Excellent video, David, thanks! Yep, that first album is a killer. I remember when I bought it and heard Rock Candy and Space Station #5 - I just flipped. I still love that album, which I think was Montrose’s best by far. Cheers!
@@aylbdrmadison1051 This explains a bit of it... www.woodytone.com/2010/02/17/ronnie-montroses-rock-candy-tone/#:~:text=Montrose%2C%20the%201973%20self%2Dtitled,great%20tunes%20and%20great%20tone.
Check out “ Speed of Sound” by Montrose. Great instrumental album by Ronnie. Unfortunately shortly after its release Surfing with the Alien was released & buried Ronnies album. Great nonetheless.🍺’ski your the coolest cat on you tube hands down!🤘
"Rock Candy" was originally called "Hard Boiled Egg" but Sammy got sick of singing it , so they changed it to "Rock Candy" also having to change the lyrics.
First album I ever bought with my own money....the first Montrose album. Every song was an awesome rock song from that era. I learned a lot from that album and it still rocks to this day. Thank you so much for doing this vid in his honor!
'Warner Bros Presents' is a GREAT Record..less 'commercial'. 'Jump On It' is pretty good too. Saw him in '76 and one of the first Gamma shows at The Greek Theater in Hollywood. I've been playing these songs for many decades....but I always learn something here. Excellent lessons...as always!
David thank you so much! I asked and you delivered. Rip Ronnie. Rip Eddie. I was about 15 when the montrose album came out and for me every note , every sound meant something.... Thanks again ...
I have been reading the Ted Templeman book recently and he speaks very highly of him as both a musician and player. Some funny stories of them both working with Van Morrison on Tupelo Honey. Interesting to hear the lessons Ted learnt working on the Montrose album helped him a lot when he started with Van Halen. 😷👍
David I enjoy the lesson . Montrose is a killer rock album. straight guitar rock. rock candy just feels good that riff just rolls off the fingers . ever see the movie called the stoned age. cool movie rock on brewski
LOVE the old Montrose stuff. Underrated and I think they had a lot of influence on other artists too. Great riffs.. Funny how Rock Candy still kicks a** today..
Great video as always man, i have a request for some Mountain/Leslie West material and maybe more Funkadelic material to chew on. Thank you for the vids!
Then Dave says," Oh yeah that part", right after he cranks out the riff to Rock Candy . Thanks for getting to Montrose I actually suggested it a while back. Definitely a legend of his time. EVH -JH - RM electrifying the heavens. You can hear the THUNDER ROAR! Another great lesson. ROCK ON DAVE! 👊 👍 🎸 😎 P.S Pat Travers on your list next?
I appreciate your work. Montrose definitely came from the If You Can Sing It You Have A Great Solo School, as evidenced on the "Open Fire" album and others. I had the privilege of seeing him perform twice. David-- Have you considered Rick Derringer and Tommy Bolin?
@@1970borntorun You obviously have never listened to Joe Satriani. Check out One Big Rush, Back To Shala Bal, If, or House Full Of Bullets. Satch can groove with the best of them.
Thank you Dave so much for doing this video on Ronnie Montrose, Montros the first album in my opinion in the top five greatest rock ‘n’ roll albums ever made period, to me he defined what hard rock was, Rest in peace Ronnie🤘
I see where EVH got part of the verse section of 'Fell Your Love Tonight' @13:57 - the A section - its slowed down here but VH used to play Montrose covers back in the early biker bar days. Always appreciated Dave!
Great lesson, but ... you could’ve devoted the entire lesson to Ronnie’s guitar work on Edgar Winter’s They Only Come Out at Night. It’s my understanding that Ronnie was actually a member of that band till they let him go. One other observation are you playing a high hat with your left foot while jamming? I’m hearing something extra. Great lesson as always.
@@thomasjohnson7735 according to the liner notes Ronnie played all the guitar. Rick Derringer played pedal steel on “Round and Around.” Edgar had “Frankenstein” around for awhile. Johnny, Edgar,Tommy Shannon and Uncle John Turner used to jam on it.
