Continuing on with my Ronnie Montrose kick, Gamma was his next collective after Montrose's namesake group. I remember when this album came out, the FM rock stations of the era were quite stoked about it. In fact I recorded the whole album to cassette on one of those "debut nights". For my untrained ears back then, I didn't quite get what Montrose was doing and never pursued further. To my untrained ears now, this is exactly what I'm looking for. Gamma 1 has an updated sound, primarily due to the synthesizers, and Montrose is keeping up in the hard rock sweepstakes as well. Compared to what a band like Whitesnake were doing in 1979, Gamma was much further along. There are some excellent tracks here. My favorite has to be 'Razor King' which sounds like Manuel Gottsching doing hard rock! Yea, imagine that one...
Ownership: LP: 1979 Elektra. Single sleeve. Part of the 25 cent haul.
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