Mountain: Wichita 1974 (VG+ Aud) FLAC

"Wichita Lineman"
Wichita, KS
March 25, 1971
Audience recording (B+)
Lineage: unknown
Restoration: speed correction and dropout repair (March 2012).
Includes a (not very interesting) studio jam with Richie Blackmore.

This is a really good recording. All of the instruments can be clearly heard and the balance is real nice.

1. Never In My Life
2. Animal Trainer And The Toad
3. Theme For An Imaginary Western
4. Leslie West Solo
5. Dreams Of Milk And Honey
6. Leslie West & Richie Blackmore Jam - New York studio, 1971
Total length: 1:02:50

Leslie West - guitar
Felix Pappalardi - bass,
Corky Laing - drums
Steve Knight - orgam

NO ARTWORK!
Restoration:
*Speed correction* The tape ran 3.65% fast. Proper pitch was determined by finding the correct key for each song from the original studio recording, then adjusting the pitch of this bootleg until it matched my (properly tuned) guitar. I mention this because "Never In My Life" is a bit slow and plodding compared to the record, which is definitely faster. Apparently Mountain didn't get the memo that Rock 'n' Roll is ALWAYS played faster in concert. ;-) Just for reference though, at the June 28 Fillmore show later that year they also played it at this slower tempo.
The upshot of all of this is that, despite how "Never In My Life" SOUNDS, slowing the tape down by 3.65% was the correct thing to do.
No speed changes were made to the jam.

*Repaired dropout* In "Dreams of Milk and Honey", during an extremely repetitive section about 10 minutes in, there was a dropout, followed by 31 seconds of what sounded like mangled tape, then another dropout, then 53 seconds where the left channel was 3dB too quiet and the right channel was 2dB too loud. Since this was a very repetitive part anyway, I seamlessly whacked out the mangled tape and dropouts, and fixed the volume problem.
* I also retracked it and fixed sector boundry errors.

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Mountain: Providence 1974 (Early Dan Lampinski) FLAC

Palace Theatre
Providence, RI
23 May 1974
Master audience recording taped by Dan Lampinski

CD1
01 Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On
02 Theme From An Imaginary Western
03 band intros/Crossroader
04 You Better Believe It (spliced)
05 Nantucket Sleigh Ride (end cut)
06 Satisfaction
07 Roll Over Beethoven

CD2
01 E: Mississippi Queen

Leslie West – lead guitar, vocals
David Perry - rhythm guitar
Corky Laing – drums
Felix Pappalardi – bass

unknown model dictation style Tape Recorder
External Mono Microphone
Scotch cassettes

Mastered and FLAC'ed by Carl Morstadt
Master Cassette -> Nakamichi CR-3A cassette deck with azimuth correction -> M-Audio Firewire Audiophile 2496 -> CDWAV 24-bit/96-KHz wav files -> Goldwave (normalizing and crossfades) -> CDWAV (track breaks) -> dBpowerAMP Audio Converter (24-bit/96-KHz wav files converted to 16-bit/44.1 KHz wav files) -> FLAC Front End (FLAC 8 with sector boundary alignment)
FLAC files tagged with Foobar2000 Live Show Tagger
No EQ'ing.

Warning/Disclaimer: This recording should not be confused with the series labelled "The Dan Lampinski Tapes Volume XX". This recording represents part of Dan's earliest efforts to capture the live concert experience for posterity, hence the series name "Dan Lampinski - The Early Years Volume XX". Given the very consistent high quality of Dan's later work, it would have been easy to blow off these recordings and consign them to the dustbin of history, but there are quite a few captures in the series that are well worth circulating, if not for their rarity, but for the obsessive collector types (we know who we are) that want every single second of any recordings of their favourite musicians. So please, just accept these recordings for what they are, another part of the tapestry we weave when we collect and share such things.
Since Dan never traded copies of his recordings, they are all essentially uncirculated. Some copies were made for friends, but these releases are the first time most of these recordings have ever seen the light of day, and are direct from his master cassettes. No EQ'ing has been done to any of the transfers. Feel free to EQ, matrix, patch, etc and re-post if you like, just give Dan credit for the original recording.
Dan was very meticulous about taking good care of his tapes and is very pleased that these recordings will now circulate among the trading community. Please honour his kindness and generosity by sharing these recordings freely.
Always remember - the more generous you are with your music, the more it comes back to you. -Kev & Carl November 2010