I was 13 and had been playing for three years when the first Montrose album came out,it taught me how to rock and shake those chords. Love your chsnnel
We wore the Grooves off the record.Saw them in So.Bend In.at the Morris Civic..Summer of 74..They hit the stage in jeans and t-shirts-No Lights-AND "ROCKED" the Nation..Good Times.....BIG THANKS For The Lesson and Posting This..
Although I was more of a Zeppelin and Rush fan, Montrose was one of the greatest hard rock albums ever. If they'd stayed together I think they would have been as big as any of the others. I'd kind of forgotten about them recently, but I've played covers of half the songs on that album in different bands over the years. The more I think about it, the more I realize that one album was a huge influence on me as a player. Edit: Until you played Razor King, I didn't see how much influence Montrose likely had on Buckethead. That makes sense though, and I can think of a number of other ideas Buckethead may have copped from Ronnie.
The 8 track in my 70 Dodge Charger 500 was always playing this till I wore it out! Great cruising around music. I really enjoy your channel I like watching how you break down the guitar parts even though I can't play one!
I never thought of Montrose as Americas Zep. Loved Sammy's and Bob James work with him, then later Davey Pattison. I like to say Sammy was perfect for the first two albums and Bob James was perfect for the second two. Then cool stuff with Pattison. They all complimented Montrose's playing. Ronnie's guitar work was always fun and moving. Great job representing Ronnie's guitar work David I just wish you would have went in a little deeper with the songs because his stuff is chock full of cool guitar work within the structure of the songs. Flashy guitar is great but then you have guitar on a different level that makes you want to go make babies. :)
I love you man. You're the best guitar teacher on the circuit. You're honest. Sincere and so down to earth. Thanks for a few corrections that I was playing wrong. Could you give an updated? Gary Moore tutorial
Awesome job. I first saw Montrose at the CalJam 1. Ditched school Jr. High with next door neighbor it was my first concert. Came home late and was grounded for a month. It was totally worth it! It ushered in my drive and dreams of playing guitar. Have all of his albums.
Excellent lesson video and playing! Van Halen liked and was influenced by Montrose first album. I can tell a little how it shaped Eddies playing. I like the Sammy Hagar song, Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy. I know it`s bubblegum rock but I like anyways.
Your so awesome. Ronnie's was the shit. Just love this shit. I just followed you. I havnt forgotten any of it. I was looking at Rock Candy. And here you are. Doing the album. Thank you so much. It will be fun cranking those riff. Get on your BAD Motor Scooter and Ride.
Just stumbled across this vid and its a gem. 23 years old, huge Montrose fan, big inspiration for me on guitar too our band jams on Space Station #5 and Make it Last often. Bought a Grand Funk We're An American Band album in a record shop but didn't look inside first, turned out the vinyl inside was instead the first Montrose record and that's how I found out about em.
I saw Ronnie right up front in Boston in the 80's at a club called The Channel. And what I recall most vividly were Ronnie's eye's. His eye's were on fire. A sort of crazy insane look. I'll never forget it. Thanks for bringing back attention to a very unique guitarist that I learned a great deal from. 😉👍🏼
I LOVE Ronnie Montrose !!! As a guitarist and Music lover, the first MONTROSE Record and GAMMA 2 are BOTH in my "Top-10 Desert Island Records" ! Ronnie was a killer riff master ( which makes sense, since he loved Led Zeppelin ) highly melodic ( Town Without Pity, Voyager, etc ) and ALWAYS played for the SONG. I have to add, for the "casual" Ronnie fan, Ronnie also released a very tasty string of excellent instrumental records ( Open Fire and Territory, notwithstanding ) starting in 1988 with "Speed of Sound" on Enigma Records which are extremely hard to find and sadly, mostly out of print. You are badly missed Ronnie, here in your hometown in the SF Bay Area !! Go have fun jamming with Randy and Eddie. They loved your playing as well ♥
Creem magazine (from Detroit) called the Montrose album America's first heavy metal album! He and Sammy split because Ronnie thought Hard music had run it's course and Sammy didn't! Ronnie came back to Metal in a BIG way with Speed of Sound (Ronnie's greatest guitar work IMHO)!
