Montrose - I Got the Fire

[edwinm1]

damn the cover that iron maiden did back in the 80s with di anno is the most fucking bad ass tribute thats around, long live montrose and maiden

[ColtraneTaylor]

Roth eat your heart out, he was never half as good. But the Iron Maiden versions with Di'anno are even better.

[midiwriter52]

God....I was 17. Course they were much younger too. Heheheh.

[rickey011]

Sammy Hagar was so much cooler here than he was in the 80's...

[StringBitch1]

the doggies doo dahs!!!!!! just stands the test of time doesn't it?????

[spaslim1954]

You obviously don't have an ear for music. Montrose was unique in getting his own sounds out of the guitar. It was leading edge stuff at the time. I saw his debut and he stole the show being an opening act! Hagar is nothing without a good band behind him just like any other lead singer. If the band sucks, nobody leaves the show talking about how good the singer was.

[Rexicano]

Vocals are mixed too far back.

Montrose may try to play like Page but it doesn't come off well.

And he was too dumb to hold onto Hagar who has the Midas touch.

So now Hagar is sitting on Millions while Montrose...is sitting on his ass.

I saw Montrose come up and play with the Berkeley Symphony way back...and it was awful. A phony with the Symphony...hey, that's a song title!

[wave60]

Today's hard rock sucks compared to this with the exception of Dream Theatre and a very few others.

[HectorGomezLozano]

one of my favorites Montrose's song

[67drumstar]

@ 76cutlas.....WAS? the shit? He is STILL the shit!!!

[freethinktherefore]

Hell yeah! This is music to take you past your situation.

[76CutlasSupreme]

Montrose was the shit in '76!

Steel & Sammy rocking out! What a flashback rush!

[76CutlasSupreme]

Montrose was the shit in '76!

Steel & Sammy rocking out!

[strings191]

jimmy page played the first A one  finger bar in the second position.

[LesPaulZoso94]

look like robert plant

[12Johnman]

Legendary bands keep their personel intact and produce a string of great albums. Montrose did neither. Only their debut is great, and they immediately began shedding members. I would tell anyone=BUY THE FIRST ALBUM, BUT ONLY THE FIRST ALBUM. This inferior song is from the second, which defines the term "sophomore slump".

[haywood16]

TOO BAD RONNIE WAS INSECURE

[michaelschenker1955]

Incredible band, incredible Sammy, incredible everything... Just take a look to Iron Maiden's cover done in 1983, really explosive!!

[skiddmo]

Deathmaster does a Killer Version of this song..DeathMaster @ the 9 Lives club...Check it out ....

[ModernDayWarrior2112]

Actually it's not Bill Church on bass here anymore. He left before the second album Paper Money. It's Alan Fitzgerald on bass here . He later went on to be Night Ranger's keyboard player.

[4everColReb]

Jeezzzz!! Montrose, Hagar, Church, and Carmassi.....If these guys would've stuck together, we'd be putting them in the same league as Zeppelin, Sabbath, etc.. They just got it. And shoved it down our throats. Total balls-out rock. Ronnie's fret-work has actually been copied by the entire late 70's early 80's scene. Sammy's pipes just can't be copied. They were one of a kind.....Thank God for two of the most influential albums of all time!

[FlyingTomahawk666]

Iron Maiden versions better

[zapdelivers]

Fingers of lightning. Best fucking rock album that still stands up head and shoulders above the rest.

[rowdymax1]

Awesome promo Jap video...way cool.

Bill "The Electric" Church on bass.

[rowdymax1]

Awesome promo Jap video...way cool.

[theonlywinner]

Check out my recent vid of Ronnie at NAMM 2011

[kisspeter64]

Montrose should have ruled the music world, what happened?

[theonlywinner]

4 people who dislike have their ears plugged full of shit.

[dzjohen]

Maiden and PAul Di Anno covered this song early eighties in a raw live version.

[dzjohen]

Sammy Hagar in the early days!



[dzjohen]

Sammy Hagar and Ronnie Montrose kicked some serious ass. Iron Maiden with Paul Di'Ánno covered this song early eighties in a live version on a backside of an ep.

[scrapsnbubba]

The bassist in this clip is Bill Church. Any doubts look at the First Montrose cover.

[sezwhom]

This is NOT Alan Fitzgerald. He had a beard and very little hair...even then! Check out the I Got The Fire Midnight Special video. That's Alan Fitzgerald on bass.

[jonsilence]

Correction, the bass player is Alan Fitzgerald.

[universalself]

brilliant stuff

[smegweevil]

Wow! Never heard this before- a victim of top 40 radio I guess. These guys burn the house down!

