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Who's still loving this gem?............."Everybody with class and an appreciation of the generation of rock musicians that pioneered all the stuff rockers today listen to." That's who. Well said.
I totally agree. We ask our performers to be not only performers but also writers and models and PR agents and moral and intellectual giants. Its a strange dynamic
It indeed slaps hard my friend. It may in fact slap the hardest if not for Live Sabbath "War Pigs" from Paris September 1970. Bob Ward literally beat his kit to death that day while Geezer and Tony dropped power bombs. The slappinest
Old school here, you and thunder diesel need to check out and old track, the band is called Blue chear, and the song is called Summertime Blues( who cover)
@@roncaruso931 I've played and sang on stages for 45 years, yes I've noticed the Beatles, the second vinyl record I ever bought in the late 60s was a Beatles record. The first record I bought in the late 60s was by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.
@@roncaruso931 George Martin the Beatles record producer is responsible for much of their sound. They would not have sounded the same without George Martin and every professional musician knows that including me.
He was a true legend and the most underrated guitarist in history he is truly amazing ....I play guitar.. and thin fingers are so important...HE seems like a big man with thick fingers just creating some of those riffs ...iv tried I can do it but I see him with those big Hands and find it magical
Pure rock. I am reliving 1970 right now. Takes me to a place in time right down to the day. He rocked till the end. Rest in peace Leslie West. And Thank You!!!
Geezer Butler has high praise for this Riff, " one of, if not, the greatest riff of all time". This song always moves me, evokes fond memories from when I was a kid in the '70's
63 years old...so happy to have enjoyed the best music, best cars, and best times that America has ever had to offer. Thanks to my friend Dean for the introduction to Mountain.
This is one of a handful rock songs in which it is impossible to play it too loud. I'm positive it's blown out tens of thousand of speakers over the years.
This amazing performance was in front of a group of high school students at a public TV station in rural PA that hosted many of the best artists of the time. After each performance the students would meet with the band members and discuss sociopolitical topics with the band members. As you can see, the musicians took this invitation to perform very seriously. Phil Ochs , Country Joe and James Taylor are on RUclips appearing in this "The Show" venue too. Check it out.
I served as a Marine from 1971-74 and had this album on 8 track. I had a nice Sony stereo and blasted this music in my barracks loud and proud. Everybody loved and we partied hard.
Lol I wasn't in barracks but I had a Sony too😅😅😅 a lot of plain damn good rock and roll played on that thing. Until my cousin locked himself out and had to climb through a window and his foot came down on the arm and broke it.. '70s girl I miss those days and probably always will
@@suprotwin Yes they are timbales! Using those brass shells was the only way Corky and the band could hear them. He went back to regular toms when PAs got better. I love the sound of the timbales in place of toms!
The first time i heard this song was in 1970, i was 16 years old. Needless to say i still listen to it and love it just as much....54 years later. RIP Leslie, you deserve it.
Turning 64 in couple months. A friends children, 10 and 12 and 13. Ask what the name of the band playing on my tablet. I said here take a look. It was halfway through Stranglehold. On my 1988 Kenwood stereo with same year JBL speakers rebuilt 10 years ago. Next was Mountain playing Mississippi Queen. They asked to turn it up. I heard OMG the Huge 3 inch Volume dial still Binks and Turns by itself when you use remote. They were blown away. And Hooked on old school Rock. They loaded all of my 286? Songs from my ROCK folder. Then I told them hit Old Surf music. Not beach boys. Dick Dale Riders on the storm and such. They all play guitar and could not believe Dick was playing it upside down and backwards. The oldest has a birthday this weekend. I got him a reverberator for his guitar. Along with TED and ZZTOP CDs. They don't have much and being in a few bands myself just for fun too many years ago. I'm to Happy to help. Then there Dad said take a look under the cover to see my old Race Bike. They gasp ITS YOU! There dad now laughing. I did not know but they've seen me ride my scooter past 6 years across the desert. Or riding off road next to them while they are on the 60 hwy near Wickenburg az. There Dad told them Watchout. I'm that old guy on the XR650R that started riding at 6. And never out grew it. I said well its TALL! At 5-10. I can barely touch my boots flat.
I’m listening right now in my shop on January 1,2025 and thankful to have lived when music like this was on every FM radio station!!!!! In a thousand years this will still shake the ground!🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
One of my great memories was in 1971, as an 18-year-old, walking with friends one late evening down 8th Street from Fifth Avenue to Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village, NY. As we approached Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland Studio, I saw Leslie West in the middle of 8th Street. He was impossible to miss. He was taking a break from his recording studio session and getting some fresh evening air. I walked over to him just to say hello, as one guitarist to another. I remember Leslie smiling and breaking out into a hearty laugh. Mississippi Queen is a song I've loved from the first time I heard it when it came out, and I've never tired of hearing it through the years. It's an enduring masterpiece. And I've learned since that I wasn't alone. The late, great Edward Van Halen felt exactly the same way I did.
Me neither , I could play it on my guitar , but I couldn’t make it sound like him ! And I miss him too , it was like he was a one off person , and nobody has ever came along that even got close to his talent !
Crazy how good real musicians playing live can be. What a time to be alive. I may have missed it, but I still appreciate all the great music these pioneers of rock left us. Thank you Leslie, Felix, and the rest of Mountain.
@@davediamond7228 Yes ! I was 15 or 16 years old and went with older friends to see Mountain at the Hollywood Palladium when they were at their peak. This song is timeless, it kicks ass, and I don't think I'll ever get tired of listening. It's easily one of the all-time great hard rock songs !
I was a sophomore in high school when this song came out. It was one of several songs that made your hair turn up on your skin. The guitar work is unlike anything else that occurred then and since. Those of us who were in high school at that time were blessed to have grown up listening to music like this, Cream, The incomparable Jimi Hendrix, Alvin Lee and 10 years after, and several more. Their music doesn’t sound old and in so doing appears to render the musicians a level of immortality.
@@skwak3041 Music isn't like mathematics, where in the later case, what is now created is an expansion of what has come before. The non-uni-formally increasing nature of the quality of music, as well as it great variety, makes it possible for those that come before to achieve a degree of immortality. To some degree, those that have come after us have experienced some of what we experienced by virtue of just listening to the music we grew up with. But it is it possible to recreate the thrill from going from listening to Three Dog Night to Led Zeppelin? As a very young man, my father listened to Frank Sinatra in dirty little joints in Hoboken NJ. before Francis Albert became a star. The smile on my dad's face while listening to Sinatra at the age of 85 was no doubt due to the neural imprint that occurred in his brain when he first saw Sinatra before an adoring and wildly appreciative young crowd. He was a giant leap forward! My love for Sinatra's music could never be like my Dad's. We didn't have Sinatra to call our own. We had Hendrix, The Who, Cream, and several others. We were blessed.
@@markbykowsky8934 Truly blessed! And…your listing of Zep and Three Dog Night as the proverbial musical bookends for the expanse of great music and talent available to us in the 70s was pretty damn astute! What was the best concert you ever attended in the 70s?
@@skwak3041 I saw the Stones in 1972 in MSQ. Sent shivers down my spine when they appeared on stage. It was like a collection of Greek Gods had come down from Mount Olympus. Blues driven, so I can relate to it in some measure. I saw David Bowie perform during his Diamond Dogs tour. Half theater, half music, his performance was other worldly. Incredibly creative! Later I saw the Allman Brothers perform. Great musicians!
