Tunes like Every Step of the Way?

Carole King lived on Lakeside Avenue in Verona NJ, the same town I grew up in. Lakeside Avenue is one mile long, on one side of the street is Verona Park, opposite are post WW II row houses. When you cross over the Verona border into West Orange, Lakeside Ave changes its name to Pleasant Valley Way and becomes a corridor of small businesses and shops. Carole King wrote about life along the mile stretch of houses, the people, and the park long Lakeside Avenue and called the song, Pleasant Valley Sunday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9IzVbuGHXY&feature=fvsr

I liked that one too. I loved the Monkees. I was humming a Monkees tune the other day and sudenly realized I was holding a bottle of "whiteout". I had to smile.

Ronnie Montrose died yesterday,3/3/2012 and he's on his Bad Motor Scooter heading for Space Station # 5 where there'll be some Good Rockin' Tonight

Ouch. The album Montrose is a desert island disc for me, my all time favorite guitar god album.

Lighter held high

I still remember well seeing Montrose in the mid 70's. The Montrose album still gets fairly regular play at my house.
RIP, Ronnie.

This hits hard - Ronnie was one of the great hard rock guitarists. I saw the original Montrose band several times in the 70s, including their first-ever gig at Winterland in San Francisco. Janet and I were lucky enough to see him just a few years back - he was still a top-flight player.

The debut Montrose album will get a spin today in Ronnie's memory.

RIP



From Ronnie's Wikipedia page. I'd heard this before and was told Buffin and Overend nixed the invite because, "we're a British band." Anyone know more?

...that must have been good. Although RM went on to other good things, as did Sammy Hagar, they never came close to the sound and power of that first album.

RIP Ronnie Montrose

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The first Montrose album is one of Rocks classics and will ramain so for many a year.
RIP Ronnie

The news about Montrose hits me pretty hard, too. One of the first "big" bands I ever heard was the Edgar Winter Group with Montrose on guitar. I was an immediate fan and scooped up the first Montrose album when it first came out. It set the bar for hard rock guitar at a pretty high level. He was certainly one of the best 70s-era guitarists. RIP.

I remember seeing them on their first 2 appearances in Boston. powerful live band and they deserved a lot more popularity than they received. Watch, now there will be a spike in their album sales.

Texas blues guitar legend Bugs Henderson died Thursday at age 68 following a battle with cancer. Bugs was a a regular at the Cains Ballroom in Tulsa and I saw his band, the Shuffle Kings, there numerous times. Always a great live show. His son, Buddy, played drums with him for a few years in the 90s. RIP, Bugs.

Oh now, this I would like to hear more about. According to Justin's fine Just A Buzz website, MTH played at least four U.S. shows on the same bill as Edgar Winter in the 1971-72 period. Not sure if Ronnie M. was in the band for all of those concerts, but he certainly must have been present at least for the December 1972 show in Scranton. In April 1974, Montrose opened for MTH in Fresno. So Ronnie shared a stage at least twice with MTH and may have traveled with them for a few days. It stands to reason that they jammed a bit. Maybe there's something to the rumor.

Also bought that first Montrose album - was, and still is, a classic ! Question for me now is, why would I buy this, as I knew nothing about the band ?

Well, I distinctly remember back then, much speculation in the UK music press (was an avid reader of Sounds and NME) about who would be the replacement when Mick Ralphs left Mott. If memory serves correct (40 years ago - jeez!) the front runners were quoted as being Tommy Bolin, Joe Walsh and Ronnie Montrose ! There might have been some others, but these are the ones I remember. Of course this could have been pure guess-work by said papers, but they did have some decent journos at that time (Nick Kent and John Peel, to name but two!) and they say there's no smoke without fire - anyhoo, we got Luther !!! Perhaps the Horses Mouth could clarify.

Ronnie Montrose, RIP.

Shug.

Doobie Brothers drummer Michael Hossack.

http://music.yahoo.com/news/doobie-brot ... 57385.html