The Speed of Sound (album)
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The Speed of Sound is a 1988 all instrumental album by Ronnie Montrose
Ronnie Montrose
Ronnie Montrose, is an Amercian rock guitarist who has headed his own bands as well as performing with a variety of musicians, including Sammy Hagar, Herbie Hancock, Van Morrison, The Beau Brummels, Boz Scaggs, Beaver & Krause, Gary Wright, Tony Williams, The Neville Brothers, Dan Hartman, Edgar...

 and in 1997 said that it was his favorite instrumental disc he had done so far. http://www.anti-m.com/rminterview.html The track titles are words and phrases that reference aviation themes.

Track listing

  1. "Mach 1" (Ronnie Montrose) - 4:27
  2. "Black Box" (Montrose) - 4:40
  3. "Hyper-Thrust" (Montrose) - 3:25
  4. "Monolith" (Montrose) - 3:15
  5. "Zero G" (Montrose) - 4:18
  6. "Telstar
    Telstar (song)
    "Telstar" is a 1962 instrumental record performed by The Tornados. It was the first single by a British band to reach number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and was also a number one hit in the UK. The record was named after the AT&T communications satellite Telstar, which went into orbit in...

    " (Joe Meek
    Joe Meek
    Robert George "Joe" Meek was a pioneering English record producer and songwriter....

    ) - 3:11 (The Tornados
    The Tornados
    The Tornados were an English instrumental group of the 1960s that acted as backing group for many of record producer Joe Meek's productions and also for singer Billy Fury. They enjoyed several chart hits in their own right, including the UK and U.S. Number One "Telstar" , the first U.S...

     cover)
  7. "Sidewinder" (Montrose) - 3:54
  8. "Windshear" (Montrose) - 4:16
  9. "VTOL" (Montrose) - 3:05
  10. "Outer Marker Inbound" (Montrose) - 4:34

Personnel

  • Ronnie Montrose
    Ronnie Montrose
    Ronnie Montrose, is an Amercian rock guitarist who has headed his own bands as well as performing with a variety of musicians, including Sammy Hagar, Herbie Hancock, Van Morrison, The Beau Brummels, Boz Scaggs, Beaver & Krause, Gary Wright, Tony Williams, The Neville Brothers, Dan Hartman, Edgar...

     – Guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    , Percussion, MIDI guitar synthesizer
  • Glenn Letsch
    Glenn Letsch
    Glenn Letsch, is an American bass guitarist. He was in a Los Angeles band with Mitchell Froom called "Bullet Park" . After Ronnie Montrose produced their demo, he asked Letsch to join his band Gamma, where Letsch became friends with singer Davey Pattison...

     – Bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Johnny Badanjek
    The Detroit Wheels
    The Detroit Wheels were an American rock group from Detroit, Michigan. They served as Mitch Ryder's backup band from 1964–1967, and played on all his most successful records.Their original members were:* Jim McCarty...

     – Drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

  • Patrick Feehan - Synthesizer
    Synthesizer
    A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...

    on "Zero G" and "Outer Marker Inbound"
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