On an equally sad note on this unfortunate Christmas, music today has been Mountain’s Nantucket Sleighride (1971) in memory of the death of guitarist Leslie West on Monday. After the shooting of bassist Felix Pappalardi by his wife Gail Collins, co-writer of Cream’s Strange Brew and illustrator of the Mountain album covers, and after the death of keyboardist Steve Knight, only drummer Corky Laing is still alive – another band with three or more members gone.

Album Of The Daze

The musical musings in this post are an excerpt from my daily blog, TO WHERE I AM NOW, featured on my main website. See more pictures and read the full post here.