Reply #46: When I got 'Open Fire' [View All]

[Oeditpus Rex]

I was blown away by that track. It remains my favorite of everything he's done.

He'd long since started to spread out, though; on "Paper Money" there was "We're Goin' Home," "Spaceage Sacrifice" and even "Starliner," which was a burner, but an atypical one. (He was dating Tawn Mastrey of KSJO and gave her a tape that had "Starliner" from a show in Cleveland. It was amazing.)

"Warner Brothers Presents Montrose" had "Whaler" (about the only song Bob James sang well) and that beautiful acoustic solo, "One and a Half." After that, he became almost impossible to categorize; it's like every new album was an experiment. There was another track on "Open Fire" with Edgar Winter on a Moog sequencer bass that sounded like a meeting of musicians from Marrakesh and Mars.