Thank god, you got "One thing on my mind" been stumped on that for years after hearing one day decades later and being blown away by it. Thanks for "Good Rockin" as well. Had no idea that was a "thumb over". Yes this was one of the first records I owned. Thankfully I lived in that era. Thanks for mentioning Gamma as well. Living in the SF Bay area. I saw them (as well as versions of Ronnie) a couple of times. Gamma 2 is spectacular as well. "Voyager", "Mean Streak".
One more thing guys and I'll stop Hijacking the page here :) One of the tricks to Ronnie's playing is that he used a lot of ringing open strings either by themselves to add color and emphasis, and/or when strumming open chords. I'm 51 in April, and even though people like Randy Rhoads, Michael Schenker and Eddie Van Halen were more my generation, the BIG lesson we can ALL take from Ronnie is to always play with a lot of melody, taste and style. Adding character and flourishes as a musician is far more important ( to me ) than just whizzing up and down the neck showing off how fast you can play the Diminished scale for your buddies lol Peace and Happy Holidays !! ♫
Ted Templeman produced that 1st Montrose album for Warner Bros records. He was able to get such a great tone for Ronnie. Ted also produced the first several Van Halen albums as well. I think he had a big influence on Ronnie's and Eddie's "tone". Or at the very least he was able to accurately capture it.... and thank god, because those tones are iconic. In 1980 I was playing guitar.... hard rock / Metal and Ronnie's tone from that 1st album in 1973 was still considered a good tone and sounded relevant well into the 80's. How weird that Van Halen would sign Sammy as their replacement for David Lee Roth.... Maybe because they were both Warner Bros. artists their label had a lot to do with their choice?
Nice to see Montrose getting props here. Even though the album didn't sell a lot, Montrose influenced everybody who was into rock guitar. Montrose always impressed me as souped up, kickass, California rock. They were the band that every rocker and guitar player knew about, but never really hit it big. When my buddies and I first heard Van Halen, we looked at each other wondering who it was. We all thought it might be Montrose, but the guitar was too insanely out there for Montrose... But that just goes to show how much impact Montrose really had.
Yes Dave, I have the Sega Mr Bones Soundtrack on CD lol :) I bought it for $3.00 at a used record store in San Jose in the late 90s because they didn't know how special it was.
By far the best guitar teacher on RUclips. You've inspired me to learn the "right way" to play Rock Candy as I was playing it wrong for years. Keep on rocking!
Chordplay of Ronnie Wood, or 3 Licks of Ronnie would be greatly appreciated - especially Faces i.e., ‘A Nod is a good as a Wink...’ Also, easy to see how Ronnie was a great fit for the Stones.
That 1st album was instrumental in my learning to play electric guitar when i was like 15-16 yrs old. It was basic and fairly easy to figure out. We all just wanted to play loud power chords like sabbath and zeppelin. The good ol days of what we thought of as hard rock.
Love all the content on your channel. My taste in music and influences are much like yours. I appreciate not only the lessons, but also the way you explain things. Yourself and Scott Raines are a couple of my favorite RUclips channels.
Thanks for the great video, Ronnie wasn't called the tone master for nothing and he's influenced so many guitar players and bands. For me the greatest hard rock debut album ever and his later stuff pushed the boundaries in so many ways and was laced with gems.
Dave I was going to suggest a chord play on Tony Iommi would be real cool in the never say die era so unusual his use of chords! Or Sabotage album? Thank you again!
And a lot of guitar people assumed that Ronnie played the opening "shifting" riff on Bad Motor Scooter, but there is footage of Sammy playing it on slide in concert.
Excellent video, David, thanks! Yep, that first album is a killer. I remember when I bought it and heard Rock Candy and Space Station #5 - I just flipped. I still love that album, which I think was Montrose’s best by far. Cheers!
I moved to Phoenix in 1980 when I was 16 and Voyager by Gamma was on all the time. Great song.
Also Sammy Hagar had a live album back in the 70s called All Night Long that had an awesome version of Bad Motor Scooter.
Great video Dave! First VH tours were Montrose, Journey and VH! Killer!
He had such a great tone. The first Montrose album is an all time favorite.
Yea, I loved his tone right away too. Now I'm wondering what gear he was using.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 This explains a bit of it...
www.woodytone.com/2010/02/17/ronnie-montroses-rock-candy-tone/#:~:text=Montrose%2C%20the%201973%20self%2Dtitled,great%20tunes%20and%20great%20tone.
