right on brother...

I am still missing Leslie. From his early Vagrants days, he displayed complete brilliance.

he abused those guitars, too make them wail

Love that missing tooth smile!

Truly

Ditto

Me too. Add Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Grand Funk, Pink Floyd, Stones, CSN&Y, Zappa/ Mothers. So many great bands back then.

And Santana, Jethro Tull, New Riders of the Purple Sage and Steve Miller Band, those years had amazing soundtrack to them

Me, too. Those bands and Jeff Beck, Doors, Stones, Deep Purple, Savoy Brown, Climax Blues Band, Led Zep, Traffic, Cream, Blodwyn Pig, Tull, Jefferson Airplane on and on…. Only wish I had listened to Lynyrd Skynyrd.. Sure I knew Home Sweet Alabama.. but man oh man.. I had no idea how freakin’ Amazing they were in the studio and live!! I did not know their others music.. Making up for lost time.

All the "stoners with boners" are representin' here!

hear, hear..!!

Hey Tom dont sweat.Kool Moe D is in the Rock and Roll hall of fame🙄

Styx isn’t there as well, say a lot more about the HoF than the artist themselves.

Ted Nugent isn't in there either. Look at some of the "Artists" who are and think about that. Really, think about it. F the Hall of Shame

There's no one like Leslie West- best timing ever!

Pfff... A one-hit wonder band!

Get on the train, get on the southbound train [:] 0

I always forget that Leslie did Woodstock. Man, what a memory to have for any artist.....even though it's probably pretty blurry.

@@josephconsoli4128 I had forgotten too.

Should of had a clip in the movie

@@davidmatela9868 Yeah, that movie really butchered the concert. Many performances were overdubbed too like Canned Heat's "Going Up To The Country".

YEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHH [:] 0

Mountain not being in the rock and roll hall of fame is fucking ridiculous. In my opinion, half of the motherfuckersd in there .should not be. You leave Mountain out, and you completely de-legitimize the whole thing !!!

@@tomcampbell9645 omg! didn't bother to check and I didn't realize that. No Mountain, then the whole thing is a joke.

A total shredder and a beast on the strings he never really got his just due . RIP 😔

Mr.Mountain West 9:58 is still alive in a lot of hearts and we listen i believe he hears and even tho is unfair not in RRHF think it bothers the fans more than Mr. Mountain he played from his heart and soul and for hiself. If you loved it great if not too bad He was his own gallo of fame every time he picked up a guitar and with every note he grunted out and every sideway snile and shifted eye look he gave his band commrades he was a one of a kind atar from the start King of genius Distortion dont RIP PLAY LOUD AND LONG so we can hear you from the Mangic Mountain in the heavens

les paul jr. and sunn amps. dirtiest sound of that era.

Besides Hendrix, my favorite guitarists of that time were, Leslie West, and Ritchie Blackmore.. However, I would have to give Terry Kath a serious Honorable Mention...

Ya Buddy, Leslie and the P-90, Rules, I bought a 1958 Les Paul Junior when i was 16 years old because of Leslie, R.I.P. To The Master,

seen him with West Bruce and Laing was7th heaven Mountain and Cream No's and of course there own w.b.l.music as well I was influenced by him Clapton Hendrix and Santana

@@tomitstube Yeah, Sunn PA amps w/ master volume to overdrive that Gibby.

Glad you and maybe others discovered Mountain. What a unique sound... "if you know what I mean."

You must check out the Mountain Climbing and Nantucket Sleighride albums!

It's cool Steve ,as long as you got the Memory you haven't lost anything , I give thanks for You Tube for stepping up to replace the loss of Independent Progressive FM Radio

I know!!!😭 This year the world has lost MANY MANY great giants it the music industry....He was mega talented✌️💜☮️💜

It’s just the beginning we got a lot more pillars of our youth about to fall away

Yep, I’ve found that the longer you live the more friends, family, and idols from your youth just fade away. Sometimes I feel like I left here with Taylor Swift and maybe KZfaq to bring back the memories

It’s only entertainment.

