Keysguy Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 I loved Mountain and wore out that album. A bass player I worked with back in the day told me his band opened for them but their equipment truck got lost so they asked if they could use my froiends bands equip. They said OK if any damages would be covered. When Leslie went over to the Marshall stack on stage he just took his hand and swiped all the dials to 10. LOL! BTW I also remember a rumor that the only reason he had a Hammond player was so as not to be accused of copying Creme. RIP Mr. West you gave us some good music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Schmieder Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 Oh man, I'd heart about the heart attack this morning but was hoping he'd recover. Quote Eugenio Upright, 60th Anniversary P-Bass, USA Geddy Lee J-Bass, Yamaha BBP35, D'angelico SS Bari, EXL1, Select Strat, 70th Anniversary Esquire, LP 57, Eastman T486, T64, Ibanez PM2, Hammond XK4, Moog Voyager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElmerJFudd Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 [video:youtube] Quote Yamaha CP88, Casio PX-560 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldwin Funster Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 I'm very sad at this. But frankly I thought he died a couple years ago. He was in bad shape with diabetes. My fav Mountain song. [video:youtube] Quote FunMachine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Docbop Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 Another big Mountain fan here. I remember going to see them in the early days and they were the loudest band I ever heard and still might be. Only time I decided on move back from the stage. Great songs and guitarist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Schmieder Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 As much as I love Mountain, I also dig some of the stuff he did with Jeff Beck and then with Jack Bruce. Their heavy version of Superstition (especially live) manages to groove and funk at the same time it's dragging the chains. Quote Eugenio Upright, 60th Anniversary P-Bass, USA Geddy Lee J-Bass, Yamaha BBP35, D'angelico SS Bari, EXL1, Select Strat, 70th Anniversary Esquire, LP 57, Eastman T486, T64, Ibanez PM2, Hammond XK4, Moog Voyager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Schmieder Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 Although there are many musicians, songs, and bands that are said to have launched the Heavy metal genre, I remember that for a long time Mountain had a plurality if not majority of the votes as the originators. Quote Eugenio Upright, 60th Anniversary P-Bass, USA Geddy Lee J-Bass, Yamaha BBP35, D'angelico SS Bari, EXL1, Select Strat, 70th Anniversary Esquire, LP 57, Eastman T486, T64, Ibanez PM2, Hammond XK4, Moog Voyager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drawback Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 A couple of years ago I was paying inside a gas station and "Mississippi Queen" was blasting through the sound system. The young guys dug it â from Guitar Hero. I saw Mountain at The Electric Circus in Toronto when I lived there in '70 - '71. The legacy lives on. RIP Leslie West. Quote ____________________________________ Rod Here for the gear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRollins Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 I should be used to the idea that we're going to lose people at a regular rate--simply due to age, if nothing else. Add cancer, etc. and...dammit, I'm NOT used to it. These guys we're losing were supposed to live forever, you know? Grey Quote I'm not interested in someone's ability to program. I'm interested in their ability to compose and play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanC Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 I should be used to the idea that we're going to lose people at a regular rate--simply due to age, if nothing else. Add cancer, etc. and...dammit, I'm NOT used to it. These guys we're losing were supposed to live forever, you know? Grey Thankfully, their music will live forever! Quote Stan Gig Rig: Yamaha S90 XS; Hammond SK-1; Rehearsal: Yamaha MOX8 Korg Triton Le61, Yamaha S90, Hammond XK-1 Retired: Hammond M2/Leslie 145, Wurly 200, Ensoniq VFX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legatoboy Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 We went to so many Mountain shows from 1969 to 1972 up at the Capital Theatre in Portchester, NY... I lost count..w/Pig or Joshua Light show.... bottle of Boones Farm and a nickle or dime ... I was a bit to young for the Vagrants but I had heard so many local conversations in those years about thier shows, everyone in Queens,NYC .. talking about them, The Vagrants played in the 1st club I every played in those years, underage...... hommes, Felix and Leslie for me... they lived about 10 min from where I grew up . .and meet people in my day gigs that knew them personally! RIP Leslie West..... Quote CP-50, YC 73, FP-80, PX5-S, NE-5d61, Kurzweil SP6, XK-3, CX-3, Hammond XK-3, Yamaha YUX Upright, '66 B3/Leslie 145/122 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRollins Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 .... bottle of Boones Farm I could have gone all day without being reminded of Boone's Farm... Grey Quote I'm not interested in someone's ability to program. I'm interested in their ability to compose and play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polychrest Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 I saw Mountain at The Electric Circus in Toronto when I lived there in '70 - '71. The legacy lives on. RIP Leslie West. I saw them in 1970 at a free Festival Express concert outside the main Exhibition Stadium venue in Toronto. There was an ugly price-gouging protest outside the stadium gates on the first day of the event. To soothe the waters, some of the bands in the festival lineup set up and played on a flatbed truck in nearby Coronation Park. Mountain was one of them. Leslie West was mesmerizing. Quote “For 50 years, it was like being chained to a lunatic.” -- Kingsley Amis on the eventual loss of his libido Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legatoboy Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Was it just the regular or just the strawberry you didn't like! "I could have gone all day without being reminded of Boone's Farm... Grey" Quote CP-50, YC 73, FP-80, PX5-S, NE-5d61, Kurzweil SP6, XK-3, CX-3, Hammond XK-3, Yamaha YUX Upright, '66 B3/Leslie 145/122 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skipeb3 Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Yeah, RIP Leslie. I used to see the Vagrants in NY in the '60's. Action House, etc. Saw them open for the Young Rascals in '67 at MacArthur High School in Levittown. Vagrants were a very cool band...blue-eyed soul stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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