On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:36:15 -0500, "83LowRider"
Post by 83LowRiderhttp://news.yahoo.com/rock-guitarist-ronnie-montrose-dies-millbrae-220848739.html
That sad sap Sammy can't even eulogize his supposed pal Ronnie without
taking a dig at VH. Teddy Templeman - the guy who named the band "VH"?
I don't think so... this guy is terribly bitter:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/sammy-hagar-remembers-ronnie-montrose-20120306
The first time Eddie Van Halen and I met, it was around 1977. We were
on a stadium show with Boston, Black Sabbath, myself, Van Halen. He
came to my dressing room, and said, "I'm a Montrose freak, I love the
band!" And Ted Templeman told me, when he signed Van Halen, they were
called something else, and he wanted to name them after the guitar
player. He said on the first Van Halen record, he took the first
Montrose record in there and said, "Boom. We're going to have eight
great songs, they're going to be this long, they're going to be this
tempo." And pretty much patterned the whole thing after it right
down to saying, "Why don't you guys get Sammy Hagar to sing in this
band? He's been thrown out of Montrose." That's a true story!
Eddie had a totally new twist on the whole guitar style thing, but as
far as the chording goes not his soloing as much as the chording
yeah, he took some of that big open chord thing [from Montrose]. The
big open A, the big open D, the big open E. Everything as open as you
could make it, to make it as heavy as possible with one guitar. And
that was pretty much Ronnie's style, too. And of course the fire, too
Van Halen came out with all that fire, which is Ronnie. Ronnie was
full of fire, man.
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