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Ronnie Montrose, (born November 29, 1947 in Denver, Colorado
Denver, Colorado

Denver is the Capital and the Colorado municipalities of the state of Colorado, in the United States. Denver is a consolidated city-county located in the South Platte River on the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains....
) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 guitarist.

Montrose has worked with a variety of musicians over the years, including 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....
, Van Morrison
Van Morrison

George Ivan Morrison Order of the British Empire is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist, who has been a professional musician since the late 1950s....
, The Beau Brummels
The Beau Brummels

The Beau Brummels were a successful 1960s United States rock music band, formed in San Francisco in 1963. Their sound was influenced by The Beatles and other British Invasion bands, as well as by such American groups as the Kingston Trio and the Everly Brothers....
, Boz Scaggs
Boz Scaggs

Boz Scaggs is an United States singer, songwriter and guitarist. He gained fame in the 1970s with several Top 20 Hits in the United States along with the #2 album Silk Degrees....
, 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....
, Gary Wright
Gary Wright

Gary Wright is an United States musician, most famous for his song, "Dream Weaver " and the piano player on one of the biggest selling and most famous ballads of all time, Harry Nilsson's version of "Without You"....
, Tony Williams
Tony Williams

Anthony Tillmon "Tony" Williams was an United States Jazz drumming.Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential jazz drummers to come to prominence in the 1960s, Williams first gained fame in the band of trumpeter Miles Davis, and was a pioneer of jazz fusion....
, The Neville Brothers
The Neville Brothers

The Neville Brothers, an R&B, Soul music and Jazz group, was formed in 1976 in New Orleans, LA....
, and Dan Hartman
Dan Hartman

Daniel Earl "Dan" Hartman was an United States singer, songwriter and record producer best known for the songs "I Can Dream About You" and "Instant Replay"....
. He was in the Edgar Winter Group
Edgar Winter

Edgar Holland Winter is an American musician who had significant success in the 1970s and 1980s. Edgar is a multi-instrumentalist, performing on the keyboards, and as a vocalist, saxophonist and percussionist, well-versed in jazz, blues and rock music....
 before forming his own band, Montrose
Montrose (band)

Montrose was a Californian hard rock band. The band featured Ronnie Montrose on guitar and future solo star and Van Halen member Sammy Hagar. Rounding out the foursome on their Ted Templeman-produced debut, Montrose , were bassist Bill Church and drummer Denny Carmassi....
 in 1973, featuring 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 ....
 on vocals. That incarnation of the band put out two albums on Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an United States record label that operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. It is also affectionately known as "Warners" and 'the Bunny', based on the Bugs Bunny cartoons released by Warner Bros....
, 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....
 and 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....
, before Hagar left to pursue a solo career. Although the liner notes for the CD edition of "Paper Money" said that Ronnie was offered to play lead guitar for Mott the Hoople
Mott the Hoople

Mott the Hoople were a 1970s England rock music musical ensemble with strong Rhythm and blues roots and dominant in the glam rock era of the early to mid 1970s....
 when he left the Edgar Winter Group, Ronnie says that it never happened and was just a rumor.






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Ronnie Montrose, (born November 29, 1947 in Denver, Colorado
Denver, Colorado

Denver is the Capital and the Colorado municipalities of the state of Colorado, in the United States. Denver is a consolidated city-county located in the South Platte River on the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains....
) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 guitarist.

Montrose has worked with a variety of musicians over the years, including 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....
, Van Morrison
Van Morrison

George Ivan Morrison Order of the British Empire is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist, who has been a professional musician since the late 1950s....
, The Beau Brummels
The Beau Brummels

The Beau Brummels were a successful 1960s United States rock music band, formed in San Francisco in 1963. Their sound was influenced by The Beatles and other British Invasion bands, as well as by such American groups as the Kingston Trio and the Everly Brothers....
, Boz Scaggs
Boz Scaggs

Boz Scaggs is an United States singer, songwriter and guitarist. He gained fame in the 1970s with several Top 20 Hits in the United States along with the #2 album Silk Degrees....
, 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....
, Gary Wright
Gary Wright

