MONTROSE Montrose (2009 issue UK 8-track digitally remastered CD album - The debut Montrose album is universally regarded as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, hard rock albums of all time. Released in early 1974, it introduced both a sound and a swagger that single-handedly dragged heavy rock kicking and screaming from its turgid proto-metal roots into a modern streamlined era, opening up a brave new world of possibilities. It was the sound of a mould being smashed to smithereens and the birth of a new epoch; a sound that Van Halen would co-opt for their own earth shattering debut four years later. For guitarist Ronnie Montrose and frontman Sammy Hagar, this was indeed history in the making. With Hagar's immediately identifiable vocals and Montrose's juggernaut guitar riffs, the results are truly mind blowing. It is an album full of classic hard rock moves. From 'Rock The Nation', to 'Bad Motor Scooter', through 'Rock Candy' to the truly 'Herculean Space Station #5' there is no denying the sheer thermo-nuclear power. Comes complete with a 16-page picture booklet!).