MOUNTAIN Mississippi Queen ( Live in the Studio 02 24 1970) RARE
This thundering version of Mississippi Queen, Live in the studio at WITF Pennsylvania, USA shows the band at their peak power. They are sufficiently stimulated for the experience and giving it their all (except the keyboard player, wtf). This version is much better than the album version and the live version at NY Pop later in 1970, and is undoubtedly the best version of the song anywhere. This is the Holy Grail of MOUNTAIN relics. All stoner and doom bands are foam in the wake of MOUNTAIN. Audio remastered by me to remove some tightq 500hz and 250hz, soft boost 80120hz and 57k. No added compression. It sounded worse before, believe me. In all likelihood, this performance was tracked and mixed quick and dirty on TV gear, stored for a decade, duped to VHS, improperly stored for more decades, poorly converted Analog to Digital before a cousin of Leslie s (not verified) uploaded the vid to Facebook where the remaining quality was assassinated. I did my best to remove the honk of th
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