i met him at the Limelight at Crewe;i beat the bouncers out through the door and ran to leslie; he signed my albums and said to me in all question; have you brought these all the way from home??? what a real; nice guy; pity the bitch back then in my life robbed me of many of my records!!!! including those with leslie's signature just to add a lovely man!!! leslie west is best!!!!! he truly relates with his many fans; he changed my life with his music for the better!!!!!!!
Played a couple of these for my son. He tried for a week to find someone from his generation's music (he is 17) that could play as good or better. He now has 4 Leslie West CD's. Seldom imitated, never duplicated, the best there ever was.
Unbelievably emotional!What a beautiful performance! Never liked bob dylan but you cant deny his song writing ability. Leslies version blows the doors off the original.Unbelievably talented this guy. Rock on man! \m/
Was, and still is ,one of the best "Pure Guitarists" around. Can play with anyone; anytime. A "Real Student" of the guitar and its "sounds". And can "bear witness" to the
life of being a "Rock & Roll " star of those times.
With all due Respect to all his peers, He still is and will always be, one of the "Greatest Axeman " of his, or anyone else's time. A real "Student" of the guitar and its sounds.
And by the way, if you want to know what "Rock & Roll" was all about, ask him "He lived it"?
saw mountain live at summerfest in milwaukee a few years ago and it was the first time i'd ever heard this song. thanks to some help from other mountain fans i was able to locate and purchase the masters of war album. such a beautiful song and sung equally as well...i'll never forget that concert.
saw mountain live at summerfest in milwaukee a few years ago and it was the first time i'd ever heard this song. thanks to some help from other mountain fans i was able to locate and purchase the masters of war album. such a beautiful song and sung equally as well...i'll never forget that concert.
saw mountain live at summerfest in milwaukee a few years ago and it was the first time i'd ever heard this song. thanks to some help from other mountain fans i was able to locate and purchase the masters of war album. such a beautiful song and sung equally as well...i'll never forget that concert.
in 1978 or 79 I got to work the lighting for him. Since then I have tried to play like him. I worked lighting for many bands but something he did with that guitar made me think about the style I wanted
I don`t understand why many artists play to such ignorant audiences. Is this in the States? Listen to the ignorant arseholes talking in the background! They don`t deserve this!
This guy WAS the envelope pusher of electric guitar uses and sounds for most of the late 60's into the 70's. The feed back/fuzz/"leslie box" sounds he created while with Mountain & that bands off shoots...He was highly influential to most all great guitar players that followed. He and Jimi were guitar playing geniuses - a fact all serious music historians agree upon
i saw him at woodstock 94 bethel, then again on 10-30-08 at the philmoore in miami bch, he opened for joe satriani. mountain is very very heavy. leslie has a true talent, he could play rubber bands on a tin can and make it sound right. he plays from his heart and when it makes it to the strings its pure magic. if you ever have a chance to see this guitar wizzard, do it. there is no one who has ever touched my soul with music like leslie!!!!
Not to be disrespectful to Bob Dylan, but I think that Leslie's version is better. I just like the Rock 'N Roll feel for "Blowin' in the Wind." It's just awesome.
After seeing that im convince The mountain man is the greatest living classic rock guitarist by themseves jimmy page or Phramptom could not be this heavy and soulful . Leslie is amazing especially scine he was pritty much washed up in the 80's in a big way , he came back and became a better singer and player than anyone could hope for , i am in awe of all the blues he has recorded with Shrapnel records , and to hear Shenkner do a tribute to him blowsme away leslie holds his own with anyone
i agree I am a 47 years young man from Sweden,iam searching for one of the greatest heavyrock songs i ever heard CROSSROADER where can i find it at yuotube???
@Stairwaytotheslagg back in about 1978 or 79 I actualy got to work th elighting for his show at an amusement park in Bolingbrook Il. Since then I try to play like him
@Stairwaytotheslagg back in about 1978 or 79 I actualy got to work th elighting for his show at an amusement park in Bolingbrook Il. Since then I try to play like him
That audience response Leslie gets at 5:12 is what EVERY musician seeks. However, only the very finest can pull it off. Musicians that play from their HEART & SOUL.