[EGshlimAJ]

sounds like Riot.

[edpkrlct]

I GOT THE FIRE YEEEEEE!!!!

[dantes1815]

Hmm I wonder if Van Halen was a fan of Montrose...lol

[dalexb98]

The best version of this song.

[speed5353]

That's Alan Fitzgerald on bass, not Randy Jo Hobbs. Randy was busy playing with Johnny Winter during this time period. However, he did play bass on the Montrose album Jump On It released in 76. Ronnie's performances with Edgar Winter to his Montrose, Open Fire and Gamma albums, were always outstanding with Telstar, Town Without Pity and the dreamy Voyager clearly demonstrating his eclectic abilities. He's the real deal!

[sezwhom]

Nice call with the Randy Joe Hobbs on bass. I had no idea but makes sense. He had a history with Ronnie from the Edgar Winter days. Inbetween Church and Fitzgerald I guess. Very rare indeed.

[The007bdawg1]

iron maiden has the best cover of this song original is always the best tho

[amozartii]

classic!!

[lamons71]

Montrose should do a reunion tour and just play every song off of this album

[BlackmoreRules]

Wow,that was some great vintage stuff!

[56BUICKRiviera]

That solo starts out heavy!

[41magnum2009]

great! precious video!

[reanimator9]

Sammy is one of the greatests !!!!

yeeeeeeeeeeaaah rock'n'roll !!!!!!!

[scooticus]

I wonder if ol' Ronnie still has that sunburst LP?

[EJG5150]

@scooticus he's still got a lot of 'em but one of his favorites was stolen a 1959 Burst which is now owned by Gayr Moore. and Ronnie is a nice guy I got to meet him once.

[rowdymax1]

"Ive got blisters on my fingers!!!" was John Lennon after ripping thru "Helter Skelter" on The White Album

[SerchTV]

Sammy Haggar, the original Headbanger!

[flibbidyflobbidyfloo]

When I met Ronnie he told me Penelope Spheeris Shot the video for this session.

[RockbertoRocks]

Back to the days when rock was recorded live with all the guys playing together!!

[rowdymax1]

"I'VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY FINGERS!!!"...wow. f'ing classic workout in the studio by San Francisco- based rock group Montrose, led by lead guitarist Ronnie Montrose and a 20 yr. old singer named Sammy Hagar... circa 1973?...solid gold.

[Kenoman29]

Rowdy......thats Ringo you are quoting....Right? Admit it.

[formula602]

I saw Montrose / Humble Pie / Spooky Tooth together play at Wings Stadium,Kalamazoo,Michigan in 1974!

Wish I had a DVD of the show! Wow! All for prolly $4-5 too!

[delta617136]

i saw the same show at indiana state u 1974

[Kenoman29]

prolly?????????

[66Childintime]

Totally kicks fucking ass! What a great treasure to see this....Sammy rocked way before he went to Van Halen....Eddie Sucks...Sammy kicks ass......love rock candy too...hard sweet and sticky....!!!!

[SnapItBaby]

Er, the lyric for Rock Candy is "hot, sweet and sticky". Young ladies, at least the one's I've had the pleasure of getting to know were hot, not hard.

[66Childintime]

It was a typo, I know the lyric.......brain fart.

[rockwellcm]

Wore the LP out,working on wearing the CD out,if you only ever buy 1 album in your life make it `Montrose`

[ale67bianca]

..e se fosse un diretto discendente?

[livingtoitsfullest]

my favorite band and im only 15. ive gottin allot my friends into this band..

rock on!

[steve89z]

totally kicks ass

[weenie18]

Are you kiddiing me ! That 45 second guitar solo is as hot as anything by Page et al, monster !

[Leighbo1]

some of Sammy's best work!

[whatitis117]

Burlingame High, running from "VICK". 74-75, Awesome Belinis "Window", Ronnie Mon and Zep were the staples!

[sdgullsfan]

is that Sammy??

[pbanders]

That's a rock guitar solo, ladies and gents.

[kaboom6899]

Ronnie Montrose Kills Smashing Pumpkins

[Kirok]

Just -- damn. These guys were sh*t-hot, weren't they?

Scorching solo by Ronnie. He was never a shredder, but he could get around the fretboard in a hurry when he wanted to, and always made the trip interesting and worthwhile.

[guitarkis49]

I sold all my old Montrose albums in a garage sale years ago....stupid!!! Luckily, I found a greatest hits CD. Love this song, used to play it in a high school band along with many others. They were underated for sure....great power rock band!