Great Periode for music

I would match Leslie West up against anyone !!!

@@tomcampbell9645 And he was only 23 when this was recorded.

Agreed!!!Gotta love the LP Jr. & LW. Another great player gone

When talent met a beginners guitar Les Paul Jr and made history, you know the guitar just did what the guitar master had to give.

He sure was, along with the Sunn PA rig he originally used, but he could make any rig sound like him. He played Dennis Miller’s talk show in ‘92 with a Steinberger Series P with the H-S-S pickup combo through a couple of Marshal stacks. He sounded a little different, but you could still tell it was him. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g92hn5p_3retZJ8.html

Two controls and a p90 pickup.

What a thrill that must have been, Pete. As a guitarist, I share your sentiments. If only!!!

The closest I got was playing the same venue and standing in the same spot.. how cool to have supported him... most excellent

You lucky bastard 👌

My thoughts exactly, except between the lucky and bastard I might have inserted an additional adjective! Catholic school...lol!

Somewhere pappalardi is smiling ...

Monster tone!

How about some love for Felix Papalardi on bass.

Truly distinctive tone!

mountain's manager was an idiot refused to allow this performance to be in the movie because the band wasnt offered enough money dumb, dumb, dumb

@@thewkovacs316 Mountain was only on the Woodstock II album, not the original Woodstock 3 record, too! That's when my friends and I were turned on to them. Hell for the opportunity Mountain would've had from the movie exposure they should have appeared for free! I'm surprised Felix didn't figure that out? Sometimes less is more. It's like I've always been a huge Johnny Winter fan. Johnny was on the road to recovery thanks to Paul Nelson his manager and Johnny's wife Susan. Prior to Johnny's Crossroads Guitar Festival appearance in '07 his gigs were small club's at $10-15 per ticket. After he got exposure from the '07 Crossroads dvd there was renewed interest. Johnny's tix were $40-50 and the gigs were sold out!

@@brianwells4507 santana were pretty much only playing small gigs in the bay area before woodstock...the appearance in the movie turned them into "overnight" superstars. shanana were a college group doing oldies and 2 minutes of them in the film gave them a career definitely hurt the beach boys when they turned down the offer to appear. why certain groups and performers didnt see the impact the festival could have on their careers, knowing what happened to a lot of performers after monterey pop to people like janice, is beyond me. the mysteries of life.

@@thewkovacs316 Tommy James and the Shondells also had a chance to play Woodstock, and their manager dropped the ball. Called Tommy on the phone and said "some farmer in upstate New York wants you to play a show in his cornfield" or something to that order, without explaining what the event truly was. Tommy turned it down, thinking it was a joke, or some private event instead of the big thing it turned out to be. He still had hits after 1969, but regretted not playing Woodstock. And it was all due to the way his manager described the coming event.

@@chriscampbell9191 some people just didnt see the forest for the trees. the only person who really had a good excuse for not being there after being asked was joni mitchell, because she had already been booked on cavett...and she ended up writing one of the greatest songs about the event, and wasnt even there to see it.

Considering he was doing this heavy stuff back in 1966 (check out The Vagrants live Satisfaction cover), I wholeheartedly agree

One of the forefathers of heavy metal.

He is in the rock hierarchy

One of a kind.Mountain rocks like a runaway train.

For sure!

I was there at Woodstock and there were much better sounding live then. But,, sheet, they were much better at my college in 1974.

@@dr.barrycohn5461 I was a little too young to see Mountain in their heyday. Fortunately, I saw the re-formed band with Leslie & Corky on several occasions. I'm very grateful since LW was a big influence on my playing 😀

Hey you're right. I forgot Felix passed....well, he was actually murdered. Sad. But then in the other hand we can't be too down with the music they left us.

Damn

Damn

@@drillshend1 wow

Steve Knight too don't forget.