I have a similar experience to another poster below. The last time I saw this was when it aired in 1970. It has stayed with me ever since, and I have been trying to find this video for decades. I was in 10th grade. This was my first experience with Mountain. No VCRs back then. As mentioned by the other poster, this was from "The Show", which regularly aired on my local public TV channel. It was, if I remember correctly, a current affairs show with a small audience, and a band as musical guest. I also remember great performances by Grand Funk Railroad and Amboy Dukes. Mountain also did an incredible performance of "Theme for an Imaginary Western" on this show. The program was hosted by Al Capp. I remember reading, perhaps in Rolling Stone, that Leslie West got into a heated argument with the host, which was edited out of the show. The closest thing I found to this video was a youtube post that had a brief snippet from the video. The person who uploaded was looking for the whole thing: ruclips.net/video/HDCBUKKfG-E/видео.html. That post indicates that it was recorded in the studio on 2/4/70, and was aired on 3/29/70. This segment was recorded at WITF TV in Hershey, PA. Back in 2007, I contacted the archives department at WITF. They said they still had it. I doubt it was on the original format, which in 1970 was probably 2" tape. I'm guessing in 2007 they had it on Beta SP or some other pro format from that time. I asked them to sell me a copy on DVD, or even VHS. I would have paid just about anything. At first they said yes, but then changed their mind. After seeing this on TV in1970, I became a huge Mountain fan. I must have seen them at least a dozen times. The first time I saw them was at Kresge Auditorium at MIT, October 17, 1970. I still have the ticket stub. Fourth row, dead center. Cost: $5.50. I went with a friend from high school. We got there very early, and sneaked in and sat in the first row to a "private" session of Leslie and Felix, sitting on a couple of road cases in the middle of the stage, jamming some blues - quietly! Eventually we were discovered by ushers and told to leave, but it is a great memory. This concert was just over a month after Hendrix died. I had seen Hendrix three times, and after he died, I was sure I would never see anything as exciting as the JHE. Mountain came damn close, more than any of the famous bands I saw in the late 60s and early 70s - just my humble opinion. In college I once skipped classes and drove 2 hours to be first in line at the box office for Mountain tickets. When I got there , I was first in line, and the clerk opened the window and announced that tickets were not printed yet - come back tomorrow. So, I did. Leslie once said, and I paraphrase, that if you put 100 guitarists in a room, 99 will sound the same. It's the one that sounds different that you will remember. When Leslie and Corky were playing the in 90s and 2000s, I took my family to see them as often as I could. We always hung around to talk to them. I'm glad my wife and son got a chance to meet them. I mentioned their performance from "The Show", and they said it was one of their best. I can't thank you enough for posting this. I hope you can find and post "Theme" as well. Please pardon my rambling!
pardon your rambling? You must be kidding. You're gonna make me cry. I am humbled and honored to have facilitated you being able to see this again. I knew this performance was special the moment I first saw it, but I had no idea that the band and fans like yourself also held it in such high regard. You have made my year. Thank you for commenting.
Love the story that is so cool and an experience to remember. I was born October of 1967, I can only imagine what it was like to see a bunch of these groups. I have always wondered what guitar he is playing here. Thanks for the story.
@@atthewhiskeyPlease allow me to clarify. I saw the Jimi Hendrix Experience on August 25, 1968, at the Carousel Theater in Framingham, Massachusetts. I was 14 years old. It was my first concert ever. The opening acts were Soft Machine and Eire Apparent. Hendrix was a fan of Soft Machine. Eire Apparent was managed by Mike Jeffery and Chas Chandler, Jimi's managers. Jimi produced their one and only album, and I think he also played on it. Each band that night played for about 30 minutes. That was also the first time I saw a Marshall Stack. Jimi was using two of them, if I remember correctly. I think I may have said, out loud, "why aren't they using Fenders?" The Carousel Theater was a strange place to see Hendrix. It was a summer tent theater-in-the-round, used almost exclusively for (summer) musical theater. The ticket prices were $3.95, $4.95, and $5.95. My allowance was a dollar a week, so I splurged for a $4.95 seat. $5.95 seemed a bit excessive. I saw the JHE a second time on November 16, 1968, at the Boston Garden, 25 rows back (floor seats). There are some poorly recorded but historically important samples from this show on RUclips. The opening acts were Cat Mother & The All Night News Boys, and The McCoys. The final time I saw Hendrix was June 27, 1970, again at the Boston Garden, 19 rows back on the floor. That was the closest I ever got. The opening acts were The Illusion and an incredibly energetic set by Cactus (I went out and bought their album without delay. Still listening to them today). There are some decent recordings of this show on RUclips. BTW, floor seats were genuinely good seats back in the 60s and early 70s. People actually SAT in them. For the whole show. In fact, the whole crowd sat down, not just the floor. What an amazing concept. If you find the recording of "Red House" from the '68 Boston Garden show, notice how quiet 12,000 audience members were during that song. Imagine that - people actually listening to the music, instead of jumping, hollering, singing loudly off-key, and making the show about them. I miss those days. Thank you for your question!
I was strolling down the avenue early one evening with a buddy of mine. I was 16, a van pulls up with my neighbor and a few older guys. Door opens, a fog of smoke rolls out, they yell "Mountain is playing at the Garden, we go some extra tickets, you guys wannna go?" We jump in, van speeds away to the Garden. Nothing like those days. What a show. Nothing like Miss Queen to get a young boy going.
This is the 7th time i.ve listened to this today testing out various head phones new n old n I just luv this song !!!! Great great stuff !!! God bless Mountain !! ✌😎🇺🇸👍☺🗽😉😺🙏🌹😇💪🙂
thank you for saying so. When I realized that it was not widely available in the world I felt like Leslie would want us to see it. For me, this is one of the greatest single performances in RnR history. It is made even more special by the fact that it was done for a small audience on Local TV. They played that day like a band on fire, and they did so in the name of creating great art, not for any other reason. I find it incredibly inspiring.
Don't forget, people take for granted that it's easy to play guitar and sing... it's not. That's why a lot of bands have separate singers. This man had more soul in his pinky than most have in their whole body. Truly a great one.
Saw them at the Freedom Palace, a converted grocery store, in Kansas City the Spring of 1970. The crowd wouldn’t let them stop. I think they played four encores. At one point, Felix Pappalardi (RIP) said, “We like Kansas City!” Later that summer, I saw them in Central Park, NYC. Unbelievable power. Great albums. Leslie West (RIP), a truly great guitarist. Such great memories. I’m crying now. 😢
These guys are absolutely blasting out one of the greatest rock songs of all time, and when it's over, they get a smattering of polite applause! Somehow the underwhelming response makes the whole thing even better 👏
To be fair they were probably suffering from PTSD after that onslaught, maybe thought they were going getting the Carpenters, not an earthquake! What a band!!
Mountain was pure power. West was always a greatly under appreciated guitarist. So good to see the current generation getting exposed to what real music was like ... back in the day.
This is supremely awesome. Your technical work to clean this up is amazing. Mad respect. Also, that drummer is beating the crap out of that set...and I'm here for it.
So incredible that I never knew what the band looked like until today thanks to RUclips! If you’d of told me in 1970 I’d be dancing to this song in my bedroom watching the performance on a tiny computer that fits in my pocket I’d have laughed! Life is amazing! 🤩
The grail! Nice score on this one! I'm the guy that found the only live videos of Crow and The Illusion from this same time period.. Thank God someone put them out for me on DVD. I'm thrilled to see this video. I actually played a show once as Leslie's drummer in 1976. There's a photo going around the internet of us performing at that gig. He was one tough cookie and had to be. God rest him.
@@philipbarton2634 In the music business? You find yourself in the company of sociopaths that are taking full advantage. The higher you go, the more things get abusive towards the musician, especially when it's time to get paid. Also, try putting a band together around yourself. You have to get tough or you will lose them as they all want to go home to mama. In Leslie's case, it was apparent that this was not something he would like to do, it's what he did and what he was.. I was 18 years old then and I'm 66 years old now. I have been on a 30 year world tour, 47 releases and gone through the major label abuse and selfishness. Independent labels are much better and they pay what's owed. Leslie figured that one out long before I did. I owe a lot to him. I only played drums for him once. It was a great show and he was happy, as the gig looked like a bust at first. He was also not feeling well. He charged through that. Ever the professional. We had a very long talk with him outside the venue after everyone had left. It was all about the future he saw ahead. He wanted to do an album with a symphony orchestra. This was his line of thinking at that time. Next time I saw him, he was playing with Corky again. He was getting ready to do an interview with NBC and Corky and I were talking and he said to me, "Go over and talk to him". So I did, and he said "Oh yeah, you were at that club". I said, it's good to see you doing well and you look great. That was it, I thought. In 1995 I opened for him on two different occasions and in both, he refused to play after me. He made me headline. Maybe that was his way of thanking me for being there in a very confused part of his life. That's what I mean by tough. He carried on through the worst. The man upstairs had clearly sent my bassist and I to him so many years ago. We made that show a concert and he let us know that. I believe that was a side of him that very few people saw. I hope the angels know who they have.
