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Post by weepete on Jun 21, 2011 16:45:45 GMT
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Post by penny on Jun 21, 2011 21:48:32 GMT
Very sad news.
He's a great musician.
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Post by victor55 on Jun 21, 2011 22:32:57 GMT
The reason fer me picking up a guitar is leslie..thats another story
Leslie was a non-compliant diabetic for many years; this is one of the things that will happen if you don't take care of it. Sad because it probably could have been avoided
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Post by penny on Jun 22, 2011 8:00:44 GMT
The reason fer me picking up a guitar is leslie..thats another story Leslie was a non-compliant diabetic for many years; this is one of the things that will happen if you don't take care of it. Sad because it probably could have been avoided It is Sad, Vic. Just reading the articles provided by Pete's link, it sounds like he didn't look after himself properly for many, many years. Probably a lesson for us all there!!
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Post by mehrtsfan on Jun 22, 2011 10:24:44 GMT
There is something a bit odd in the human condition that makes us all behave a bit recklessly from time to time and presumably Leslie West was no different.I do remember he was a big boy in his youth though. The guitar solo he did on the beginning of the live album which moves seemlessly into Roll Over Beethoven is a bit of pure genius which I must have spent several years listening to. It was also one of those 'be smart with your parents moments' when they listened to Mountain inadvertently on the Bwian Walden 'Weekend World' programme - Nantucket Sleighride? Perhaps one for Pete's quiz- what is a Nantucket Sleighride? I saw them in Sheffield a few years ago and was a little over refreshed and too gushing in my praise according to my daughter. Anyway let's hope he gets well soon.
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Post by Sahbotage on Jun 22, 2011 11:16:44 GMT
I too saw Leslie a few years ago, great guitarist, how's he going to work his wah peddle now? Corky lang was on drums and must have thrown a dozen sets of sticks into the audience, perhaps he could fashion a new leg for Leslie from some. Mountain never seemed to get the recognition they deserved, Felix Papparlardi was instrumental in helping Cream in their early career, and John Entwistle was greatly influenced by his live sound with bass distortion. A Nantucket Sleighride is the term given by Whalers to when they had just harpooned a whale it would swim off towing the boat with it until it became exhausted, the sailors would take bets on how long the "sleighride" would last.
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