Ronnie Montrose Passed Away At 64

FeelTheDarkness · Post by **FeelTheDarkness** » Sun Mar 04, 2012 2:36 pm

http://legacy.roadrunnerrecords.com/bla ... mID=170627

Great guitarist and great musician

RIP Ronnie

onegunguitar · Post by **onegunguitar** » Sun Mar 04, 2012 3:03 pm

Wow....R.I.P. Ronnie

witchhunt · Post by **witchhunt** » Sun Mar 04, 2012 3:30 pm

The album "Montrose" is still one of my favorites to this day.

lonewolf · Post by **lonewolf** » Sun Mar 04, 2012 3:39 pm

Bummer, one of my all time favs. RIP Ronnie.

whitedevilone · Post by **whitedevilone** » Sun Mar 04, 2012 5:01 pm

Damn.RIP.

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Sun Mar 04, 2012 5:25 pm

Wow, that is a shocker. They were a great band. I wonder how Sammy Hagar is taking it? RIP

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Sun Mar 04, 2012 6:33 pm

That is very sad. His work on The Edgar Winter Group first album and the first Montrose album are two of my all time favorite records. What a great guitarist no matter what he did. R.I.P.

Ronnie led a number of his own bands including Montrose and Gamma as well as solo albums and performing with a variety of musicians, including Sammy Hagar, Herbie Hancock, Van Morrison, The Beau Brummels, Boz Scaggs, Beaver & Krause, Gary Wright, Tony Williams, The Neville Brothers, Dan Hartman, Edgar Winter and Johnny Winter just to name a few.

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Sun Mar 04, 2012 7:50 pm

RIP Ronnie. Thanks for the music.

m2helmet · Post by **m2helmet** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:18 pm

I know that there was a lawsuit filed by him against Gary Moore to recover his, I believe, '59 Les Paul. It was stolen at a gig and eventually wound up in Gary's collection. Does anyone know if he ever got it back? How ironicly sad that both of these guitar icons should pass about a year apart. Like undercoverjoe stated, 'Thanks for the music'....to both Ronnie and Gary... you both are and will be missed.

m2helmet · Post by **m2helmet** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:19 pm

Here's a link to a true classic...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk52nGxF-jc

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 4:01 pm

Did you know Ronnie Montrose played all those cool guitar parts on Wild Night by Van Morrison?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foplyX_n ... e=youtu.be

m2helmet · Post by **m2helmet** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 5:51 pm

f.sciarrillo wrote:Wow, that is a shocker. They were a great band. I wonder how Sammy Hagar is taking it? RIP

Here's Sammy's post about Ronnie's passing:

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/sammy-ha ... ses-death/

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:50 pm

Loved that older stuff with Sammy.

daveb · Post by **daveb** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 2:50 pm

Ronnie is one of my all time favorites. I got into Gamma before I knew about Montrose. Loved both of those bands. I played GK guitar amps because Ronnie did. Always knocked me out how fierce he was on stage in contrast to how mellow and thoughful he was in normal conversation. Thank you, Ronnie for all of the great music and that MONSTER TONE!

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 7:14 pm

m2helmet wrote:
f.sciarrillo wrote:Wow, that is a shocker. They were a great band. I wonder how Sammy Hagar is taking it? RIP
Here's Sammy's post about Ronnie's passing:

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/sammy-ha ... ses-death/

Thanks for that. Here is Sammy Hagar remembering Ronnie.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... e-20120306