Mountain - Greatest Hits Live

Mountain - Greatest Hits Live Artist: Mountain
Label: King Biscuit Flower
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 707108804720
EAN: 0707108804720
ASIN: B00004SSDD


Release Date: 2000-04-18

Mountain - Greatest Hits Live


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Tracks:

  1. You Better Believe It
  2. Theme For An Imaginary Western
  3. Never In My Life
  4. Jingle Bells
  5. Get Out Of My Life Woman
  6. Mississippi Queen
  7. It's For You
  8. Nantucket Sleighride
  9. Roll Over Beethoven
  10. Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On
  11. Bonus Interview

Album Description

King Biscuit Flower Hour Records Presents Mountain's Greatest Hits Live, their only live 'Greatest Hits' collection. Recorded during the renowned reunion tour on November 3, 1974 at the Capital Theater in Passaic, New Jersey. 11 tracks including 'You Better Believe It', 'Theme For An Imaginary Western' & a bonus interview. Notes include never-before-seen period photos. A 2000 release.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Playing is not that great.......2002-01-09

The sound is very good

Unfortunately, the playing of Mountain's best known songs like Mississippi Queen, Never in my life, Theme for an imaginary western etc is horrible (as compared to other live albums such as Flowers of Evil & The Road goes on Forever)

To quote Leslie West on the interview included in this cd, "Felix (Pappalardi) must of sold us some bad coke that night".

The only reason I could see someone buying this cd is to hear previously non live songs like You better believe, Get out of my life woman and Its for you - which quite well played.

I agree with past reviews that Felix's bass is barely audible and Leslie West's guitar playing in between the pure sweet simple tone of the early 70's and his dry heavy metal tone of the mid 80's

1 out of 5 stars Avalanche - Burial, That Is.......2000-11-18

The recordist and mixer should be tried by jury for attempted suffocation. Of course, it could be justifiable as a crime of passion - here at last is a performance enough to make the absolutely lame "Twin Peaks" performances of the same era seem transcendental. (If you remember Jimmy Page taking legal action to keep CBS from keeping "Live Yardbirds with Jimmy Page" off the market, think real hard: Page had problems with the recording and a missing amp bottom but the performance on that album was still worthy of the Yardbirds name, even if Keith Relf did have to force himself to sing up in the middle of a drug-weighted haze. Leslie West and Corky Laing should do likewise with this album, on the grounds that hindsight instructs them they should have been royally embarrassed after having played such a reputation-sullying concert.) Saying Mountain deserves better would be stating only the annoyingly obvious. P.S. The only reason I give even one star is because this program won't let me give that line a blank.

4 out of 5 stars What happened to Felix!.......2000-11-11

If you Like Leslie West or Corky Lang you'll love this CD, cuz you can only HEAR Leslie or Corky. You can kinda-sorta hear Felix fuzzing along at the bottom, but not that much, and apparently there's a rythym guitar player, but I didn't know he was there at all until they introduced him.

Felix is in pretty good voice, tho! It's really great to hear him singing Nantucket Sleighride again!

I'd still recommend buying this CD even tho you can't here Felix - cuz NObody plays guitar like Leslie West, and he's in fine form here! And the version of Nantucket Sleighride is one of the best I've heard on disc.

One esoteric bit of info is you can kinda hear Leslie changing from the 70's style of guitar he played with "classic mountain" to the 90's style of "leslie west" solo you hear on his CDs now on afew of the songs, it's pretty darned cool!

1 out of 5 stars Don't Waste Your Money.......2000-06-23

In the interview with Leslie West which concludes this disc he tells us that this 1974 concert marked the first time that original line up of the band (minus the keyboard player) had played together since breaking up 4 years before. This is apparent throughout as everybody plays badly.

There is nothing about this disc which would justify the purchase price. The performance is terrible and the recording mediocre. So little care was taken in its production that the West interview just cuts off in mid sentence.

5 out of 5 stars Blistering!.......2000-05-03

I was there, and I had forgotten how GREAT a performance this was!

Awesome!

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