@@dlighted8861 Crow was a band from the mid west who were one of the bigger bands in 1970. They had a hit with Evil Woman and Cottage Cheese. Black Sabbath later covered "Evil Woman" on their first self titled album. 1970 was their big year. Not everyone remains a legend. Again I will answer you about Leslie having to be tough. The fact that the man played shows despite his health issues is enough said. The industry is no respecter of anyone. Especially when you request your earned royalties. At the time I played with him he was on his own without a leg up from anyone but the booking agent that was trying to keep him working. He was patient, got himself in excellent shape and made a huge come back. So, there was a silver lining. I still admire the man. I've probably said too much. May he rest in Piece.
I saw Mountain in Toronto around this time. The papers reported that their volume made Led Zeppelin sound like a folk band. Felix and Leslie. What a night
I went to MTSU and had close friends in the recording industry management program, i.e. studio engineering. My uncle was a music producer in Nashville. You probably experienced the most technically advanced production of Mountain of any live concert they ever performed.
That LP Jr. really wrote a lot of the rock n roll sound. And I've known a few "Mississippi Queens" in my day. It's a tip of the hat to those hard working girls.
Ashamed to say that I just discovered this group, Mountain, and found this video in my deep dive on the band. Love that lead singer....good lord. Authentic as anything you'll see.
Yoooooo! This is ridiculous! A hundred times better than the studio, and I love that version. First time hearing this one today. 5 times in a row so far. Awesome!
This dude can belt it out! I've heard this song since I was a kid. But seeing it live in this video is bad ass! This dude rocks! Younger people should see this.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I Saw Mountain at Woodstock and 5 times afterwards, Leslie is my favorite guitarist of all time. I have a Sunn Coliseum P.A. Head like the one in this vid, that Leslie used to get that great sound with on the Les Paul Jr., and I'll always be an extremely respectful Leslie wannabe! UROCK!
I saw this live on TV once and have been looking for it for 50 years! A masterful job of preserving such an incredible performance! I have had this rattling in my head for 50 years now, and I'm so happy to see it again just as it was! THANK YOU!!!! Magnificent! Rock at it's raw, uninhibited best
I can’t help but think about all of the great rock drummers and their massive drum sets juxtaposed to this guy who’s banging out a classic hard rock rhythm on a kit that looks like he picked up from a pawn shop. A true musician! Thanks for sharing this video.
Holy smokes!!! You did a fantastic job cleaning up the audio on this. Best Mountain relic of all time. You should be in the Rock Hall of Fame for restoration.
Wild no holds barred full blast inferno hot version of Mississippi Queen by the rocks legend MOUNTAIN. I bought their LP with this on it around 1970 and enjoyed it many times over 50 years.
Best live version I've seen of Mountain doing Mississippi Queen. Leslie West really knew how to make sweet sounds come out of a guitar. Not so worried about playing fast, but the solo licks are so sweet.
I have wondered about this exact thing that you mention. I used to be in bands as work when I was younger, and I have wondered; "Was Leslie's problem with Steve personal? Mountain seems like the perfect band to have keys whether its an elec. piano like this or with the organ like on Imaginary Western." From my experience I know that some musicians would rather say "I didn't like the keyboards" rather than " I didn't like the keyboard player". The proof is in these TV performances to some degree, but to really know the answer, one would need the perspective you got of seeing them both ways. How cool, I'm so jealous. Thank you very much for commenting!
Absolutely..I just told my wife that very thing ❤and we are two reasonably attractive people..but as we got older ,we got over it lol. I miss music like this
@@OnTheFritz602 Fun fact, in 1974 I saw Rush open for Nazareth. Hardly anyone had heard of Rush yet, and they proceeded to blow the roof off of that arena.
You can't beat the sound of the bands from the late 60's/early 70's. Mountain, ZZ Top, Cream, Jimi Hendrix Experience....so heavy, so good. The overdriven bass is rarely heard today and it's a shame.
Apparently the story is that he ordered a Marshall amp and they accidentally sent him a Sunn (which is a bass amp) but when he plugged it in he fell in love.
@@tyjutsu96 Are you sure that's true? Sunn amps were all the rage back then, many American bands switched from Fender to Sunn at that time, the preferred amp at Woodstock. They sold out to Fender in the mid 80's, I worked there at the time and built out the last of the great Sunn amps!
WOW! In all these years, I've never seen this footage before. Thanks for posting. I had the distinct pleasure of Seeing Mountain live at New York's Fillmore East when I was in high school. It was the "Nantucket Sleighride" tour, their second album release. This would have been sometime in spring or summer 1971 and man, they were LOUD! But, it was crystal clear and sounded fantastic.
Saw them live in a bar at a shopping plaza in tiny Waynesburg, PA. Late 70's, they maybe had fallen on hard times. Leslie was a really short guy, quite round, and in a nasty mood there. Drummer knocked snare drum on Leslie, and he knocked it back into the drummer, finished the song, pulled his plug out and tossed it into the drums, and walked out. Played 40 minutes and it was over. His limo was racing out of the parking lot less than five minutes later, and the bar crowd poured out to the lot and booed him. c. 1978 or 79.
Had a cool neighbor who was 20yrs my senior. He covered a lot of songs on the drums, but whenever he covered this song he would turn into a different person. I could literally see him reliving his youth. I appreciate being smart enough to have understood and experienced that. On side note, Leslie West is terribly underrated..
This is probably the only version where I can actually hear the keyboards throughout the entire song, as opposed to the tinkling in between verses. Bet it was loud as all git-out in that studio!
Yes, from what I understand about the Sunn amplifiers, they had an early version of a master volume / gain channel thing going on, but they had to be dimed to really sound like Leslie West. I think the amps were like 120 watts, too. It must have been blisteringly loud.
I'm almost 72. I remember when this song came out. Hit me hard, almost knocked me down. Damn. Can any band now put that kind of power and energy out now?
Everyone was in the pocket. Kudos to whoever filmed and did the final editing. Spot on. In it's infancy it wasn't uncommon for the camera to be on, say the bass player, while the lead guitarist was shredding a solo break. Thanks to whoever cleaned this up also.
This is so far beyond classic. This is astounding. Sergeant Major Supro, you did an incredible job restoring and bringing this back to life. So nice to see Felix Pappalardi. Corky Laing is out of his mind playing drums with such energy for an audience of what appears to be about 20. Unbelievable in every way.
Gotta love how unfazed Corky Laing is when he busts a drumstick right in half around the 1:05 point! Literally doesn't skip a beat! There's such great groove and power in this performance and I love Leslie West's understated soloing around the 1:30 mark, it's such a melodic sound compared to insane noodling or something. I can imagine playing like this very much inspiring guitarists like Alex Lifeson? Thanks so much for cleaning this up and posting! :)
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This is definitely a comment of all time
Mich wundert es, dass es nur ein comment für diesen comment gibt in 4 Wochen, just significant
Right on! Sure as hell!
Not sure who @brian22067 is, but thanks for quoting my exact comment from quite some time ago.
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This is what rock and roll is supposed to sound like.
And look like!!!
There are no words to say I agree with you more intense then what I'm saying. Except for...you got that fuckin right
Mountain, what a great sound.
Baby baby baby oooh !
Why did you have to fuck up a great song twords the end. Come on man.
2025 Who's Still Loving This Gem of a Song!? 🎸🔥🎸
Who's still loving this gem?............."Everybody with class and an appreciation of the generation of rock musicians that pioneered all the stuff rockers today listen to." That's who. Well said.
Me.. back listening to this again..:)
Me! From Northen Italy.
@VenanzioNespoli-fw5et Venanzio keep it ROCKING!
