Montrose

Jump On It

1976 · Hard Rock · Warner Bros. Records

UK · K56291

Credits

Producer: Jack Douglas
Arranged by: Bob Alcivar
Written by: Bob James, Denny Carmassi, Jim Alcivar, Ronnie Montrose, Dan Hartman
Engineer: Jay Messina, Rod O'Brien

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.