He had to have a big body to contain the heart and soul he had for his musical expression. Loved that man.

I remember that, was it "Mountain, Climbing"?

hahaha oh man If you only knew how many album covers telling us to turn up the volume for best experience there were! :D Those were the days!

Does your stereo go up to 11??!

@@chrislambert5571neat, the original LP’s for Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars had this label also

Bobby Caldwell did the best 5/4 rock I know of. Second best was Cream's "White Room" intro. We should do more 5/4 Rock because that bass line gets sick, and nicely out front.

It's wonderful, and he looks so happy while he's doing it.

I played with a guy in High School and he had one of those Jr. Les Paul's and it was badass! He would get such a great sound with it! But he insisted on playing his lame post CBS buyout Strat. I used to tell him, burn that thing and pick up that baby Paul. He was a "Clapton man" so he would always want to use it. Those things had KILLER tone and sustain. West sure did get his too sing!

awesome!!

Gary Rossington from Lynyrd Skynyrd used to get similar sustain from his Les Paul as well, listen to the intro of “That Smell” by Lynyrd Skynyrd for some wicked sustain 🔥

Dude that sustain was long enough to give me the chills 3 times! “You can go and have a bite and still hear that one!” 😉 😂

Nigel tufnel would agree

LOL

@@cragway And Leslie's amp goes to 11....

Even of it wasnt playing!

​@@cragwayDon't touch it!!

money and managers , i guess

@@seesaw1969 ... many of the bands didn't make the movie at all. Some of that was due to contractual issues of not getting paid for the actual performance (Woodstock Ventures went broke) and some was about it not being a good enough recording to release. (technical issues) Woodstock Ventures didn't dig out of their financial hole till they sold the movie rights a year later, although the album release did help a little. Even that didn't have all the bands on it. Decades later I would actually work with the guy who did sound for this festival. (Bill Hanley) He told all the dark secrets of how bad the working conditions were on that stormy weekend. It's amazing anything electric related worked at all!

I agree. I'd heard of Mountain, but this is the first time I've seen this footage. What a talented band!

@@philipstein1359 ... BTW, Felix (the bass player) was pals with Jack Bruce so maybe you can hear the influence.

@@rupe53 Aah, ...... the penny's just dropped, what was it, 'Theme from an Imaginary Western'? Now I understand the connection!

El mundo aun no estaba preparado para el rock pesado.

That signature style… 🔥🎸🔥

Wow, dude!! I wanted to go but I was in the navy at the time.

I’m so jealous!!

Think tinker so was I!

Awesome!

I was there too.. You probably saw me.. I was the guy who took 3 hits of acid and climbed to the top of the light tower.. They had to bring in a fire truck to get me down.. It's a miracle I didn't fall off.. I tripped so hard I didn't know who I was or where I was at for almost 36 hours..

You and the other around 20 million spectators (if you believe everyone who claimed they were there).

Were they truly as loud as they say mountain was?? I’ve seen every person who’s been to their concerts say it was the loudest band they ever heard play (primarily due to Leslie’s booming tone)

That's so true, a Rock'n'roll Andre the Giant, Check out the documentary"Festival Express " about the 1970 Canadian Railroad trip across Canada with various groups including Mountain and shows a scene of Leslie West looking out of the train window while practicing his guitar while watching the scenery roll by

Appreciate

I'm hoping you've heard the live side of the "Flowers of Evil" LP

Weren’t they using those Sunn coliseum PA amps? They were some of the first amps with the gain stage in them. But I don’t know how they got them to Woodstock.

@@georgeredhawk1996 Owned & used a Sunn Coliseum in the early 70s, it gave up the ghost after we moved to Missouri, in a bar near St Louis with " country current". Bought a '75-76 SVT, 16x10s, never looked back, still have the amp & cabs. It wasn't cheap at the time, but still cookin' after decades of torture.😁 As for me, modern day musicians get caught up with all the hype pushed by manufacturers. If you can't sound good on " a good rig" you probably can't sound good on an expensive rig, IMHO. Hype is king today. I've heard recordings get a great, solid sound from a Shure SM 57 on vocals, & others absolutely crucify vocals with a $3000 mic. In the early days, it's said Brian Wilson loved the 57 for lead vocals in the studio, so, who can fault that?

