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As I write this, Mountain's legendary guitarist Leslie West is recuperating in the hospital following leg amputation surgery due to his long term diabetes. Mountain was scheduled to perform at the Hard Rock in Biloxi, Mississippi when Leslie started having problems that led his operation. Reports say that Leslie is doing well and should be discharged shortly. Not long after the surgery he called into his friend Howard Stern's radio show and sounded in good spirits. I know I speak for everyone involved here at Ripple that we wish him a speedy recovery and [...]
News Legendary guitarist and MOUNTAIN founder Leslie West will make his first public appearance following the amputation of his right leg just above the knee with the Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp in New York City the afternoon of August 13.
News Legendary guitarist and MOUNTAIN founder Leslie West will release a brand new solo album entitled "Unusual Suspects" in Europe on Monday, September 19 via Provogue Records.
Legendary guitarist Leslie West has undergone surgery in Biloxi, MS. West had flown in to Mississippi to perform at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino with his band Mountain. On Saturday, his leg began to swell, and as a diabetic he was rushed to the emergency room. He was diagnosed with the decision to go through an amputation in order to save his life. Surgery was a success, and the procedure removed his limb up to the knee. West is expected to fully recover, and faces extensive rehabilitation. The family has requested that the [...]
Filed under: News mountaintheband.com Guitar legend Leslie West is recovering and is with his family following an emergency surgery over the weekend in which his leg had to be amputated. West had flown into Mississippi -- a state whose name appears in the title of his biggest hit, 'Mississippi Queen' -- to perform with his band, Mountain . West, a diabetic, was rushed to the hospital on Saturday (June 18) after his leg began to swell [...]
LESLIE WEST RECUPERATING FOLLOWING AMPUTATION OF LEG Legendary Mountain Guitarist Expected to Fully Recover Biloxi, MS - Legendary guitarist Leslie West has undergone surgery in Biloxi, MS. West had flown in to Mississippi to perform at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino with his band Mountain. On Saturday, his leg began to swell, and as a diabetic he was rushed to the emergency room. He was diagnosed with the decision to go through an amputation in order to save his life. Surgery was a success, and the procedure removed his limb up to [...]
There was no shortage of guests at tonight's Allman Brothers Band show at the Beacon Theatre. As the March Madness run reaches the home stretch, the band welcomed a slew of collaborators to sit in including John Kadlecik of Furthur, Leslie West of Mountain and Jay Collins. [Allman Brothers Band on Moogis.com] After starting with the traditional Don't Want You No More > It's Not My Cross To Bear, the Brothers built up some steam throughout the first set with another performance of Warren's [...]
Shuffle Sundays is a weekly feature in which we feature a cover chosen at random by my iTunes shuffle. The songs will usually be good, occasionally be bad, always be interesting. All downloads will only be available for one week, so get them while you can. After you listen, discuss this week's tune in the comments.George Harrison wrote "Old Brown Shoe" as the b-side to "The Ballad of John and
Hi, folks. Sorry about the lack of Stagger Lee over the weekend -- I had a family daytrip to go on, and forgot to prepare a post ahead of time. Why? Well, I was working on this: It's October, and people all over the world will be listening to "I'll Put A Spell On You" in a few weeks. Last year, I put up a total of 19 versions of Screamin' Jay Hawkins' classic voodoo howl. I just reupped the zip, and you can find Volumes One and Two here. Now, here are ten more versions [...]
It was the first, and most important, question of the day: just what does one wear to Woodstock? We were headed to the "Heroes of Woodstock" show Saturday at Bethel Woods Center, on the grounds of the original 1969 Woodstock festival, and we wanted to fit in. Thinking that a Hawaiian shirt might be a little ostentatious, by the time we got to Woodstock we knew we were wrong. Because everywhere you looked, there was tie-dye. Tie-dyed shirts, tie-dyed pants, possibly even a couple of tie-dyed people. In fact the only thing more plentiful than tie-dye on Saturday was gray hair [...]
UPDATE: We're taking a few days off while we travel to Bethel for the big Woodstock event August 15. We hope to post a report early Sunday - come back then, or while away the time with some of these reposts. Nobody is going to be caught short this time around - the 40th anniversary of Woodstock offers plenty of opportunity for promoters and performers to make a few bucks. Which I guess is only fair, because many of them took a bath in 1969. Michael Lang, one of the festival's promoters, has a new book [...]
Nobody is going to be caught short this time around - the 40th anniversary of Woodstock offers plenty of opportunity for promoters and performers to make a few bucks. Which I guess is only fair, because many of them took a bath in 1969. Michael Lang, one of the festival's promoters, has a new book The Road To Woodstock which he's been promoting. In one interview, he recalled that the festival wasn't known only as "Woodstock Music and Art Fair" at first - it was "An Aquarian Exposition." Woodstock, New York (about 50 miles to the northeast of where [...]
The other day I was playing my 10 month old daughter some Mountain when my old lady walked in and asked "is this new Federale ?" Either Mountain was way ahead of their time or Federale were born too late. Probably a little bit of both. This record was released in July, 1969 through CBS subsidiary Windfall, and credited to Leslie West but this is the beginning of the mighty Mountain that we all know and love. [...]
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(MP3s: 36 of them beyond the jump) Peer Gynt (1867) by Henrik Ibsen marks the end of romantic nationalism in Norway. In 1874 Edvard Grieg was asked to compose music for the play (or rather, was given a lot of cash to ditch a less profitable project with Norwegian author Björnstierne Björnson). As Ibsen's play grew on him, he complained to his friend Frants Beyer; "It is an immensely difficult subject, and I've done something to the [...]
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