{"id":630597,"date":"2023-04-17T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/17\/watch-mountains-felix-papplardi-and-leslie-west-tear-pennsylvania-a-new-one-on-mississippi-queen-as-they-redefine-heavy-for-the-70s\/"},"modified":"2023-04-17T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T17:03:00","slug":"watch-mountains-felix-papplardi-and-leslie-west-tear-pennsylvania-a-new-one-on-mississippi-queen-as-they-redefine-heavy-for-the-70s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/17\/watch-mountains-felix-papplardi-and-leslie-west-tear-pennsylvania-a-new-one-on-mississippi-queen-as-they-redefine-heavy-for-the-70s\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Mountain\u2019s Felix Papplardi and Leslie West tear Pennsylvania a new one on Mississippi Queen as they redefine \u2018heavy\u2019 for the 70s"},"content":{"rendered":"<article aria-label=\"article\" data-id=\"AiQGpCMJNRgat3MQbjSZ88\">\n<header>\n<nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumbs\">\n<ol>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\" aria-label=\"Return to Home\">Home<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/features\" aria-label=\"Return to Features\">Features<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/Bass%20Player\" aria-label=\"Return to Bass Player\">Bass Player<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/nav>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<div itemprop=\"image\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n<div>\n<picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" alt=\"Mountain live on TV \" onerror=\"if(this.src &#038;&#038; this.src.indexOf('missing-image.svg') !== -1){return true;};this.parentNode.replaceChild(window.missingImage(),this)\"   data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/uALMRBntYJMBecmBK53Awb.png\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/uALMRBntYJMBecmBK53Awb.png\"><source type=\"image\/png\" alt=\"Mountain live on TV \" onerror=\"if(this.src &#038;&#038; this.src.indexOf('missing-image.svg') !== -1){return true;};this.parentNode.replaceChild(window.missingImage(),this)\"   data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/uALMRBntYJMBecmBK53Awb.png\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/uALMRBntYJMBecmBK53Awb.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/uALMRBntYJMBecmBK53Awb-320-80.png\" alt=\"Mountain live on TV \" onerror=\"if(this.src &#038;&#038; this.src.indexOf('missing-image.svg') !== -1){return true;};this.parentNode.replaceChild(window.missingImage(),this)\"   data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/uALMRBntYJMBecmBK53Awb.png\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/uALMRBntYJMBecmBK53Awb.png\"><\/picture>\n<\/div>\n<p><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/uALMRBntYJMBecmBK53Awb.png\"><br \/>\n<meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"600\"><br \/>\n<meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"338\"><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\">\n<span itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: YouTube)<\/span><br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/features\/how-jeff-beck-changed-guitar-music-forever\">Jeff Beck<\/a> once described Mountain\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/features\/leslie-west-i-wanted-the-biggest-tone-and-vibrato-like-somebody-who-plays-violin-in-a-100-piece-orchestra\">Leslie West<\/a> as \u201cthe greatest living guitarist in the world\u201d. Kiss\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/features\/stanley-simmons-rate-kiss-guitarists\">Paul Stanley<\/a> said that \u201cLeslie\u2019s tone could stop a rhino in full charge.\u201d He jammed with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/lessons\/how-to-play-guitar-like-jimi-hendrix\">Jimi Hendrix<\/a>, was invited to join the Rolling Stones and Lynyrd Skynyrd, and was hired by The Who to play on <em>Who\u2019s Next<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted a guitar sound that sounded like three guitars,\u201d he said of the Mountain sound \u2013 a thunderous sound that the likes of Kyuss and Monster Magnet would dig up and run with 20 years later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mountain bassist Felix Pappalardi was a wild card. With a background in the Greenwich Village folk scene (and credits on records by the likes of Fred Neil, Tom Paxton and Buffy Sainte-Marie) he produced Cream\u2019s albums from <em>Disraeli Gears<\/em> onwards. Drummer Corky Laing remembers Felix and his wife Gail as \u201ca brilliant, creative team\u201d to begin with, but things got dark and stories abound of drugs, bullying, and domestic abuse (\u201cFelix was not a big guy, and Gail would beat the shit out of him\u201d).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One time Felix shot up the walls of their house after hearing continuous buzzing. \u201cTurns out that the contractors on the house had stuffed hornets\u2019 nests between the walls after Gail refused to pay a bill,\u201d remember Leslie West. \u201cSo Felix was trying to shoot hornets.\u201d It ended in tragedy. Pappalardi was shot and killed by his wife Gail on 17 April 1983.