<div class="quote_poster">Bahir Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Those lyrics... sounds very much like icelandic, a language not too distant from the Scandinavian languages (obviously because the people of Iceland came from here). So reading those lyrics, I understand much of it.</div>
I figured you would understand it right away, yeah.
<div class="quote_poster">Voodoo Child Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Speaking of bands that just grab your heart and wrench it, Leslie West of Mountain is on the Howard Stern Show this morning. This is why I listen to that show. I can't stand Howard Stern himself. He thinks he knows something about everything, but I'm finding out he knows nothing about anything. So now I just listen to it for the prank phone calls (yeah, it's childish, but they still get me), and the interviews. He gets celebrities like Leslie West to open up like they wouldn't on other shows.
Mountain and Leslie West are largely unknown. I just talked to my brother, who is a huge classic rock fan and a much better musician than I'll ever be (he's a guitar player of 10+ years), and he's never even heard much of these guys outside of a song or two. They never really sold anything, in comparison to their peers, but they have a real cult following. The thing about them is that Felix Pappalardi, the bassist, songwriter, and one of the vocalists for the band, is a classically trained musician, who studied classic music at the University of Michigan. He also produced Cream's classic album, Disraeli Gears. He actually wrote a few of the songs on the album too, as well as producing them. So because of having an experienced, versatile talent like him in the band, they have a unique, almost orchestral sound to their music. Their most famous moment was probably at Woodstock. To this day, most people who were there say they were one of the highlights, along with Ten Years After and Jimi Hendrix.
To make a long story short, they played a clip of the song "Nantucket Sleighride," and it really made my eyes water. That song is so amazingly beautiful, and I strongly recommend it to anyone into classic rock music. I've never been able to find a good YouTube version of it, otherwise I would have posted it in the Recommendations Game thread a long time ago.
If it weren't for my dad, I probably would have never found out about those guys. He's a former hippie (straight out of Haight-Ashbury), so if he's good for one thing, it's for educating me about the music of the 1960's. He actually let me find my own way into classic rock though, up until adolesence when I started to talk to him more and more about rock music, and I'm thankful for that, because it's more personal for me now and not something I feel was forced onto me by my parents.</div>
That's cool man, I've actually never heard of this band so I'll have to look it up later today. Reminds me of Venus when you put that the bassist is classically tuned. Marc, Christian and Pierre are the same way.
Of course, not of the same sound or genre. You know what I mean though.
