Paper Money (Deluxe Edition) Montrose

• 1 Underground (Remastered) 03:37
• 2 Connection (Remastered) 05:44
• 3 The Dreamer (Remastered) 04:07
• 4 Starliner (Remastered) 03:39
• 5 I Got The Fire (Remastered) 03:09
• 6 Spaceage Sacrifice (Remastered) 04:58
• 7 We're Going Home (Remastered) 04:54
• 8 Paper Money (Remastered) 05:03
• 9 Intro (Live KSAN Radio Session, Record Plant, Sausalito, CA, USA 12/26/74) 00:29
• 10 I Got The Fire (Live KSAN Radio Session, Record Plant, Sausalito, CA, USA 12/26/74) 03:13
• 11 Rock Candy (Live KSAN Radio Session, Record Plant, Sausalito, CA, USA 12/26/74) 05:59
• 12 Bad Motor Scooter (Live KSAN Radio Session, Record Plant, Sausalito, CA, USA 12/26/74) 04:44
• 13 Spaceage Sacrifice (Live KSAN Radio Session, Record Plant, Sausalito, CA, USA 12/26/74) 06:57
• 14 One And A Half (Live KSAN Radio Session, Record Plant, Sausalito, CA, USA 12/26/74) 04:30
• 15 Roll Over Beethoven (Live KSAN Radio Session, Record Plant, Sausalito, CA USA 12/26/74) 03:38
• 16 Trouble (Live KSAN Radio Session, Record Plant, Sausalito, CA USA 12/26/74) 04:56
• 17 Space Station #5 (Live KSAN Radio Session, Record Plant, Sausalito, CA USA 12/26/74) 11:39
• Total Runtime 01:21:16

Info zu Paper Money (Deluxe Edition)

Ronnie Montrose verdingte sich zunächst als Session-Musiker bei Van Morrison und der Edgar Winter Group. Mit Bill Church (Bass), Denny Carmassi (Schlagzeug) und Sammy Hagar (Gesang) gründete er Montrose. Das erste, selbstbetitelte Album wurde über 10 Jahre nach Erscheinen in den USA mit Platin ausgezeichnet. Es ist bis heute der Klassiker der Band und weist mit ›Space Station No. 5‹ einen echten Rock-Klassiker auf. Bill Church stieg dann aus der Band aus und wurde durch Alan Fitzgerald ersetzt. Der Nachfolger ›Paper Money‹ erschien 1974. Wegen Spannungen mit Ronnie Montrose verließ Hagar kurz darauf die Band und startete eine erfolgreiche Solokarriere. Für ihn kam Bob James in die Band und sang das nächste Album ›Warner Bros. Presents... Montrose!‹ (1975) ein. Es erreichte ebenfalls die US-Charts. Nach dem Album stieg Alan Fitzgerald aus, er tauchte später bei der Band Night Ranger auf. Mit Randy Jo Hobbs (Bass) und Jin Alcivar (Keyboards) als Ersatz entstand 1976 das Album ›Jump on It‹.

Sammy Hagar, lead vocals
Ronnie Montrose, guitar, lead vocals (on "We're Going Home“)
Alan Fitzgerald, bass
Denny Carmassi, drums
Mark Jordan, piano (on "Connection“)
Nick DeCaro, mellotron (on "We're Going Home"

Produced by Ted Templeman, Ronnie Montrose

Digitally remastered

Ronnie Montrose
Music legends aren’t born easily. It has to be just the right band, with just the right sound, coming along at just the right time. That band was Montrose, and that sound was heavy, melodic, no-holds-barred rock and roll.

The critics called them “a scorching outfit…” “incredibly impressive…” “part [Jeff] Beck, part Led Zeppelin, and three-fourths nitroglycerin…” “sheer rock and roll ecstasy.”

The original Montrose remains the stuff of rock and roll legend, the ultimate stateside power trio with vocals. The songs are a virtual greatest hits of American hard rock: “Rock the Nation,” “Bad Motor Scooter,” “Space Station #5,” “I Got the Fire,” “Jump On It,” and the immortal “Rock Candy.” The fans have been begging for more ever since.

But Ronnie Montrose has always followed his heart. Ever anxious to take his music to the next level, in 1979 he founded the trailblazing band Gamma, a group whose trio of ahead-of-their-time albums were an explosion of guitar and synthesizer pyrotechnics anchored by a bluesy edge.

Between and beyond these band forays, Montrose the player devoted himself to exploring instrumental guitar music on landmark albums like Open Fire and The Speed of Sound. Fans periodically clamored for another taste of the original Montrose power trio format, but he wouldn’t revisit Montrose – that huge, heavy sound; those rich, pealing riffs -- until the time came when he could do it with total conviction.

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