Mountain – Twin Peaks (2LP Vinyl) Quadraphonic Original Japanese Pressing
Windfall Records (1973)
$80.00
Rare Actual 1973 Japanese First Pressing Mastered For Quadraphonic Sound! Heavy Grade Gatefold Cover Includes 4-Page Insert With Lyrics.
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Rare Actual 1973 Japanese First Pressing Mastered For Quadraphonic Sound! Heavy Grade Gatefold Cover Includes 4-Page Insert With Lyrics In English & Notes In Japanese, Labels Are Clean. Heavyweight Double Live Rock Set From Mountain (Leslie West, Felix Pappalardi & Co). Includes The Mighty “Mississippi Queen” & Full 33-Minute Version Of “Nantucket Sleigh Ride”.
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT! Fantastic for 50-year-old records!
Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT! Some shelf / edge wear.
Recorded Live at Osaka Koseinenkin Hall, Japan, August 30, 1973.
Guitarist, Leslie West gets a gargantuan sound out of his Les Paul Gibson on ‘Twin Peaks’. Bassist, Felix Pappalardi, was legendary producer of Cream — Mountain has a similar dense, blues based style.
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Near Mint Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer — and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
Never In My Life
Theme For An Imaginary Western
Blood On The Sun
Guitar Solo
Side 2:
Nantucket Sleigh Ride (Part 1)
Side 3:
Nantucket Sleigh Ride (Conclusion)
Side 4:
Crossroader
Mississippi Queen
Silver Paper
Roll Over Beethoven
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Now this is more like it! Recorded in Osaka, Japan, in 1973, Twin Peaks was Mountain's second consecutive live album (with The Best of Mountain compilation between them), albeit featuring the re-formed, somewhat reconfigured version of the group, consisting of Leslie West (guitar, vocals), Felix Pappalardi (bass, vocals), Bob Mann (guitar, keyboards), and Allan Schwartzberg (drums). It overlaps with its predecessor, Mountain Live (The Road Goes Ever On) on only two cuts, "Crossroader" and "Nantucket Sleighride," and the latter is stretched out even further here than it was on the earlier album, to over 32 minutes. The content ends up showing off the best and the worst attributes of Mountain -- the best being such staples as "Theme from an Imaginary Western," "Mississippi Queen," "Never in My Life," and "Roll Over Beethoven," while the worst is "Nantucket Sleighride." But even the latter, at over half-an-hour, was precisely what audiences of the period were paying to see and hear, and captures the band's music in all of its excessive glory. Additionally, "Nantucket Sleighride" doesn't seem that long in the actual listening, mostly because it's difficult not to be impressed with the playing, especially the guitar dialogue between West and Mann. A worthy document of a Mountain concert at their summit!