It's one of five albums that I have to have if I'm stranded on a deserted island.
Check out “ Speed of Sound” by Montrose. Great instrumental album by Ronnie.
Unfortunately shortly after its release Surfing with the Alien was released & buried Ronnies album. Great nonetheless.🍺’ski your the coolest cat on you tube hands down!🤘
Great session... Like to see some more Montrose..
Big Thanks
The one thing on my mind riff reminds me of cross between ACDC (have a drink on me) and living color (Cult of personality).
"Rock Candy" was originally called "Hard Boiled Egg" but Sammy got sick of singing it , so they changed it to "Rock Candy" also having to change the lyrics.
First album I ever bought with my own money....the first Montrose album. Every song was an awesome rock song from that era. I learned a lot from that album and it still rocks to this day. Thank you so much for doing this vid in his honor!
Ronnie Montrose ... an incredibly talented musician - Montrose and Gamma 1 & 2 for me. Lucky to have seen him with Gamma and to meet him ...
I have been watching the crap out of your channel last few days =D , Thanks!
"You're rock candy, Brewster🍭🍬🍯🥞🍭 cuz yer 🔥Hot, Sweet, & STICKAAAYY!!!"😘😘😘😘😘😘🤣🤣🤣🤣🎸
'Warner Bros Presents' is a GREAT Record..less 'commercial'. 'Jump On It' is pretty good too. Saw him in '76 and one of the first Gamma shows at The Greek Theater in Hollywood. I've been playing these songs for many decades....but I always learn something here. Excellent lessons...as always!
That original Montrose album was amazing back then, really kicked ass.
Montrose album is in my top 10
David thank you so much! I asked and you delivered. Rip Ronnie. Rip Eddie. I was about 15 when the montrose album came out and for me every note , every sound meant something.... Thanks again ...
I have been reading the Ted Templeman book recently and he speaks very highly of him as both a musician and player. Some funny stories of them both working with Van Morrison on Tupelo Honey. Interesting to hear the lessons Ted learnt working on the Montrose album helped him a lot when he started with Van Halen. 😷👍
David I enjoy the lesson . Montrose is a killer rock album. straight guitar rock. rock candy just feels good that riff just rolls off the fingers . ever see the movie called the stoned age. cool movie rock on brewski
Thank you for the review of this great artist , what’s not to love about the tone and style that Influenced so many rock guitarists
LOVE the old Montrose stuff. Underrated and I think they had a lot of influence on other artists too. Great riffs.. Funny how Rock Candy still kicks a** today..
Great video as always man, i have a request for some Mountain/Leslie West material and maybe more Funkadelic material to chew on. Thank you for the vids!
I remember the first time I heard ROCK CANDY. still have my 8 track. .. and cd
Cool lesson
Another one of Sammy Hagar would be cool to. He’s been in so many bands it’s hard to decide which era to choose though
Then Dave says," Oh yeah that part", right after he cranks out the riff to Rock Candy . Thanks for getting to Montrose I actually suggested it a while back. Definitely a legend of his time. EVH -JH - RM electrifying the heavens. You can hear the THUNDER ROAR! Another great lesson. ROCK ON DAVE! 👊 👍 🎸 😎
P.S Pat Travers on your list next?
And I more: RR!
@@Scottocaster6668 👍🎸
I appreciate your work. Montrose definitely came from the If You Can Sing It You Have A Great Solo School, as evidenced on the "Open Fire" album and others. I had the privilege of seeing him perform twice. David-- Have you considered Rick Derringer and Tommy Bolin?
OMG Montrose. Yummy. I play a lot of Montrose. You rock Dave. Your my candy baby.
Nobody could groove like Ronnie Montrose. All those licks are dripping with feel. Thanks for the lesson, Dave!
Groove is one thing people like Joe Satriani others do NOT possess.
@@1970borntorun You obviously have never listened to Joe Satriani. Check out One Big Rush, Back To Shala Bal, If, or House Full Of Bullets. Satch can groove with the best of them.
