Chula Vista

When this came out in 1973 it blew everyone away. Rock Candy was the first song I ever played in public. Was a 1975-76 graduation party at some dudes house. Guy's dad was rich and they had this HUGE rec room downstairs. Had to have been 50-60 totally stoned, and working their way towards drunk, teens there.

That was also the day I realized that having long hair and playing rock guitar was a gateway to easy female "attention".

Another awesome track from Montrose's debut.



The guy who engineered this was Ted Templeton, who 5 years later would engineer Van Halen's debut album.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”