The performances contained on the Mountain Bootleg Series are drawn from various stages of the bands career from the very early years when the band first formed through to recent gigs undertaken by the band. All the perfor... more »mances come from the personal archives of both Leslie West and Corky Laing and whilst some of the performances are not sonically perfect the quality of the performances are never in question and as Corky Laing says "Some of the performances are real interesting". I couldn?t have said it better myself. This historic performance has been re mastered for release from the original tape that has been in the bands archive for more than thirty years.« less
The performances contained on the Mountain Bootleg Series are drawn from various stages of the bands career from the very early years when the band first formed through to recent gigs undertaken by the band. All the performances come from the personal archives of both Leslie West and Corky Laing and whilst some of the performances are not sonically perfect the quality of the performances are never in question and as Corky Laing says "Some of the performances are real interesting". I couldn?t have said it better myself. This historic performance has been re mastered for release from the original tape that has been in the bands archive for more than thirty years.
CD Reviews
Power Rock at its ROOTS
W. J. RUPPERT | nyc | 02/26/2005
(4 out of 5 stars)
"As a Middle age over the Hill Mountain Fan who saw the Original group over 20 times this is truly a remembrance.This was their show in their third or fourth tour.You still would have to see them live to appreciate the power of their music but DREAMS Of MILK AND HONEY comes close. One thing, as on the original Mountain Climbing Alblum--"This Record was made to be played LOUD"--"
For Mountain Fans
Dr. W. Martin James | Arkadelphia, AR USA | 01/10/2006
(4 out of 5 stars)
"I purchased this cd for the express purpose of hearing "Dreams of Milk & Honey/Dream Sequence." It wasn't bad, but the "Flowers of Evil" version is much better. Like the other reviewers, I saw the original line-up three times. Mountain live was awesome. If they opened for a more prominent act, I would have hated to go on after them. "Nantucket Sleighride" has been performed better on other cds. However, "Mississippi Queen" and "Silverpaper" are extended versions and are quite excellent. At their best, Mountain was always a guitar fueled, jam band. This cd, while quite good, should not be one's introduction to Mountain. As for Steve Knight, I read somewhere, that he and the other band members did not get along well. Thus you rarely hear of him and his contributions to the band. I agree "PLAY THIS MUSIC LOUD.""
Great for fans, not for casual purchasers
John Slaytor | England | 10/13/2005
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Great performance featuring all the usual favourites. Sound quality is good without being brilliant but the main failing of this and all the others in the series is the packaging. I know it's an official bootleg but we should be getting more than bootleg-level packaging. At least on this CD we know who the band are (some of the later volumes are more a Leslie West solo show but it's difficult to tell as there are never any personnel details). This performance highlights the contribution Steve Knight made to the sound. He always seems to be the forgotten one compared to Leslie, Felix and Corky but shouldn't be. Whatever happened to him?"
"best played loud"
C. Butler | Baltimore, MD, USA | 04/08/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"ok, this ain't your sonicly perfect CD but if you close your eyes and imagine you're surrounded by people you can pretend you are AT the concert.
The song mix is great but the best is "dreams of milk and honey/dream sequence" - it's not as good as the one from Isle of Wight but it still kicks [...].
If you like mountain, and you want to hear them when they were young and full of hard charging energy then buy this CD. And go see them now - Leslie and Corky are STILL touring and they still can kick some serious [...]! ;)"
Track Listings (8) - Disc #1