy Hagar was in the band (This was while Van Halen was a local rock band in Cali). Sammy Hagar recalled when he was a solo artist in the late 70's, when Van Halen and he were on the same bill, Eddie Van Halen came to his dressing room and was so excited to meet him (David Lee Roth not so much, allegedly... 🤣)
I was at that show at Anaheim Stadium (the bill was Boston, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, and Sammy Hagar), but my recollection (although not always perfect) was that Gamma was also there and opened the show and that Ronnie Montrose then jammed with Sammy during his set.
@@jeffjohansen6881 That show is what put Van Halen on top of the rock world back in the day, i was living, going to school and working in the city of Anaheim and unfortunately didn't make it to the show, but i did a few years later to see Foreigner, Loverboy, Scorpions and Iron Maiden at Anaheim stadium..
Members Sammy Hagar and Eddie Van Halen lived in the San Francisco area. I've always suspected that the lyric "red bridge that arcs the bay" is the Golden Gate bridge cuz the GG bridge is actually an orange-ish red.
Hard rock guitar pioneer and legend Ronnie Montrose (RIP) recruited a then unknown Sammy Hagar to do the heavy lifting on vocals and created one of the best debut albums of all time.
About this time, my friends and I were all into AWB and EWF. So, we had turned to Funk and soul, but then there was also Montrose and Houses of the Holy. Listen to everything, gang!
This is the first song ever written by Sammy Hagar (the vocalist). This song is from 1973 and he went on to be Van Halens 2nd singer (most successfully) in 1985 :D
It's a glass slide and they can do it live.. The band did it live many times and even the singer did it after the band broke up when he started his own band! Ronnie Montrose I believe was the guitarist' in this band!
They're using a whammy bar. It's a little lever down by the bridge that you use with your right hand to either raise or lower the pitch of the strings. I played this album so much in high school. In fact a band I was in high school cupboard rock candy. Also when I went to see Boston and 9th grade on their second album tour, Sammy Hagar and his Red Raiders were opening and they really put on a fantastic show.
All the songs on that album are awesome. The singer Sammy Hagar went on to do great stuff by himself and he’s got some good stuff when he joined Van Halen.
Motor scooter noise is done w/ a slide on a regular electric guitar, with lots of distortion. Ronnie Montrose was great, played on some Van Morrison and Edgar Winter songs (think Frankenstein & Free Ride, but someone will correct if wrong) before forming his own band. Ted Templeman I think produced this, the strange guitar all in one channel sound. Interesting, because he did same thing with Eddie Van Halen a few years later. Other great Ronnie songs to check out are his band Gamma's song Voyager, and his solo Town Without Pity. This first Montrose solo album was a monster. Space Station #5 and Rock the Nation are other great songs (since you've done Rock Candy already)
One of the greatest rock albums of all time
I air drummed the crap out of Space Station #5.
Yes that is sammy hagar also known as the "Red rocker." He was in Montrose in the early 70s and later went to solo stuff. He was also in Van halen,
Sammy Hagar made Van Halen great.
Rock candy is a killer Montrose song as well.
Pretty sure they did that one already
@@brettkenschaft4239 Space Station #5! Bring it
Sammy can just flat out sing! One of the greatest voices in rock from Montrose to Sammy solo to Van Halen to Chickenfoot!! Awesomeness!
Yea Sammy can sing. I’ve seen him live solo 3 times. Twice before he was in Van Halen and also once with Van Halen on their first album together. 5150 I think it was
@@VaughnBrown1965 3 times solo and once with Van Halen, one of the best live vocalists ever.
Ronnie Montrose was a really great guitarist… and yes, they could do it live…
and all of that was done without effects pedals...Space Station #5 is even more incredible when it comes to the sounds Ronnie got out of his axe...
@@dennisjohnson2772 And now Cheap Trick is opening for Rod Stewart on this year's tour, i didn't see that coming, totally 2 different sounds but i guess this isn't as surprising as when Van Halen had Kool & the gang open for them before..
