Mountain

Uh, born there, born in Pomona.

Then my, my dad moved around a little bit for his engineering jobs, so we moved to, uh, Mountain View, California for a few years.

Then we moved out to Ridgecrest, California.

That's when I started going to school.

Yeah

...

Mountain and heavier stuff like that.

Absolutely.

Oh, wow.

An Ibanez bass guitar, of course, owned by Felix Pappalardi from Mountain, who you all know.

And then a black two-piece outfit worn on stage in 1993 in the Girlie Show tour that belonged to Madonna.

Now, wait a minute.

It'll intimidate them.

Even that

guy from Mountain.

That's right.

It doesn't really grab me.

I mean, aside from a few tracks, is this the great comeback record? But I think the points that you made about it being decidedly more straightforward and more like stuff he was doing with Mountain, yeah, I guess that kind of makes sense.

Rainbow, sorry.

Leslie West would take umbrage with you saying Mountain.

Sorry.

um

And these are great.

I mean, you actually put down for a, a great jam band, while we're talking about jam bands, is, um, Mountain Live.

Ugh, God.

Four songs on one album.

Well, yeah, uh, but you're probably still the strongest influence in the house all through those years.

Like, I was still the one, even as an adult, you know, "Hey guys, here's, here's Frank Zappa.

Here, all my..." My kids know all the words to Billy of the Mountain, all 20 minutes of it.

[laughs]

I couldn't remember it.

Mountain is the band.

Mississippi

queen is the song.

After Stink's given us a few, then he's got a few more.

I've got four more, so I'll shoot through these very quickly.

There is one of my favourite Joe Bonamassa tracks, which is Mountain Climbing.

So referencing back to Mountain, this time they're the band, as opposed to the band writing about Queen.

Right, that was set one.

Now set two, we're going to start it off with a double shot of Mountain, one of my favorite bands.

And the first one's going to be a studio version.

The second one's going to be a live version.

[instrumental music]

That was set two.

We started off with two tracks from Mountain.

The first one was Theme for an Imaginary Western.

You should know that name.

It goes way back to Mountain.

That's this week's slide into a side in the Krasloft.

And I'm the Kras right here on Proxzilla Radio.

But they didn't have a bass player.

So a guy by the name of Bob Clear Mountain offered to fill in on bass.

Of course, we know who Bob Clear Mountain is.

Became a famous producer in the years after.

And...

Songwriting takes time and thought, and since coming to New York, the band spent most of their time raising hell rather than working out new material.

Then Sire proposed Felix Papalardi as producer.

He'd been the bass player for Mountain, whose six-album catalog had only one song anyone remembered by 1978, Mississippi Queen.

I would rather play drums because growing up as a kid, my dad, he was of that Vietnam era.

So he would tell us these insane stories about listening to Mountain and Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix.

I still have his old scrapbooks from back in the day.

And it's them.