Mountain was a hard rock group that lasted from 1969 to 1972. (There would be later reunions.) Its main star was singer and lead guitarist Leslie West. But the band was heavily inspired by Eric Clapton's band Cream. The two bands were linked by Felix Papparaldi, who produced most of Cream's albums and co-wrote some of their songs, including "Strange Brew." He played bass in Mountain, as well as producing and doing some songwriting and singing. The band had their biggest hit in 1969 with "Mississippi Queen."
You can read more about the band at their Wikipedia page, here:
Mountain would release a live album in 1972, "The Road Goes Ever On," which drew from concerts between 1969 and 1972. But surprisingly, there were only four songs on that album, and none of them are the same as any of the songs here. This is arguably a better live document of the band in their prime, especially due to the presence of "Mississippi Queen."
As with most of the other sets from this concert, everything here is unreleased. But the sound quality is great due to the fact that it was professionally recorded and broadcast live. The lead vocals were low in the mix, but I fixed that with the UVR5 audio editing program.
This album is 51 minutes long.
29 talk by Bill Graham (Mountain)
30 Never in My Life (Mountain)
31 talk (Mountain)
32 Theme from an Imaginary Western (Mountain)
33 Roll Over Beethoven (Mountain)
34 Dreams of Milk and Honey - Swan Theme (Mountain)
35 Silver Paper (Mountain)
36 talk (Mountain)
37 Mississippi Queen (Mountain)
https://www.upload.ee/files/16376042/VA-ThnkYounFrwll197104Mntin.zip.html
The cover photo is from this exact concert. That is Felix Pappalardi on bass on the left and Leslie West on guitar on the right. This photo was originally in black and white, but I used the Palette program to colorize it.
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