Biography

Led by power-riffing guitarist Leslie West and bassist/songwriter/producer Felix Pappalardi, Mountain formed in New York City in 1969. With songs like "Mississippi Queen" and "Boys in the Band," the Woodstock alums have come to represent the fierce technique and utter heaviness (and often the unfortunate excess) of the best 1970s blues-inspired hard-rock bands. Pappalardi was tragically murdered by his wife in 1983; however, West and drummer Corky Laing continued to tour and record under the Mountain name into the 2000s.

Top Tracks

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• Don't Look Around

• For Yasgur's Farm

• Get Out Of My Life Woman

• Masters Of War

• Mississippi Queen

• Nantucket Sleighride

• Nantucket Sleighride (to Owen Coffin)

• Never In My Life

• Serve Somebody

• The Animal Trainer And The Toad

• The Great Train Robbery

• Theme For An Imaginary Western

• Theme From An Imaginary Western

• Travelling In The Dark

Discography

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• Masters of War

  Big Rack

  2007

• Eruption

  Fuel 2000

  2004

• Mystic Fire

  Lightyear

  2002

• Greatest Hits Live

  King Biscuit Entertainment

  2000

• Man's World

  Dream Catcher Records

  1996

• Go for Your Life

  Evangeline (UK)

  1985

• Avalanche

  Collectables

  1974

• Twin Peaks

  Columbia

  1974

• Live (The Road Goes Ever On)

  Beat Goes On

  1972

• Flowers of Evil

  Legacy / Sony Music Distribution

  1971

• Climbing!

  Columbia

  1970