# Gamma 1

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Gamma 1
| type       = studio
| artist     = [Gamma](/source/Gamma_(band))
| cover      = Gamma 1.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = July 1979
| recorded   =
| studio     = Chateau Recorders, North Hollywood, California
| genre      = [Hard rock](/source/Hard_rock)
| length     = 37:10
| label      = [Elektra](/source/Elektra_Records)
| producer   = [Ken Scott](/source/Ken_Scott_(record_producer))
| prev_title =
| prev_year  =
| next_title = [Gamma 2](/source/Gamma_2)
| next_year  = 1980
| misc       = {{Extra chronology
 | artist     = [Ronnie Montrose](/source/Ronnie_Montrose)
 | type       = studio
 | prev_title = [Open Fire](/source/Open_Fire_(Ronnie_Montrose_album))
 | prev_year  = 1978
 | title      = Gamma 1
 | year       = 1978
 | next_title = [Gamma 2](/source/Gamma_2)
 | next_year  = 1980
}}
}}
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = [AllMusic](/source/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](/source/AllMusic) |publisher=[All Media Network](/source/All_Media_Network) |accessdate=2021-11-21 }}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal](/source/Martin_Popoff)''
| 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](/source/Collector's_Guide_Publishing) | date = October 2003 | location = [Burlington, Ontario](/source/Burlington%2C_Ontario), [Canada](/source/Canada) | isbn = 978-1894959025 |page=114}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[Record Mirror](/source/Record_Mirror)''
| rev3score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Dome |first=Malcolm |title=Gamma: ''I'' |date=5 January 1980 |magazine=[Record Mirror](/source/Record_Mirror) |page=15}}</ref>
| noprose = yes
}}

'''''Gamma 1''''', released in 1979, is [Gamma](/source/Gamma_(band))'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](/source/The_Hollies) [song](/source/I'm_Alive_(The_Hollies_song)) from 1965.

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

;Side two
#"Solar Heat" <small>(Montrose)</small> – 3:09
#"Ready for Action" <small>(Montrose)</small> – 3:39
#"Wish I Was" <small>([Mickey Newbury](/source/Mickey_Newbury))</small> – 5:16
#"Fight to the Finish" <small>(Montrose, [Jim Alcivar](/source/Jim_Alcivar))</small> – 6:25

==Personnel==
*[Davey Pattison](/source/Davey_Pattison) – [vocals](/source/vocals)
*[Ronnie Montrose](/source/Ronnie_Montrose) – [guitar](/source/guitar)
*[Jim Alcivar](/source/Jim_Alcivar) – [synthesizer](/source/synthesizer)
*[Alan Fitzgerald](/source/Alan_Fitzgerald) – [bass guitar](/source/bass_guitar)
*Skip Gillette – [drums](/source/drum_kit)

==Production==
*[Ken Scott](/source/Ken_Scott_(record_producer)) – producer, engineer 
*Brian Leshon, Phil Jost – assistant engineers
*[Bernie Grundman](/source/Bernie_Grundman) – mastering at [A&M Studios](/source/A%26M_Studios), Los Angeles

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Gamma (band) }}

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

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