Gamma 1

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Gamma 1 | type = studio | artist = Gamma | cover = Gamma 1.jpg | alt = | released = July 1979 | recorded = | studio = Chateau Recorders, North Hollywood, California | genre = Hard rock | length = 37:10 | label = Elektra | producer = Ken Scott | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Gamma 2 | next_year = 1980 | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = Ronnie Montrose | type = studio | prev_title = Open Fire | prev_year = 1978 | title = Gamma 1 | year = 1978 | next_title = Gamma 2 | next_year = 1980 }} }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/gamma-1-mw0000232189 |title=Gamma - Gamma 1 review |last=Viglione |first=Joe |work=AllMusic |publisher=All Media Network |accessdate=2021-11-21 }}</ref> | rev2 = ''Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal'' | rev2Score = 10/10<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Popoff | first1 = Martin | author-link1 = Martin Popoff | title = The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 1: The Seventies | publisher = Collector's Guide Publishing | date = October 2003 | location = Burlington, Ontario, Canada | isbn = 978-1894959025 |page=114}}</ref> | rev3 = ''Record Mirror'' | rev3score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Dome |first=Malcolm |title=Gamma: ''I'' |date=5 January 1980 |magazine=Record Mirror |page=15}}</ref> | noprose = yes }}

'''''Gamma 1''''', released in 1979, is Gamma's debut album. It reached No. 131 on the Billboard Album charts, totalling seventeen weeks on the survey. "I'm Alive" reached No. 60 on the Billboard singles charts. "I'm Alive" is a cover of The Hollies song from 1965.

==Track listing== Credits adapted from the original LP releases.<ref>{{cite AV media notes |title=Gamma 1 |others= Gamma |year=1979 |type= LP sleeve|publisher=Elektra Records |id= 6E-219|location=New York City }}</ref> ;Side one #"Thunder and Lightning" (Ronnie Montrose, Davey Pattison) – 4:37 #"I'm Alive" (Clint Ballard Jr.) – 3:18 #"Razor King" (Montrose, Pattison) – 5:53 #"No Tears" (Pattison) – 4:53

;Side two #"Solar Heat" (Montrose) – 3:09 #"Ready for Action" (Montrose) – 3:39 #"Wish I Was" (Mickey Newbury) – 5:16 #"Fight to the Finish" (Montrose, Jim Alcivar) – 6:25

==Personnel== *Davey Pattison – vocals *Ronnie Montrose – guitar *Jim Alcivar – synthesizer *Alan Fitzgerald – bass guitar *Skip Gillette – drums

==Production== *Ken Scott – producer, engineer *Brian Leshon, Phil Jost – assistant engineers *Bernie Grundman – mastering at A&M Studios, Los Angeles

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Category:Gamma (band) albums Category:1979 debut albums Category:Albums produced by Ken Scott Category:Elektra Records albums