[meAtRM]

GGGGGGRRRRREEEEAAAAAATTTTTTT!!­!!! yeah! More than twenty years since I listened to it last time (but I still got the vynil)! I love you all!

Thank you very much for posting it.

[nico3225]

who is the singer?

[steve89z]

say what

[tripmender]

I think he's the same jackass who got lucky when Diamond Dave bailed out of Van Halen, and then turned them into a toothless AOR band with all those wolf-bagging ballads....

[spweather]

I should know this since I'm a Montrose die-hard but who the hell is that on Bass? Church? It's not Fitzgerald and I'd be shocked if it was Alcivar.

[gibder1117]

Sammy is a much better vocalist, more control, broader range and great pitch. I've seen Dave/Van Halen Live he has pitch problems, Dave is a good performer and has a lot of energy I will give him that and did well with Van Halen.

[1lemurian]

I agree: Play This and Mean Streets back to back!!!!!! Bad Motor Scooter, Space station NO. 5!!

[flappospammo]

why the fuck couldn't eh do this shit with vh ?

all that i love you babby baby fucking drivel

[mrt0724]

Montrose was definitely one of the better guitar players of the 70s .I remember first seeing him with Edgar Winter before he went out on his own . And "Good Rockin Tonight " from the first Montrose album Is one of the alltime rocksongs ever . That album came out In 73 blows away any of the modern shit they call Rock now !

[blindmellonchittlen]

No shit. Better than any fucking thing put out today. Why cant the young punks today realize it, No solos.Garbage.

[davenurse]

Mrt 0724 you are exactly right!!!...I have told many people over the years who never heard of the first "montrose" album to buy it,that album is 36 years old and I'll put it up against anything out there today! sammy is one of the few singers who still sounds great today,loved how he was listed as "sam hagar" on the album's credits...

[jconnor1966]

Tell ya what I hope im listening to that album when I die..what a good way to go...F******* CLASSIC

[skeechful]

@davenurse great comment, best rock album ever, Denny Carmassi is a badass drummer too

[vendooza]

@davenurse I could not agree more!!! Saw this line-up twice and the "Jump On It" tour line-up. He's a guitar God to me.

[Karnakdmagnificent]

@davenurse YAAAAA! They ROCKED in those days and nothing is even close today....I thought of Montrose in the late 70s in the TOWN of Montrose north of L.A. Ca. and was amazed at the energy of the band, especially with Sammy's vocals...what a great time to be young!!! What a limp dick world of today!!!

[dalexb98]

I wish Van Halen had done this Sammy.

[borntorun1970]

Well I know I am going to get a shit-ton of comments on this, but Sammy was great with Montrose and we ALL know VH was incredible with Dave, but Sammy and VH together were just way too soft sounding and wimpy compared to the Roth Era of the band. If Sammy has any sense of respect for his Montrose roots, he should be doing this Live to this day. Not only that, but this song SMOKES all of Sammy's solo and VH material combined. Ronnie is truly one of a kind and is SO underrated it's a crime.

[dalexb98]

I agree that Dave/Van Halen was the best.

I was just saying when Sammy was with VH I wish they would have played this live.

I happened to run across this song's video that was included in a bootleg Sammy/VH live concert video from Japan.

I dont always like Sammy's voice but on this song his higher range is perfect.

This is my favorite Sammy song w/o VH.

Sammy had some gret moments with VH; Best of Both Worlds, Poundcake, Finish W/You Started, Cabo Wabo, Source of Infec, Summer Nights,

[blasty5150]

Uhhh, no....Not even close.

[blindmellonchittlen]

Why doesnt Ronnie and Sammy get together and write some more kick ass shit like this. It blows the shit out of any of the knew stuff. Cant figure it out.

[rubybirthstone]

Sammy Hagar's voice and Montrose's guitar skills... WOW ... Love this song.

[2012byebye]

It looks like Ronny's using one of the first Mesa Boogie Princeton conversions here. In the 74 vids on YT he's using a Plexi and a 59 Bassman. N

[pythonflying]

He was a gearhead before there were gearheads.

[gglaw3]

They really were a damn good straight ahead rock band.

[fukinblowme]

Before Eddie Van Halen...There was Ronnie Montrose....This guy was ahead of his time.

Great video....

[EUguitarRULE]

First of all Michael schenker annihilates this solo and Montrose. Second Michael Schenker was before EVH Schenker appeared in 72 with Scorpions. Third EVH asked UFO that he wanted to replace Michael Schenker when he quit but Eddie answered himself and thought he wasnt good enough! Eddie was right.

[fukinblowme]

I'll answer all three of your points by saying this.....Just shut the fuck up.

[EUguitarRULE]

Why dont you blow me.

