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