Before his death in 2012, guitarist Ronnie Montrose began recording an album with bassist Ricky Phillips (Styx, Bad English) and drummer Eric Singer (Kiss, Alice Cooper). The idea...
Before his death in 2012, guitarist Ronnie Montrose began recording an album with bassist Ricky Phillips (Styx, Bad English) and drummer Eric Singer (Kiss, Alice Cooper). The idea was to record 10 songs with 10 singers and call the album 10X10.
Unfortunately, Montrose was unable to see the final product during his lifetime.
However, Phillips made it his mission to finish the songs; he enlisted a small army of Montrose's friends to record the vocals and guitar solos for each song—and he actually completed the album. In fact, it'll be released September 29 via Rhino.
Earlier this month, we premiered the album's first single, "Color Blind," featuring Sammy Hagar and Steve Lukather[1]. Today we present the exclusive premiere of another song, "Still Singin' with the Band," which features Glenn Hughes, Def Leppard's Phil Collen and Jimmy "Z" Zavala. You can hear it below.
Besides the star-studded crew named above, the disc also features appearances by Joe Bonamassa ("The Kingdom's Come Undone"), Edgar Winter ("Love Is an Art") and Tommy Shaw ("Strong Enough"). Several artists heard on 10X10 recorded with Montrose during his career, including Winter, who invited the guitarist to play on his 1972 album, They Only Come Out at Night.
"It's valuable to have 10X10 be seen as Ronnie's last work, rather than going and digging up some stuff from his past," says Hagar, who recorded two albums with Montrose in the Seventies. "This was something he truly had a vision for."
"His songs still have the fire and angst of a young rebel, but with some added wisdom and foresight voiced in his own unique language of 'guitar-speak'," Phillips adds.
Below, check out "Still Singin' with the Band," the complete track listing, cover art and a whole lot more.
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