Always heard that Ronnie had a huge chip on his shoulders and that’s why Sammy left. I could be wrong
Yes he could. I saw Montrose open for everyone in the 70's. Opened for Kiss, Foghat, Aerosmith, BOA, Rainbow, Blue Oyster Cult, Y&T, and some my brain can't pull up at the moment.
Is a great guitarist...!
That motorcycle sound is definitely being made on Montrose' guitar, and yes it can be reproduced live. Motley Crue would do much the same thing many years later on one of their songs (Kickstart My Heart).
God bless!!
And don't forget the motorcycle guitar on 'Bat out of Hell'
Living in Scotland I had difficulty in 1974 with the lines "... just remember I don't live too far " contrasted with " You'll be there in less than a day " . Glasgow and Edinburgh are on opposite coasts of Scotland , and are 40 odd miles apart !. Then there's the line "... I'd come out to your place , but I'm afraid of your Dad ! "
Brad, you like Sammy's voice because he's the singer of Van Halen. After Roth left the band. Remember Poundcake? That's Sammy Hagar - The Red Rocker he is still touring with his band The Circle, check them out.
The drum lick in "Rock Candy" from this same album will knock your socks off. Ronnie Montrose' best guitar lick is "Town Without Pity". Sammy Hagar (who later sang for Van Halen) was no longer with the band for that one. I listened to a dude sing "Make it Last" from this album in a Karaoke Bar. It floored everyone in the joint. Jaw dropping good.
Denny Carmassi is criminally underrated
I think they did Rock Candy already
Yes. Drums were great on that.
@@brettkenschaft4239 I see their reaction to Rock Candy in my playlist from 4 months ago, so you're correct
Yes! "Town Without Pity"
Fun fact between Sammy being in Montrose and Van Halen, he was doing his solo work and lived out on a ranch. He was auditioning a bass player who didn't need to bring an amp as one was provided. The bass player was a girl and Sammy said when she rolled up on a motorcycle with her bass/gig/bag strapped on her back, "I hired her on the spot".
During Sammy's solo career he had Gary Pihl of Boston fame playing guitar for him. His solo stuff was killer
There isn't a bad song on this album. My personal favorite is Make It Last.
I saw Sammy Hagar warm up another band in the 1970's and he played the intro with a guitar on his lap and a slide. Super cool.
It's a slide doing the motor sound. That's a glass, metal or ceramic tube worn on the finger that you slide up and down the strings (rather than pressing them down with your fingers). People have also used beer or pop bottles, glass medicine bottles, socket wrenches, or pretty much anything that will slide on the strings, but normally it's a tube worn on a finger made especially for that.
You've heard a bunch of slide guitar. Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers is famous for it.
There are many great slide players, Ry Cooder, Joe Walsh, David Lindley, Bonnie Raitt.
@@ianhampton1208 ...Derek Trucks, Billy Gibbons, a lot of the old blues players, and the list goes on. Trying to get good myself. Not too hard to play slide but hard to do it well.
Thomas McClary of the Commodores used one on Easy.
Space station#5 is a must yes Sammy Hagar vocals and Ronnie's guitar such an underated band this whole album kicks ASS.
Absolutely!
Sammy Hagar gets a lot of shit but he’s truly a rock legend. His body of work supports that.
"One two three lock box..." For that alone.
People can say what they want, but DLR never touched the greatness of Sammy's days in Montrose.
Along with another legend: Ronnie Montrose on guitar....Try their song "Rock Candy"
@@mikeperry3548 R.I.P. Ronnie. They did Rock Candy a few months ago.
He's one of the best rock vocalists of all time. And a phenomenal song writer.
Yeah, I saw Ronnie a couple times in the 70s and once in the 80s, you bet he could do this live. You should do Space Station #5 off the same album next, that album, and the next one were utter fire and established Ronnie Montrose as one of the best guitarists of the era. Those albums also introduced us to Sammy Hagar on vocals and led to his stellar career. More Montrose! Enjoy. 🎸
When your party slows down, this album will get it back on track.
I saw Montrose do this song live in the mid-70s. yes the revving motorcycle sound is made with the guitar. great reaction!!