Me! 1-9-25 Rock on
LOVE IT!! Can't stop watching
Check out the movie with James Taylor driving a 55 Chevy. Going through the gears to Leslie West.
cowbell hook piano lines
I kinda liked when singers didn't need to look like movie stars, just needed a good voice and how to play an instrument
I totally agree. We ask our performers to be not only performers but also writers and models and PR agents and moral and intellectual giants. Its a strange dynamic
He could afford rings but not a tooth.
What a concept, talent !
fuck auto tune man! there was so much better music back in the day
Video Killed the Radio Star, the internet resurrected the corpse.
52 years later, this track still slaps the hardest
It indeed slaps hard my friend. It may in fact slap the hardest if not for Live Sabbath "War Pigs" from Paris September 1970. Bob Ward literally beat his kit to death that day while Geezer and Tony dropped power bombs. The slappinest
Old school here, you and thunder diesel need to check out and old track, the band is called Blue chear, and the song is called Summertime Blues( who cover)
Mountain was very underrated. Also not a usual southern rock band with a proggish Nantuckett Sleigh Ride. Great Band.
Heavy as hell with a dash of Southern pizzazz. Sabbath's funky sister...
remember 4 months from w00dstock "69" an very raw ass kicken the look in his face wow wow
He's playing rhythm and lead guitar simultaneously and singing, or I should say BELTING, That's some serious talent. Glad I grew up in this era...
Agreed! Not sure if you've heard Philip Sayce before, but you should check him out if not! He does the same thing, killer guitar player
Did you ever notice the Beatles singing and playing live on The Ed Sullivan show and in live concerts? The greatest band ever!!!
@@roncaruso931 I've played and sang on stages for 45 years, yes I've noticed the Beatles, the second vinyl record I ever bought in the late 60s was a Beatles record. The first record I bought in the late 60s was by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.
@thrushjz Nice. Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison did the same long before Mountain.
@@roncaruso931 George Martin the Beatles record producer is responsible for much of their sound. They would not have sounded the same without George Martin and every professional musician knows that including me.
Better than 100 percent of anything played on the radio today; long live rock n roll!
preach.
Dam right.
At 56 years young and a lover of great music I 100 percent agree,,,, peace.....
At least anything on the radio within the last 35 years or so
I am weirdly obsessed with this video. Leslie West was a damned legend.
Me too
Nothing weird. This is good bro. No holds barred rock. Love it too.
So am I think it is the crazy drummer, the keyboard player that looks so chill the big guitar player with the crazy hair and killer riffs.
the keyboard player looks like he is in the wrong band@@kpax45
He was a true legend and the most underrated guitarist in history he is truly amazing ....I play guitar.. and thin fingers are so important...HE seems like a big man with thick fingers just creating some of those riffs ...iv tried I can do it but I see him with those big Hands and find it magical
This song still kicks so much ass even after all these years!
Still Rocks!
This SONG /Version is so filthy it crazy!
YEAH! Very underrated band/singer!
The dude could really rock
Within the first few seconds the hairs on my arms were standing up.
Leslie West was a force of nature. RIP.
Is he the lead singer and guitar ?
@@jeangriffith8017 yes, he was. MOUNTAIN was really his solo project, in the beginning and Felix the bass player was the producer
Yeah, and what about Felix Pappalardi
And all the others
And just 25 years old!
If I can obtain one thumbs up, I would be amazed. The raspy scream and guitar shredding is excellent music.
This is real music, created by real musicians, and not the manufactured shite we have today.
You speak the truth brother
i love the South! 5th generation Texan.... we love all things SOUTHERN! ROCK ON BABY
143 thumbs up later, rock lives on!
A true blues shouter
Pure rock. I am reliving 1970 right now. Takes me to a place in time right down to the day. He rocked till the end. Rest in peace Leslie West. And Thank You!!!
Les Paul Jr
This is perfection. Glad I was in that era. The music was outstanding
@@deloreslandeis1008Well Put Delores!! Rock On!!! M O'B
The unmistakable sound from an absolute WALL of Sunn amps. I can't imagine how loud this was in the room.
few years ago i used to play a '79 2x12 with a fender double bassman 500W head, wall of sound, amazing
Cracked the paint on the walls no doubt
Those Sunn tube amps were unbelievably loud and had such a distinctive tone.
probably not anywhere near as loud as you think. theres probably 100 watts being split between all of those cabs.
@@FingerinUrDaughter all being split at 4ohlms though, so I bet it's pretty loud.
Geezer Butler has high praise for this Riff, " one of, if not, the greatest riff of all time". This song always moves me, evokes fond memories from when I was a kid in the '70's
I didn't know Geezer said that! very cool, thank you for commenting and adding to the conversation. That is *VERY* high praise, indeed
Coming from Geezer...that's like Godzilla saying YOU are a force of nature. Wow..👍🙏👍🙏👍
It is a frickin' MONSTER riff.
I dunno, there are a lot of really great riffs out there.
As a guitar player I'm here for these drums. I think it's a perfect beat.
63 years old...so happy to have enjoyed the best music, best cars, and best times that America has ever had to offer. Thanks to my friend Dean for the introduction to Mountain.
thanks for watching and commenting
Shoot. I forget about the best cars too 😅
I was born too late Lol.
Definitely looked like good times back then.
You bet!!! I'm 62. And I'm proud of my life.
I'm 63 and ditto to all that!!
No auto tune. No plastic surgery out the wazoo. Just raw talent.
And one of the most marvelous afros ever ,along with Jeff Lynne.
Raw talent and cocaine.
No dentistry, either. He could smoke a ciggie with his teeth fully closed. 😮
@@castleanthrax1833 LOL.......castle...
@@castleanthrax1833 robert plant is missing a front tooth sometimes too
This guitar riff will never die...
The drum intro is an immediate alert that this is Mississippi queen.
@@johnhendel7357 and just the right amount of cowbell.
@@Steve-xl2mnThere's always room for more cowbell.
This is one of a handful rock songs in which it is impossible to play it too loud. I'm positive it's blown out tens of thousand of speakers over the years.
Note on back side of Mountain LP indicates: "This record is meant to be played loud." LOL! YES!
This right here^^
Need an 11 on my amp!!!!!
while the rest of them dudes was playin' their speakers at a sane volume, brother beg ya pardon I was blowing out mine
Lol seriously, I love how articulate it is too, that's a testament to Leslie's playing!
This amazing performance was in front of a group of high school students at a public TV station in rural PA that hosted many of the best artists of the time. After each performance the students would meet with the band members and discuss sociopolitical topics with the band members. As you can see, the musicians took this invitation to perform very seriously. Phil Ochs , Country Joe and James Taylor are on RUclips appearing in this "The Show" venue too. Check it out.
Most....99% of those high school students were probably wondering what their parents would do when they found out.....lol!
Hey whaler, thx for the Intel. I was wondering what the back storey was.
Rock In Peace Leslie, Felix & Steve.
This was posted a month ago and already over 750K views. A testament to how powerful this performance is. Very heavy for early 1970.
Were just about at million views 2 weeks later 💪
@@sweetassugar2076 over that now 🎉
@@dystopian.. 💪
💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
🤗
I served as a Marine from 1971-74 and had this album on 8 track. I had a nice Sony stereo and blasted this music in my barracks loud and proud. Everybody loved and we partied hard.
Semper Fi, brother
Thank you for your service🇺🇸 🗽
*like in Forrest Gump Lincoln Memorial scene* "You said it all man, you said it all..."
I was 11 to 14, then.
I rooted for you to win.
Cronkite put the score up every night.
Lol I wasn't in barracks but I had a Sony too😅😅😅 a lot of plain damn good rock and roll played on that thing. Until my cousin locked himself out and had to climb through a window and his foot came down on the arm and broke it.. '70s girl I miss those days and probably always will
Gave me goosebumps. Raw sound and real singing.
Leslie West was great in concert!!
The hair on my arms is standing up.
Wow. The drum kit looked like it was from Toys R Us , but jeez he gave them the full treatment . Amazing bass, guitar and such powerful vocals.
