You should have 1000 thumbs up for that brother

Well Tony...it's 51 years later and I'm still jealous.

That’s great! Ok as someone who was there, who’d you rate the 3 best acts that played it, in order?

Me too !! Our campground was just up the back road behind the stage. Loved Mountain !! My band at the time played "Dreams Of Milk And Honey" and "Southbound Train".

I remember, I was standing right next to ya! Such a long, long time ago!

Peter Brown co author. RIP

Agree on all three!!

@miltonkeynes3090, YOU SAID ALL THAT CAN BE SAID . YOU KNOW GREAT TALENT WHEN YOU HEAR IT. Thankfully they left us some of the best music in ROCK HISTORY. CORKY AND STEVE MADE MOUNTAIN A COMPLETE BAND . Only these 4-MUSICIANS MADE TO THE TOP OF THEIR MOUNTAIN,! BY THE WAY , (MOUNTAIN,MOUNTAIN CLIMBING,HENDRIX, we’re MY FIRST ALBUMS I BROUGHT.🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶😎✌️BOB

YOU SAID IT SO RIGHT ,THE ORIGINAL VERSION IS STILL THE BEST.THIS WAS ONE OF ROCK,s GREATEST BANDS!🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶😎✌️BOB

Amen, brother!

And Jack Bruce!

Also, R.I.P. Felix Pappalardi

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️

YES WE LOST TWO OF THE GREATEST MUSICIAN,s IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC. SO,SO SAD ,JUST LISTEN TO LESLIE PLAY THAT GUITAR,FELIX WITH THAT WONDERFUL VOICE,MAN THIS WAS A SPECIAL BAND . Thankfully WE HAVE THIS MUSIC TO LISTEN TO.!🎶🎶🎶🎶😂✌️😎BOB

No Leslie is Not with Felix.. but on the Gods white throne judgement they will be alive one last time to be judged for their Godly works on earth and then I’m sure they will both go to Hell for Eternity

Felix's voice was haunting during the song such a professional

Sorely missed along with Jack Bruce Leslie West...They brought joy, celebration, AMPED UP Music, POWERFUL .

No doubt about it. Beauty to the ears. Can and does get caught up in the throat. Thanking them for the Rollercoaster ride that is heavy super group delightfullness.

If you cheat on your wife. Don’t buy her a gun. Which is exactly what happened to Felix He was cheating and brought his wife a gun. His wife found out about it. And shot him.

​@@peterm1826 that's crazy. No sane person would kill someone (let alone someone so intimate) for such a trivial thing.

I agree with you my friend !

He was fantastic...one of my personal musical heroes.

One of the single greatest songs ever written

John Deegan I bet they were having some great sex though LOL

@@lloyddavidlieberman1481 Jack. ! Wrote it Felix did best. :)

Well said. I discovered Mountain 6 months ago and I am hooked. I think I own pretty much everything they put out.

Sounds like Burton Cumming's voice kind of..

Always thought Leslie sung this one. Very nice voice anyway.

West rules wirth his tone!

One of Jack Bruce's best.

i do too

@@joeymac3969 I wish I could, I have to listen to it once a day.

This does a 60ish fellow good once a week at least. Therapy ya know

I put "Mountain Climbing" cd in my car player and then epoxied a cover over the access slot.

I can't claim to listen that often but, when I do, it consumes me. RIP Leslie West just today. :(

May he RIP

One of my all time favorites.. RIP Leslie.

he just makes you want to track down this stuff and hear him jam. very few guitarists play so damn well that I think about putting them on simply because it's time to hear it again. among the best lead guitarists that ever lived. the rock BB King. their original 'Mississippi Queen' was and is, badass. if you threw theJAMES GANG into CREAM, you'd get something like this.

IT S IT,get sunn coliseum pa plug in mic jack adjust master/volumes,eq,get lp jr w/p-90 ,BUT OH THE FINGERS AND SOUL bless myn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ditto

Indeed

So absolutely true, Mr. Gary Clark. So very true.

+Gary Clark ....agreed..absolutely...today's crap has no soul compared to this.

It is just freakin' fabulous....

It is!!!

@ Gary Clark , I feel it! That's what makes it real. Today..., I am numb. This new music is absent of soul. An occasional tune is alive, but for the most part it everything is dead. I need an itch scratched.

randy109 Randy 109, you are lucid and insiteful concerning Jack Bruce. What I would give to go back to these Halcyon days. Take care brother

Jack was with Cream back then? Not at woodstock

Twigg Ster right on twig thank you send

Twigg Ster He wrote it.

@@billydotleeds C

The story is that Jack didn’t think it was good enough, so he gave it to Felix

Jack and his wife Janet Godfrey were close freinds with Felix and his wife Gail Collins. Remember that Felix produced all the American Cream stuff. After Mountain split Jack joined Leslie and Corky in West, Bruce & Laing. They were all buddies.

