Leslie West, the singer and guitarist for the hard rock band Mountain, whose fame was cemented by a performance at Woodstock, died Tuesday, according to his brother, Larry West Weinstein.

Woodstock was just our third job, and it was quite a thrill. Mountain got on the show because our booking agent also handled Jimi Hendrix. I remember watching Creedence, Sly and the Family Stone ...

Leslie West, whose band Mountain helped lay the groundwork ... and gloom — a vestige of the hippie idealism enshrined at the Woodstock festival, where Mountain famously played one of its ...

Leslie West, 63, Englewood ... I don't think anybody had any idea how special Woodstock was going to be - up until then there was only one of the big festivals, Monterey. I do now because ...

He rose to fame with Mountain, which Rolling Stone called a “louder version of Cream” — a band Mr. West idolized. One of the group’s first gigs was Woodstock. By Jim Farber Leslie West ...

West is survived by his wife, Jenni Maurer, who he married onstage at a 40th anniversary Woodstock concert. Joe Satriani paid tribute to his fellow guitarist. “R.I.P. Leslie West,” Satriani ...

Fans of classic rock know Weinstein better as Leslie West, guitarist for the heavy rock band Mountain. West will share the Hippiefest bill with Johnny Winter (another Woodstock veteran), the Edgar ...

Leslie West, the towering guitarist who created the ... the couple married onstage at a Woodstock 40th anniversary concert in 2009. Of his own mixture of blues and metal, West told The Morning ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Leslie West, an iconic guitarist-vocalist who ... Advertising In 1969, Mountain performed an 11-song set at Woodstock before the Grateful Dead. A year later, the band released ...

Leslie West, the mammoth guitarist whose ringing ... Mountain went on to appear at the Woodstock festival on its second day, between Canned Heat and the Grateful Dead. That put them squarely ...