Nantucket Sleighride became a focal point of Mountain’s live set. I hadn’t realised it before, but then it hit me and left a very bad taste in my mouth.” Even on the cover art she drew herself – just like on the first album she painted herself standing in front of a mountain. I was just the lead guitarist and sometimes the lead singer, but she was listed in so many different places it was ridiculous. I was so fucking pissed off! Gail’s name was all over the cover. “I was living in London at The Inn On The Park on Hyde Park and picked up a copy. West first heard the finished album in January 1971. Under Pappalardi’s notoriously exacting instruction, the big man finally nailed it “when I came up with the riff in the middle. ![]() So even while we were recording I was in the dark, especially in the studio where all the heavy sessions had to flow into each other.” “I didn’t even know where Nantucket was! Felix and Gail were living there at the time, and he was writing a lot of stuff about Massachusetts, but I had no knowledge of the place or its history. West found it hard to relate to Nantucket Sleighride for other reasons. Now I love playing it and I finish all my shows with it. It was more than your average classic rock blues song. ![]() I was young and impatient at the time, and it was hard to learn the thing. There were intricate chords, not your usual four-trick pony, heavy riffs, a pretty section where Felix used a tiny keyboard like an accordion, and a recorder part for what shoulda been a flute in the middle eight. “I hated it at first because it was so fucking hard to play.
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