Jeff Beck once described Mountain’s Leslie West as “the greatest living guitarist in the world”. Kiss’s Paul Stanley said that “Leslie’s tone could stop a rhino in full charge.” He jammed with Jimi Hendrix, was invited to join the Rolling Stones and Lynyrd Skynyrd, and was hired by The Who to play on Who’s Next.
“I wanted a guitar sound that sounded like three guitars,” he said of the Mountain sound – a thunderous sound that the likes of Kyuss and Monster Magnet would dig up and run with 20 years later.
