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Montrose was a California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
n hard rock
Hard rock

Hard rock is a sub-genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock and psychedelic rock and is considerably harder than conventional rock music....
 band. The band featured Ronnie Montrose
Ronnie Montrose

File:Ronnie Montrose 4 - Montrose - 1974.jpgRonnie Montrose, is an United States guitarist.Montrose has worked with a variety of musicians over the years, including Herbie Hancock, Van Morrison, The Beau Brummels, Boz Scaggs, Beaver & Krause, Gary Wright, Tony Williams, The Neville Brothers, and Dan Hartman....
 on guitar
Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
 and future solo star and Van Halen member Sammy Hagar
Sammy Hagar

Samuel Roy "Sammy" Hagar , known as "The Red Rocker", is an United States rock music guitarist, singer, composer and solo artist. Hagar was one of the three singers for Van Halen, as well as of the early 1970s rock band Montrose ....
. Rounding out the foursome on their Ted Templeman
Ted Templeman

Ted Templeman is an influential United States record producer....
-produced debut, Montrose
Montrose (album)

Montrose is the debut album by the band Montrose in 1973 which was produced by Ted Templeman. After having done sessions work for various musicians including Van Morrison, Herbie Hancock and Edgar Winter, this was Ronnie Montrose's first record leading his own band....
 (Warner Bros., 1973), were bassist Bill Church
Bill Church

Bill Church started out playing bass with Van Morrison on his Tupelo Honey album. Also part of Morrison's band at this time was guitarist Ronnie Montrose who went on to Edgar Winter Group's smash They Only Come Out at Night....
 and drummer Denny Carmassi
Denny Carmassi

Denny Carmassi is an United States drummer. Carmassi was an original member of Montrose , along with Sammy Hagar, Ronnie Montrose, and Bill Church....
. The original line-up lasted long enough to make just this one album. The first member to leave was Bill Church who was later replaced by Alan Fitzgerald
Alan Fitzgerald

For the Australian writer, satirist and journalist, see: Alan Fitzgerald Alan Fitzgerald, U.S. musician , was a member of several U.S. bands....
 for the band's second and final album with Hagar on vocals, Paper Money
Paper Money

Paper Money is the second album by the band Montrose . It was released in 1974 and was the last album to feature Sammy Hagar as lead vocalist....
 (Warner Bros., 1974).






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Montrose was a California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
n hard rock
Hard rock

Hard rock is a sub-genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock and psychedelic rock and is considerably harder than conventional rock music....
 band. The band featured Ronnie Montrose
Ronnie Montrose

File:Ronnie Montrose 4 - Montrose - 1974.jpgRonnie Montrose, is an United States guitarist.Montrose has worked with a variety of musicians over the years, including Herbie Hancock, Van Morrison, The Beau Brummels, Boz Scaggs, Beaver & Krause, Gary Wright, Tony Williams, The Neville Brothers, and Dan Hartman....
 on guitar
Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
 and future solo star and Van Halen member Sammy Hagar
Sammy Hagar

Samuel Roy "Sammy" Hagar , known as "The Red Rocker", is an United States rock music guitarist, singer, composer and solo artist. Hagar was one of the three singers for Van Halen, as well as of the early 1970s rock band Montrose ....
. Rounding out the foursome on their Ted Templeman
Ted Templeman

Ted Templeman is an influential United States record producer....
-produced debut, Montrose
Montrose (album)

Montrose is the debut album by the band Montrose in 1973 which was produced by Ted Templeman. After having done sessions work for various musicians including Van Morrison, Herbie Hancock and Edgar Winter, this was Ronnie Montrose's first record leading his own band....
 (Warner Bros., 1973), were bassist Bill Church
Bill Church

Bill Church started out playing bass with Van Morrison on his Tupelo Honey album. Also part of Morrison's band at this time was guitarist Ronnie Montrose who went on to Edgar Winter Group's smash They Only Come Out at Night....
 and drummer Denny Carmassi
Denny Carmassi

Denny Carmassi is an United States drummer. Carmassi was an original member of Montrose , along with Sammy Hagar, Ronnie Montrose, and Bill Church....
. The original line-up lasted long enough to make just this one album. The first member to leave was Bill Church who was later replaced by Alan Fitzgerald
Alan Fitzgerald

For the Australian writer, satirist and journalist, see: Alan Fitzgerald Alan Fitzgerald, U.S. musician , was a member of several U.S. bands....
 for the band's second and final album with Hagar on vocals, Paper Money
Paper Money

Paper Money is the second album by the band Montrose . It was released in 1974 and was the last album to feature Sammy Hagar as lead vocalist....
 (Warner Bros., 1974). After departing, Hagar released a succession of solo albums in the mid-to-late 70s and early 80s (often with the remaining members of Montrose) as well as a one-off album with the band HSAS (Hagar Schon Aaronson Shrieve
Hagar Schon Aaronson Shrieve

Hagar Schon Aaronson Shrieve were a band featuring lead vocalist Sammy Hagar, lead guitarist Neal Schon, bassist Kenny Aaronson, drummer Michael Shrieve....
). He joined Van Halen
Van Halen

Van Halen is a hard rock band formed in in 1972. They enjoyed success from the release of their Van Halen in 1978. As of 2007 Van Halen has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide and have had the most number one hits on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart....
 in the mid 1980s. As a band Montrose released a further two albums on Warner Bros., Warner Brothers Presents... Montrose!
Warner Brothers Presents... Montrose!

