Latest about Leslie West
The Leslie West and Mountain albums you should listen to... and one to avoid
With Mountain, West Bruce & Laing and solo, Leslie West proved he was a class act - and these are his best albums
Leslie West’s wild tales of Ozzy Osbourne, Mick Jagger, Jimi Hendrix and Tom Hanks
Playing with The Who, jamming with Hendrix, partying with Bowie, Jagger and Lennon - late Mountain man Leslie West did it all and more
Watch unseen footage of late guitar icons Eddie Van Halen and Leslie West backstage and jamming
The extraordinary footage comes from a Los Angeles club show in 2002
"There were guitar players weeping. They had to mop the floor up": How Jimi Hendrix invented everything we love
When Jimi Hendrix arrived in London he blew the minds of the British rock elite. Soon they would follow his lead and develop and explosive new form of electric blues
"A lot of people don't like Ritchie Blackmore. But he feels he has nothing to say apart from what he says with his guitar": the mutual respect between Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore and Mountain's Leslie West was sweet and pure
Hearing Mountain for the first time in 1970 rendered Ritchie Blackmore speechless, and Leslie West was equally impressed by Deep Purple's guitar hero
We once asked Leslie West who his favourite guitarist was: his answer was not what we expected
Mountain's Leslie West on the guitarist who sounded like a "45-year-old blues guy when he was barely in his twenties"
The stars shine as respect is paid to a late great on Legacy: A Tribute To Leslie West
Stars including Robby Krieger, Steve Morse, Yngwie Malmsteen and Slash make the album the late Leslie West wanted to make
A tribute to Mountain's Leslie West
Leslie West made his name in the early 70s with Mountain, Jeff Beck once describing him as “the greatest living guitarist in the world”
