A lesser-known number from Mountain's debut album (which was also their best). A nice set of photos too of Leslie Weinstein, the nice Jewish boy from New York who became Leslie West, and whose bulky frame (he suffered from a glandular disorder) inspired the band's name, as well as bass player and composer Felix Pappalardi (shot to death in 1983, allegedly accidentally, by his wife Gail Collins, who also composed many Mountain tunes):
And as a bonus, here's the band in its prime on Beat Club in 1972 doing "Roll Over Beethoven"--good audio and video here of West and Pappalardi, as well as keyboardist Steve Knight and drummer Corky Laing:
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