Saw Ronnie live just once. Gamma supporting Rainbow late '79. What a night. Still have the ticket stub...Gamma+Rainbow-- $4.50
Love this video !! I'm a huge Ronnie Montrose fan !! I also see that Behringer rack mount unit in the background ... I love mine !!!
Hi. Your tone is absolutely Epic. Can you give us some idea what you're using what pickups are in that guitar and your effects and amplifier...tks.G.
Check the Late Night Lessons, Brewster's Millions of Rants, video series on the channel. There's some gear breakdowns in there👍🏼
Chords of Gamma 1&2 lesson would be nice. I do like Gamma much more than Montrose albums after the first Montrose albums is good
Thank you Dave so much for doing this video on Ronnie Montrose, Montros the first album in my opinion in the top five greatest rock ‘n’ roll albums ever made period, to me he defined what hard rock was, Rest in peace Ronnie🤘
Guitar sound was really dialed in for this one 👍🏼
I see where EVH got part of the verse section of 'Fell Your Love Tonight' @13:57 - the A section - its slowed down here but VH used to play Montrose covers back in the early biker bar days. Always appreciated Dave!
Great lesson, but ... you could’ve devoted the entire lesson to Ronnie’s guitar work on Edgar Winter’s They Only Come Out at Night. It’s my understanding that Ronnie was actually a member of that band till they let him go. One other observation are you playing a high hat with your left foot while jamming? I’m hearing something extra. Great lesson as always.
Yea didn't he do guitar work on Frankenstein?
Yea didn't Ronnie do guitar work on Frankenstein?
@@thomasjohnson7735 according to the liner notes Ronnie played all the guitar. Rick Derringer played pedal steel on “Round and Around.” Edgar had “Frankenstein” around for awhile. Johnny, Edgar,Tommy Shannon and Uncle John Turner used to jam on it.
First lesson where I had my guitar and played along 👍. That was fun!
🎅🎄----Thanks B🐓
Can’t get enough good Montrose tutorials. Thanks for this.
I was 13 and had been playing for three years when the first Montrose album came out,it taught me how to rock and shake those chords. Love your chsnnel
Good rockin tonight sound like molly hatchet (flirtin with disaster)🤘🤘
We wore the Grooves off the record.Saw them in So.Bend In.at the Morris Civic..Summer of 74..They hit the stage in jeans and t-shirts-No Lights-AND "ROCKED" the Nation..Good Times.....BIG THANKS For The Lesson and Posting This..
Chords of Sammy Hagar at some point?
First song is "Rock the Nation" Bad ass
Ronnie Montrose was a bad ass......
aH the 70's, the local r0ck house Machine Gun Kelly's, hot chicks, cold beer, and Ronnie rockin out between local bands...good times, good times.
Although I was more of a Zeppelin and Rush fan, Montrose was one of the greatest hard rock albums ever. If they'd stayed together I think they would have been as big as any of the others.
I'd kind of forgotten about them recently, but I've played covers of half the songs on that album in different bands over the years. The more I think about it, the more I realize that one album was a huge influence on me as a player.
Edit: Until you played Razor King, I didn't see how much influence Montrose likely had on Buckethead.
That makes sense though, and I can think of a number of other ideas Buckethead may have copped from Ronnie.
the 1st Montrose album is in my top 10 all time. PHENOMENAL!!
The 8 track in my 70 Dodge Charger 500 was always playing this till I wore it out! Great cruising around music. I really enjoy your channel I like watching how you break down the guitar parts even though I can't play one!
ICED EAAAAAARRRTTTTHHHHH
Awesome lesson btw
I never thought of Montrose as Americas Zep. Loved Sammy's and Bob James work with him, then later Davey Pattison.
I like to say Sammy was perfect for the first two albums and Bob James was perfect for the second two. Then cool stuff with Pattison. They all complimented Montrose's playing. Ronnie's guitar work was always fun and moving. Great job representing Ronnie's guitar work David I just wish you would have went in a little deeper with the songs because his stuff is chock full of cool guitar work within the structure of the songs. Flashy guitar is great but then you have guitar on a different level that makes you want to go make babies. :)
I love you man. You're the best guitar teacher on the circuit. You're honest. Sincere and so down to earth. Thanks for a few corrections that I was playing wrong. Could you give an updated? Gary Moore tutorial
Awesome job.