I think those toms are timbales! They did not gaf, and its awesome
Maximum cowbell, too…
I cannot comprehend seeing those and going "yeah I can play hard rock with that setup," but he killed it
@@suprotwin Yes they are timbales! Using those brass shells was the only way Corky and the band could hear them. He went back to regular toms when PAs got better. I love the sound of the timbales in place of toms!
Funny shit, even more funny is you ga c en up your age by mentioning toys r us. Great store
52 years later this great song still rocks.
@The Woodward Report Hell yeah thats good
Timeless old hard rock song
There was, there is, there will be only one Leslie West
@@prettythings3 So true.
Freaking ripping it up. One of the best ballsy band and song of all time and the keyboard player looks like he is about to do your taxes.
One of the best indeed..INCREDIBLE TAKE! What a sound! He must of been on some real good mushrooms😅
Funny what you said about the keyboard player, or looks like he 's in a wedding band.
Absolutely right. 'ALL BALLS' is a perfect description.
Killin' me dude ! ' Like your wit !
The first time i heard this song was in 1970, i was 16 years old. Needless to say i still listen to it and love it just as much....54 years later. RIP Leslie, you deserve it.
I always liked this song but seeing the ‘live’ performance, the cool factor just went through the roof
My feelings exactly
Buddy I Have Seen The In Person Live Performance Three Times In NEW HAVEN CT!!! Just Awesome!!! M O'B
Mental - I am watching this on February 24, 2024, 54 years later! Anyone else?
I am 65 still playing LW riffs.
He inspired me to start playing.
May 2024👍❤
5/4/24!
@@LeMans1970 such a killer band! Underated
Turning 64 in couple months. A friends children, 10 and 12 and 13. Ask what the name of the band playing on my tablet. I said here take a look. It was halfway through Stranglehold. On my 1988 Kenwood stereo with same year JBL speakers rebuilt 10 years ago. Next was Mountain playing Mississippi Queen.
They asked to turn it up. I heard OMG the Huge 3 inch Volume dial still Binks and Turns by itself when you use remote. They were blown away. And Hooked on old school Rock. They loaded all of my 286? Songs from my ROCK folder. Then I told them hit Old Surf music. Not beach boys. Dick Dale Riders on the storm and such. They all play guitar and could not believe Dick was playing it upside down and backwards. The oldest has a birthday this weekend. I got him a reverberator for his guitar. Along with TED and ZZTOP CDs. They don't have much and being in a few bands myself just for fun too many years ago. I'm to Happy to help. Then there Dad said take a look under the cover to see my old Race Bike. They gasp ITS YOU! There dad now laughing. I did not know but they've seen me ride my scooter past 6 years across the desert. Or riding off road next to them while they are on the 60 hwy near Wickenburg az. There Dad told them Watchout. I'm that old guy on the XR650R that started riding at 6. And never out grew it. I said well its TALL!
At 5-10. I can barely touch my boots flat.
I'm 67 and never saw that video. what a treat. Awesome stuff!
I’m listening right now in my shop on January 1,2025 and thankful to have lived when music like this was on every FM radio station!!!!! In a thousand years this will still shake the ground!🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
One of my great memories was in 1971, as an 18-year-old, walking with friends one late evening down 8th Street from Fifth Avenue to Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village, NY. As we approached Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland Studio, I saw Leslie West in the middle of 8th Street. He was impossible to miss. He was taking a break from his recording studio session and getting some fresh evening air. I walked over to him just to say hello, as one guitarist to another. I remember Leslie smiling and breaking out into a hearty laugh. Mississippi Queen is a song I've loved from the first time I heard it when it came out, and I've never tired of hearing it through the years. It's an enduring masterpiece. And I've learned since that I wasn't alone. The late, great Edward Van Halen felt exactly the same way I did.
I envy you man, born in 78 I was blessed to have aunts and uncles who were from your generation and immersed me in this music.
Great story. They were an awesome band 👍
Great Story I was 13 years old I had 2 older sisters and an brother 4 years older that got me into a ton of good music 😎👏 More 🔔 cowbell
Me neither , I could play it on my guitar , but I couldn’t make it sound like him ! And I miss him too , it was like he was a one off person , and nobody has ever came along that even got close to his talent !
Those guys jam every night in Guitar Heaven....
The singers missing tooth only adds to the edginess and charisma of this band. Love it
"The singer"!? That's Leslie West, Tracy!
😂
That "singer" is Mr. Leslie West, my dear.
When you take a look at him, he was a hunk. Literally. But his ego and talent was there.
Same goes for Keith Richards.
I'm just loving the blissed-out expression on Leslie West's face - he's enjoying this even more than we are!
That, and pretty sure that he's high a a kite. (We all were then.)
man I'm 70 going on 71 and boy we use to trip up to yureka canyon drinking beer back in the early 70's listening to 8 track mountain.
WOW! I'm 74 and had this on a 4 track.🙂
Man these cats are laying down some cool vibes ya dig
Corralitos.... yup.
Somos 70 indo para 71 que beleza.❤
Crazy how good real musicians playing live can be. What a time to be alive. I may have missed it, but I still appreciate all the great music these pioneers of rock left us. Thank you Leslie, Felix, and the rest of Mountain.
It’s just great music, love this stuff.
It still happens man, ya just gotta get out there.
Im 76 I didn't miss a thing thank God.
You need to get out more
Yes Leslie West was a giant! One of the greatest rock and roll Legends of our time!!!!!
Geez, I love him so much....this was my generation's music and I couldn't be any more proud. rip Leslie, you were one of the all-time greats!
good music belongs to all hehehe love this too. born 3yrs after this song's released
@@FARID1870 I completely agree. It makes me happy to know that LW music transcends the generations.
back in 69 when this came out ....kmet (the mighty met) los Angeles, played the heck out of it and each time you couldn't help but crank it up !
@@davediamond7228 Yes ! I was 15 or 16 years old and went with older friends to see Mountain at the Hollywood Palladium when they were at their peak.
This song is timeless, it kicks ass, and I don't think I'll ever get tired of listening. It's easily one of the all-time great hard rock songs !
One of the BADDEST heaviest rock n roll songs of all time. LOVE IT!
BIG TIME!!! M.O'B
Leslie West - one of the very best guys to ever play rock guitar - great tone. A magic touch, and a decent vocalist too. God bless you , Leslie.
I was a sophomore in high school when this song came out. It was one of several songs that made your hair turn up on your skin. The guitar work is unlike anything else that occurred then and since. Those of us who were in high school at that time were blessed to have grown up listening to music like this, Cream, The incomparable Jimi Hendrix, Alvin Lee and 10 years after, and several more. Their music doesn’t sound old and in so doing appears to render the musicians a level of immortality.
Foghat’s Slow Ride and Fool for the City had equal impact for me. Great old tunes that never seem to age!
@@skwak3041 Music isn't like mathematics, where in the later case, what is now created is an expansion of what has come before. The non-uni-formally increasing nature of the quality of music, as well as it great variety, makes it possible for those that come before to achieve a degree of immortality. To some degree, those that have come after us have experienced some of what we experienced by virtue of just listening to the music we grew up with. But it is it possible to recreate the thrill from going from listening to Three Dog Night to Led Zeppelin? As a very young man, my father listened to Frank Sinatra in dirty little joints in Hoboken NJ. before Francis Albert became a star. The smile on my dad's face while listening to Sinatra at the age of 85 was no doubt due to the neural imprint that occurred in his brain when he first saw Sinatra before an adoring and wildly appreciative young crowd. He was a giant leap forward! My love for Sinatra's music could never be like my Dad's. We didn't have Sinatra to call our own. We had Hendrix, The Who, Cream, and several others. We were blessed.
@@markbykowsky8934 Truly blessed! And…your listing of Zep and Three Dog Night as the proverbial musical bookends for the expanse of great music and talent available to us in the 70s was pretty damn astute!
What was the best concert you ever attended in the 70s?
@@skwak3041 I saw the Stones in 1972 in MSQ. Sent shivers down my spine when they appeared on stage. It was like a collection of Greek Gods had come down from Mount Olympus. Blues driven, so I can relate to it in some measure. I saw David Bowie perform during his Diamond Dogs tour. Half theater, half music, his performance was other worldly. Incredibly creative! Later I saw the Allman Brothers perform. Great musicians!