Leslie's legendary vocals and guitar skills are unheralded, one of the finest musicians of our day.
Es curioso que esta canción sigue siendo versionada, corriganme si no es la que está traducida a más idiomas en el mundo!!!! En cuanto a Leslie, podría haberle metido un poco de maldad que sabe hacerlo de sobra, como la que estuvo haciendo Neil Young hace algún tiempo.
saw these guys live at summerfest in july at milwaukee...and WOW! leslie west is just simply amazing...and the version of this song is incredible. where can i find the album that it's on...have been looking in stores but no luck so far.
Hey Pacman. Just buy at amazon. Search for Mountain. Then, Masters of War. Price is $15.98 and I think is best rock album to come out in the last 5-10 years. Leslie West has unbelievable passion... and can express it in his raunchy voice and with his signature guitar in a very memorable and cult-like way.
I think you are correct sir ! The sound is what took me to that. He has 1. tuned the E string down or 2. as in the old ways, has tuned the guitar down 4 frets to C, F, Bb, Eb, G, C . This was common prior to steel reinforced guitar necks.
Definitely not a 12 string... but then again there's not very many players that can emit so much tone from a guitar like Leslie can! I believe Leslie tunes his guitar down 4 frets to C, F, Bb, Eb, G, C.. as MrCeeJayHey suggested, Leslie does lots with his guitars and amps to sound old school and different.
I was just tech myself how to play this... and I was tinkering with the tunings. I'm not totally positive, but I think it's a half step low in drop D. That's why that first D chord sounds so deep.
Check out Mountain performing under the World Trade Center in the Summer 2001, 30 days before the towers fell... Recorded two songs: Mississippi Queen and Crossroads... both stellar versions!! Enjoy! Check my profile page for links...
Get the new MOUNTAIN album, MASTERS OF WAR, a tribute to Bob Dylan. This may be Leslie's best work since '69-74 period... Its the best rock album period in the last 20 years.
Mountain and Jo Jo Gunn played together at John Jay Senior High, Hopewell Junction, New York, 1974-1975 was it? for our Senior Class grad celebration. I could not have had a better send off from Hopeless Jungle ...
Yeah those are definitely Leslie Harmonics, and thats definately Leslie Vibrato... trademarked to a Guitar God known to Earthlings and fellow terrestrial mortals as Leslie West, Creator of the Hard Rock Sound, the Long Island Sound, and all inter-planetarian rock and roll fans!
I have been a Leslie West ( Mountain, Etc. ) for over 30+ years and I can never get enuff of that guitar !!! The guy just NEVER stops amazing me w/ that killer vibrato/ harmonics, etc.
As a guitar player, I learned so much from his playing. Like the great trumpeter Louis Armstrong, Leslie never needed to play fast or lots of note, just the right ones at the right time.
i met him at the Limelight at Crewe;i beat the bouncers out through the door and ran to leslie; he signed my albums and said to me in all question; have you brought these all the way from home??? what a real; nice guy; pity the bitch back then in my life robbed me of many of my records!!!! including those with leslie's signature just to add a lovely man!!! leslie west is best!!!!! he truly relates with his many fans; he changed my life with his music for the better!!!!!!!
StringBitch1 3 months ago
His guitar playing is over the top, always been.
But I love the soul in his voice =)
It´s fat and creamy
hoghash78 6 months ago
the should do a pro shot of this!
Tralasse 7 months ago
still sounds as if there is a backing band..even solo.......turn up in my local any time
edelweiss1001 7 months ago
Played a couple of these for my son. He tried for a week to find someone from his generation's music (he is 17) that could play as good or better. He now has 4 Leslie West CD's. Seldom imitated, never duplicated, the best there ever was.
cbeyer1958 7 months ago
@cbeyer1958 Fuck yea!
depper 7 months ago
Leslie West is the man... One of the greatest guitarists to ever play on the rock scene in my personal opinion.
