Montrose - Stand (1987) [audio ride along] I was really thinking this one was Gamma... 👉😛💨

Montrose "Stand" Montrose's career took a major turn in 1972 when he joined the Edgar Winter Group. He played on the album They Only Come Out at Night, released on Epic Records, and the tour that followed. "Playing with Edgar was an extreme learning experience because he truly lives and breathes music," Montrose told Jon Sievert in Guitar Player. Montrose's work with Edgar Winter gave him the freedom to express himself both musically and on stage. Soon, Montrose had gained some notoriety for being a wild rock guitarist. In the summer of 1973, he decided it was time for him to move on to his own career as a bandleader and left Edgar Winter. He recruited a young, unknown singer named Sammy Hagar, along with drummer Denny Carmassi and bassist Bill Church. The foursome formed the band Montrose and signed a record deal with Warner Bros. Before the end of the year, the band released Montrose, which would become Ronnie Montrose's most successful record. The album included long-lasting tracks, such as "Rock Candy" and "Bad Motor Scooter," which would still receive sporadic airplay on radio stations decades later. (In 1974, Montrose released Paper Money, which boosted the band's popularity even higher. Barry Taylor wrote in Billboard, "As a high-energy quartet, Montrose succeeded where others have failed due to the accessibility of their material and their razor-sharp arrangements.") A few months after their second release, Ronnie Montrose fired singer Sammy Hagar, saying he was "too limited." lol Hagar went on to his own successful solo career, and sang with the rock band... Van Halen for 11 years. "We have a long-standing joke now, because I did fire him from the Montrose band for some of the same reasons that I left the Edgar Winter Group," Montrose told John "Wedge" Wardlaw. "He was on to his own thing." Hagar👉Ronnie took me as a front man, as a recording artist and as a touring artist, and for that I will always be grateful. The first Montrose album was the first album I ever recorded and it still stands as one of the best recordings I have ever been a part of. I wrote songs with him, but it was his trip. He’s the guy that got me to sing with him. I had no experience whatsoever; I just wrote the first four songs in my life, which were “Bad Motor Scooter,” “Make It Last,” “One Thing on My Mind,” and “I Don’t Want It,” played them for Ronnie upon first meeting, shook my hand, and said, “Let’s start a band.” I went from zero to a hundred. (million)Rusty I saw him (Ronnie when he was in Edgar Winter) at Winterland with the Edgar Winter Group, [Montrose was touring in support of] They Only Come Out at Night, with “Free Ride” and “Frankenstein.” I didn’t know who he was; I didn’t know anything about him. I had a soul band – we were playing Tower of Power and James Brown – and we sat there and watched Edgar Winter. I told my guitar player, “I want you to be like that” – like Ronnie Montrose. And he’s going, “I don’t want to play that kind of music,” and I’m going, “Well, I do.” We got into it. It broke my band up, seeing Ronnie for the first time. I said, “I’m going to be like that guy. I’m going to play guitar like that and I’m going to sing like…the way I sing.” I was talking to a guy a couple of days after the show, and he said, “That’s Ronnie Montrose, and that was his last show. He lives over in Sausalito.” I lived in San Francisco, and I said, “Do you have his address?” because I didn’t even have a phone. He gave it to me, and I went and knocked on his door, dressed like David Bowie – big old high heel platform shoes, satin pants, probably had make-up on, with a Les Paul and a notebook pad with all kinds of lyrics in it. I said, “I’m Sammy Hagar. I heard you’re looking for a singer.” He said, “Come on in. You got any songs?” I played him my four songs, we shook hands, and he said, “Let’s start a band. Do you know any drummers? I’ve got a bass player, Bill Church.” I had a drummer, Denny Carmassi – wasn’t in my band, but he was my favorite drummer around town. Within a month we were signed to Warner Bros. Records, Ted Templeman producing, and the first Montrose album was born a month after that. It was the fastest thing I’ve ever done in my life. ~Sammy Hagar Made more money selling his Tequila brand and started selling rum. More money than all the music, tours, everything so now in 2023 he's worth about 150 million now. Beautiful wife with his latest band, The Circle...🤙🏼🎶

Added 12 Oct 2026