Agreed. I have so much of their music on vinyl that I will never give up. I never saw them play, but I sure loved them.

Brings tears to my eyes

Song was actually written by Jack Bruce of cream but I always thought mountain overall to be a much much better band more consistent and I actually prefer most of their versions of creams music I do not feel it Clapton had a passion as a blues player vocally or instrumentally that Leslie west did for one thing. Most underrated band of all time without a doubt although I do know of a couple of other exceptions to this

, and: Long Red.

Once you try, it's your second chance.

it is a beautiful song and reflects the struggle and the triumph of the pioneers but one part of the picture is omitted hence the "imaginary" western - the forceful dispossession and displacement and mass murder, to put it bluntly, of the original inhabitants - surprisingly, there are still people descended from them alive today

​​@@toddthedrysocketWelcome to human history 101. Not really that surprising that their descendants have survived though, as the vast majority of the indigenous folk who were wiped out succumbed to disease to which they had no immunity rather than a systematic genocide.

I wasthere too.......but fuck if I remember PLEASE TELL ME WHADDTHEY SOUNDLIKE......SHIT BET THEY WUZ GREAT !!!!!

You may have been there but you didn't see them perform the version in this video, this wasn't their Woodstock performance, nor even the same band members. You can find their Woodstock versions of Blood of the Sun and Theme From an Imaginary Western here, after listening you may understand why the producers used recordings from another concert instead on the Woodstock II album. No harm, no foul, there were many performances at Woodstock that the performers would like to take back for many reasons, the weather, the crowd, the time of day, the equipment malfunctions, the drugs, the alcohol....

You can say that really lived The Life

Sal Cipolla -I hate u..just playing.. only was 14 back then..1969..

Lucky fucker!

Leslie West is a master of feel and tone, he can make three notes sound better than 30.

Too many notes? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mqmll5t5nOCbpok.html

So true

my fav ..ever!! saw him back at the capital in NJ a few times as a kid..

It's not the notes that make a song great, it's the space in between that makes it soar!

Love Felix's singing, and bass playing.....what a talented cat he was.

Everything u have said is correct.I add one point.The rich imaginative poetry in this song is splendid.Overall, this is one of the finest R&B songs ever made.

Yes you are right. The incomparable Jack Bruce wrote this song.

Like Felix Pappalardi, Jack Bruce was a great talent.Of Blessed Memory are both of these geniuses.

Eloquent, Neil.

Not me… I’ve listened to this song through all these years. Got it on every playlist that I’ve got. Absolutely love everything about this song… never get tired of it and through all these years never forgot about it , never put it on the shelf. Great job Felix, Leslie and Corky.

indeed...

That is brilliant. If Leslie said it, it only reinforces what a thoughtful person he was

He's so right

+QueerAndUnplugged You are so right about this. I am old now (almost 64) but feel so damn lucky to have grown up in the wonderful 60's, so much great music by so many great musicians and bands, and they actually played their instruments. Starting with The Beatles, Stones, Kinks, etc; then Cream, Steppenwolf, Hendrix, Deep Purple, Mountain, Zeppelin, JethroTull, and on and on. It really was the most creative period for music. Peace

+Gary Clark you are so right Gary! Best music ever. Peace.

+Gary Clark Was a great time for sure! But you forgot the greatest American guitar driven band of all- the original Allman Brothers Band with the great, incomparable Duane Allman

+midrider335 Didn't forget them, just so many to mention them all, but you are right, ABB was (and still is) one of the great ones too. Duane Allman still stands as one of the greatest guitarists of all time, pretty remarkable considering his far too short career. Others worthy of mention too include Grand Funk Railroad, Free, Bad Company, Pink Floyd, Sabbath, so many.........

+QueerAndUnplugged The music wasn't over produced and McDonaldized , so it had flavor. And there was no MTV so what the music sounded like was more important then looks. Add that the electric guitar amp were not just being used for volume, turn that shit up to 10 and the guitar becomes a different kind of animal, controlled feedback and sustain as an expressive tool. And a lot of bands were spiritual or had a theory, LSD made people think outside the box and stuff like Transcendental Meditation and Zen were being discovered. And there was a real nasty war happening with a draft lottery and at any moment your number could come up and in 8 weeks you'd be in hell. Assassinations, civil rights movement, the youth seriously questioning the government and the status quo, just a ton of factors making for some serious song writing with intense lyrics, Bob Dylan. And a lot of the music was about God and enlightenment, or peace and love. Folk music and the old blues masters being appreciated made for acceptance of a different kind of singing voice, less polished and trained, raw and down to Earth was good. All these factors made for a perfect storm. As to why music has gone down the tubes, it might not have, the good stuff might be hard to find. Music was just tossed out on the airwaves, like throw it at the wall and see if it sticks, see if it sells. Now I think they stick it to the wall, in other words they decide what we like. And those personal music devices, down loading one song at a time, whole albums often had a theme. Also through schools and universities there is a kind of censorship that is in the disguise of inclusive but is really constraining. Free speech and open discussion was encouraged, now there are safe zones all over a campus and a special little zone kicked off to the side is the only place where free speech is allowed. Last but not least, TV, American Idol, X Factor. New music was presented to us on shows like Ed Sulivan and Mid Night Special and other shows. Now it's a game show, and to top it off the winners are under contract and told what to do for 10 fucking years! Anyway, that is my take on what the hell is going on in the arts and why a Woodstock might not happen again for a long time.

