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Leslie West, of ‘Mississippi Queen’ band Mountain, dead at 75

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reported Rolling Stone.On Tuesday, his brother, Larry West Weinstein, wrote on Facebook that West’s heart stopped and he had been put on a ventilator, according to the LA Times.He is survived by his wife Jenni Maurer, whom he married onstage at a 2009 concert commemorating the 40th anniversary of Woodstock.West laid down authoritative guitar riffs and chesty yowls in Mountain, a thundering power trio rounded out by Felix Pappalardi on bass and Corky Laing on drums.

The band’s contribution to the canon was the archetypal “Mississippi Queen,” a growling blues-rock number featuring pounding cowbell that went to No.

21 on Billboard’s Hot 100. Burly New York native West cut an imposing figure onstage, with his eccentric outfits and a Gibson that.

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