Saw Montrose do this live several times and the motorcycle shifting gears is easy to do with some good distortion, a slide and a good tremolo arm on your guitar!
Having seen Sammy Hagar do this live with his solo band I can attest to the fact that yes, they can do this live and the motor scooter sound is done on a lap played steel guitar with a bottleneck.
I saw Ronnie do it on a Sunburst Gibson Les Paul. Sammy is never given enough props as a guitarist, that guy could flat out play.
@@vicprovost2561 Then why did Eddie make him stop playing guitar on live shows...
Hell Yeah!! Love Some Montrose!! Got to do “ Rock Candy” next or anything off that album is killer!!
Try “Paper Money” off of their second album by that name!!
Montrose was definitely a bad ass on guitar!!
Please do some of Sammy Hager’s solo catalog!! He has some great songs to get into “Red”,”I Can’t Drive 55” plus many more!!
The Red Rocker can get you Movin’‼️💯🔥
I keep posting Paper Money to all the Inflation articles I see.
Rock Candy is Montrose signature tune.
But Space Station NO. 5 is for the die hard Montrose fans
Rock Candy is ok but the weakest track on the Montrose album. Make It Last and Space Station are the stand outs.
They actually did Rock Candy already
Motley Crue does the motorcycle sounds on Dr. Feelgood. This song was written by Sammy & a true story lol. Ronnie played with Edgar Winter & others. He was doing video game music for Sega in the 90's. His band Gamma had some songs on the radio that were good like Thunder & Lightning. RIP Ronnie 🤟
I think you mean Kickstart My Heart for the Crue song.
Greetings from Oregon.. lmao. We as kids were singing grandmothers scooter. I still laugh. Phido and I love you two
Montrose always pushed passed the limit on guitar tone. Their debut album rocks really hard -- "Rock the Nation", "Bad Motor Scooter", "Space Station #5", "Rock Candy" -- Check out some of those when you're ready for more from them. Also check out Sammy Hagar "Plain Jane" and "I've Done Everything for You" from 1979. And for something different, check out his 1977 cover of the Patti Smith classic "Free Money".
This IS Bad Motor Scooter, and they actually did Rock Candy already
@@brettkenschaft4239 Great! Now they should listen to the rest of the album!
"But can he do it under pressure?" 😂 So frigging cute! 😂
I was 10yrs old in 1976, and this was the first album I ever bought. Great memories!
I've got this kicking around on vinyl. I've really got to replace my turntable.
Yes , you do 🔥
The "motor" sound is typically done by a tremolo on the guitar.... essentially, changing the slacks on all the strings. Jimi Hendrix did this a lot
In this case it was done with a bottleneck on a slide guitar.
Should hear Sammy play that intro on his lap steel. Saw him with Chickenfoot do this song
@@module79l28 thanks for the correction
Make it Last....Rock Candy..........guitar rock classics. Still one of my top 5 albums. Saw Montrose with Foghat back in 1976 in Greensboro, NC. Heck of a show!!!
This is the Montrose song that made my daily favorites, Rock Candy was popular too but this song just MOVES!!
Every track on Sammy Hagars album, 'Standing Hampton' is really good
Every track on the first Montrose lp is good.I bought this on 8 track tape when it first came out.
A young Sammy Hagar. Ronnie Montrose a guitar ledgend.
"I've Got the Fire" or "Space Age Sacrifice" are 2 more excellent tunes by Montrose..
I MISSED THIS VIDEO EARLIER FOR SOME REASON, EVEN THOUGH I HAD REQUESTED THAT BRAD AND LEX REACT TO IT. A really cool and under-rated song by Montrose and Sammy Hagar! 3:08 Really glad Lex likes it too! Wish I had a terrific girl to groove to music with. Lucky Brad!!!
Went on a total freak out when this came out in 1973 the whole album is rock and roll legend to me.
Slide guitar and Ronnie Montrose was one of the best
I saw Montrose in the mid 70's and yes, he did the intro live (using a slide on the guitar - a lap steel). Ronnie Montrose was an incredible and innovative guitarist (R.I.P.). He was a huge influence to many famous rock guitarists, including Eddie Van Halen.
