Legendary rock guitarist RONNIE MONTROSE (MONTROSE, GAMMA) passed away on March 3rd, following a five year battle with prostate cancer. A Concert For Ronnie Montrose - A Celebration Of His Life In Music took place at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, CA this past Friday (April 27th). On stage Ronnie's wife Leighsa Montrose held up a note written by the late guitarist called "Words of musical expression from Ronnie."

An excerpt reads: "My wish is that you find all of the pleasure and joy in listening to this music that I found in creating it.

Check out his words out below:

The event featured the following:

MONTROSE - Sammy Hagar, Denny Carmassi, Bill Church and special guest Joe Satriani

GAMMA - Davey Pattison, Denny Carmassi, Glenn Letsch, Tommy Suczek and Marc Bonilla

Tommy Thayer (KISS)

Neal Schon (JOURNEY)

Steve Smith (ex-Journey)

Ricky Phillips (STYX)

Eric Martin (MR. BIG)

Eric Singer (KISS)

Jimmy Degrasso (Y&T;)

Members of TESLA

Check out fan-filmed footage below:

Ronnie Montrose one and only live DVD of his recording career called Live At The Uptown will begin shipping on May 1st and is available as a regular DVD, DVD with limited poster and DVD with limited edition poster (no metallic). The limited edition, numbered poster is 12.5" x 19", black Speckletone paper, with three-color - "a very special and historic item!"

Ronnie and his band created a very wonderful evening filmed at the Uptown Theater in Napa, California this past January 27th, 2012. This DVD includes acoustic pieces, songs you never heard him perform before, and ones you haven't heard him do for years and years and years.

Ronnie rocked the house with a great set list that included many of his big hit songs including: 'Rock the Nation', 'I Got The Fire', 'Make It Last', '20 Flight', 'I Don't Want It', 'Space Age Sacrifice', 'Rock Candy', 'Bad Motor Scooter' and 'Good Rockin' Tonight'.