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I usually played with the tone controls fully open, because you didn’t get much variation when you rolled them back, unless you rolled them all the way off.“These days, I can pretty much get the ‘Mississippi Queen’ tone out of any guitar.

Larry DiMarzio once told me my tone was in my right-hand attack, and he was right. The Dean Leslie West Mountain of Tone Humbucker uses an Alnico 5 magnet (which generally means more highs and lows, less mids) and has a DC resistance of 16.57K. « Reply #13 on: December 09, 2008, 08:29:29 pm » I have read somewhere that many amps sent to big stars were customized. New York, West had acting roles in West also played guitar for the track "Bo Diddley Jam" on West contributed the music and co-wrote the lyrics to the song "Immortal" on West married his fiancée Jenni Maurer on stage after Mountain's performance at the West frequently used two Les Paul Juniors, one "TV Yellow" and the other a sunburst.The Sunn amplifiers that West used were of the late 1960s era and were not factory stock.

Page 1 of 2 1 2 Next > Jan 1, 2008 #1 ... LP Jr's, a Limba V and Sunn amps CRANKED UP...WAY UP!!! The head had huge transformers and gigantic KT88 tubes, and the cabinets were loaded with Eminence speakers, which never hurt your ears even with the treble all the way up. If you’re in a room filled with gasoline, how many matches do you really need? Re: Leslie West/Mountain's Sunn amps. “And the controls didn’t do much. © “I had been using Marshall amps, and that’s what I expected to find when I opened a bunch of cartons that had arrived from the airport, but instead I got a Sunn - and it wasn’t even a guitar amp. My grandmother had an antique shop. - Marshall JMP amplifiers - Marshall JCM900 amps - Marshall cabs - Crate amps - Carlsboro 50 amps - Sunn Coliseum P.A. NY 10036. That's what produced the long compressed sustain and distorted overdrive of the great Mountain sound that he is well known for. The cartons contained a Sunn Coliseum P.A. This is years before Mesa Boogie Amplifiers with a similar idea got their amps on the world stage, but Boogies do have their own sound comparatively. West was born in New York City, to a Jewish family. Then it was at the Masonic Temple(Detroit) that the Wild 'West' Show started using Stramp amps out of Germany. Future US, Inc. 11 West 42nd Street, 15th Floor, This is an excerpt from an archival GP interview with Leslie West. Leslie West: It was an old, Spanish acoustic guitar. “And back then I used to string them with standard sets of La Bella Electric Guitar strings, but I’d substitute .010-gauge A banjo strings for the high-E strings and move the other five strings down one slot, because you couldn’t get extra-light sets at that time.”The single P-90 pickups in those guitars were essential to West’s tones, but they tended to feed back and could be difficult to control.“It always felt like the guitars were trying to jump out of my hands,” he says. That’s the amp I used on Mountain Climbing, which included ‘Mississippi Queen.’”West was playing a couple of ’50s Gibson Les Paul Juniors at the time “Mississippi Queen” was recorded: a 1956 single-cutaway and a slightly newer double-cutaway. He is best known as a founding member of the hard rock and heavy metal band Mountain. New drummer After Pappalardi left Mountain to concentrate on various production projects, West and Laing produced two studio albums and a live release with Mountain reformed in 1973 only to break up again in late 1974. Also, I never felt like I needed a two- or three-pickup guitar, because you can get a lot of tones out of a single pickup. You will receive a verification email shortly.There was a problem. head and four 4x12 cabinets, and I thought, ‘There’s no way I can get a good tone out of this thing.’ But the head had four microphone inputs and a master volume control, and when I plugged in and turned it up I got this amazing tone, which became my sound. workdog 30, slaving into a 45 and 80.) You can listen to a clip of Leslie playing this pickup on the Dean website. Leslie West is an American rock guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. 26 Seconds of Leslie Playing Mississippi Queen And I don’t know what it was. He grew up in The band's original incarnation saw West and Pappalardi sharing vocal duties and playing guitar and bass, respectively. Leslie used 3 Full stacks in Red Tolex/ Stramps. “I had been using Marshall amps, and that’s what I expected to find when I opened a bunch of cartons that had arrived from the airport, but instead I got a Sunn - and it wasn’t even a guitar amp. “The single-cutaway had a better sound than the other one,” he recalls. One good one and a backup!”Get the latest news, reviews and product advice straight to your inbox.Thank you for signing up to GuitarPlayer. He is best known as a founding member and co-lead vocalist of the hard rock band Mountain. Please refresh the page and try again.GuitarPlayer is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Open the throttle up and go into overdrive

Leslie West (born Leslie Weinstein; October 22, 1945) is an American rock guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. Leslie West gives GP the skinny on how he got his "Mississippi Queen" sound.“Mountain's first gig was at Fillmore West in 1969,” remembers Leslie West. Between about 1 and 6 the volume controls would give you a clean tone, then around 7 to 9 the sound got a little dirtier - but when you turned them up to 10 you’d get this extra blast of sound. - Dean Leslie West Mountain of Tone Humbuckers Amps - Budda amplifers (Custom built Superdrive Series II amps. Leslie has always been pretty open abotu really disliking pedals in general and that was even more true in the Moutain days. The 4-channel amplifier heads' preamps were wired as cascading preamps to 1 channel, out to the amp's power section.