Sammy was a better fit with Montrose than Van Halen, to me anyway. This band was AMAZING
Agreed, and if Montrose would have stayed together and had all of Sammy Hagar's hits, they would have been another supergroup.
I have to agree, I always see Hagar as the Montose front man and tend to forget his stint with Van Halen, but yes the dude for sure has the Rocker pipes.
@@willredding3859 and his very successful solo career between Montrose and Van Halen.
@@neillenet291 his 3 lock box album was one of my faves back in the early 80's .
The problem was that Ronny Montrose never wanted anyone to outshine him. His ego wouldn’t allow it.
I am convinced that Lex would've been right at home in ANY mid 70's kegger / party .
I would jam on this while riding in my 69 chevelle ss. I had a 8track at the time in the early 70s. 👍😁👍🎸🎸🥁🎶🎶
Seeing Sammy several times in the 70's was so cool. He was great.
the guitar intro is done with a guitar accessory called a slide
Uuhh-yuup. Burned an awful lot of herb while driving gravel backroads in southeastern North Dakota and listening to this album on tape.
Hey guys what's up! Greetings from South Florida! I didn't really get into Montrose, but they were a totally solid band. Young Sammy Hagar. You guys rock! God bless you! Peace!
Montrose - Rock Candy
They actually did that one already
van halen "pound cake" that a guud one~ a battery powered drill
oh hell yes! this lp ROCKS there is film om Ronnie doing this live on Sammys page I Think
"well I gave it a shot and it shit back in my face... and I just quite my job makin' toothpicks out logs" oh boy.. Montrose was responsible for kickin rock and roll up several notches in the day, when this album came out it got real quickly and every rock band was scramblin like; "oh snap we can play like that? we gotta do that" and so the legend of rock and roll in the 70's was forever changed in the fall of 1973, trick er treat... :-)
listen to anything pre 1972... NO ONE smashed it like Montrose, the album is one big trip, you listen to it entirely A to B ... trio.. Ronnie doesn't bust out an acoustic or grab a tambourine, they smash it the whole way..
That sound was a 1981 Kawasaki Z650F2 with pod filters and a Laser 4-into-1 exhaust.
Well, it was to me when I first heard this tune.
Ronnie Montrose guitar is whats making those scooter sounds -Sammy was belting it out - the entire album was so good it is in my 6 disc player currently and people are blown away who have never heard it. Ronnie also was the guitar for Edgar Winter for that awesome live video of Frankenstein
Every song on this album kicks ass!
Make It Last is my favorite Montrose song personally......1st song I learned on the guitar.....
Dang!! I never get tired of that song.
What a banger! "Space Station #5" is still my favourite - it would have been a perfect song for "Guardians of the Galaxy".
Not sure how I missed this one. Welcome to America's first metal band. RIP Ronnie.
That, my friends, is actually Sammy Hagar playing the revving motor sound. He does it live on the live album, Sammy Hagar - All Night Long'. Sammy, also from Van Halen and solo, was Montrose's First lead singer and second guitarist.
Wow a reaction you won't hear anywhere else. High School for me. At the same time Ronnie Montrose was doing session work on Van Morrison's tupelo honey and on Edgar Winters Frankenstein. Quite a diverse range of work in the same time frame
Epic album. Front to back
That's the same Sammy Hagar that y'all loved singing Poundcake in Van Halen. Badass to see y'all listening to these old jams!
Denver's hometown hero Ronnie Montrose on that wild guitar. He's using a slide on the fretboard to make the engine noise.
