Whether it was appearing at Woodstock, playing with The Who, partying with Ozzy Osbourne, Mick Jagger or David Bowie or being asked to audition for The Rolling Stones,, Mountain singer and guitarist Leslie West was a larger than life character in every respect. In 2009, Classic Rock sat down with West – who died in 2020 – for the magazine’s Ever Met Hendrix? feature, in which musicians looked back at some of their most memorable encounters with the great and good of rock’n’roll and beyond. He may have slimmed down by that point, but his contact book remained as hefty as ever.