I first saw Montrose at the CalJam 1. Ditched school Jr. High with next door neighbor it was my first concert. Came home late and was grounded for a month. It was totally worth it! It ushered in my drive and dreams of playing guitar.
Have all of his albums.
Now that's true rock and roll my friend
Great choice and damn good sound, Dave. Your selections are so much fun!
great vid use to cover some of these tunes in my first garage band great channel
I would pick Montrose over Led Zep anyday.
That Gibson sounds great man.
Excellent lesson video and playing! Van Halen liked and was influenced by Montrose first album. I can tell a little how it shaped Eddies playing. I like the Sammy Hagar song, Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy. I know it`s bubblegum rock but I like anyways.
Your so awesome. Ronnie's was the shit. Just love this shit. I just followed you. I havnt forgotten any of it. I was looking at Rock Candy. And here you are. Doing the album. Thank you so much. It will be fun cranking those riff. Get on your BAD Motor Scooter and Ride.
Just stumbled across this vid and its a gem. 23 years old, huge Montrose fan, big inspiration for me on guitar too our band jams on Space Station #5 and Make it Last often. Bought a Grand Funk We're An American Band album in a record shop but didn't look inside first, turned out the vinyl inside was instead the first Montrose record and that's how I found out about em.
I saw Ronnie right up front in Boston in the 80's at a club called The Channel. And what I recall most vividly were Ronnie's eye's. His eye's were on fire. A sort of crazy insane look. I'll never forget it. Thanks for bringing back attention to a very unique guitarist that I learned a great deal from. 😉👍🏼
Dave you should also know that Ronnie's guitar work or style copyrighted for the game Rock and roll racing as well. Excellent retro game.
96 I dated the love of my life. She lived on Montrose Street. Everytime I went to her house. I had this album on my mind.
I LOVE Ronnie Montrose !!! As a guitarist and Music lover, the first MONTROSE Record and GAMMA 2 are BOTH in my "Top-10 Desert Island Records" ! Ronnie was a killer riff master ( which makes sense, since he loved Led Zeppelin ) highly melodic ( Town Without Pity, Voyager, etc ) and ALWAYS played for the SONG. I have to add, for the "casual" Ronnie fan, Ronnie also released a very tasty string of excellent instrumental records ( Open Fire and Territory, notwithstanding ) starting in 1988 with "Speed of Sound" on Enigma Records which are extremely hard to find and sadly, mostly out of print. You are badly missed Ronnie, here in your hometown in the SF Bay Area !! Go have fun jamming with Randy and Eddie. They loved your playing as well ♥
Creem magazine (from Detroit) called the Montrose album America's first heavy metal album! He and Sammy split because Ronnie thought Hard music had run it's course and Sammy didn't! Ronnie came back to Metal in a BIG way with Speed of Sound (Ronnie's greatest guitar work IMHO)!
Thank god, you got "One thing on my mind" been stumped on that for years after hearing one day decades later and being blown away by it. Thanks for "Good Rockin" as well. Had no idea that was a "thumb over". Yes this was one of the first records I owned. Thankfully I lived in that era. Thanks for mentioning Gamma as well. Living in the SF Bay area. I saw them (as well as versions of Ronnie) a couple of times. Gamma 2 is spectacular as well. "Voyager", "Mean Streak".
One more thing guys and I'll stop Hijacking the page here :) One of the tricks to Ronnie's playing is that he used a lot of ringing open strings either by themselves to add color and emphasis, and/or when strumming open chords. I'm 51 in April, and even though people like Randy Rhoads, Michael Schenker and Eddie Van Halen were more my generation, the BIG lesson we can ALL take from Ronnie is to always play with a lot of melody, taste and style. Adding character and flourishes as a musician is far more important ( to me ) than just whizzing up and down the neck showing off how fast you can play the Diminished scale for your buddies lol Peace and Happy Holidays !! ♫
Ted Templeman produced that 1st Montrose album for Warner Bros records. He was able to get such a great tone for Ronnie. Ted also produced the first several Van Halen albums as well. I think he had a big influence on Ronnie's and Eddie's "tone". Or at the very least he was able to accurately capture it.... and thank god, because those tones are iconic. In 1980 I was playing guitar.... hard rock / Metal and Ronnie's tone from that 1st album in 1973 was still considered a good tone and sounded relevant well into the 80's. How weird that Van Halen would sign Sammy as their replacement for David Lee Roth.... Maybe because they were both Warner Bros. artists their label had a lot to do with their choice?