It's a guitar you can count on that because we're talkin early seventies I know what the guitar because I'm 60 years old and I had that album also see Montrose and concert back then. Another example would be the sound of the bird at the beginning and another spot during Freebird where Gary rossington does it on the guitar oh, the bird sound and then the whistle. Another really really good Mantra song is called rock candy check that out I'm sure you'll love it
Thanks Bill, for sharing your insight and actual correct information with them. They actually did do Rock Candy about 3 months back. So this was only the 2nd Montrose song they've done, so we still got Coming Home, Space Station, Got The Fire, Rock The Nations etc., to push for. Try to make more live streams, we can use some more people in there who know real music. Peace ☮️
from Wikipedia - The song was penned by frontman Sammy Hagar. Its introduction, a distorted electric slide guitar sound which closely emulates that of a revving motorcycle, became the defining component of the song. When the song was conceived before this guitar sound, the band and Ted Templeman were not impressed because they thought it was missing a "hook", to make it stand out. Ronnie Montrose stumbled upon it while messing with a slide and fuzz box one day in the studio. Playing his guitar in Open D tuning, Montrose improvised what became the motorcycle sound - although Templeman and engineer Donn Landee kept him going when they failed to get the recording tape rolling.
When performed live by the original Montrose line up, Sammy Hagar would play the "motorcycle" introduction on a lap steel slide guitar.
NOT with a whammy bar.
This was a staple for many garage bands back in the 70s. With a young Sammy Hagar on photos
Montrose was founded in central California. The band moved to Northern California. I remember them while I was a boy! 👦
Montrose was a pre-supergroup. Late Ronnie Montrose on lead guitar. 🎸Denny Carmassi on drums. 🥁 Sammy Hagar on lead vocals and rhythm guitar 🎸
The next year, Alan Gerald was on bass guitar and keyboards.
Why pre-supergroup? Sammy was the first member to leave; he went solo. Denny left to join Heart ❤ Alan left to form Night Ranger.
RIP Ronnie Montrose 🎸
I knew Lex would like Ronnie's blistering solo...she knows her good guitar solos.
Just a tremendous album full of classic rock songs
LOL...I had a friend, I met in Berdoo, who showed me his High School yearbook. He graduated with Sammy in Fontana CA.
This album is an Iconic Album, their debut album. No bad song on this album. Ronnie Montrose and Sammy Hagar made an awesome team. I was fortunate to see them when they toured with album release. Superb show.try.(Space Station #5) or (Make It Last) from the same album
Definitely one of those perfect albums, like Boston’s Debut, and CCR’s Cosmo’s Factory! Space Station #5 is epic!
Saw Sammy do this with his band Chickenfoot. Sammy's son Aaron who sounds like a young Sammy did Space station #5 and Rock Candy from the same first Montrose album with the Wabo's as the opening act. Being a fan of that first Montrose album it was a special treat for sure.
Loved their version of Good rocking tonight
Yes, I saw them live in 1976. Definitely guitar,
Rock Candy next please
They actually did that one already
That sound is a lap steel guitar it`s played with a slide. Saw Montrose in Seattle and Sammy sat down on the front of the stage and played the intro.
Classic 70's Montrose
It's guitar and a glass or metal finger slide, combined with amplifier effects like distortion. That's Sammy Hagar on vocals, of solo and Van Halen fame. Used to watch a young Jake E. Lee perform a cover of this song when I was a kid, and he would use a Jack Daniel's bottle for a slide. He went on to play for Ozzy.
story has it that sammy went to ronnie's house knocked on the door and said hey I'm sammy hagar heard you looking for a singer he said you got some songs went in side pulled three songs out a folder played make it last, bad motor scooter and rock candy and the rest is history
Sammy Hagar's best song is (One Way To Rock) Great Song! But! Must Watch/Listen to Van Halen's version w/ Sammy.
From (Live Without A Net) Eddie Van Halen's guitar work is MIND BLOWING!
First concert I ever went Montrose opened for Lynyrd Skynyrd. I was 15. My Mom dropped off my friend and me and picked us up after. Had not smoked pot at that point. But it was all around us. Probably got a contact high 🤘
Sammy was with Montrose and Van Halen but he also had a very successful Solo career. Definitely check out . "MAS TEQUILA " by Sammy plus " 3 LOCK BOX " and
" I CAN'T DRIVE 55 " and " HEAVY METAL " for the animated movie with the same name. And he has many more ...
