Montrose was a Californian hard rock/heavy metal band. The band originally featured Ronnie Montrose on guitar and future solo artist and former Van Halen member Sammy Hagar.
Rounding out the foursome on their Ted Templeman-produced debut, Montrose (Warner Bros., 1973), were bassist Bill Church and drummer Denny Carmassi. The original line-up lasted long enough to make just this one album. The first member to leave was Bill Church who was later re...
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Montrose was a Californian hard rock/heavy metal band. The band originally featured Ronnie Montrose on guitar and future solo artist and former Van Halen member Sammy Hagar.
Rounding out the foursome on their Ted Templeman-produced debut, Montrose (Warner Bros., 1973), were bassist Bill Church and drummer Denny Carmassi. The original line-up lasted long enough to make just this one album. The first member to leave was Bill Church who was later replaced by Alan Fitzgerald for the band's second and final album with Hagar on vocals, Paper Money (Warner Bros., 1974). After departing, Hagar released a succession of solo albums in the mid-to-late 70s and early 80s (often with the remaining members of Montrose) as well as a one-off album with the band HSAS (Hagar Schon Aaronson Shrieve). He joined Van Halen in the mid 1980s. As a band, Montrose released a further two albums on Warner Bros., Warner Brothers Presents... Montrose! (1975) and Jump On It, both featuring Bob James on vocals, and...
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