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Live: The Road Goes Ever On 1972 Album

Live: The Road Goes Ever On Live: The Road Goes Ever On
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34m 28s
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Release Dates
1972-04-24
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Live: The Road Goes Ever On is the second live album by American hard rock band Mountain, released on 24 April 1972 by Windfall Records. It contains four songs recorded at three shows in August 1969, December 1971, and January 1972. The album was produced by the band's bassist and second vocalist Felix Pappalardi, while the artwork was created by his wife and collaborator Gail Collins. The Road Goes Ever On takes its name from J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit.
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1. Long Red 5m 50s
2. Waiting to Take You Away 4m 40s
3. Crossroader 6m 20s
4. Nantucket Sleighride 17m 38s

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Essentially part 2 of the farewell/send-off when the group broke up the first time, but this one is all the way live. Mountain had the reputation of a massive jam band, and for the most part, this document backs it up, although there are flaws. With only four tracks there is a lot of space to fill and one would think if any band is up to such a challenge, it's this one. And the first three tracks deliver. "Long Red" rings in the happy vibes of Woodstock, then "Waiting to Take you Away" fits more of a classic heavy Mountain pattern. "Crossroader", for me, is the real pick of this one - the brutish, yet mysterious update of Cream's "Crossroads" which the band transforms into a furious mid-tempo workout, completely improved from even the studio version that appeared on Flowers of Evil. Felix's vocal howls from the maelstrom, with a ghastly edge I haven't heard on anything else with the band, ever. The album ends with an epic treatment of "Nantucket Sleighride", which is to be expected, but here is where things become a drag. The midsection and solos are stretched beyond believability, or at least normal common sense - but then again, it was the early 70's, so this kind of tomfoolery was expected from an outfit like Mountain. Not that I'm excusing it or anything. So, the road may have gone on, but for Mountain there was a break as Pappalardi had had enough, and in the meantime West and Laing joined forces with his virtual predecessor (Jack Bruce) for the ill-fated West, Bruce, and Laing project. As far this live album goes, fairly decent stuff.
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