@@chiefline7084 You're not comprehending what I'm saying. Page played a Tele through a 10 watt Supro on the first album, he also used a Danelectro, as Hendrix did occasionally. Burns, Univox, Ibanez, Aria, Epiphone, Teisco, Tokai, etc, etc, etc....., could all be used to make great music if set up properly played by a gifted musician, along with inexpensive amps if a player used them right. Today inexpensive imports are of much better quality than many way overpriced USA made guitars, amps. If you can't get good tone out of these guitars, you probably can't get good tone with ANY hyped, overpriced axe. Yeah, I know very well about Les Pauls & Marshall's, Ampegs, we used them exclusively in the 70s & early 80s. I still have my '76 SVT & 2 cabs, along with original Eden, Yorkville & Hartke combos. In the early 2000s I worked for about 8 years in a fairly large music store, normally around 5 to 6 hundred guitars & a couple hundred amps, including Marshall, Sunn, Ampeg, Trace Elliot, Crate, Fender, etc. As a bassist I normally used Gibsons(Thunderbird, EBO) Rickenbacker, Fenders, but I now have an assortment of imports too, some as good as any USA models I've ever played. I was totally amazed at the quality of some of the imports, particularly at their price point compared to overpriced, ego hyping brand names. I love 'em myself! The Beatles loved Epiphones in the 60s-70s, didn't they, you know, the "cheap Gibsons"! No guitar is worth the money people pay for vintage, once affordable guitars & music gear, except those who need their ego boosted. That's what I'm talking about, as you asked. Just like a WW2 fighter pilot, it wasn't so much the aircraft as it was in him utilizing it properly.

West favored Gibson Les Paul Juniors (with the single P90 in the bridge position) and those were the cheaper “student” models, but they were still expensive, as they were Gibsons. Still though - guitarists back then tended to use simpler setups with fewer pedals, which I definitely prefer.

Ugh, “underrated” used for the 500,000th time on KZfaq about a musician/band/actor. Stop it, people, just stop.🙄

@@blueberrycobbler Never. In. My Life.

@@blueberrycobbler People can have an opinion..

Don’t. Look. Around.

@@blueberrycobbler LOL I know right? At this point all the "underrated" trope being spewed here on YT is nothing more than another form of mass hysteria.

No doubt and it really does lend credence to the fact that, you can have the most expensive amplifier, head, guitar, and whatever other effects gimmick you'd like, raw talent is going to win 10/10. All that sht gets you only so far. In the end, it still needs to be played. A great player with mediocre equipment will win over a bad player with the best equipment every single time. Having good band members to compliment you obviously plays a great deal as well. I'm sure those guitar strings rusted off by the next day because of the ounces of sweat they became saturated in.

He didn't just play. He made the guitar speak. I've noticed players like Leslie, Duane Allman and other greats, used the guitar as another vocalist. They made it sing everytime.

Bien dicho. Yo crecí escuchando esta música a inicios de los 70s. He sido un privilegiado. Saludos desde Perú.

...and singer.

I'm also born "74. Try Nantucket Sleigh ride for me and dad. ❤

Could be wrong, but Felix Pappalardi may have been the first bassist to use effects pedals, like overdrive/distortion, and it just sounded killer

@@martyconroy3786 Personally, I don't think it was compression or an effects pedal. My best guess is just turning the volume up to "11" and the amp was flat out running on empty. That's basically how Leslie got his sound too.

@@rupe53 only one band's amps go to 11, and it isn't Mountain.

