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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
Mountain's 1995 collection Over The Top captures the band at their most creative
US blues-rock heavyweights’ best-of, reissued
Mountain's noughties' incarnation celebrated across six live discs of varying quality
Six Mountain live sets – get ready to climb!
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
"In screaming so loudly for so long I gave myself chronic laryngitis and screwed up my voice forever": Mountain man Corky Laing reveals how a seductive dancer inspired a hard rock classic
Mississippi Queen gave Mountain their signature song, rock'n'roll its second most famous cowbell, and Corky Laing headaches over the songwriting credits
