悼念：吉他手Ronnie Montrose逝世享年64岁！

lihaobo · 发表于 2012-3-8 09:09:48

Ronnie Montrose 美国著名蓝调布鲁司吉他大师，在经过了与前列腺癌的长期斗争后，不幸于3月3日去世，享年64岁。

其经纪人吉姆•道格拉斯（Jim Douglas）于上周日发表声明证实了这一消息，并表示葬礼的具体日期还未确定。

道格拉斯透露，Montrose生前长期遭受前列腺癌和巨大精神压力的折磨，连日来身体状况每况愈下。
　　这位伟大的吉他大师曾于1973年组建乐队，并根据自己的名字Ronnie Montrose命名为蒙特罗斯（Montrose）乐队，并同包括萨米黑格（Sammy Hagar）、赫比汉考（Herbie Hancock）、范莫里森（Van Morrison）、柏兹史盖兹（Boz Scaggs）和埃德加文特（the Edgar Winter Group）等多位摇滚巨星同台演出。
　　
经纪人道格拉斯表示：“对大多数人来说，Montrose的故事可谓是一段传奇，同时他也深深的影响了其他乐队的表演和发展。”他还将蒙特罗斯比作是“摇滚乐坛的辛勤耕耘者”，而Montrose的妻子雷莎（Leighsa）对他的工作热情也尤为赞赏。
　　
“Montrose对自己要求一向很严格”，在接受《旧金山纪事报》的采访时，雷莎透露：“他演奏时现场常常高潮迭起，同时受到歌迷们热情的欢迎。而在演出结束后，他也会反思自己在演奏时是否有所纰漏。”
　　
其经纪人道格拉斯表示：“Montrose生前一直致力于自己第一张DVD专辑的发行工作，并且正在筹划春季全美巡回演出的相关事宜。”

据消息称，Montrose还有一个女儿，并且年近花甲的他应经是5个孩子的外公了。

官方原文：
Guitarist Ronnie Montrose, who played alongside Sammy Hagar, Van Morrison, and Herbie Hancock, died Saturday following a battle with prostate cancer. He was 64. A statement on Montrose’s website (via Rolling Stone) confirmed the sad news. “A few months ago, we held a surprise party for Ronnie Montrose’s 64th birthday,” the posting reads. “He gave an impromptu speech, and told us that after a long life, filled with joy and hardship, he didn’t take any of our love for granted. He passed today. He’d battled cancer, and staved off old age for long enough. And true to form, he chose his own exit the way he chose his own life. We miss him already, but we’re glad to have shared with him while we could.” According to booking agent Jim Douglas, who spoke to Billboard.biz, the cancer and “personal demons” had plagued the musician for the past few years.

Though his break came in 1971 when he recorded guitar on Van Morrison’s Tupelo Honey, Montrose’s most well-known work was in his early 1970s band, Montrose, whose first two albums (Montrose and Paper Money) featured Sammy Hagar as frontman. In the late ’70s, Montrose started recording solo albums, and continued to tour and record on his own until 1997′s Marching to Mars, which was technically a Ronnie Montrose record but featured the efforts of the entire original Montrose lineup, including Hagar, whose 1974 exit from the band had left some bad blood.

Montrose was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2007, but continued to tour during his battle with the disease. Guitarists including Slash, Ozzy Osbourne’s Gus G., and Alter Bridge’s Myles Kennedy paid their respect via Twitter over the weekend. Montrose is survived by his wife, Leighsa, two children, and five grandchildren.

Montrose leader was also known for work alongside Van Morrison and Herbie Hancock