Mountain

Mountain is one of those rare bands in the past thirty years that can be credited with forging a style and sound that would for ever change the face of rock music. The innovative studio and live music of Mountain is one of those elite examples. Mountain is celebrating their 35th anniversary and features: Leslie West, Corky Laing and Richie Scarlet. Mountain produced some of the best and memorable rock tunes ever, “Mississippi Queen,” “Nantucket Sleighride,” “Theme From an Imaginary Western,” “Yasgur’s Farm,” “Never In My Life,” “Blood of the Sun,” “Dreams of Milk and Honey,” all stand the test of time and are forever etched in rock history. These songs came from the classic rock albums, Leslie West-Mountain, Mountain-Climbing! and Nantucket Sleighride. Mountain only lasted two and half years but that’s all it took to create their permanent legacy.

Mountain was born out of the sixties music explosion. Leslie came from The Vagrants, an East Coast power house band that was making a name for themselves. Corky came from the band Energy. Eventually this small web of the music scene brought these guys together. They debuted at the Fillmore in 1969 and went on to play at the granddaddy of all music festivals Woodstock. They established themselves as one of the premiere rock bands of their time.