Warner Brothers Presents... Montrose! is the first Montrose album to feature singer Bob James and keyboardist Jim Alcivar. The album was critically praised and also noted for its movie-poster cover giving the impression that Warner Brothers was presenting a rock band like a big budget Hollywood production....
 (1975) and Jump On It
Jump on It (Montrose album)

Jump on It is the second Montrose album to feature singer Bob James and keyboardist Jim Alcivar, and the first to feature bassist Randy Jo Hobbs....
, both featuring Bob James on vocals, and new member Jim Alcivar on keyboards. On Jump On It Fitzgerald was replaced on bass by Randy Jo Hobbs
Randy Jo Hobbs

Randy Jo Hobbs was an American musician born in Winchester, Indiana. Hobbs played bass for The McCoys during the 1965-1969 period and in the bands of the brothers Edgar Winter and Johnny Winter during 1970-1976....
.

Prior to forming the band Ronnie Montrose had been a successful session musician (playing, along with Bill Church on Van Morrison's 1971 Tupelo Honey album, also produced by Ted Templeman
Ted Templeman

Ted Templeman is an influential United States record producer....
, and on albums by Beaver & Krause
Beaver & Krause

Beaver & Krause were a musical duo made up of Paul Beaver and Bernie Krause. Their 1966 album The Nonesuch Guide to Electronic Music was a pioneering work in the electronic music genre....
 and Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is a jazz pianist and composer. He embraces elements of rock and roll and soul music while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz....
). He was also a member of the Edgar Winter Group
Edgar Winter Group

The Edgar Winter Group is a 1970s rock band founded by Edgar Winter. Notable former members include guitarists Ronnie Montrose and Rick Derringer, and pop singer Dan Hartman ....
, playing on such hit singles as 'Free Ride', which was from the best-selling album 'They Only Come Out at Night' (1972). The guitarist later formed another band in the hard rock mould in the early 1980s, named Gamma
Gamma (band)

Gamma was a band formed by guitarist Ronnie Montrose and singer Davey Pattison in San Francisco in 1979. They released four albums: Gamma 1 in 1979, Gamma 2 in 1980, Gamma 3 in 1982 and Gamma 4 in 2005....
, who featured Denny Carmassi, of the original Montrose band and late of Sammy Hagar's band, Jim Alcivar from Montrose, and a Scottish singer named Davey Pattison
Davey Pattison

File:DavePattisonJan08.jpgDavey Pattison is a San Francisco Bay Area based rock music singing. Pattison recorded his first music in 1969, and his career took off after arrival in the United States on invitation from Bill Graham , in 1979, to front the band Gamma , formed by Bay Area guitarist Ronnie Montrose....
.

In its original incarnation, Gamma released several albums on Elektra records ('Gamma 1', 'Gamma 2', and 'Gamma 3') before splitting.

The original Montrose line-up reunited on Sammy Hagar's Marching to Mars (1997) performing "Leaving the Warmth of the Womb" and on stage as an encore at a few Sammy concerts in 2003 and 2005.

Famous songs

Among their most famous songs is "Rock Candy
Rock candy

File:Brauner Kandiszucker.jpgFile:Kandiszucker_wei?.jpgRock candy is a type of confectionery composed of relatively large sugar crystals.Homemade rock candy is commonly formed by allowing a Supersaturation solution of sugar and water to crystallize onto a string or some other surface suitable for crystal nucleation....
", which in the '70s was a minor hit. Others include:
  • "I Got the Fire
    I Got the Fire

    "I Got the Fire" is a song from the Montrose album Paper Money in 1974. While many consider the album to be an inferior follow up to their debut the previous year, this song stands out as a great song with a riff reminiscent of Led Zeppelin's Black Dog ....
    "
  • "Bad Motor Scooter
    Bad Motor Scooter

    "Bad Motor Scooter" was the second track from the album Montrose by the Montrose . It, along with "Rock Candy" was arguably the best known song by the band, Montrose , with lyrics penned by frontman Sammy Hagar....
    "
  • "Make It Last"
  • "Rock the Nation"
  • "Space Station Number 5"


Albums

  • Montrose
    Montrose (album)

    Montrose is the debut album by the band Montrose in 1973 which was produced by Ted Templeman. After having done sessions work for various musicians including Van Morrison, Herbie Hancock and Edgar Winter, this was Ronnie Montrose's first record leading his own band....
     (1973) #133 US
  • Paper Money
    Paper Money

    Paper Money is the second album by the band Montrose . It was released in 1974 and was the last album to feature Sammy Hagar as lead vocalist....
     (1974) #65 US
  • Warner Brothers Presents... Montrose!
    Warner Brothers Presents... Montrose!

    Warner Brothers Presents... Montrose! is the first Montrose album to feature singer Bob James and keyboardist Jim Alcivar. The album was critically praised and also noted for its movie-poster cover giving the impression that Warner Brothers was presenting a rock band like a big budget Hollywood production....
     (1975) #79 US
  • Jump On It
    Jump on It (Montrose album)

    Jump on It is the second Montrose album to feature singer Bob James and keyboardist Jim Alcivar, and the first to feature bassist Randy Jo Hobbs....
     (1976) #118 US
  • Mean
    Mean (Montrose album)

    Mean is a 1987 album by the band Montrose .Singer Johnny Edwards and drummer James Kottak had previously played together in the second line-up of the band Buster Brown, which played on the second Buster Brown album Sign Of Victory , and later played together in the first line-up of the band Wild Horses ....
     (1987)


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