Leslie West - 5 Originals

The subject of this five album set - guitarist / vocalist / songwriter Leslie West passed away on 23rd December 2020, aged seventy-five, suffering cardiac arrest at his home near Daytona, Florida. As a musician and front man, he was impossible to ignore. At his peak, West weighed in at a gargantuan 320 lbs, and his musical skills and burly, raw-throated vocal style were of a similar gravitas. His weight didn't stop him from becoming a musician greatly respected by his peers, or from fronting Mountain, a fearsome rock combo that made an extremely successful noise in the early seventies.