Montrose - Rock The Nation Lyrics

Saw Ted Nugent and Montrose in Chattanooga in 1977 both bands rocked. What a great era for partying and music

Back in the day.... I had a buddy with a turntable in his car... WTF! With Montrose always on the turntable....LMFAO

I saw Ronnie and his band less than a year before he died. It was great. He had his band play everything like the record, even the drummer (which is rare).

Why is a fuzzed out guitar so satisfying?

My favorite montrose song

Saw fog hat, montrose and j giels all in on concert back in 1974, montrose rocks

one of America's great original rock bands!-way better than Foghat and I really like Foghat-!!!

When the SHTF you kids are always welcome here! ha!

Got it in me

Covered this song in tons of clubs and it never got old. Made the ladies dance and shake the good stuff !!

this was the biggest sound in rock ... rock n roll attitude.
Great playing and writing. A 12!

Sammy at his Best.

RIP Ronnie Montrose
You are missed

One of the best rock albums of all time in my opinion. No weak songs on this one.

fuckin' WORD...!!!

louder??? Please YES!!!

Is it just me or does anyone else think Boston were influenced by them? I bought the album when it came out (Montrose that is) and couldn't help hearing Ronnie's guitar in Boston's songs.


No? Just me then ;-)

I had always thought of Van Halen, but yeah, in this song I can hear a Boston type of sound. Thanks for that.

We did this in our garage band, memories.

If I were a presidential candidate this would be my walk- on song YEAH!

Metal before Metal.

RIP Ronnie. Damn still gets me going. Having fun, all across the nation!

This, little millenials is how to play rock and roll.

I'm 62 years old and back in mid 70's , I was lucky enough to get to see Montrose, Spooky Tooth and Frampton while he was learning his licks in Humble Pie! I'll put that concert up against anything else that has ever played Rock&Roll!

Montrose , another s.a.t favorite!

V.O.A \m/\m/

Van Halen ripped these guys off

Best hard rock‼ is cool.

All the respect to musicians pro and amateurs. You keep people happy and healthy.

one of the most underrated rock songs of all time

Club Cabo wabo

Otro gran guitarrista ke se fue.ronnie montrose.

Sammy Hagar ain't Van Halen-this is Sammy!

One of the baddest guitar riffs ever!

Definitely one of the best rock bands ever

Hell Yeah!

This intro its you like a ton of bricks love it

American hard rock!!!

I’m gonna shoe gaze the nation...shoe gaze the nation yeah!!!!!

underrated band and album . choke full of great rock songs

not a bad song on this album. later albums tho.... meh

One of my best drinking albums, Sammy Hagar

Top 50 Rock album of all time, 27 dislikes? LMAOOOO

The beginning of this tune reminds me of The MC5.

Save Arizona girl from free vacation

Save Chicago airport on way to Texas save the NRA

We are not worthy - Greatest Rock record ever - Ronnie - RIP

fabuleux morceau de rock du debut des annees 70

Do it President Trump

Steve Strickland MAGA

Trump 2020

Another cowbell classic.

One of the top 10 air guitar tunes of all time.

Rock bottom

Rock Bottom equally as Hot and performed by a gifted guitarist. We had it pretty good back in the day! still strong and rock and roll proud today!!

great song great album holds up over 40-50years, totally rocks! Sammy's best ]RIP Ronnie

simple is best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY6yOmbb-jI

another new generation of listeners> wee doggies!!!!!!

Sure sounds like Sammy RIPPED OFF the MC5 Kick out the Jams lick! from 1969

I knew this band was before their time because the music they were pumping out didnt sound anything like any of the other music then , and it kicked fuckin ass all over most of it...

There's nothing new under the sun.

Sammy Hagar as a baby boy. Man could he rock!!

I saw them in 1975 with Foghat perform in Chicago.

Foghat and Montrose together in one rock show back-to-back? That was the pinnacle of rock and roll right there!

Aragon Ballroom...me too.

Crank the fucking Kraco on this shit

I GOT A QUESTION?

Nobody answered after a year?

R I P  Ronnie !

I was just noodling on my strat through my Marshall plexi, and stumbled across that same tone. "De' ja'vo'...I immediately went into that chord progression. Played that at a high school dance a few months after the album came out. I,ve talked with Ronnie Montrose about a bootleg album I bought around the same time. Kick Ass !! Montrose./UFO /..Scorpions etc..What ever happened to great music?.

