Mountain

Mountain not only featured Leslie West on vocals and lead guitar (he was formerly with the Vagrants) but the bass player was Felix Pappalardi (sp?) who produced most of the albums for Cream and other major English bands. As far as audiophile recordings, I'm afraid you're climbing up the wrong "mountain."

So the album titles are finally sorted out. This is related to the topic, and I thought I'd share with all you Mountaineers: I saw Little Feat once right before Lowell passed on, and they brought out Leslie West to play along on "Fat Man in the Bathtub"! I couldn't believe what I was seeing and hearing: two of the greatest American guitarists jamming to one of the classic Feat songs.

There is an audiophile Japanese pressing of Mountain's "Flowers of Evil" on sale at "#2 Records" in Frankfurt, Germany right now for about $20, I think. It has a live version of "Mississippi Queen" on it.

Speaking of MISSISSIPPI QUEEN does anyone remember the cult classic movie VANISHING POINT? Remember the scene towards the end of the movie with the beautiful blonde riding nude on the Honda 350 through the desert? Remember the background music...MISSISSIPPI QUEEN!

vanishing point--now i remember the tune. -cfb