Who'd a thunk that in 2006 you can still put in yer ear plugs (or not) and go stand right in front of Leslie West's Marshall stacks (and maybe have one o' Corky's sticks ricochet off yer forehead)?

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goin 2 c mountain in june , heres a pic from last yr , also 1 from 1971, what a coat , me big mountain fan , leslie's style reminds me of taylor , my fav version of " Roll Over Beethoven " is from their Flowers Of Evil album , thats what i call jammin

picked up West's '05 blooze album - pretty decent stuff - still has the chops

Ya gotta love Mountain. Great concert band. Who's playing bass these days ?

richie scarlet been with them awhile now

Didn't Mick play guitar on a version of Honky Tonk Women on Leslie West's album, "The Great Fatsby?"

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> richie scarlet been with them awhile now

He played with Ace Frehley's band, too, yes? Richie's cool. His look is very Keith Richards circa 1975. Can't get much cooler lookin' than that .... AND he uses Ampegs!



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I always loved Mountain

Have a live version of: Stormy Monday from a 70's Concert in Atlanta..

ah-some

MLC

Havent kept up w/ the later (post '75) stuff. Climbing & Nantucket are really well made hard rock (not much blooze really) albums, & Felix was a good producer: look how he contributed to defining Cream in the studio as something way more than a power trio, especially on Wheels of Fire and Goodbye, adding (w/ Jack) keyboards, trumpets, tonettes, cellos, tubular bells etc...
And Mick/Keith's otherwise unrecorded 'High Roller' is on the Great Fatsby (Mick J plays guitar)
Anybody know whatever happened to Gail Collins, after she shot Felix I mean?

Its official Scotland is no longer part of the UK.

ROCK STAR'S
WIFE BEATS
MURDER RAP

by MIKE PEARL
and PETER FEARON
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
N. Y. Post 9-22-83
Gail Pappalardi collapsed in her lawyer's arms last night as she was told she'd been acquitted of murdering her rock-star husband. She was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide, the least serious felony charge she faced. She is expected to be released today on $5000 bail.

The blonde widow of Felix Pappalardi, one of the top record producers in the Sixties, sobbed with relief when she heard the verdict. A six-man, six-woman jury bought her story that she shot her husband dead during a bizarre bedside firearms lesson with a loaded derringer.

Mrs. Pappalardi came close to being totally exonerated. Until a few minutes before the verdicts were handed down, there were four jurors holding out for acquittal on all counts.

The criminally negligent homicide verdict means Mrs. Pappalardi caused her husbands's death, failing to understand the deadly risk in the situation in which he died. She faces up to four years in prison, but may not be jailed at all.

The conviction will prevent her from inheriting any of her husband's $225,000 estate.

The jury filed into the the Manhattan Supreme Court room after eight hours of deliberation over a two-day period. Mrs. Pappalardi, 41, in a dark green silk blouse and black slacks, stood shaking, her hands clasped tightly in front of her as she awaited the verdicts.

She listened as the foreman of the jury, Darleen Jenkins, was asked, "How do you find on the forst count, murder in the second degree?" Mrs. Jenkins said, "Not Guilty."

Mrs Pappalardi fell into the arms of her attorney, Neal Comer, gasped, "Oh, God" and began to sob.

She was allowed to sit as the jury foreman gave not-guilty verdicts to alternative manslaughter charges-and the guilty verdict on criminally negligent homicide. Before she was led away she hugged Comer.

"It was a pretty good verdict," Comer said, and told The Post there will be an appeal against the criminally negligent homicide conviction on the grounds of insufficient evidence.

One of the jurors, Grace Walters, said, "We were very impressed with her. We did believe her story." She said what swung the jury in her favor was the dramatic moment during her testimony when she recoiled from picking up the gun with which she killed her husband, saying she could not touch it. "We felt there was no intent. She did not want him to die," Miss Walters said.

Juror William Waring, 50, of Manhattan, said, "We voted over and over again and came to that same conclusion. It was tough."

Said Richard Ozores, a 33 year old postman, "There were four holdouts for acquittal - for awhile things were really hot in there."

He said the prosecution did not prove intent. The murder indictment cited jealousy as a motive, but they did not believe Pappalardi was in fact making any plans to leave his wife.

Thanks for that, Chippy - Gail Collins also contributed lyrics to Cream's Disreali Gears, several of Mountain's songs, & the distinctive early cover art on the first 5 or 6 albums.

Well, I'll tell you High 5...

Cause Mountain is/was one of the greatest live bands ever...

I saw 'em at least twice in the 70's... just loved 'em.

Wouldn't miss any Mountain gig if they played at a venue I could get to.

"It's just that demon life has got me in it's sway..."