That sound would be Ronny Montrose on guitar. They sound good live too, and Ronny makes his guitar playing look effortless, almost as if his playing is an afterthought. Lead singer is Sammy Hagar...17 when he started with the band as I recall...in his 70's now and still rocking. Lot of talent between those two.
Early Sammy Hagar...this whole record rocks...Woo Hoo !!! (btw, nice touch w/ the Snap On jacket)
Eddie Van Halen was a huge Montrose fan in the 70's when Sammy Hagar was in the band (This was while Van Halen was a local rock band in Cali). Sammy Hagar recalled when he was a solo artist in the late 70's, when Van Halen and he were on the same bill, Eddie Van Halen came to his dressing room and was so excited to meet him (David Lee Roth not so much, allegedly... 🤣)
Ted Templeman also originally wanted Sammy as lead singer before they recorded their debut album
@@mikehawk5742 Maybe that was why...
I was at that show at Anaheim Stadium (the bill was Boston, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, and Sammy Hagar), but my recollection (although not always perfect) was that Gamma was also there and opened the show and that Ronnie Montrose then jammed with Sammy during his set.
@@jeffjohansen6881 That show is what put Van Halen on top of the rock world back in the day, i was living, going to school and working in the city of Anaheim and unfortunately didn't make it to the show, but i did a few years later to see Foreigner, Loverboy, Scorpions and Iron Maiden at Anaheim stadium..
The scooter sound is a distorted slide guitar. Ronnie Montrose was a gifted guitarist for sure.
Def a guitar, done using a slide. Such a cool song, and this album is a true rock classic! It should be much more well-known.
SNAP! now your tryin to break it off... Ronnie Montrose, WOW
Members Sammy Hagar and Eddie Van Halen lived in the San Francisco area. I've always suspected that the lyric "red bridge that arcs the bay" is the Golden Gate bridge cuz the GG bridge is actually an orange-ish red.
"Rock Candy," by Montrose. Sammy Hagar is very soulful. Was next singer in Van Halen. Several hits later....
I think they did that one already
Hard rock guitar pioneer and legend Ronnie Montrose (RIP) recruited a then unknown Sammy Hagar to do the heavy lifting on vocals and created one of the best debut albums of all time.
About this time, my friends and I were all into AWB and EWF. So, we had turned to Funk and soul, but then there was also Montrose and Houses of the Holy. Listen to everything, gang!
This is the first song ever written by Sammy Hagar (the vocalist). This song is from 1973 and he went on to be Van Halens 2nd singer (most successfully) in 1985 :D
It's a glass slide and they can do it live.. The band did it live many times and even the singer did it after the band broke up when he started his own band! Ronnie Montrose I believe was the guitarist' in this band!
Maestro Fresh Wes - Let Your Backbone Slide
They're using a whammy bar. It's a little lever down by the bridge that you use with your right hand to either raise or lower the pitch of the strings. I played this album so much in high school. In fact a band I was in high school cupboard rock candy. Also when I went to see Boston and 9th grade on their second album tour, Sammy Hagar and his Red Raiders were opening and they really put on a fantastic show.
Oh, for example, Stevie Ray Vaughan uses the whammy bar quite a bit.
Ronnie Montrose was a close personal friend of mine and one of the greatest guitarists of all time. Check out "Rock Candy" next!
Listen to one way to rock and three lock box Sammy Hagar is the definition of Rock and Roll to me.
All the songs on that album are awesome. The singer Sammy Hagar went on to do great stuff by himself and he’s got some good stuff when he joined Van Halen.
Motor scooter noise is done w/ a slide on a regular electric guitar, with lots of distortion. Ronnie Montrose was great, played on some Van Morrison and Edgar Winter songs (think Frankenstein & Free Ride, but someone will correct if wrong) before forming his own band. Ted Templeman I think produced this, the strange guitar all in one channel sound. Interesting, because he did same thing with Eddie Van Halen a few years later. Other great Ronnie songs to check out are his band Gamma's song Voyager, and his solo Town Without Pity. This first Montrose solo album was a monster. Space Station #5 and Rock the Nation are other great songs (since you've done Rock Candy already)
Love Montrose!!!!!
1973 pure talent.