Montrose

1973 · Hard Rock · Warner Bros. Records

UK · K46276

Credits

Producer: Montrose, Ted Templeman
Written by: Ronnie Montrose, Sammy Hagar, Roy Brown, Bill Church, Denny Carmassi, J. Sanchez
Engineer: Donn Landee, Stephen Jarvis

Seattle Grunge

Heavy riffs played by people raised on punk, recorded cheap in the Pacific Northwest and then sold worldwide.

Detroit Proto-Punk

Pull this thread and you get Michigan guitar noise from 1969 ballrooms to 1999 basements, unbroken.