I agree they are timeless, and still alive to us older people. I'm 62. I would hate to be 12. I had a good run. Best wishes to you.
I have a similar experience to another poster below. The last time I saw this was when it aired in 1970. It has stayed with me ever since, and I have been trying to find this video for decades. I was in 10th grade. This was my first experience with Mountain. No VCRs back then. As mentioned by the other poster, this was from "The Show", which regularly aired on my local public TV channel. It was, if I remember correctly, a current affairs show with a small audience, and a band as musical guest.
I also remember great performances by Grand Funk Railroad and Amboy Dukes. Mountain also did an incredible performance of "Theme for an Imaginary Western" on this show. The program was hosted by Al Capp. I remember reading, perhaps in Rolling Stone, that Leslie West got into a heated argument with the host, which was edited out of the show. The closest thing I found to this video was a youtube post that had a brief snippet from the video. The person who uploaded was looking for the whole thing: ruclips.net/video/HDCBUKKfG-E/видео.html. That post indicates that it was recorded in the studio on 2/4/70, and was aired on 3/29/70. This segment was recorded at WITF TV in Hershey, PA. Back in 2007, I contacted the archives department at WITF. They said they still had it. I doubt it was on the original format, which in 1970 was probably 2" tape. I'm guessing in 2007 they had it on Beta SP or some other pro format from that time. I asked them to sell me a copy on DVD, or even VHS. I would have paid just about anything. At first they said yes, but then changed their mind. After seeing this on TV in1970, I became a huge Mountain fan. I must have seen them at least a dozen times. The first time I saw them was at Kresge Auditorium at MIT, October 17, 1970. I still have the ticket stub. Fourth row, dead center. Cost: $5.50. I went with a friend from high school. We got there very early, and sneaked in and sat in the first row to a "private" session of Leslie and Felix, sitting on a couple of road cases in the middle of the stage, jamming some blues - quietly! Eventually we were discovered by ushers and told to leave, but it is a great memory. This concert was just over a month after Hendrix died. I had seen Hendrix three times, and after he died, I was sure I would never see anything as exciting as the JHE. Mountain came damn close, more than any of the famous bands I saw in the late 60s and early 70s - just my humble opinion. In college I once skipped classes and drove 2 hours to be first in line at the box office for Mountain tickets. When I got there , I was first in line, and the clerk opened the window and announced that tickets were not printed yet - come back tomorrow. So, I did. Leslie once said, and I paraphrase, that if you put 100 guitarists in a room, 99 will sound the same. It's the one that sounds different that you will remember. When Leslie and Corky were playing the in 90s and 2000s, I took my family to see them as often as I could. We always hung around to talk to them. I'm glad my wife and son got a chance to meet them. I mentioned their performance from "The Show", and they said it was one of their best. I can't thank you enough for posting this. I hope you can find and post "Theme" as well. Please pardon my rambling!
pardon your rambling? You must be kidding. You're gonna make me cry. I am humbled and honored to have facilitated you being able to see this again. I knew this performance was special the moment I first saw it, but I had no idea that the band and fans like yourself also held it in such high regard. You have made my year. Thank you for commenting.
Are you telling me that you saw Hendrix 3 times in 1970 or did you see him in the 60's also as a 13-15 year old?
Love the story that is so cool and an experience to remember. I was born October of 1967, I can only imagine what it was like to see a bunch of these groups. I have always wondered what guitar he is playing here. Thanks for the story.
good read ty for sharing
@@atthewhiskeyPlease allow me to clarify. I saw the Jimi Hendrix Experience on August 25, 1968, at the Carousel Theater in Framingham, Massachusetts. I was 14 years old. It was my first concert ever. The opening acts were Soft Machine and Eire Apparent. Hendrix was a fan of Soft Machine. Eire Apparent was managed by Mike Jeffery and Chas Chandler, Jimi's managers. Jimi produced their one and only album, and I think he also played on it. Each band that night played for about 30 minutes. That was also the first time I saw a Marshall Stack. Jimi was using two of them, if I remember correctly. I think I may have said, out loud, "why aren't they using Fenders?" The Carousel Theater was a strange place to see Hendrix. It was a summer tent theater-in-the-round, used almost exclusively for (summer) musical theater. The ticket prices were $3.95, $4.95, and $5.95. My allowance was a dollar a week, so I splurged for a $4.95 seat. $5.95 seemed a bit excessive. I saw the JHE a second time on November 16, 1968, at the Boston Garden, 25 rows back (floor seats). There are some poorly recorded but historically important samples from this show on RUclips. The opening acts were Cat Mother & The All Night News Boys, and The McCoys. The final time I saw Hendrix was June 27, 1970, again at the Boston Garden, 19 rows back on the floor. That was the closest I ever got. The opening acts were The Illusion and an incredibly energetic set by Cactus (I went out and bought their album without delay. Still listening to them today). There are some decent recordings of this show on RUclips. BTW, floor seats were genuinely good seats back in the 60s and early 70s. People actually SAT in them. For the whole show. In fact, the whole crowd sat down, not just the floor. What an amazing concept. If you find the recording of "Red House" from the '68 Boston Garden show, notice how quiet 12,000 audience members were during that song. Imagine that - people actually listening to the music, instead of jumping, hollering, singing loudly off-key, and making the show about them. I miss those days. Thank you for your question!
I was strolling down the avenue early one evening with a buddy of mine. I was 16, a van pulls up with my neighbor and a few older guys. Door opens, a fog of smoke rolls out, they yell "Mountain is playing at the Garden, we go some extra tickets, you guys wannna go?" We jump in, van speeds away to the Garden. Nothing like those days. What a show. Nothing like Miss Queen to get a young boy going.
Nice Neighbor!😀 Better Times!
I just want to say this is the most kick-ass hard rock song ever made. I could play this over and over again and never get bored
Amen❤
This is the 7th time i.ve listened to this today testing out various head phones new n old n I just luv this song !!!! Great great stuff !!! God bless Mountain !! ✌😎🇺🇸👍☺🗽😉😺🙏🌹😇💪🙂
Tremendous! Can't thank you enough for posting this. We all appreciate it..👍🙏👍🙏
thank you for saying so. When I realized that it was not widely available in the world I felt like Leslie would want us to see it. For me, this is one of the greatest single performances in RnR history. It is made even more special by the fact that it was done for a small audience on Local TV. They played that day like a band on fire, and they did so in the name of creating great art, not for any other reason. I find it incredibly inspiring.
@@suprotwin incredible footage and they're firing on all cylinders.
Thanks again!!!!
🙏👍🙏👍🙏
Definitely agree! Many thanks, Supro!
All I can say is holy mackerel and wow that's what you call a live and very heartfelt performance 👍👍👍👍👀
Thanks for posting!
This is the absolute best version of this song. What's truly amazing is that is was captured raw and live.
Don't forget, people take for granted that it's easy to play guitar and sing... it's not. That's why a lot of bands have separate singers. This man had more soul in his pinky than most have in their whole body. Truly a great one.
I concur, Darrel.😊
God damn pure rock. Out of the more than 50 major rock bands I saw, 1973-2003, I missed Mountain.
Saw them at the Freedom Palace, a converted grocery store, in Kansas City the Spring of 1970. The crowd wouldn’t let them stop. I think they played four encores. At one point, Felix Pappalardi (RIP) said, “We like Kansas City!” Later that summer, I saw them in Central Park, NYC.
Unbelievable power. Great albums. Leslie West (RIP), a truly great guitarist.
Such great memories. I’m crying now. 😢
Do not overlook the great drumming by Corky Laing, either. Super performance. Thank you for posting.
I agree! And, with such a minimalist drum kit, back in the day. Pure talent.
Drummers get overlooked all the time. : (
That drum groove makes this song just as much as the riff
Absolutely!
Corky smashes it out of the park, always. A superb drummer.
Great, your remaster makes my tablet sound monstrous like never before!
Thanks for the good work.
