Mountain – Climbing!
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 1970 album Climbing!.
Music from Climbing!
Artists on Climbing!
Gear Used On Climbing!
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Mountain – Climbing! (1970). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
Leslie West
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Amplifiers used by Leslie West on Climbing!
Sunn Coliseum PA 1968 (Duplicate)
"Mountain's first gig was at Fillmore West in 1969,” remembers Leslie West. “I had been using Marshall amps, and that’s what I expected to find when I opened a bunch of cartons that had arrived from the airport, but instead I got a Sunn - and it wasn’t even a guitar amp. The cartons contained a Sunn Coliseum P.A. head and four 4x12 cabinets, and I thought, ‘There’s no way I can get a good tone out of this thing.’ But the head had four microphone inputs and a master volume control, and when I plugged in and turned it up I got this amazing tone, which became my sound.
"And remember, this was years before amps had master volume controls. The head had huge transformers and gigantic KT88 tubes, and the cabinets were loaded with Eminence speakers, which never hurt your ears even with the treble all the way up. That’s the amp I used on Mountain Climbing, which included ‘Mississippi Queen.’”
Guitars used by Leslie West on Climbing!
Live performance of Never In My Life from “Climbing!” in 1988
In the beginning of the vid, West talks about the guitars that he was using at that time and mentions that he uses a Steinberger. It then cuts to the song, and he’s clearly using an M series, probably a Gm-1, and obv the black one. There’s also a video from the same show of “Theme for an Imaginary Western” where he plays the same guitar.