@@martyconroy3786 That was a joke, but it was what they did back in the day. Not sure what Felix used, but some searching years ago showed Leslie used a Sunn PA head and plugged into the mic input then ran that channel to the max while controlling the actual volume with the master gain. The result was an overdriven input to get that sound.

@@rupe53 I knew it was. Let's just say both of them made the best of what was around back in the day

TRUE

exactly how chewy is a wookie bush? Are you speaking from personal experience? We need answers. cuz theres others out here that would be interested in some hairy wookie boobies as well.

Agreed! But, for history's sake, I should point out: No fuzz was used in the performance of that song! Just Sunn amps (which were very fuzzy, and VERY VERY LOUD) and mastery of the tone + volume knobs on the guitar and bass. I know because I love this tone and researched it heavily! (Yes, even the bass. According to someone who was apparently the touring bassist for Leslie West for some time the 00s, Felix P. used only a Gibson "violin bass" (which is very muddy no matter what) directly into Sunn amps. Crank everything, and hey presto you've got FUZZ! The natural kind, though, not the pedal kind :-)

Sorry! "Chewier than a Wookie bush" is a phrase I must have! I apologize. I MUST HAVE IT!!

@@superdriver777 Sunn Colosseum PA heads w/ master volume and pre-amp gain controls. Cranking the front end for overdrive.

Not underrated , just sayin'.............

@@metalslather -- Yes he is. He isn't talked about much in the guitar playing world. I'm a guitar player. I should know

@@antimurphy8212 He’ll be missed. Rock on brother 🪓

@@metalslather well done.

I'm all in on not enough knods and kudos to LW. Though I could say that about Alvin Lee who performed there too.

Now you're talking! I idolize Felix Pappalardi as a Bassist and Composer. I became a Bass Player after listening to Mountain's "Live" version of Stormy Monday" off the triple album "The First Great Rock Festivals Of The Seventies". I was thirteen years old in 1970 and attending Pacoima Junior High School in Pacoima, California. My late brother Anthony , who was a Guitarist, once brought hone a Gibson catalog from "Cassell's Music " in San Fernando, California and there was Felix Pappalardi's Gibson EB1 Violin Bass! It was still being made and sold but was too expensive for my parents to buy me one! My first ever Rock Concert was seeing WEST, BRUCE & LAING at the Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood, California in April, 1973. I was only 15 years old But, I really wanted to see Felix Pappalardi and Mountain but they broke up in 1972! Seeing West, Bruce & Laing gave me a taste of Pop/Rock worship when a girl standing next to me kept flailing her arms screaming "Jack!", "Jack!" at Jack Bruce whom I also idolize as a Bass Player and Composer. Honestly, I much preferred Pappalardi's style in that he was always locked into the rhythm section whilst playing cool riffs. Also, Cream came earlier and they were innovators. Felix Pappalardi produced Cream's recordings. Mountain was more my generation. Also, I identified with Pappalardi in that he was Italian but he looked Mexican~American! Felix Pappalardi was the coolest Bass Player! REST IN ETERNAL PEACE ~ FELIX A. PAPPALARDI JR.

I hear ya man…Bruce, Pappalardi,McCartney… who else???Players, composers….maybe Sting on the outside… God I got a racetrack!!! You know what I mean.

Love the Fuzz Tone. Excellent player. FELIX! I gotta fix my Big Muff. SuperFuzz BigMuff. Soldier? I think that's it. Best petal.

​@@sallyadams1762 Jack Bruce for sure. Funny thing, was listening to Wings Across America & said to myself, WOW his bass player is amazing. Gotta read the liner notes. This dude rocks. Duh. Its Paul. At least I figured it out before I checked.

@@raulmacias5735 Great album that almost nobody knows about. I learned so much from that record as a kid-my first exposure to Miles i think. I had Mountain albums but it was cool to find this jam that was the whole side of a record. Did you know that one Felix's first gigs was playing in an old time ragtime band with Max Morath from Duluth MN who was also a public TV pioneer.