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Mountain: Live at the Felt Forum, New York, December 31, 1974

Mountain: Live at the Felt Forum, New York, December 31, 1974
props to BigO


This was most likely Mountain's very last show with the "original" lineup, recorded on New Year's Eve 1974 at the NYC Felt Forum within the Madison Square Garden complex.
Though formed in 1969, Mountain first disbanded in February 1972 after a tour of the UK. After West, Bruce & Laing and Leslie West's Wild West Show in June and July 1973, Felix Pappalardi and Leslie West reunited and hired Bob Mann and Alan Schwartzberg for a Japanese tour in August 1973.
At the beginning, this might have been regarded as a one-off undertaking. However, this tour yielded the Twin Peaks double album that was originally planned as a Japanese-only release but was released worldwide in 1974. Alas, the Japanese shows and this resulting album did not represent Mountain adequately by any means.
After the tour, West insisted that Corky Laing be part of the band if they were to continue. Pappalardi agreed but demanded in return - much to West's dismay - that the band took on David Perry as an additional guitarist (to avoid the Mountain look and not sound too much like Cream [he had produced three albums for the group]). It seemed the band's original organ player, Steve Knight, was not considered.
In a nutshell, this four-piece toured from late 1973 to September 1974, and recorded the band's last album, Avalanche, in January 1974. The few existing recordings from this period showed a revitalized band with some refreshing new and up-to-the-mark material.
After their September 1974 tour, it seemed West finally succeeded in convincing Pappalardi to condense the band to his favourite trio format. Pappalardi obviously gave in and it was left to West to phone Perry to give him the bad news. Perhaps it was already decided at this point that their autumn/winter 1974 tour would be the band's farewell which may have made it easier for Pappalardi to actually concede.
The band kicked off their last tour on October 3, 1974 with a phenomenal show at NYC's Radio City Music Hall. Fortunately there is a decent audience recording of this in circulation and it's worth getting hold of. On this tour, Mountain were the main act when they played mid-sized venues and, for larger venues, they were the support act, for instance, they supported new stars the J Geils Band.
One can only hope that West was indeed happy on this tour - at least, this recording demonstrates a still extra-tight band. They even came up with an otherwise not-to-be-found rendition of Ten Years After's I'm Going Home, perhaps a nod to their colleagues (both bands often appeared in festivals together) who were also, at that time, on the verge of splitting.
The sound quality for this recording is superb, it's a first generation off-the-master copy, and it's a complete recording of the show. Close listening reveals that it must be an audience recording but it is indeed so well recorded that one may mistake it for a soundboard tape. The late Rich Demartino, a long-time friend of West - and who was close to the band from the very beginning - was in possession of this show. (Hope he is having a good time up there with Felix!) As he told this reviewer in 1996, he regarded this recording so highly that he had tried to sell it to Sony - which owned Mountain's Windfall Records catalogue - as an official release. However, that did not materialize.

Enjoy Mountain at their last and "creamy" peak! - Thomas Schmid

Track 01 Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On (8.8MB)
Track 02 Theme For An Imaginary Western (7.4MB)
Track 03 Thumbsucker (7.9MB)
Track 04 You Better Believe It (14.1MB)
Track 05 Nantucket Sleighride I (22.1MB)
Track 06 Nantucket Sleighride II (6.4MB)
Track 07 Medley: Leslie West's Solo / Roll Over Beethoven / Corky Laing Solo / Going Home Jam (22.2MB)
Track 08 Mississippi Queen (9.0MB)

Lineup:
Leslie West - guitar, vocals
Felix Pappalardi - bass, vocals
Corky Laing - drums

192kbs mp3
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