Foghat is the pinnacle, but for an American band, Montrose can't really be beat. Aerosmith and Montrose both rocked, Aerosmith is of course still around, RIP Ronnie Montrose. RIP Lonesome Dave Peverett and Rod Price

Don't forget Gamma. Another Ronnie album. O and Gamma II

9 people are tone deaf.

20 people.

26 people now.

@CTECH 9 It's up to 39 now. Stupidity must be contagious.

@Jim Davis LOL! Yeah. Merry Christmas.

saw them back in 1974 along with bad co , humble pie and the head liners the who what a day ( and night ) and we even had sunshine what more could you want rock and sun all for around £4 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PAUL PAUL - wake up! your'e having a bad dream again mate!

this is when Sammy Hagar rock that man when he was with Montrose😎👍✌🌎🚀

Sammy rocks everywhere he goes, constant rocker he is, from rama, to las veges, then cabo, drinkin his tequila, because he can, l saw him, with eddy and alex in bala ont, rockin i there speed boat, demo music, listening, for fuck, album, 90s, early, saw eddy jogging, on east bay road, keep driving, sorry ed, paul.

views baby to Rock the Nation

Gonna shake it and I ain't gonna break it

More cowbell.

Only a real guitar player knows how good Ronnie was. R I P

Yes, Ronnie was an exceptional player. Nothing was added that didn't need to be there. That is mark of a great player. It was what he didn't play that made one took notice. Great riffs, nothing excessive...a joy to listen to. R.I.P.

This was one of the most ignored , greatest bands ever... at least for this album.

Yes Ronnie was great

@Jim E You got that right! THE most timeless guitar-oriented record ever recorded.

This song is the definition of Rock n Roll !!!

And a precursor of Heavy metal...

Hard to believe rock this kick ass was 44 years ago.. Doesn't get any better.. Thank you Ronnie

IK WAS EEN JAAR OF 13 OF 14 EN IK VOND MONTROSE TOEN AL GEWELDIG. NA AL DIE JAREN NOG STEEDS !!!!!!!!!!!! Groeten vanaf Utrecht Holland

Best pre solo ever.

this needs to be performed during superbowl halftime. make it happen! Simple, short and sweet!

sirkilljoy66 Wouldn't work.The preformance might just top the game.

See ya in hell !!!

so now there are 4 homos who dont like this

Homophobic scum!

76 Mustang with Panasonic 15watt Cassette Deck, Jensen Tri's, 30 watt power booster blasting this jam, Case of Coors, some doobage of various countries and 3 good buddies along for the cruise. Man what a time to be a teenager.

These guys were KICKASS.

67 GTO, this and Highway Star by DP. Cruise the main drag, windows down, blast it out the Jensen speakers. Freedom and rebellion!!!!!

71 Super Bee, 440...4 speed with 430 gears going sideways drag racing to this song/8 track.

Don't know about the doobage but yea you were the shit when you went from the Jensen coaxials to the triaxials

Had a 1970 Monte Carlo with a Pioneer under dash supertuner, booster, Jensen 6x9s and 5's cold (and warm) Michelob and other illegal things, playing this between Black Sabbath, L Zepplin ,Floyd Robin Trower with my buddies going to another party. and sometimes on our way to school! yeah not always wise but i wouldnt trade it

fun fact: this song sounds awesome when paired with coke and a great stereo setup

Coke adds life!

LOVE LOVE LOVE this

Another classic

Who's the the one homo that doesn't like this tune?

Paul Shea. Probably Trunp!

Ruben Delgadillo
No dude, we know PRESIDENT TRUMP is NOT a homo, because he likes to grab women by the pussy! !!

Justin beiber.

@Ruben Delgadillo YOU CANT EVEN SPELL TRUMP YOU IGNORANT FUCKING MORON

One of the most underrated rock groups of the 70's!

Who ever underrated Ronnie Montrose never heard or listened to him and the tracks he was laying down all quality stuff great writing and composing and the instrumentation was nothiing but old fasion kick Ass Rockin Roll R.I.P. Ronnie Montrose it pains to see him pass the way he did God Rest his soul annd my condolences to the family and survivors

Not in San Antonio, Texas.

Totally agree. Sammy Hagar was also a member.

Montrose was never underrated back in the day. Stop saying bands were underrated when they weren't.

Agreed Ruben.

KICK ASSS GROUP FOR THEIR DAY

For ANY day!

Whitecrow for any day there has never been another band like montrose

In 1973, "Rock The Nation" was a KICK-ASS SONG!!!  In 2016, "Rock The Nation" STILL KICKS ASS!!!!

Awesome....Rock the Nation....