Nice to see Montrose getting props here. Even though the album didn't sell a lot, Montrose influenced everybody who was into rock guitar. Montrose always impressed me as souped up, kickass, California rock. They were the band that every rocker and guitar player knew about, but never really hit it big. When my buddies and I first heard Van Halen, we looked at each other wondering who it was. We all thought it might be Montrose, but the guitar was too insanely out there for Montrose... But that just goes to show how much impact Montrose really had.
Sammy Hagar thumbed this down!
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Yes Dave, I have the Sega Mr Bones Soundtrack on CD lol :) I bought it for $3.00 at a used record store in San Jose in the late 90s because they didn't know how special it was.
My 2 favorite guitar players are Rik Emmett (Triumph) and Ronnie Montrose! I've been playing 35+ years!
That was great, but you should've added the monster song, also from the debut "Montrose" album, "Space Station #5"!
By far the best guitar teacher on RUclips. You've inspired me to learn the "right way" to play Rock Candy as I was playing it wrong for years. Keep on rocking!
Chordplay of Ronnie Wood, or 3 Licks of Ronnie would be greatly appreciated - especially Faces i.e., ‘A Nod is a good as a Wink...’ Also, easy to see how Ronnie was a great fit for the Stones.
That 1st album was instrumental in my learning to play electric guitar when i was like 15-16 yrs old.
It was basic and fairly easy to figure out. We all just wanted to play loud power chords like sabbath and zeppelin. The good ol days of what we thought of as hard rock.
Rest In Peace My Friend...
Miss Ya Brother...
P.O.W.
M.I.A.
Never Forget
Love all the content on your channel. My taste in music and influences are much like yours. I appreciate not only the lessons, but also the way you explain things. Yourself and Scott Raines are a couple of my favorite RUclips channels.
I still pop in Rock Candy every now and then. Had the cassette in my 70 Ply Duster
Wow, I listened some to Montrose growing up but forgot how rockin they were, Thanks, David
Thanks for the great video, Ronnie wasn't called the tone master for nothing and he's influenced so many guitar players and bands. For me the greatest hard rock debut album ever and his later stuff pushed the boundaries in so many ways and was laced with gems.
Dave I was going to suggest a chord play on Tony Iommi would be real cool in the never say die era so unusual his use of chords! Or Sabotage album? Thank you again!
Thanks for the Montrose! that first album was a big influence on me back in the 70's. I'll be rocking on this tonight!!
And a lot of guitar people assumed that Ronnie played the opening "shifting" riff on Bad Motor Scooter, but there is footage of Sammy playing it on slide in concert.
I remember as a child banging my head to this album with a joint of Acapulco gold in one hand and a GI Joe in the other.🤘💪🎸
Montrose was badass. The "Montrose" lp has to be one of the greatest albums ever recorded. Everything was right on.
Voyager off Gamma 2 is still one of my all time favorite solos. I could listen to that jam over and over. Great vid David!
I think the Warner Brothers Presents album was one of his best, listen to the lead solo on the song Black Train., Just saying.
great lesson - on Razor King I saw clips of Ronnie and he just stays in the second position for the who;e riff
I like watching you play these lessons and seeing you enjoy what you're playing...
Excellent video and observations. Thank you sir.
The "warner brothers presents " Montrose 1975 albums is a must listen !!!
One thing on my mind & good rocking tonight lessons were great. TY David.
How is Late night lessons not the most popular guitar channel on RUclips?
I could feel that rock the nation riff before you played one note.
Thanks for filling in some gaps for me on these classic riffs 👍👍👍
"One thing on my mind" reminds me of early Extreme/Nuno.
Thanks so much for lighting Montrose on that stage ! Great !
Very very clear,,,thanks a lot.......U got a very great tone too......
You can hear a lot of Montrose in Sammy's playing
A Jethro Tull chordplay would be awesome!