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To: zeestephen

RIP. My favorite Mountain song is The Animal Trainer and the Toad.

https://youtu.be/ud1ActKrGSQ


38 posted on 12/23/2020 4:35:26 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Keep the Faith. Everything happens for a reason.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Thanks for the link to "Trainer & Toad."

I do not recall hearing it before - I like it.

I loved Mountain's first album, but lost touch with them after that.

My favorites are completely obvious - "Mississippi Queen" and "Theme for an Imaginary Western."

In "Theme," I think the blend of Pappalardi's voice against the guitar is truly beautiful.

According to Wiki, Pappalardi produced Jack Bruce's original recording of the song.

In the late 1970s, I drove up to a rock and roll club north of Ft. Lauderdale - in Boca Raton or Deerfield Beach - and saw Leslie West playing with a band I had never heard of before.

West was hugely overweight and intoxicated. At the time I assumed he was broke and about to join the pantheon of Rock Legends who died young.

Congratulations, Leslie West, for making it to age 75!

51 posted on 12/24/2020 1:11:24 AM PST by zeestephen
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