[fukinblowme]

I asked you first, bitch.

[EUguitarRULE]

Why else hagar left Montrose for van halen...lol Eddie wanted to join UFO to replace Schenker but Eddie thought he wasnt good enough. Ronnie and you stuck in the past playing pentatonic style.

[fukinblowme]

No real guitar player thinks about scales while he's playing......You're one of those guitar geek types whose missed the point of guitar playing. I thought you guys went extinct after the hair spray era ?

[EUguitarRULE]

you got me all wrong, I listen to 70's and 80's. Like UFO, MSG and Scorpions why dont you check them out.

[vfgjhj]

"Hi I'm fukinblowme my anus still feels sore and the ointment doesn't seem to be working, I'll try to get back to you as soon as possible in the meantime please leave a message beep"

[rockman627]

@fukinblowme

Ronnie was definitely part of an elite circle of great guitarists back in the day. Then Eddie came along....

[snewb]

1974-1975.

Great Band.

Saw them with Aerosmith Dec75 LA Forum.

[rip2shred]

Small world, I was at that show too.

[nurmiar]

Besides Led Zeppelin and Mountain, Montrose is the best rock band ever

[depper]

Yes Ronnie Montrose will tell you Leslie West was one of his biggest influence, and its evident. Listen to that tone and vibrato. Guys like Leslie West and Ronnie Montrose were so much greater in their guitar tones than anyone else that they're almost impossible to be compared to.

[nurmiar]

I agree, I dont know better guitar players , maybee Jimmy Page comes close, or Phil Manzanera...but ..Leslie West and Ronnie Montrose

 are the best...absolutely

[krevice]

just a amazing but very short lived band. their 1st was probably the 1st "american metal" album but please let's stop with the eddie vanwho crap!!

[koolbossjock]

Ah takes me back to Redondo Bch,keg partys and surfer girls.

[nurmiar]

Montrose is great rock...fantastic music...

[anodynefilms]

I've always loved this song. Thanks for posting! I first heard the the Iron Maiden cover version, back in the day. They kick ASS on it! Someone else had posted it here:

watch?v=GBg9hnPnrEQ

[Kenoman29]

ranmore....LOL....Yeah right...Eddie who??? Hey I go back with Montrose to early '70s.....I was born in '55 so I think I know my stuff.....no yeyetey....this cut was from "Paper Money"..

[yeyeteygcbvcserzZEQ]

when was issued the 1st Montrose album? I think it's the 1st heavy metal album that have been released.

[CharlestonGuitarClub]

GREAT!

[cookingnotes]

Not bad , fair performance .

[steve89z]

this song smokes!

[rogcuadra]

1973 Winterland live i was fucking there UFO ELO AND MONTROSE OH MY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fastech1]

I was at that concert, but I think the bands where UFO, Journey, Montrose? Anyway, Winterland was the best concert hall in the world for live sound.

[swine980]

the bass player is randy jo hobbs who is no longer with us

[bouwg]

Thanks for clearing that up. I have been asked that question so many times. Hope you enjoyed the clip.

[opus409]

The bassist is actually Alan Fitzgerald aka "Fitz".

[metal144ca]

Got all the Montrose and gamma stuff on vinyl i am one lucky dude Ronnie could really rip

[Schleimschmeichler]

I love Montrose!!!

They are great!!!

Unfortunately the quality of this video isn't good :(

[shredtastik2]

In all seriousness..this is a MEGA ULTRA SUPERGROUP of super hero proportions...all of them gods and this song RUUUUUUUULESSSSS

[shredtastik2]

*decides to commit polygamy & marries them both* :D

[shredtastik2]

*worships at the altar of Ronnie Montrose & falls in love with Sammy*

[ZT888]

Cool vid! See, THAT'S how you record a REAL fucking rock album-EVERYTHING LIVE!!!!!

[88nightswan]

Indeed, this is REAL fuckin rock..!!!

Ronnie Montrose is almost "godlike"..!!

[ZT888]

Hey man! :)

[88nightswan]

Hey to you...whats happenin..?

The other footage of Montrose on the Midnight Special is really good too...!!!

Hell, all of its good..!!

[classicboy2]

Awesome lead Mr Ronnie!!!!!!!!

[sven2869]

I'd like to know who the bass player is in this video. It's not Bill Church and it's not Alan Fitzgerald.

[Bluntfacts]

Interesting comment. Those are the only two names I ever associate with Montrose. So I watched the clip closely. The bass player seems to get 2 seconds of screen time.

Meanwhile, Ronnie lays it out from the 1:05 to the 1:47 mark.