SuRihtanil 9 months ago
Unbelievably emotional!What a beautiful performance! Never liked bob dylan but you cant deny his song writing ability. Leslies version blows the doors off the original.Unbelievably talented this guy. Rock on man! \m/
striker2829 9 months ago
Close your eyes and listen! ....Sounds like a "Boss-Like" guy from New Jersey ?
** sorry, for the cryptography, but "the Tube" wouldnt let me write his name ???
LuckyLeBone 1 year ago
Close your eyes and listen!. Sounds like "B R U C E" ? ? ?
LuckyLeBone 1 year ago
Was, and still is ,one of the best "Pure Guitarists" around. Can play with anyone; anytime. A "Real Student" of the guitar and its "sounds". And can "bear witness" to the
life of being a "Rock & Roll " star of those times.
LuckyLeBone 1 year ago 2
With all due Respect to all his peers, He still is and will always be, one of the "Greatest Axeman " of his, or anyone else's time. A real "Student" of the guitar and its sounds.
And by the way, if you want to know what "Rock & Roll" was all about, ask him "He lived it"?
LuckyLeBone 1 year ago
I'm personal friends with him
showtimetv100 1 year ago
@showtimetv100
Hey Showtime. Next time you bump into him tell him Dave Ball said Hi.
Thanks,
Dave
worldslump 10 months ago
I saw them every time they hit Atlanta
alienlawenforcer 1 year ago
thats how you play a acoustic guitar..not doing jumpin jacks all over ther fretboard
wisesatyr72 1 year ago
WHAT BAND IS THIS GUY IN?
phiaman 1 year ago
como existe alguém capaz de não gostar de um video deste
Amazing
TITOHENDRIXIANOSALU 1 year ago
saw mountain live at summerfest in milwaukee a few years ago and it was the first time i'd ever heard this song. thanks to some help from other mountain fans i was able to locate and purchase the masters of war album. such a beautiful song and sung equally as well...i'll never forget that concert.
pacmac79 1 year ago
saw mountain live at summerfest in milwaukee a few years ago and it was the first time i'd ever heard this song. thanks to some help from other mountain fans i was able to locate and purchase the masters of war album. such a beautiful song and sung equally as well...i'll never forget that concert.
pacmac79 1 year ago
saw mountain live at summerfest in milwaukee a few years ago and it was the first time i'd ever heard this song. thanks to some help from other mountain fans i was able to locate and purchase the masters of war album. such a beautiful song and sung equally as well...i'll never forget that concert.
pacmac79 1 year ago
in 1978 or 79 I got to work the lighting for him. Since then I have tried to play like him. I worked lighting for many bands but something he did with that guitar made me think about the style I wanted
stewjm04171962 1 year ago
I don`t understand why many artists play to such ignorant audiences. Is this in the States? Listen to the ignorant arseholes talking in the background! They don`t deserve this!
PhilipPorter 1 year ago
David Gilmore: "As long as Ian Gillan screams, RocknRoll lives".
I say: as long as Leslie plays Woodstock lives on.
gillan5 2 years ago
All I can say, Leslie ... is you had em all in the palm of your hand.
The most influential rocker alive today. 45 years later and STILL going STRONG.
depper 2 years ago 4
Thank You...
danceswithcrayons 2 years ago
slow with feeling...
MXY234786 2 years ago 4
i remember the first time i saw Mountain... it was at BB King's in NYC. when Leslie came out and did this song... i remember, i was shaking.
thecheshirekat 2 years ago 9
This guy WAS the envelope pusher of electric guitar uses and sounds for most of the late 60's into the 70's. The feed back/fuzz/"leslie box" sounds he created while with Mountain & that bands off shoots...He was highly influential to most all great guitar players that followed. He and Jimi were guitar playing geniuses - a fact all serious music historians agree upon
LCC0256 2 years ago 3
i saw him at woodstock 94 bethel, then again on 10-30-08 at the philmoore in miami bch, he opened for joe satriani. mountain is very very heavy. leslie has a true talent, he could play rubber bands on a tin can and make it sound right. he plays from his heart and when it makes it to the strings its pure magic. if you ever have a chance to see this guitar wizzard, do it. there is no one who has ever touched my soul with music like leslie!!!!