Gary Wright is an United States musician, most famous for his song, "Dream Weaver " and the piano player on one of the biggest selling and most famous ballads of all time, Harry Nilsson's version of "Without You"....
, Tony Williams
Tony Williams

Anthony Tillmon "Tony" Williams was an United States Jazz drumming.Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential jazz drummers to come to prominence in the 1960s, Williams first gained fame in the band of trumpeter Miles Davis, and was a pioneer of jazz fusion....
, The Neville Brothers
The Neville Brothers

The Neville Brothers, an R&B, Soul music and Jazz group, was formed in 1976 in New Orleans, LA....
, and Dan Hartman
Dan Hartman

Daniel Earl "Dan" Hartman was an United States singer, songwriter and record producer best known for the songs "I Can Dream About You" and "Instant Replay"....
. He was in the Edgar Winter Group
Edgar Winter

Edgar Holland Winter is an American musician who had significant success in the 1970s and 1980s. Edgar is a multi-instrumentalist, performing on the keyboards, and as a vocalist, saxophonist and percussionist, well-versed in jazz, blues and rock music....
 before forming his own band, Montrose
Montrose (band)

Montrose was a Californian hard rock band. The band featured Ronnie Montrose on guitar and future solo star and Van Halen member Sammy Hagar. Rounding out the foursome on their Ted Templeman-produced debut, Montrose , were bassist Bill Church and drummer Denny Carmassi....
 in 1973, featuring 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 ....
 on vocals. That incarnation of the band put out two albums on Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an United States record label that operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. It is also affectionately known as "Warners" and 'the Bunny', based on the Bugs Bunny cartoons released by Warner Bros....
, 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....
 and 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....
, before Hagar left to pursue a solo career. Although the liner notes for the CD edition of "Paper Money" said that Ronnie was offered to play lead guitar for Mott the Hoople
Mott the Hoople

Mott the Hoople were a 1970s England rock music musical ensemble with strong Rhythm and blues roots and dominant in the glam rock era of the early to mid 1970s....
 when he left the Edgar Winter Group, Ronnie says that it never happened and was just a rumor. He also added his guitar work to Gary Wright
Gary Wright

Gary Wright is an United States musician, most famous for his song, "Dream Weaver " and the piano player on one of the biggest selling and most famous ballads of all time, Harry Nilsson's version of "Without You"....
's song, "Power of Love" off the 1975 album, The Dream Weaver
The Dream Weaver

The Dream Weaver is a hit solo album by one-time Spooky Tooth keyboard player Gary Wright released in June 1975.The album was said by Wright to be the first-ever all-synthesiser/keyboard album - it features Wright on vocals and keyboards and Jim Keltner and Andy Newmark on drums....
.

The guitar virtuoso continued to put out albums as "Montrose" (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....
 and Jump on It) or "Ronnie Montrose" (Open Fire) until he formed 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....
 in 1979, initially putting out three albums using that moniker with 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....
 singing.

He continued to record through the 1980s and 1990s, and Gamma put out a fourth album in 2000.

A fan favorite from Montrose's solo back catalogue is his 1988 all-instrumental album The Speed of Sound
The Speed of Sound (album)

The Speed of Sound is a 1988 all instrumental album by Ronnie Montrose. It is considered to be a fan favorite, as well as his favorite. The track titles are words and phrases that reference aviation themes....
.

Ronnie Montrose appeared on Sammy Hagar's Marching To Mars along with original Montrose members 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 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....
 on the song "Leaving The Warmth Of The Womb." The original Montrose lineup also reformed to play as a special guest at several Sammy Hagar concerts in summer 2004 and 2005. Ronnie Montrose has also performed regularly from 2002 to present with a Montrose lineup featuring Keith St. John on lead vocals and a rotating cast of veteran hard rock players on bass and drums.

