Mountain


Mountain I (1969 - 1970)
  • Leslie West - guitar/vocals - b. Leslie Weinstein, October 22, 1945, Queens, New York, New York - formerly with The Vagrants.
  • Felix Pappalardi - bass/vocals - b. 1939, Bronx, New York, New York - former producer of Cream.
  • N. D. Smart II - drums - b. Norman Smart, Dayton, Ohio - formerly with The Mark V, The Knights/Thee Rubber Band, The Remains, The Bait Shop/Bo Grumpus, and Kangaroo.
Album:
  1. "Leslie West - Mountain" (1969)
N. D. Smart II joins Ian and Sylvia's band Great Speckled Bird, and was later member of Gram Parson's Fallen Angels and Todd Rundgren's band.

Mountain II (1970 - 1972)
  • Leslie West - guitar/vocals
  • Felix Pappalardi - bass/keyboards/vocals
  • Corky Laing - drums/percussion - b. April 26, 1948, Montreal, Canada.
  • Steve Knight - keyboards
Albums:
  1. "Mountain Climbing!" (1970) - Single: "Mississippi Queen"
  2. "Nantucket Sleighride" (1971) - Single: "The Animal Trainer and The Toad"
  3. "Flowers of Evil" (1971)
  4. "Mountain Live (The Road Goes On Forever)" (1972)
Group disbands.

Mountain III (1974) (reformed)
  • Leslie West - guitar/vocals
  • Felix Pappalardi - bass/vocals
  • Alan Schwartzberg - drums
  • Bob Mann - keyboards
Album:
  1. "Twin Peaks" (1974)

Mountain IV (1974)
  • Leslie West - guitar/vocals
  • Felix Pappalardi - bass/vocals
  • Corky Laing - drums
Album:
  1. "Avalanche" (1974)
Group disbands.

Mountain V(1985 - 1996) (reformed)
  • Leslie West - guitar/vocals
  • Corky Laing - drums
  • Mark Clarke - bass - formerly with Uriah Heep.
Albums:
  1. "Go for Your Life" (1986)
  2. "Man's World" (1996)

Compilations:
  1. "Best of Mountain" (1973)
  2. "Over the Top" (2-CDs) (1995)

Leslie West solo:
  1. "The Great Fatsby" (1975)
  2. "The Leslie West Band" (1976)
  3. "Theme" (1988)
  4. "Alligator" (1989)
  5. "Leslie West Band / The Great Fatsby" (2-fer) (1999)
  6. "Live" (1993)
  7. "Dodgin' the Dirt" (1994)
  8. "As Phat As It Gets" (1999)

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Last Revised:  May 20, 2000