[ottowes]

Perhaps Jim Alcivar on bass. Bill Church left after the first release; Alan likewise left after Paper Money, and he later switched to keyboards when he backed Sammy.

[Gromit801]

I saw Montrose four times in the 70's. Absolute freaking rockin. Once they played with Foghat and Blackoak Arkansas in Mobile, Alabama. Foghat got everyone pumped, Montrose STOLE the damn show, and the headliners (Blackoak)were soon forgotten.

[Bluntfacts]

I must have missed this comment, but it caused me to check my database. (For anyone with spare time on their hands, transfer your memories into a computer). Sure enough, I saw Montose open for Foghat 5/17/75 at the Lansing Metro Arena in Lansing, Michigan. And in this case, it wasn't even a contest; I remember our gang leaving during Foghat's set.

[Spectres]

Jim Dandy to the rescue! Black Oak is a band not many people remember or even heard of nowadays. Their only good album was the "live-Raunch and Roll."

I've saw a ton of rock bands back in the 70's..but I never had the pleasure of seeing Montrose. I saw Foghat in San Francisco Cow Palace. My fucking ears were ringing for hours afterwards...the loudest band I've ever heard.

[lemmyrocks]

One of the best ass-kickin' songs of 1974. Sounds as good today as it did when I was crankin' it up in the 70's.

[METLHEDD]

Ronnie Fuckin' Montrose is the SHIT!

[ranmore20002000]

Agreed! Eddie Van Who?

[geraldcieslak]

I Got the Fire rocks! Thanks!Do you have any promo videos from Presents-1975 and Jump on It-1976? It would be great to see them!

[wederell1]

The versions by Iron Maiden and Axe also kick ass. This song still rocks today!! Mark in Bristol, UK.

[weenie18]

Yes!!!Monster Power Chords!I remember.

Sweet youth and alcohol.

Killa!! Thank youtube.

[Bluntfacts]

This band should have been bigger than history will show. We used to crank this song out in my college dorm room in Kalamazoo Michigan in 1974. Killer then; and killer now in 2007.

[hardrockguy]

I agree. I saw them as an opening act at The Nassau Coliseum on Long Island and had never heard of them. Damn! The place exploded when they played!! The headliners (I forgot who) was embarrassed to come out...and actually got some boos! I was out the next morning picking up the Montrose album!!!!!

[hilgenberg41]

Not sure what Ronnie Montrose has been up these days, or Bill Church the bassist, but not many people know that Montrose original drummer, Denny Carmassi, ended up drummin' for the rock band Heart. And we all know what Sammy did later...Van Hagar, er, I mean Van Halen.

[BillSchwenke]

Speaking of working with Ronnie, Sammy toured solo with Michael Anthony guesting for several shows, luckily at a Casino in MN where I went to see him again, Ronnie Montrose and Bill Church also turned up and it was flat out amazing! Killer sound now, even better then this, I think

[wokmonster]

This rocks!! But I love Maiden's cover of this tune.

I wish they had the vid of that.

[bouwg]

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[gr8skyr]

Maybe since Sammy's out with Van Hagar, He and Ronnie will do more from those great old days. That was a great clip, thanks so much for posting!

[knobbyz]

awesome

[ureuter]

Who's the dork on bass it's not Bill Church? Great solo by Ronnie.

They still rock after 30 years.

[spudman25]

alan fitzgerald

[NewMexicoSunset]

Yeaaahhh!!!! That song frickin' rocks. Bill and Denny were a part of Sammy's solo band during the early days. That early solo Sammy stuff was great. 'Cruisin' and Boozin', etc.

Sammy is really underrated as a song writer. He has really written some of the better melodies, inside and out of the rock genre.

[spweather]

Simply the best and sounds smokin' hot even today. For the record, Ronnie and Sammy get along now. I do believe that's Bill "The Electric" Church still on bass. Carmassi on drums, of course. One of my favorite tunes from Paper Money along with Spaceage Sacrifice. Crank it up!

[56BUICKRiviera]

Ronnie once again showing us who's boss. Thanks for posting!

[dledge1]

I think I have a woody. Classic. They just do not make music like this anymore.

[slowtrain60]

Awesome, One of ROCKs greatest bands that should have stayed together!!

[furrmandan]

Cool! It's good to see Ronnie & Sammy together. Too bad they can't get along. Hey, look at Sammy's eyes. I wonder what he was smokin'! LOL

[stigian]

Thats incredible, still sounds fresh today!!!

[howlinfish]

Burning it up !!!

[humboldtrock]

Fantastic footage !!! Thanks a lot,

Myche

[bouwg]

Thanks, glad you like it.