These guys are absolutely blasting out one of the greatest rock songs of all time, and when it's over, they get a smattering of polite applause! Somehow the underwhelming response makes the whole thing even better 👏
To be fair they were probably suffering from PTSD after that onslaught, maybe thought they were going getting the Carpenters, not an earthquake! What a band!!
That detail of this video impressed me too. You just KNOW they told the story all their lives about how they were there this day, too
Dain bramage. They probably couldn't jump up and cheer when their ears were bleeding that much. :)
True 😊love this 👍🏻🇦🇺🏴🇺🇸
Shell shocked, + faces all melted..
I LOVE THESE EARLY LIVE PERFORMANCES BECAUSE YOU CAN HEAR THE FEEDBACK, DISTORTION AND STATIC.
Proto noise rock.
@@HidingAllTheWay noise core, but not even that.
THATS EXACTLY HOW I HEARD IT IN 1977 AT TUEY’S CLUB WHEN STANDING NEXT TO WEST’S SPEAKER. MY EARS ARE STILL RINGING
Why do the elderly type in all caps?
@@hull_k0gan641 Because they are deaf?
I think you missed the attempt at humor.
Let’s appreciate all the technical work needed to make this snapshot of rock history so good.
I don't care how crunchy the audio is, this is one of the best versions of this song I've ever heard. A master of the art
The original lineup of Mountain was the shiznit. These guys were definitely face melting heavy. RIP Leslie, Felix, and Steve...
I was unfamiliar with Steve till I found this vid. He is a wild card, it seems. I'd like to know more about him
@@suprotwin Steve Knight was a keyboard player for Mountain. He definitely was a member of the band, and he played on the group's first four albums.
This song will never get old, and it will ALWAYS get turned up
Hey rock and roll hall of fame Mr West, to good for, stick with Janet Jackson
@@timgard7091 Did you have a stroke or two?
CRANK IT UP, JAMES!!! M.O'B
Leslie West had such a blistering voice.
Nice to see my hometown station didn't used to suck! Thanks for the upload
Mountain was pure power. West was always a greatly under appreciated guitarist. So good to see the current generation getting exposed to what real music was like ... back in the day.
This is supremely awesome. Your technical work to clean this up is amazing. Mad respect. Also, that drummer is beating the crap out of that set...and I'm here for it.
Drummer reminds me of Tommy Aldridge with that energy haha
thats animal
Heh heh, "and I'm here for it." is popular to say.
So incredible that I never knew what the band looked like until today thanks to RUclips! If you’d of told me in 1970 I’d be dancing to this song in my bedroom watching the performance on a tiny computer that fits in my pocket I’d have laughed! Life is amazing! 🤩
I am 100% here for it too. That drum performance is inspiring on a lot of levels
The grail! Nice score on this one! I'm the guy that found the only live videos of Crow and The Illusion from this same time period.. Thank God someone put them out for me on DVD. I'm thrilled to see this video. I actually played a show once as Leslie's drummer in 1976. There's a photo going around the internet of us performing at that gig. He was one tough cookie and had to be. God rest him.
Joe, tell us more. What do you mean he had to be a tough cookie? Why?
@@philipbarton2634 In the music business? You find yourself in the company of sociopaths that are taking full advantage. The higher you go, the more things get abusive towards the musician, especially when it's time to get paid. Also, try putting a band together around yourself. You have to get tough or you will lose them as they all want to go home to mama. In Leslie's case, it was apparent that this was not something he would like to do, it's what he did and what he was.. I was 18 years old then and I'm 66 years old now. I have been on a 30 year world tour, 47 releases and gone through the major label abuse and selfishness. Independent labels are much better and they pay what's owed. Leslie figured that one out long before I did. I owe a lot to him.
I only played drums for him once. It was a great show and he was happy, as the gig looked like a bust at first. He was also not feeling well. He charged through that. Ever the professional. We had a very long talk with him outside the venue after everyone had left. It was all about the future he saw ahead. He wanted to do an album with a symphony orchestra. This was his line of thinking at that time. Next time I saw him, he was playing with Corky again. He was getting ready to do an interview with NBC and Corky and I were talking and he said to me, "Go over and talk to him". So I did, and he said "Oh yeah, you were at that club". I said, it's good to see you doing well and you look great. That was it, I thought. In 1995 I opened for him on two different occasions and in both, he refused to play after me. He made me headline. Maybe that was his way of thanking me for being there in a very confused part of his life. That's what I mean by tough. He carried on through the worst. The man upstairs had clearly sent my bassist and I to him so many years ago. We made that show a concert and he let us know that. I believe that was a side of him that very few people saw.
I hope the angels know who they have.
@@supermamamaxi Joe thank you for the reply and the insight, and thank you to your generation who brought us such great music!!!
Pardon the question but who is Crow and why did he have to be so tough?
@@dlighted8861 Crow was a band from the mid west who were one of the bigger bands in 1970. They had a hit with Evil Woman and Cottage Cheese. Black Sabbath later covered "Evil Woman" on their first self titled album. 1970 was their big year. Not everyone remains a legend. Again I will answer you about Leslie having to be tough. The fact that the man played shows despite his health issues is enough said. The industry is no respecter of anyone. Especially when you request your earned royalties. At the time I played with him he was on his own without a leg up from anyone but the booking agent that was trying to keep him working. He was patient, got himself in excellent shape and made a huge come back. So, there was a silver lining. I still admire the man. I've probably said too much. May he rest in Piece.
I saw Mountain in Toronto around this time. The papers reported that their volume made Led Zeppelin sound like a folk band. Felix and Leslie. What a night
Ha ! Back in the day ... Uriah Heep had the loudest recorded decibles of any band . Jam " Stealin' " real quick .... but loud !
Wow.
I saw these guys live at Vanderbilt University in 1971 and my ears still ring. Rock at it's best!!!
I went to MTSU and had close friends in the recording industry management program, i.e. studio engineering. My uncle was a music producer in Nashville. You probably experienced the most technically advanced production of Mountain of any live concert they ever performed.
The hardest hitting song ever made to anyone that wants to start a barebones rock and roll band, this is the foundation of heavy rock and roll
That LP Jr. really wrote a lot of the rock n roll sound. And I've known a few "Mississippi Queens" in my day. It's a tip of the hat to those hard working girls.
Ashamed to say that I just discovered this group, Mountain, and found this video in my deep dive on the band. Love that lead singer....good lord. Authentic as anything you'll see.
Don't be ashamed that you discovered art "late", be proud you discovered it at all.
You should have seen them LIVE !!
Yoooooo! This is ridiculous! A hundred times better than the studio, and I love that version. First time hearing this one today. 5 times in a row so far. Awesome!
This dude can belt it out! I've heard this song since I was a kid. But seeing it live in this video is bad ass! This dude rocks! Younger people should see this.
Younger people should heed this!
They might hurt theyselfs..Hurt too good!!!
Young people are effeminate clowns and Amerika is doomed…
trust me we do, we just cant listen long enough to find it
When music was ACTUALLY music!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I Saw Mountain at Woodstock and 5 times afterwards, Leslie is my favorite guitarist of all time. I have a Sunn Coliseum P.A. Head like the one in this vid, that Leslie used to get that great sound with on the Les Paul Jr., and I'll always be an extremely respectful Leslie wannabe! UROCK!
I saw this live on TV once and have been looking for it for 50 years! A masterful job of preserving such an incredible performance! I have had this rattling in my head for 50 years now, and I'm so happy to see it again just as it was! THANK YOU!!!!
Magnificent! Rock at it's raw, uninhibited best
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I saw them with procal harem in about 70. In Denver. Couldn't hear for 2 days
I can’t help but think about all of the great rock drummers and their massive drum sets juxtaposed to this guy who’s banging out a classic hard rock rhythm on a kit that looks like he picked up from a pawn shop. A true musician! Thanks for sharing this video.
Timbales for rack toms! Corky used them for volume, not tone. He needed to cut through and the timbales gave him that extra fortisimo! fff”
Yes, well said
Same could be said about Charlie Watts, RIP.
@@jessewolf6806 except this guy can rock a set....
