No disputing the fact that he was one of the all time greats. Period!

I always loved and respected Ronnie An un appreciated genius and High Level Player from way back

That was by FAR the best live Voyager solo Ronnie has done since the GAMMA days! Bravo !!!

🎸🎼📣🎶👍- RIP Ronnie, your legend will always live on!

Great man he was indeed SUCH a great music man he was amazing and I miss seeing him and jamming out now and then he was underrated by people who didn't KNOW PEOPLE AND great guitar playing RIP MY friend ❣️😢❤

Love Ronnie Montrose. My #4 all-time favorite rocker behind Blackmore, Page, Derringer, and "Montrose."

Can’t watch voyager without crying. So much feel and soul. He must have known it was one of his last few moments

great show.Seen him dozens of times since the 1980s.He had great technique.

I saw Ronnie 4 times starting in 1975 and spoke to him too he autographed 4 albums

we miss you

Me and My Wife Anniversary weekend stopped by the Art Festival that Year and where so blessed to see Ronnie Playing my Favorite song from the 1st Montrose album to Gamma the treat was seeing him with his old buddy Edgar Winter.God Bless you RM.One of my all time favorites

Damn am I glad I was born in the era I was. Feel sorry for all these punks today who think Justin beiber is a rocker

I moved to San Rafael in '01, how did I miss this show??? hahaha probably fucked up at the time...Ronnie Montrose was the best American hard rock guitarist since Hendrix!! Massive power chords, endless tasty fills, rad fucken leads, such melodic early metal...we wore those first two albums out when I was in college!!

Six months later the Guitarist playing here known as Ronnie Montrose was found Dead from taking his Own Life while battling Cancer. It was first thought that he died from Cancer. R.I.P. Ronnie! What a Great Guitarist Ronnie was!

miss him and his music

Saw This Bay Area Legend Many times all over the Bay Area from the Legendary Cow Palace to The Cabaret Club in San Jose always tore the place Down with Davey Pattison Belting Out these Gamma Classics ❤❤❤

Wow! I would have loved to have been there that day. Ronnie's playing was great, and the beautiful outdoor setting in Sausalito is gorgeous too. Makes me miss my Bay Area ever more so. Especially now, being in flat, boring Nebraska. Ugh !!! Rest in Peace Ronnie and thanks for the inspiration over the years.

i still have vinyl of all 5 Montrose albums, Gamma 1 & 2, and Ronnie's "Telstar" solo instrumental album. i love telstar album. rips my head clean off. lethal stuff!

Ronnie's signature song with GAMMA in my most humble opinion.

I always loved The Way Ronnie would walk around on stage looking for Someone and Then He would stop in front of the person staring intently at you and stand there and Shredd away without even looking at what he was playing just burning a hole in you at the same time

RIP... MR Music Man...YOU ROCK..

This is Ronnie at his best!!!!! He was really on ,some jaw dropping solos,I don't know why there are negative comments.

I love you ronnie you are so missed R.I.P.

You should check out the Gamma performance at the Concert for Ronnie Montrose. It's all of the original Gamma members with Marc Bonilla (a RM protégé) standing on guitar. It's an amazing tribute...

Best backdrop I've ever seen for a show. Great to see the other band members enjoying Ronnie 's guitar playing just like an audience member .

Ronnie is gonna make me drag my vinyl back out.

Love Ronnie's leads. Has some similarities with Trower who is another of my faves.

What I love best about this video, is that Ronnie really looked like he was enjoying being at the festival and that brought out a great performance.

I remember seein gamma at the Bodega in Campbell

Background setting is amazing and Ronnie's playing is perfect. Voyager is my favorite Gamma song. I was lucky to see him just a short time before he passed. If I remember correctly, Ronnie lived in Sausalito when Sammy Hagar knocked on his door and the rest is history. RIP Ronnie.

Keyboards are sorely missing. AND DAVEY PATTISON. Original Gamma rocked. RIP Ronnie

RIP Ronnie- and I remember Rory - 2 awsome Guitarplayer- and in the her soul so alone- tears running along my face- and they give her live tu us! Thanks! We`ll se us...

You lucky devil you.!!!thank you till the end of time for puttin this out.!!!!!! Good gravy that good stuff. Rip ronnie

Thanks

Opinions are like a##holes ~ Everybody has one ~ Mine would be F##KIN' AWESOME !!! Thanks vartina11 for making my day !!!

RIP Ronnie Montrose

Depression is a serious situation to be in. Wish he would have been helped more. Too sad to see him go like that. Just months away.

What a great piece of amateur video work, and by 'amateur' I mean not professionally produced, because I think its awesome! The bay clearly framed in the background is a fitting memorial to the man. Anyone who has ever lived in California can tell you, by just watching the video, you can feel that sunshine and breeze.....ah.. the memories! I'm glad I happened on to your work, thanx!

ive been watching this for the past 5 or 6 years now Love it thanks again

Люблю Ронни и все его проекты, жаль что у нас в России о нём мало знают. Он великий! Вечная память маэстро!

I really like fight to the finish without the keyboard. So much more mood this way

Uno de los grandes del hard rock. Clásico..ronnie .escuchando tu musica..gracias

Labor Day weekend in Sausalito on San Francisco Bay..

