The 1990 follow up album to The Speed Of Sound is primarily an instrumental album with vocals on 3 tracks. Davey Pattison from Gamma sings on two of the tracks: the title track and the cover of Stay With Me. In a catalog filled with creative left turns, this album challenges Territory for the title of the sharpest set of curves Montrose ever negotiated over the course of a single album.
After the success of 1988’s heavy, intense instrumental guitar album The Speed Of Sound, the obvious thing for Ronnie Montrose to do would have been to either evolve or outright duplicate its approach—which helps explain why he did nothing of the kind. From the beginning, the more anyone tried to convince Montrose to conform to expectations, the harder he fought against them—especially the music industry types who never could manage to trap him in any of their creative boxes. As an artist, he was simply untamable.
Ronnie Montrose was a sonic adventurer, and like every single one of his albums, The Diva Station has moments where his inimitable passion and mastery of tone shine through. That said, it’s not one of his strongest outings.
Artist: Ronnie Montrose
Album: The Diva Station
Year: 1990
Label: Enigma
Style: Hard Rock, Instrumental Rock
Format: mp3/320, flac (tracks, log, 44.1kHz/16bit)
Ronnie Montrose – Electric guitar, Acoustic guitar, Mandocello, Vocal effects
Gary Hull - Keyboards
Davey Faragher– Bass guitar
Aynsley Dunbar – drums
Davey Pattison: Vocals on "The Diva Station" and "Stay With Me"
Boris – bass guitar and Vocals on "New Kid in Town"
Steve Bellino - Drums on "New Kid in Town" and "Weirding Way"
Tracklist
01 Sorcerer 6:24
02 The Diva Station 4:32
03 Weirding Way 3:50
04 New Kid In Town 4:53
05 Choke Canyon 3:30
06 Little Demons 5:20
07 Stay With Me (Lorraine Ellison cover) 4:24
08 Quid Pro Quo 3:55
09 High And Dry 4:45
10 Solitaire 2:12
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Ronnie Montrose – The Diva Station (1990) mp3+flac
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