Hendrix used to ask people if they thought he was as good as Leslie West.

Great comment! I love it!

Could not have said it better

Such a clear, natural voice. Also great songwriter. I also miss him greatly.

I miss Jack too

Thank You

Thank you

agree with you for sure... song takes me back to when we were so hopeful of making positive change to fix the messed up world....think we dropped the ball in many areas but seeing now some of the youth are grabbing onto those values..

Very cool story !!

saw Mountain in UK supporting Deep Purple on reunion in 1980's, Richie Blackmore wanted Leslie West to play...says it all.

Thank you for posting this!

agreed

It is.

HAVING SEEN THEM TWICE I WOULD SAY YOU ARE CORRECT

So F-in underrated!

thumbsucker[avalanch] maybe not chronologically, but sound wise the birth of metal

I agree. Mountain had great music. It's unfortunate that the production quality in the studio was not better.

This should have been on the original record but at least it made it to the 40th anniversary CD but not the DVD. For myself that version off Climbing was his best & most passionate . Truly one of the 70s most classic guitar solos.

Donnie Maxwell .

And now... Leslie West...

Amen sister

Definitely 😢😢

That is a great story, it must have been a stunning experience.

Aint it great! Tone baby, Tone! Its all about the tone

tad holtz Tube amps.....you cant beat em!!!!

Steve Hoge Fucking awesome, just listened to Jack Bruce and Joe Bonamass. No beating West's tone.

Steve Hoge Jimi's old Sunn amps.

+Steve Hoge Powered by Tualatin, Oregon & Conrad Sundholm.

Tim look for that video on here. I just viewed it.

+Nicole Murdock One of my all-time favorite songs. So beautiful.

You're right....The CSN&Y song 'Sea Of Madness' wasn't recorded at Woodstock either...They used a better sounding version from the Fillmore East on the first Woodstock album..Cool that you were there Edgar Cook...I was a couple of years too young to go...

I've read that also their "Blood of the Sun" was not from Woodstock performance. I compared the two ones: the true Woodstock one was good, but the one they put on the record is terrific!!👍

I heard on a podcast that Mountains manager was like "do we get paid to be in the movie? no? pass", haha big mistake

@@brookskaplan66 This isn't really the same version from Woodstock anyway. The real version isn't quite so good.

Correct, when they played this at Woodstock they had a pretty bad breakdown and had to start over. I guess that’s why they used a different recording on the album, Woodstock II.

Felix did not die from drugs. He was shot and killed by his wife.

I simply cannot believe that there is anyone who did not know that Felix Pappalardi was shot and killed by his wife, Gail Collins: it was a celebrated case, and she got off with manslaughter. She shot him, she said, accidentally while he was instructing her how to use the gun, a small 22 caliber derringer, a tiny thing that just caused enough of an injury for him to bleed to death there in the Manhattan apartment. It was entirely incidental and irrelevant that they were living in an open marriage, both of them taking lovers and possibly kindling some serious jealousy; what goes around...

Mark..so true. I can never get enough of Mountain or Cream. I wish that somehow I could just live in that music...suspended in that time forever. Pamela

Can't believe you think Felix died from drugs! Big fan eh, Mark!?

@@Clemmy54 he didn't die from drugs; his wife shot him in the head with a small .22 caliber Derringer. It was murder, she was convicted of manslaughter.

Steve Knight.

where was it recorded?

​@@crazymanmichael100 I've looked for years, as have others, to determine where...Detroit?, Cincinnati?, Fillmore East?, no one has been able to identify it & I've listened to over 20 versions from the era. The Woodstock version was a fairly shabby reading compared to what was released on Woodstock II in '78 (Vinyl). Here is what the actual Woodstock performance sounded like: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rp-Xa6xhnpjGXZc.html

@@klep2859 Thanks for that, yes, quite different, it's funny i noticed the comments section was turned off for that one, looks like it will remain a mystery, at least we do have the Woodstock 2 version to listen to. Thanks again.