You guys should check out Martin Popoff's excellent Book - "Rock the Nation" on Ronnie's Career and Suicide. It's very well-done. RIP Ronnie. We miss you here in the beautiful Bay Area.... ♫ ♥

I was front row at the Gamma 1980 live show on youtube, I have photos i shot

Thank you for giving me that day back. Beautiful video. As they say, You the Man. They also say, better late than never!

In my opinion, his best work was with the Gamma. Great songs on all three albums with solid vocals by Pattison. Saw them live in 1980ish opening for AC/DC in Syracuse.

On a related side-note, in my opinion (humble lol) Davey Pattison should be included along with the other standout vocalists like Perry, Plant and Gramm.

best rock roll*****

Pre cell phone show? So nice to the majority of souls listening. RIP🕇Ronnie

I am really sorry about the circumstances the led me to post this video. On the other hand, I was very lucky to be there to get this video footage almost exactly 5 months before the tragic event. Again, RIP Ronnie!

Show just how great Davey Pattison is. Sings with Robin Trower now and he's STILL great.

Very cool. Thanks for posting.

i agree about the singer. it's jamie st.james from the 80's band "Black and Blue". jamie's former bandmate. lead guitarist Tommy Thayer, is now playing lead for KISS and pretending he's Ace Frehley.

thanks for this!

there are 4 gamma albums that i am aware of. i still only have Gamma1 and Gamma2 on vinyl from 30 years ago.

ouch. flat singer. Ronnies on his game here though. nice!.

Starting 10:30 what a guitar solo🥃

VOYAGER...........!

Fantastico!

He still had "it" - what a shame...

Many times! The Bodega was a cool little club....

Wow, I have never heard such bad vocals in a Ronnie Montrose band EVER. I feel bad for this guy. Not a singer. I can live without the organ parts in this performance but couldn't listen to this guy....I truly do miss Ronnie.

I think Ronnie is a great guitarist, no worse than Van Hallen, Vai, Satriani. May be even better!

I wish I went to this before he died :( that's hella sucky! Im only like 20 miles from here

Drummer and bass player did justice, but the singer was worse than my most drunken karaoke. But I thank him, at 53 I'm ready to perform Foreigner....heck, even intoxicated.

Thanks for posting! seen Ronnie 2 Nites in a row' at Harpo's, Det. back in around 92, Nice back ground were is this locale ...?

I saw him in The Edgar Winter Group in 1972 as a 13 year old kid.

The Ex BNB singer is fine here....if one is 'expecting' Davey or 'The Voice' well get off the 'benchmark mentality' Obviously Ronnie dug what he heard and thats Y JSJ was in the lineup! Too bad Ronnie checked out too soon with his quite emotional distressed 'state of mind'... Last time we saw him was in Phila Chestnut Cabaret (now defunct) August 1988 Speed Of Sound Tour w/Allan Holdsworth. Met Ronnie afterwards/signed our Gamma/RM Solo Albums. RIP Man!

Bring Davey in on vocals

who is this on vocals?

No Ronnie, no Van Hagar

That was a power set. Singer needs some work.

I have been seeing people bag on this singer long enough to comment. Davey is a great singer, but he was not always spot on either. I have a live recording where he is not any better than the singer in this video. That being said, the focus on this video is solely on Ronnie Montrose. I can only hope that I did him some justice by posting it.....My heart is with the memory of this great musician and I hope yours is too.

Someon give that singer a monitor.

I think its called voyager

Dommage, le chanteur n'est pas à la hauteur. Autrement musicalement il n'y a rien à jeter...

Man Ronnie Montrose is one of the all time greatest guitar players ever but that singer SUCKS BAD! I have all 3 Gamma albums and he's not even close to the pitch or melody of these songs. Really too bad because Ronnie sounds awesome as usual. RIP RM!!!

Needed Davey on vocals..

Ronnie is great here, but the singer, bless his heart, is straining harder than me on the bowl after 2 weeks of no veggies...

What is the song that starts @ 8:00 minutes?

Wow thought i heard this singer was better than that

Dismiss the singer,put scoles up there

I think that guitar is a Baker

Please quit bagging on the singrr...there was obviously pa issues here. It was also a one off...That guys a damn good singer!

Does anybody know what killed him?

Ronnie sounded great in spite of that midrangy PRS. Vocalist was just horse from touring. He has a great voice capable of covering Hagar and Pattison otherwise.

I'm sorry no disrespect but there is no replacing Davey.

Ronnie sounds great. The singer not so much. Davey should have been here.

The vocalist ain’t no Davey

Sorry just does'nt sound as good without Alan Fitzgerald on keyboards and synthesizers and Davey Pattison on vocals. they were great. R.I.P Ronnie Montrose.

if this singer was the best at audition...id hate to hear the others

what actually happened to him? I still dont know. I dont mean to sound like a dunce.. I really just dont know, and have not heard any real answer..

Is that Davey Pattinson singing out of key ?

prostate cancer

this singer is PAINFULL to listen to.

Utter shite that. But in 1982 with Davey Pattison at the helm....brilliant.

unfortunately, right at the end, ronnie seemed to be 'going thru' singers like a hot knife thru butter. i know this can't be Keith St. John, but whoever it is, he sounds like he has strep throat or something. or...... he's simply sucking, bad. this is NOT good. i personally know Steve there on Drums and Dan McNay on bass. old sacramento buddies of mine. great players, alongside Ronnie. but wow.....what unfortunate event took place, that they got stuck with this weak vocalist?

Who was the singer, terrible

So can that cat sing ??????