Roll Over And Play Live!

Roll Over And Play Live! is taken from one of Ronnie Montrose' small club shows -- and it was a single show with no overdubs -- in support of the 1994 CD "Music From Here". Many of that album's best tunes ("Primary Function," "Largemouth", etc.) are represented here, and the band is the same power trio as on that disc: Montrose, bassist Craig McFarland (who drills out a dynamic, surprisingly entertaining bass solo on "Indigo Spheres") and drummer Michele Graybeal, who provides a solid backbeat and creative fills throughout. Several of the tunes are new -- fresh jams worked up in rehearsal and embellished on stage. Overall, Roll Over And Play Live! serves as an electrifying reminder of why Montrose has been making instrumental guitar albums for 20 years now, almost exclusively so for the last 15. No vocalist/lyricist he's ever worked with has been able to match the passion he channels through his own instrument.