Members HeatherAnnePeel Posted March 4, 2012 Members Share Posted March 4, 2012 R.I.P., Ronnie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bsman Posted March 4, 2012 Members Share Posted March 4, 2012 His tunes were a constant part of the background music of my youth (I was in High School in the 70s) and I spent a lot of dazed and confused moments listening to them.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members epi56ebony Posted March 4, 2012 Members Share Posted March 4, 2012 A very sad day. First Davy Jones now Ronnie Montrose I grew up in the Bay Area and the Montrose album was HUGE at my high school. The album came out in 1973 and I was a junior. I never saw them live and I never saw Montrose solo either. I always regretted not seeing Sammy Hagar at the Concord Pavillion when he brought the original Montrose band out for encores. Rock The Nation in the sky, I'll miss Ronnie Montrose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members twotimingpete Posted March 4, 2012 Members Share Posted March 4, 2012 who? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members arrowhen Posted March 4, 2012 Members Share Posted March 4, 2012 who? This link should tell you all you need to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members twotimingpete Posted March 4, 2012 Members Share Posted March 4, 2012 This link should tell you all you need to know. my response was more of a perhaps low-taste way of responding to the "YES, SERIOUSLY, NOT A JOKE" aspect of it that would lean one to believe it's a famous person, when I personally have never heard of him. yes, low taste. I probably shoulda just stayed out of it. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jerry_picker Posted March 4, 2012 Members Share Posted March 4, 2012 This link should tell you all you need to know. Godspeed, Ronnie. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/03/04/national/a124522S61.DTL Here is a very young Ronnie Montrose with Edgar Winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members humbuckerstrat Posted March 4, 2012 Members Share Posted March 4, 2012 The early '70s (before disco) were the glory days of blues-based rock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members leftyaxeman Posted March 4, 2012 Members Share Posted March 4, 2012 RIP Ronnie. One of my favs, another gone too soon. An amazing live player everytime I saw him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jtr654 Posted March 4, 2012 Members Share Posted March 4, 2012 Thats Not Ronnie that was the Guy in the band between Ronnie and Rick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nuke_diver Posted March 5, 2012 Members Share Posted March 5, 2012 Sad new...and he was still rocking to the end RIP Ronnie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dimmypage Posted March 5, 2012 Members Share Posted March 5, 2012 R I P Ronnie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members valued customer Posted March 5, 2012 Members Share Posted March 5, 2012 "Open Fire" rivaled Beck's "Blow by Blow" for best guitar instrumental album of the 70s, in my view. His version of Town Without Pity has always been a favorite. killer. and of course the first Montrose album is...well...it might even be better than sleigh bells...despite its being blues based and all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hardtdc Posted March 5, 2012 Members Share Posted March 5, 2012 Thinking about his passing made me pull out some of his old stuff. My all time favorite Montrose album and I do believe by far his best work. I prefer Bob James vocals over Sammy's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alex_SF Posted March 5, 2012 Members Share Posted March 5, 2012 That's a damn shame. I'd never seen Ronnie live, and had been checking his tour schedule on occasion the last couple of years when I remembered to (once just a month or so after he'd come through a local blues club). Sorry I didn't get the chance. Of course that first Montrose LP was phenomenal, but this slow moody song with a tasty lead break in the middle -- which got some FM airplay when it was new in the early 80s but is not well remembered today -- is maybe my favorite of his. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cKsy4SALjk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted March 5, 2012 Moderators Share Posted March 5, 2012 It gives perspective that some time ago Ronnie opened a legal case to try and get back what he said was his 59 LP from Gary Moore, and this was ongoing, and now they are both gone. Life's too short to worry about {censored} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Doctor49 Posted March 5, 2012 Members Share Posted March 5, 2012 ). RIP Ronnie Most cancers will do that if left long enough. They spread into the lymphatic system and other systems. Then they affect other tissue around the body. The longer it is untreated, the more likely that is and the harder to control. Early detection, guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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