Ronnie Montrose has passed away.

[bluesbassman]

9. Casual or longtime fan, that's some serious guitar work.

One of the things that always impressed me about Ronnie was that he always seemed to enjoyed every note he played, and wanted his audience to do the same.

I remember one show at Winterland where my buddy and I somehow managed to sit on the edge of the stage right by the subs. Security never hassled us, so we just kept sitting there while Ronnie played. At one point they played Space Station #5 and Ronnie had this Van de Graaff generator that he fed his guitar signal through. The guitar would feed back according to how he manipulated the field. Anyway, right in the middle of the song and while he was making the generator sing, he looked right at me and got the biggest grin on his face. He could see on my face that he was blowing me away and it made him happy.