Mountain

	Mountain
	Mountain at Woodstock
Performed on	Day 2
Started at	9.00 pm, Saturday, 16th
Played for	60 min.
	Further Information
	Official link; All Music Guide link; Wikipedia link;
	Festival Day Chronology
Prev. artist	Canned Heat at 7.30 pm
Next artist	The Grateful Dead at 10.30 pm

Mountain played heavy Blues Rock, mainly influenced by the well-known band Cream. Woodstock was only their fourth gig^[1] but they played in front of 500,000 people. It was Saturday, August the 16^th, 1969, the second day of Woodstock, and about 9:00 pm.

Musicians[]

Leslie West - guitar, vocals
Felix Pappalardi - bass, vocals
Norman D. Smart II - drums
Steve Knight - keyboards

Setlist[]

Blood of the Sun
Stormy Monday
Theme for an Imaginary Western
Long Red
For Yasgur's Farm
Beside the Sea
Waiting to Take You Away
Dreams of Milk and Honey > Guitar Solo
Southbound Train

Details[]

Leslie West played a solid performance though he screwed up the lyrics on "Southbound Train". "Blood of the Sun" was their standard opener and it was followed by the Blues standard "Stormy Monday" (at least someone at Woodstock got to play it!).

"Theme for an Imaginary Western" was written by Pete Brown and Jack Bruce - lyricist and bassist of Cream - and turned out to be a successful song for Mountain. But no Mountain set would be complete without West's guitar solo which followed right after "Dreams of Milk and Honey".

"For Yasgur's Farm" is sometimes also entitled "Who Am I But You and the Sun".

Soon after Woodstock, Mountain's drummer Norman Smart (formerly of Barry & the Remains) was replaced by Corky Laing who worked as a roadie for the band. He turned out to be superior to his predecessor.

Availability[]

A few Mountain songs are available on film outtakes. Official releases:

Audio[]

1971: Woodstock II
1994: Woodstock - Three Days of Peace and Music
1972: Live (The Road Goes Ever On)
2005: Official Bootleg Series, Vol. 7: Woodstock/New Cannan H.S. 1969
2009: Woodstock: 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm
2019: Woodstock - Back to the Garden

Video[]

1994: Woodstock Diaries

Recording Notes[]

Though "Blood of the Sun" and "Theme for an Imaginary Western" can be found on Woodstock II and as well on Woodstock - Three Days of Peace and Music it wasn't recorded in Woodstock! At least for the latter song there's a very good soundboard tape available which does originate from Woodstock^[2].

Two songs Mountain performed at Woodstock - "Long Red" and "Waiting to Take you Away" - are on the 1972 album Live (The Road Goes Ever On). A song entitled "Southbound Train" later included in the 1994 TV special called Woodstock Diaries is an edited version of the song performed at Woodstock.