RM - Never heard of the headbangin' power quartet from the late '60's??? You must have heard their big hit 'Mississippi Queen'? with the infamous cow bell intro. One of my favorite bands of that era.
Long Islander Leslie West on Guitar, Steve Knight on keyboards, Montreal native Corky Laing on percussion and one of my favorite bassists, Felix Pappalardi, on everything else. Felix was classically trained in orchestration at the University of Michigan and idolized Bach. Felix was also a dynamite producer and is credited for helping the power trio
'Cream' reach full potential with his production, arrangement, writing and musicianship on a number of their albums.
Sadly, womanizing Felix was shot by his wife in the 80's and Steve is no longer with the band. Leslie and Corky still tour with bassist Ritchie Scarlett. Four photos attached which I took at a Toronto Hard Rock Cafe performance a few years ago.
One piece of trivia that links this hard rock
Mountain to
Gordon Lightfoot is that
David Rea is given credit as one of the composers 'Mississippi Queen' (above). Hard to believe this same David Rea also performed with Gordon Lightfoot.
From
Valerie Magee's fine website she writes:
“David Rea played guitar on Lightfoot's first album in 1965, featuring such great songs as "Ribbon of Darkness", "Early Morning Rain", and "The Long River". David's guitar riffs on the Lightfoot album are instantly recognizable“.
http://www.mountaintheband.com/history/history.htm
Bill W,
Johnny Winter is to America as ________ is to Canada.
(the late Dominic Troiano?)
Mountain is to America as ________ is to Canada.... etc.
(Rock Gods, nobody north of the 49th compares to Mountain!!
Peace Man!