Discography

  • 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....
     - Mwandishi
    Mwandishi

    Mwandishi is the eleventh album by jazz piano Herbie Hancock, released in 1970. It is one of Hancock's first departures from the traditional idioms of jazz as well as the onset of a new, creative and original style which produced an appeal to a wider audience, before his 1973 album, Head Hunters....
     (1971) (1 song "Ostinato (Suite For Angela)" )
  • 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....
     - Gandharva (1971) (1 song "Saga Of The Blue Beaver")
  • Van Morrison
    Van Morrison

    George Ivan Morrison Order of the British Empire is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist, who has been a professional musician since the late 1950s....
     - Tupelo Honey
    Tupelo Honey

    Tupelo Honey is an album by Northern Ireland singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1971 . The album yielded two hit singles, the hymn-like Tupelo Honey , as well as the rhythm and blues-flavored "Wild Night"....
     (1971) (band member)
  • Van Morrison - Saint Dominic's Preview
    Saint Dominic's Preview

    Saint Dominic's Preview is an album by Northern Ireland singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1972 . The diversity of the material on the album highlighted the skill with which Morrison could fuse Celtic folk, R&B, blues, jazz and the singer-songwriter genre....
     (1972) (1 song "Listen to the Lion")
  • Sawbuck - Sawbuck (1972) (two songs "Believe" and "Lovin' Man")
  • 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 ....
     - They Only Come Out at Night
    They Only Come Out at Night

    They Only Come Out at Night is the fourth studio album by the Edgar Winter Group. It went to No. 3 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart, eventually sold two million copies, and features two of the band's biggest hits, "Frankenstein " and "Free Ride " ....
     (1972) (as a full-band Member)
  • Montrose - 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) (as band leader)
  • Montrose - 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)
  • Montrose - 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)
  • Montrose - 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)
  • Ronnie Montrose - Open Fire (1978) (as a solo artist, includes instrumental version of Town Without Pity
    Town Without Pity

    Town Without Pity is a 1961 in film American and West German co-produced film starring Kirk Douglas as Major Steve Garrett.It is also the name of a song from that movie, performed by Gene Pitney and covered by many other musicians, including Ronnie Montrose....
    )
  • 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....
     - Gamma 1
    Gamma 1

    Gamma 1, released 1979, was Gamma debut album.It reached #131 on the Billboard Album charts, totalling 17 weeks on the survey. "I'm Alive" reached #60 on Billboard's Singles charts....
     (1979) (as band leader)
  • Gamma - Gamma 2
    Gamma 2

    On Gamma second disc, Ronnie Montrose keeps his streak of not having the same personnel on two albums in a row, changing the line-up once again. Davey Pattison , Jim Alcivar and Ronnie Montrose remain from Gamma 1....
     (1980)
  • Gamma - Gamma 3
    Gamma 3

    Gamma third album....
     (1982)
  • Ronnie Montrose - Territory (1986) (as a solo artist)
  • Montrose - 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) ( a return to the "Montrose" band concept)
  • Ronnie Montrose - The Speed Of Sound
    The Speed of Sound (album)

    The Speed of Sound is a 1988 all instrumental album by Ronnie Montrose. It is considered to be a fan favorite, as well as his favorite. The track titles are words and phrases that reference aviation themes....
     (1988)
  • Ronnie Montrose - The Diva Station (1990)
  • Ronnie Montrose - Mutatis Mutandis (1991)
  • Ronnie Montrose - Music From Here (1994)
  • Anti-m
    Anti-m

    Anti-M is a Santa Barbara, California based mostly electronic rock band. While the band has been releasing albums since 1992 their main claim to fame is having a rather famous guest guitarist....
     - Positively Negative (1995) (Plays on "Security", "Television", "Lonely" and "Iniki")
  • Ronnie Montrose - Mr. Bones (1996)
  • Ronnie Montrose - Roll Over And Play Live (1999)
  • Ronnie Montrose - Bearings (1999)
  • Gamma - Gamma 4
    Gamma 4(album)

    Gamma 's fourth disc....
     (2000)
  • Montrose - The Very Best of (2000)
  • Various Artists - The Songs Of Pink Floyd (2002) (Plays on "Another Brick in the Wall P2")


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