Ronnie Montrose "The Speed Of Sound"

Ronnie Montrose "The Speed Of Sound"

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Ronnie Montrose
The Speed Of Sound
The Story
Recently remastered by Ronnie Montrose, the guitarist's 1988 instrumental album "The Speed Of Sound" is one of his fan favorites, and one of his personal instrumental favorites as well. Montrose remembers, "I did "The Speed Of Sound" with the well-wishes of Bill Hein and with his encouragement which was great because he really didn't want anything other than a good instrumental guitar album. We had done the "Mean" album and Hein, kind of as an extension of good will, said, "Listen, just go make me a definitive guitar album". I had a budget for it, the timing was right and I got one of my favorite drummers around, Johnny Badanjek, who played with the original Mitch Rider and the Detroit Wheels on allof those wonderful hits they did. The basic band was the trio of me, Johnny B. and Glenn Letsch. I just had such a great time!. It was a really fun album. I was pleased with the work that I did on it and the inspiration was really there for me."
The Music
04:26 Mach 1 Instrumental
04:40 Black Box Instrumental
03:25 Hyper-Thrust Instrumental
03:14 Monolith Instrumental
04:17 Zero G Instrumental
03:10 Telstar Instrumental
03:54 Sidewinder Instrumental
04:15 Windshear Instrumental
03:04 VTOL Instrumental
04:34 Outer Marker Inbound Instrumental
The Artists
Ronnie Montrose Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, MIDI Guitar, Electronic Percussion, Arrangements, Production, Engineering, Digital Remastering
Glenn Letsch Electric Bass
Johnny Bee Badanjek Acoustic Drums
Pat Feehan Synthesizers on "Zero G" and "Outer Markerr Inbound"
Roger Wiersema Engineering
Pat Johnson Photography
Darrell Anderson Model Construction
Rudy Tuesday Packaging Ally
Recorded and mixed at Music Annex, Menlo Park, California.