Track listing

1. "Rock the Nation" (Montrose) - 3:03
2. "Bad Motor Scooter
   Bad Motor Scooter
   "Bad Motor Scooter" was the second track from the album Montrose by the band of the same name. It, along with "Rock Candy" was arguably the best known song by the band, Montrose, with lyrics penned by frontman Sammy Hagar. The song's intro, a distorted electric slide guitar sound which closely...
   
   " (Hagar)- 3:41
3. "Space Station #5" (Hagar, Montrose) - 5:18
4. "Rock Candy
   Rock Candy
   "Rock Candy" is a song by Montrose, the last song written and recorded for their 1973 debut. It was composed by all four members of the band. The song still gets performed on Sammy Hagar's solo tours and even had been re-recorded as the b-side to the Hagar single Little White Lie by the original...
   
   " (Carmassi, Church, Hagar, Montrose)- 5:05
   • from Montrose
     Montrose (album)
     Montrose is the debut album by the band Montrose in 1973 which was produced by Ted Templeman.- History :After having done sessions work for various musicians including Van Morrison, Herbie Hancock and Edgar Winter, this was Ronnie Montrose's first record leading his own band. It featured then...
     
     (1973)
5. "I Got the Fire
   I Got the Fire
   "I Got the Fire" is a song from the Montrose album Paper Money in 1974. The guitar solo is the result of a fortuitous accident:"Guitarist Ronnie Montrose also contributes a solo of singular dexterity and earth-shaking intensity thanks, ironically, to a studio screwup which resulted in the...
   
   " (Montrose) 3:06
6. "Spaceage Sacrifice" (Hagar, Montrose) 4:55
7. "We're Going Home" (Montrose) 4:52
8. "Paper Money" (Hagar, Montrose) 5:01
   • from Paper Money
     Paper Money
     Paper Money is the second album by the band Montrose. It was released in 1974 and was the band's last album to feature Sammy Hagar as lead vocalist.-History:...
     
     (1974)
9. "All I Need"(Alcivar, Carmassi, Fitzgerald, James, Montrose) 4:21
10. "Twenty Flight Rock" (Ned Fairchild
    Ned Fairchild
    Ned Fairchild is the pen name of Nelda Fairchild an American songwriter. Her best known work is the hit rock'n'roll hit "Twenty Flight Rock"....
    
    ) 2:43
11. "Clown Woman" (Montrose) 4:21
12. "Dancin' Feet"(Montrose,James) 4:05
    • from Warner Brothers Presents... Montrose!
      Warner Brothers Presents... Montrose!
      Warner Brothers Presents... Montrose! is the third album of the band Montrose.It is the first Montrose album to feature singer Bob James and keyboardist Jim Alcivar. The album was critically praised and also noted for its movie-poster cover giving the impression that Warner Brothers was presenting...
      
      (1975)
13. "Let's Go" (James, Montrose, Alcivar, Carmassi) 4:15
14. "Jump on It" (James, Montrose, Alcivar, Carmassi) 3:37
15. "Music Man" (Montrose) 4:16
    • from Jump On It
      Jump on It (Montrose album)
      Jump on It is the fourth album by the band Montrose.It is the second Montrose album to feature singer Bob James and keyboardist Jim Alcivar, and features bassist Randy Jo Hobbs on three songs. The remainder of the bass tones were supplied by Jim Alcivar via the keyboard and there was no bassist on...
      
      (1976)
16. "M for Machine" (Montrose) (3:59)
17. "Ready, Willing, and Able" (Montrose) 4:19
18. "Stand" (Montrose) 4:46
    • from Mean
      Mean (Montrose album)
      Mean is the fifth album by the band Montrose. It has much more of a glam metal sound than previous Montrose albums.Singer Johnny Edwards and drummer James Kottak had previously played together in the line-up of the glam metal band Buster Brown that played on the second Buster Brown album Sign Of...
      
      (1987)

Band

• 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...
  
  : All guitars, Lead vocals on Track 7
• Sammy Hagar
  Sammy Hagar
  Sam Roy "Sammy" Hagar , also known as The Red Rocker, is an American rock singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Also sings Country Music....
  
  : Lead vocals on Tracks 1 -6, 8
• Denny Carmassi
  Denny Carmassi
  Denny Carmassi is an American drummer.Carmassi was a member of the first four line-ups of the band Montrose. After Montrose, he played with his former Montrose bandmate Sammy Hagar as a solo artist, and with his former Montrose bandmates Ronnie Montrose and Jim Alcivar in the band Gamma.He also...
  
  : 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 ....
  
   on Tracks 1 - 15
• Bill Church
  Bill Church
  William 'Bill' Church , started out playing bass in a band called Sawbuck in 1969, with Mojo Collins, Starr Donaldson, Ronnie Montrose and Chuck Ruff. As the band was beginning to record their first album, Montrose and Church left Sawbuck to join Van Morrison on his Tupelo Honey album...
  
  : Bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
   on Tracks 1 - 4
• Alan Fitzgerald
  Alan Fitzgerald
  Alan Fitzgerald, U.S. musician , was a member of several U.S. bands.He played as a bassist in the bands Montrose and Gamma, both of which also featured guitarist Ronnie Montrose....
  
  : Bass on Tracks 4 - 12
• Jim Alcivar
  Jim Alcivar
  Jim Alcivar is an American keyboard and synthesizer player and sound engineer. He is most noted for his connection to guitarist Ronnie Montrose and appearing in his bands Montrose and Gamma and on his first solo album Open Fire. His father is composer, arranger and producer Bob Alcivar.-Discography...
  
  : Keyboards on Tracks 9 - 15
• Bob James: Lead vocals on Tracks 9 - 15
• Johnny Edwards
  Johnny Edwards (musician)
  Johnny Edwards is a singer who sang for the bands Buster Brown, Montrose, King Kobra, Wild Horses, Royal Jelly and is most famously known as the 2nd lead vocalist of the rock band Foreigner...
  
  : Lead vocals on Tracks 16 - 18
• 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 on Tracks 16 - 18
• James Kottak
  James Kottak
  James Kottak is an American drummer for the heavy metal band Scorpions, which he joined in 1996....
  
  : Drums on Tracks 16 - 18

Additional musicians

• Nick DeCaro: Mellotron on Track 7
• Randy Jo Hobbs
  Randy Jo Hobbs
  Randy Jo Hobbs was an American musician born in Winchester, Indiana. Hobbs played bass for The McCoys during the 1965-1969 period and in the bands of the brothers Edgar Winter and Johnny Winter during 1970-1976....
  
  : Bass on Tracks 13 - 14