Mountain's "Climbing!" - Classic or Dud

I know it's cliche but goddamn Mississippi Queen is such a fucking monster riff. You could retired after that. RIP Big Man

The Mississippi Queen in the middling 'Twin Peaks' live record is a speaker shredder. RIP Leslie.

an aside:

here's my mom and felix pappalardi sometime around 1960 pic.twitter.com/IPY57NRAuk

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) December 15, 2020

Apparently he grew up partly in Forest Hills, where I lived until recently, and also I think spent some of his adult life there (people in my neighborhood mentioned that he lived in a building very close to mine, but not sure what years that was.

I've yet to hear a whole album by Mountain, but I was always impressed by how politely he begged our pardon for getting his kicks.

First two Mountain albums are top notch early hard rock. Leslie West lived pretty hard. I've loved Mountain and his music since I saw them open up for Triumph as a teenager in the 80s. Never played it live, but "Never in my Life" is one of the few covers I ever worked up and sang with a band. I've always been curious about some of those records he did post 2000, as he made quite a few. Perhaps by economic need, he did seems to keep the fire to keep playing and seemingly enjoyed music late into his career from interviews I had read.

I heard an interview with Jack Douglas and his first studio gig was emptying West's puke bucket because he was going cold turkey and trying to record

Better than Cream imo

Mountain > Cream without question.

Mississippi Cream (@ 0:18)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsFux_71fVQ

West sat in on the initial Who’s Next sessions in New York, but the band wasn’t happy with how they turned out (generally, not because of West), and started over a couple months later back in London. Most of the NYC sessions dribbled out on a few Who releases in the late ‘90s/early ‘00s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqP3hiMdZpQ

I think I have several of the tracks on 's Next 2cd Deluxe thing yeah. Not dug that out in a while though.

Not paid much attention to Mountain. Think the one thing I have by them is one of the official live sets that came out over the last decade. But have seen there is an official album series with several of their lps in. So may have more next week.
Also seeing that BGO have several lps paired.

They played a set at Cincinatti Pop the festival that begat the infamous iggy in crowd and on crowd footage with the stooges. I can't cut and paste very easily on a phone or I'd include the link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ9Jh2HDUHY