If I could sing like this, it is all I would do every day.
amen!
Holy smokes!!! You did a fantastic job cleaning up the audio on this. Best Mountain relic of all time. You should be in the Rock Hall of Fame for restoration.
July 2024 and still a great song!
September 2024 and still on top of the food chain of music!!!
December 29, 2024 and still listening to the music that I grew up on 🤘🤘🤘
December 29, 2024 and still listening to the music that I grew up on 🤘🤘🤘
Wild no holds barred full blast inferno hot version of Mississippi Queen by the rocks legend MOUNTAIN. I bought their LP with this on it around 1970 and enjoyed it many times over 50 years.
Kinda music u can listen to and hear for 100 years n it never gets old!!
we're halfway there!
I agree. Best wishes to you.
RIP Leslie West.
Corky Laing, one of the most underrated drummers of all time.
finally someone called underrated that isn't world famous really...
More cowbell Corky ha ha
Intense
One of the best bands 😂
@@philiptaylor7958🎉😂
I'm 66 and loved listening to this back in the day
I'm 70 - I think Mississippi Queen is still a Barn-burner. Thank You Leslie West ~ rip Brother.
So am i
Leslie West played both lead and rhythm guitar! He was a mountain indeed!
Along with outstanding vocals.
Bid deal. SRV puts Leslie West to shame.
Was this the heaviest stuff around in 1970? Leslie's tone was monstrous back then, too. Wow!
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Probably the heaviest American rock of the time
@@brendonhalverson5178 MC5 blow them out the water.
@@SeanSidious but they're very Punk and that's what I love about MC5. Mountain rules too!
Greetings from millennial neo hippie.
@@lenini056 same! 😎
Best live version I've seen of Mountain doing Mississippi Queen. Leslie West really knew how to make sweet sounds come out of a guitar. Not so worried about playing fast, but the solo licks are so sweet.
I completely agree. The man was a master technician and musician.
Emphasizing the piano really makes the difference
What the hell are you thinkin “best live version of this song?” You obiously havent see. Any other versions btw the piano ruins this version
That was back in the days when melody on guitars was king. Today, it's all about how fast you can make the most noise.
@@mnpd3 I completely agree
Man... This is an absolute GEM. And you are legend for cleaning this up. Thank you :)
I saw them with and without Steve. They had another guitar player instead of Steve's keyboards. They were better with Steve than without.
I have wondered about this exact thing that you mention. I used to be in bands as work when I was younger, and I have wondered; "Was Leslie's problem with Steve personal? Mountain seems like the perfect band to have keys whether its an elec. piano like this or with the organ like on Imaginary Western." From my experience I know that some musicians would rather say "I didn't like the keyboards" rather than " I didn't like the keyboard player".
The proof is in these TV performances to some degree, but to really know the answer, one would need the perspective you got of seeing them both ways. How cool, I'm so jealous. Thank you very much for commenting!
No doubt talent is where it's at
Smoking hot
Total different song without keyboards and cowbell.
Absolutely..I just told my wife that very thing ❤and we are two reasonably attractive people..but as we got older ,we got over it lol. I miss music like this
I saw them play in Liverpool, early 1972. Still smiling, ears still ringing. Simply brilliant.
Saw them open up for Triumph in 83'. They jammed so hard they blew a speaker. Crowd was going nuts. I'll never forget it as long as I live.
Opened for Triumph? Kind of a mismatch.
Of course not so much as Hendrix opening for The Monkees.
@@OnTheFritz602 Fun fact, in 1974 I saw Rush open for Nazareth. Hardly anyone had heard of Rush yet, and they proceeded to blow the roof off of that arena.
@@Bubba1960.
I can believe that!
The Toronto Hurricane!
Cool, saw them open for Triumph in '85. And they were the very first real band I saw in concert.
Many thanks to the person who uploaded this video. Never heard the song before, but I like it. 30th Jan 2025.
My goodness! All this is TIMELESS , One can never get enough of this R&R.😎🇨🇱🎵🎶
The guitar and bass tones are CRUSHING. Fuck! So good.
You can't beat the sound of the bands from the late 60's/early 70's. Mountain, ZZ Top, Cream, Jimi Hendrix Experience....so heavy, so good. The overdriven bass is rarely heard today and it's a shame.
Apparently the story is that he ordered a Marshall amp and they accidentally sent him a Sunn (which is a bass amp) but when he plugged it in he fell in love.
@@tyjutsu96 Are you sure that's true? Sunn amps were all the rage back then, many American bands switched from Fender to Sunn at that time, the preferred amp at Woodstock. They sold out to Fender in the mid 80's, I worked there at the time and built out the last of the great Sunn amps!
Dawg u know he only uses one pickup
@@comodice905 yep and that's a Les Paul Junior with a single P90 pickup, Gibson marketed the Jr. as an entry level beginner guitar.
WOW! In all these years, I've never seen this footage before. Thanks for posting. I had the distinct pleasure of Seeing Mountain live at New York's Fillmore East when I was in high school. It was the "Nantucket Sleighride" tour, their second album release. This would have been sometime in spring or summer 1971 and man, they were LOUD! But, it was crystal clear and sounded fantastic.
Saw them live in a bar at a shopping plaza in tiny Waynesburg, PA.
Late 70's, they maybe had fallen on hard times.
Leslie was a really short guy, quite round, and in a nasty mood there.
Drummer knocked snare drum on Leslie, and he knocked it back into the drummer, finished the song, pulled his plug out and tossed it into the drums, and walked out.
Played 40 minutes and it was over. His limo was racing out of the parking lot less than five minutes later, and the bar crowd poured out to the lot and booed him. c. 1978 or 79.
Had a cool neighbor who was 20yrs my senior. He covered a lot of songs on the drums, but whenever he covered this song he would turn into a different person. I could literally see him reliving his youth. I appreciate being smart enough to have understood and experienced that.
On side note, Leslie West is terribly underrated..
This is probably the only version where I can actually hear the keyboards throughout the entire song, as opposed to the tinkling in between verses. Bet it was loud as all git-out in that studio!
Yes, from what I understand about the Sunn amplifiers, they had an early version of a master volume / gain channel thing going on, but they had to be dimed to really sound like Leslie West. I think the amps were like 120 watts, too. It must have been blisteringly loud.
I always felt a bit sorry for Steve Knight , he got obliterated by Leslie and Felix . The organ on Theme For An Imaginary Western is audible .
@@paulfuller8985 yeah but if it was absent ,you'd be able to tell.
@@chriscampbell9191 Leslie was accidentally shipped a Sunn PA head and that distortion gave him the tone you hear here.
Yeah, they’re actually audible throughout the whole song.
This dude, I just got really into Mountain this year. Quickly became one of my favorite bands of ALL time. SO GOOD.
You rock girl
I'm almost 72. I remember when this song came out. Hit me hard, almost knocked me down. Damn. Can any band now put that kind of power and energy out now?
Everyone was in the pocket. Kudos to whoever filmed and did the final editing. Spot on. In it's infancy it wasn't uncommon for the camera to be on, say the bass player, while the lead guitarist was shredding a solo break. Thanks to whoever cleaned this up also.
This is so far beyond classic. This is astounding. Sergeant Major Supro, you did an incredible job restoring and bringing this back to life. So nice to see Felix Pappalardi. Corky Laing is out of his mind playing drums with such energy for an audience of what appears to be about 20. Unbelievable in every way.
Gotta love how unfazed Corky Laing is when he busts a drumstick right in half around the 1:05 point! Literally doesn't skip a beat! There's such great groove and power in this performance and I love Leslie West's understated soloing around the 1:30 mark, it's such a melodic sound compared to insane noodling or something. I can imagine playing like this very much inspiring guitarists like Alex Lifeson? Thanks so much for cleaning this up and posting! :)
I make key chains out of Corky's broken sticks for him. I made hundreds.
100% agree, melodic and musical and perfect. I think many greats were inspired in part by Leslie, Alex included
Never saw that until you mentioned!!!!!!!!!
I appreciate the info in the description and that you took the time to “fix” the audio and to write the description.