<\/p>\n<p>The craziness was in his sound. Felix played both a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/features\/best-short-scale-basses\">Gibson EB-1<\/a> and EB-0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/features\/best-bass-guitars-for-every-budget\">bass<\/a> and he wielded them like weapons. &#8220;I think my wattage is dangerous,&#8221; he said in interview in 1971. &#8220;I&#8217;ve got so much of it and the bass is souped up. The amps were experimental Hendrix [Sunn] amps that he originally used. I don`t know how I ended up getting them. Our guys have done some work on them and I&#8217;ve got a very powerful instrument, the pick-up itself is very powerful and my basic sound is always wide open on the amp. My amp&#8217;s always on 10, bass is completely off and treble is always full. All the dynamics are being done from my bass, so I&#8217;m playing what I&#8217;d guess you&#8217;d call completely distorted all the time, but it&#8217;s distorted with<em> tone<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On 24 February, 1970, Mountain appeared on The Show, a kids show made by public broadcasters WITF-TV in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The performance is fierce. Laing batters his kit. Pappalardi <em>murderizes<\/em> his bass. West loads up both barrels with rhino-stopping tone. Only keyboard player Steve Knight looks like he\u2019s remembered that he\u2019s on a kids show. (In fact, he looks like he&#8217;s in a different band altogether.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is heavy. It is overdriven. It is brutal. And with remastered audio, it\u2019ll blow your socks off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div data-nosnippet>\n<p><iframe data-lazy-priority=\"high\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ss1EyyXL4Gk\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The clip is also notable for its comments. The poster comments that \u201cAll stoner and doom bands are foam in the wake of Mountain!\u201d and then adds: &#8220;This video includes many of my personal interests: Les Paul Jrs, P-90s (especially those late 60s dog-ear output monsters), Leslie West, stacks of amplifiers that pose multiple fatality risks, teenagers that have no idea what they are witnessing, Bolivian marching powder\u2026The 20th Century was wild.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One commenter remembers buying a Gibson Les Paul Junior after seeing West\u2019s. \u201cHe was not getting that tone from any pedals back then,\u201d he stresses. \u00a0\u201cHe was getting it by plugging directly into Sunn Coliseum PA heads. But, more importantly, tone is in the hands. \u00a0I learned this the hard way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He bought himself a Junior. \u201cIt was this ugly brown mess,\u201d he says, \u201cmore of an electric turd than a guitar. But I got a good deal on it, and it had all the original electronics, which is all I cared about. I wasn&#8217;t going to enter it in any beauty contests. I plugged it into my newly acquired (used) 100-watt Marshall, which isn&#8217;t far in tonal capabilities from the Sunns, and thought I could make noise like Leslie. \u00a0Of course, that didn&#8217;t happen\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(There&#8217;s a better-quality version of the video below but the audio is a little lame and the comments just can&#8217;t compete\u2026)<\/p>\n<div data-nosnippet>\n<p><iframe data-lazy-priority=\"low\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x2UjG2Ju8DY?start=2621\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vanilla.futurecdn.net\/guitarworld\/media\/img\/GW_logo.svg\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Thank you for reading 5 articles this month*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Join now for unlimited access<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>US pricing $3.99 per month or $39.00 per year<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>UK pricing \u00a32.99 per month or \u00a329.00 per year\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Europe pricing \u20ac3.49 per month or \u20ac34.00 per year<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>*Read 5 free articles per month without a subscription<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vanilla.futurecdn.net\/guitarworld\/media\/img\/GW_logo.svg\">\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Join now for unlimited access<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Prices from \u00a32.99\/$3.99\/\u20ac3.49<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" data-reactroot id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent\">\n<section>\n<p>We\u2019d love to stay in touch, sign up for The Pick team to contact you with great news, content and offers.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div data-reactroot id=\"slice-container-authorBio\">\n<p>Tom Poak has written for the Hull Daily Mail, Esquire, The Big Issue, Total Guitar, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and more.\u00a0In a writing career that has spanned decades, he has interviewed Brian May, Brian Cant, and cadged a light off Brian Molko. 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