Montrose I Got The Fire: Complete Recordings 1973-76 CD

Six CD set. Comprehensive collection of early 70s Classic Rock outfit Montrose. Featuring their four Warner Brothers' albums plus bonus tracks, demos and two live radio sessions. The original four-piece Montrose formed in California in 1973 around lead guitarist Ronnie Montrose and singer Sammy Hagar, in a line-up completed by Bill Church on bass and Denny Carmassi on drums. In a relatively short but highly productive period of time Montrose released a handful of groundbreaking and highly influential albums, inspiring everybody from Van Halen to Iron Maiden. Includes the albums Ontro Signing to Warner Brothers Records, the self-titled 'Montrose' was a hard rock master class. The second CD in this set kicks off with six demo tracks, as well as their debut performance, recorded for KSAN radio at the Record Plant in Sausalito, California on 21st April 1973. Their second album, 1974's 'Paper Money', was again produced by Ted Templeman. This time Alan Fitzgerald had replaced Bill Church on bass. 'Paper Money' capitalized on their hard rocking debut; the bonus tracks are stereo and mono single edits of the title track, 'Paper Money', plus a mono edit for 'Connection'. The fourth CD finds Montrose back at the Record Plant recording another session for KSAN radio while promoting the 'Paper Money' album. As well as classics 'Rock Candy' and 'Bad Motor Scooter', the band dusts off some rock 'n' roll classics with 'Roll Over Beethoven' and 'Trouble'. Sammy Hagar and Montrose parted ways in early 1975, when the singer was replaced by Bob James. The other major change for third album 'Warner Bros. Presents Montrose!' was Ronnie Montrose taking over production duties. A year later 'Jump On It', produced by Jack Douglas (Aerosmith, John Lennon, Cheap Trick) was Montrose (the band's) fourth and final album (until 'Mean' in 1987). The bonus tracks are mono and stereo single edits for 'Music Man' and 'Let's Go'.

1. Rock the Nation 2. Bad Motor Scooter 3. Space Station #5 4. I Don't Want It 5. Good Rockin' Tonight 6. Rock Candy 7. One Thing on My Mind 8. Make It Last 9. Rock the Nation (Mono) 10. Rock the Nation (Stereo) 11. Space Station #5 (Mono Edit) 12. Space Station #5 (Stereo Edit) 13. One Thing on My Mind (Demo) 14. Shoot Us Down (Demo) 15. Rock Candy (Demo) 16. Good Rockin' Tonight (Demo) 17. I Don't Want It (Demo) 18. Make It Last (Demo) 19. Intro 20. Good Rockin' Tonight 21. Rock Candy 22. Bad Motor Scooter 23. Shoot Us Down 24. One Thing on My Mind 25. Rock the Nation 26. Make It Last 27. You're Out of Time 28. Roll Over Beethoven 29. I Don't Want It 30. Underground 31. Connection 32. The Dreamer 33. Starliner 34. I Got the Fire 35. Spaceage Sacrifice 36. We're Going Home 37. Paper Money 38. Paper Money (Stereo Edit) 39. Paper Money (Mono Edit) 40. Connection (Mono Edit) 41. Intro 42. I Got the Fire 43. Rock Candy 44. Bad Motor Scooter 45. Spaceage Sacrifice 46. One and a Half 47. Roll Over Beethoven 48. Trouble 49. Space Station #5 50. Matriarch 51. All I Need 52. Twenty Flight Rock 53. Whaler 54. Dancin' Feet 55. O Lucky Man 56. One and a Half 57. Clown Woman 58. Black Train 59. Matriarch (Mono Edit) 60. Let's Go 61. What Are You Waiting For? 62. Tuft-Sedge 63. Music Man 64. Jump on It 65. Rich Man 66. Crazy for You 67. Merry Go-Round 68. Music Man (Stereo Edit) 69. Music Man (Mono Edit) 70. Let's Go (Stereo Edit) 71. Let's Go (Mono Edit)