12wsatye 2 years ago 3
Not to be disrespectful to Bob Dylan, but I think that Leslie's version is better. I just like the Rock 'N Roll feel for "Blowin' in the Wind." It's just awesome.
johnnycoolguy9554 2 years ago
caught Mountain in Fort Myers 2007
waited 35 years to see/hear Leslie
fuckin AMAZIN !!
thepcguru55 3 years ago
After seeing that im convince The mountain man is the greatest living classic rock guitarist by themseves jimmy page or Phramptom could not be this heavy and soulful . Leslie is amazing especially scine he was pritty much washed up in the 80's in a big way , he came back and became a better singer and player than anyone could hope for , i am in awe of all the blues he has recorded with Shrapnel records , and to hear Shenkner do a tribute to him blowsme away leslie holds his own with anyone
McMinnManiac 3 years ago 9
i agree I am a 47 years young man from Sweden,iam searching for one of the greatest heavyrock songs i ever heard CROSSROADER where can i find it at yuotube???
Stairwaytotheslagg 3 years ago
@Stairwaytotheslagg back in about 1978 or 79 I actualy got to work th elighting for his show at an amusement park in Bolingbrook Il. Since then I try to play like him
stewjm04171962 1 year ago
@Stairwaytotheslagg back in about 1978 or 79 I actualy got to work th elighting for his show at an amusement park in Bolingbrook Il. Since then I try to play like him
stewjm04171962 1 year ago
Mountain is the greatest band ever, and Leslie is a hero a true rare and classic talent.
humanfly02 3 years ago 4
i saw mountain open for satch in toronto...im telling you, i would of paid money just to say mountain there HEAVY!!!!!!
SAtch was great that night too. a night not to forget
tenaciousjp 3 years ago 2
someone have tab ? or at least know how he's tuned ? i'm a bassist so i habe trouble with 6strings chord forms :(
greaaat song btw .
laialouamech 3 years ago
i dont if you know yet or not but it is tuned drop D and down a half step. the key is D as well. Chords in it are A, D, Bm, and G
dmasta91 2 years ago
That audience response Leslie gets at 5:12 is what EVERY musician seeks. However, only the very finest can pull it off. Musicians that play from their HEART & SOUL.
Leslie's legendary vocals and guitar skills are unheralded, one of the finest musicians of our day.
depper 3 years ago
Leslie West says more with a single riff than most guitarists could say with 3 elongated guitar solos.
Who pulls more from a single note, then Leslie? Sheer Perfection. Every note.
depper 3 years ago
Leslie you are the boss
Grefintiuk 3 years ago
Just saw Mountain opening for Joe Satriani in El Paso Texas and man...... They were FUCKIN' amazing!
sonn1988 3 years ago
I caught them last week in Vegas.... What a mind blowin sound!!!!!!!!!!
mrchris060 3 years ago
Es curioso que esta canción sigue siendo versionada, corriganme si no es la que está traducida a más idiomas en el mundo!!!! En cuanto a Leslie, podría haberle metido un poco de maldad que sabe hacerlo de sobra, como la que estuvo haciendo Neil Young hace algún tiempo.
vangelisideras 3 years ago
saw these guys live at summerfest in july at milwaukee...and WOW! leslie west is just simply amazing...and the version of this song is incredible. where can i find the album that it's on...have been looking in stores but no luck so far.
pacmac79 3 years ago
Hey Pacman. Just buy at amazon. Search for Mountain. Then, Masters of War. Price is $15.98 and I think is best rock album to come out in the last 5-10 years. Leslie West has unbelievable passion... and can express it in his raunchy voice and with his signature guitar in a very memorable and cult-like way.
depper 3 years ago
thanks a bunch, will check it out!
pacmac79 3 years ago
The first rock concert I ever saw was Mountain in 1972. Bob Dylan is my favorite artist. This is just beautiful. Well done, Les.
BDTJinks 3 years ago
Fuck yeah! Dylan & West. Gets No Better. Could you imagine a duet!? #1 all over again baby.
depper 3 years ago
I can't stop watching this video. It gives me goose bumps every time I watch it.
DrivenMind 3 years ago
Oh Wow!!! Amazing!!!! sounds a bit like Bruce Springsteen...cool!!
tuskaiae 3 years ago 2
No no no.. Blasfemi! If so, bruce springsteen sounds like him:p If Bruce is the boss, this guy is the fucking god:p hehe;)
foglest 3 years ago
Mr. Fripod:
I think you are correct sir ! The sound is what took me to that. He has 1. tuned the E string down or 2. as in the old ways, has tuned the guitar down 4 frets to C, F, Bb, Eb, G, C . This was common prior to steel reinforced guitar necks.
Your correct sir, not a 12 string !
cja
MrCeeJayHey 3 years ago
SPOT ON. Perfectly stated.
depper 3 years ago 2
Leslie West is spot on with this Dylan number. Keen into on the 12 string and Leslie's powerful voice. Keen, in that the message still stands.
cja
MrCeeJayHey 3 years ago
Definitely not a 12 string... but then again there's not very many players that can emit so much tone from a guitar like Leslie can! I believe Leslie tunes his guitar down 4 frets to C, F, Bb, Eb, G, C.. as MrCeeJayHey suggested, Leslie does lots with his guitars and amps to sound old school and different.
depper 3 years ago
I was just tech myself how to play this... and I was tinkering with the tunings. I'm not totally positive, but I think it's a half step low in drop D. That's why that first D chord sounds so deep.
DrivenMind 3 years ago
Check out Mountain performing under the World Trade Center in the Summer 2001, 30 days before the towers fell... Recorded two songs: Mississippi Queen and Crossroads... both stellar versions!! Enjoy! Check my profile page for links...
depper 4 years ago
can someone email me a copy of this song in a mp3 file?
tttlam211 4 years ago
so nice guitar play duuuuude! <3 lovit man
norgeomg 4 years ago
I first heard Leslie playing with Townshend on Love Aint For Keeping. What a great performer.
suraboyo 4 years ago
I JUST FOUND MYSELF A NEW HERO!
DONNANDMARY 4 years ago
Join the Mountain and Leslie West fan club at thegreatfatsbies dot com. Its free and chock full of Mountain facts...
depper 4 years ago
Get the new MOUNTAIN album, MASTERS OF WAR, a tribute to Bob Dylan. This may be Leslie's best work since '69-74 period... Its the best rock album period in the last 20 years.
depper 4 years ago
its pretty good but i wasnt diggin the like a rolling stone. maybe its just i got used to the hendrix version
gunnerdan 4 years ago
Mountain and Jo Jo Gunn played together at John Jay Senior High, Hopewell Junction, New York, 1974-1975 was it? for our Senior Class grad celebration. I could not have had a better send off from Hopeless Jungle ...
mergatroidal 4 years ago
I saw Leslie West and Mountian play at John Jay too. It was a very good night...thanks Lucy & Linda S.
1000WATS 4 years ago
Yeah those are definitely Leslie Harmonics, and thats definately Leslie Vibrato... trademarked to a Guitar God known to Earthlings and fellow terrestrial mortals as Leslie West, Creator of the Hard Rock Sound, the Long Island Sound, and all inter-planetarian rock and roll fans!
depper 4 years ago
Leslie and Rory Gallagher - the very best!
malenkov 4 years ago
great rendition, thanks. Very tough singer!
adremoid 4 years ago
leslie is one tough, confident player.... love him!
maccorsi 5 years ago
I have been a Leslie West ( Mountain, Etc. ) for over 30+ years and I can never get enuff of that guitar !!! The guy just NEVER stops amazing me w/ that killer vibrato/ harmonics, etc.
Meditex
Meditex 5 years ago
I know Leslie...he is th efinest..johnny mag3
johnnymag3 5 years ago
As a guitar player, I learned so much from his playing. Like the great trumpeter Louis Armstrong, Leslie never needed to play fast or lots of note, just the right ones at the right time.
arcangel6 5 years ago
God Bless you west for all the music ....Awsome.
xsamitt 5 years ago