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Mountain — Mississippi Queen
Album: Best Of
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Released: 1973
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Mississippi Queen, if you know what I mean
Mississippi Queen, she taught me everything
Way down around Vicksburg, around Louisiana way
Lived a Cajun lady, we called her Mississippi Queen
You know she was a dancer
She moved better on wine

While the rest of them dudes was a-gettin' their kicks
Buddy, beg your pardon, I was getting mine

Mississippi Queen, if you know what I mean
Mississippi Queen, she taught me everything
This lady she asked me if I would be her man
You know that I told her I'd do what I can
To keep her looking pretty
Buy her dresses that shine

While the rest of them dudes was a-makin' their bread
Buddy, beg your pardon, I was losing mine

You know she was a dancer
She moved better on wine

While the rest of them dudes was gettin' their kicks
Brother, beg your pardon, now I'm getting mine
Ohhhh, Mississippi Queen
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 stevo_b wrote:
ezzyme wrote: Would that be Flirting with Disaster? I could be wrong on this....
Flirting is a good song but, MH has many more that are better than Flirting!

Posted 5 hours ago by Signwrtr61    [ Reply ]
 Soopertimes wrote:

What does he mean?

If it has to be explained to you, you'll never understand!

Posted 6 hours ago by Signwrtr61    [ Reply ]
 kcar wrote:

Greasiest heavy-metal ever. 



i love this so much. get it! 
Posted 5 months ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
Greasiest heavy-metal ever. 
Posted 11 months ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
Reminds me of Vanishing Point and a lovely lady on a motorbike.
Posted 11 months ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
This does not sound like the original version. But still GREAT!!  
Posted 1 year ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
Wow. Wow then, wow now.

I was going to post about how this was the first concert I ever went to, what a great show it was, me and all my friends just old enough to drive, laughing like maniacs. And then I saw all the other Radio Paradises listeners who beat me to it!
Posted 1 year ago by horseplayer    [ Reply ]
Thats a fine bit of music.
Posted 1 year ago by reguru2112    [ Reply ]
Posted 2 years ago by Luumu    [ Reply ]
GREAT TUNE!!! ICONIC!!!
Posted 2 years ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
GREAT TUNE!!! This tune was released in 1969. I have loved it ever since!
Posted 2 years ago by eileenomurphy    [ Reply ]
What does he mean?
Posted 2 years ago by Soopertimes    [ Reply ]
Another one goes away.  Leslie West of Mountain has died, December 23, 2020. 
Mississippi Queen: very good tune, but I've heard it a 1,000 times. 
Theme From an Imaginary Western: ditto, and I'm down for another 1,000.  An air guitarist's Top 10 special. 

https://variety.com/2020/music...
Posted 3 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
Let’s rattle those speakers😆
Posted 3 years ago by Easyrider    [ Reply ]
Ohhhh myyyy, the track that has led to a lifetime of sonic concussions to my head. Yes! From way back when I played this on my folding lid GE record player up to today I can't get enough of this special cowbell. And Felix Pappalardi's production on the early electric Hot Tuna albums continued the aural onslaught. What a gem! Thank you so much Bill!
 
*Oops! Looks like I already posted similar remarks four some odd years ago.
Posted 3 years ago by chinaski    [ Reply ]
Now this is America string , very strong ,  and you drive big white caddy down a dusty road ,yes you smoke cigarettes and there is load of cold in the back
Posted 4 years ago by Pilsenaaa    [ Reply ]
Posted 4 years ago by uksminas    [ Reply ]
 Boxie wrote:
This is morning music.  Play more of this.  Save the singer/songwriter music for the evening.
 

This kind of post must be pretty rewarding to ignore. Not even a simple 'please'.

Also, it's a different time in different places.
Posted 4 years ago by MattRudely    [ Reply ]
The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, 1972. $5 general admission. No chairs, just a cloud of smoke and Mountain rocking the house down. The Best.
Posted 4 years ago by WBOB    [ Reply ]
This is morning music.  Play more of this.  Save the singer/songwriter music for the evening.
Posted 4 years ago by Boxie    [ Reply ]
I gotta fever and the only cure is MORE COWBELL!
Posted 5 years ago by opaceo    [ Reply ]
That's hard rock, right there.  I remember riding with my friends in their car and me in the back seat (always) and my head being pounded by this toon.  

Good?  Bad?  You decide!  :)
Posted 5 years ago by AhhtheMusic    [ Reply ]
OMG the first song i did put on. At school, student radio, 1974. I was so hot. It starts it all. 
Posted 5 years ago by Sartanas    [ Reply ]
Those guitars sound pissed off!!
Posted 5 years ago by deepwoodskev    [ Reply ]
 robotbass wrote:
{#Guitarist} I used to love this song. Leslie blew the doors off the Ratskeller in Boston many years ago. "Literally" my ears were bleeding.
I saw his lead guitar player sit in with the house band at a Nantucket bar last summer. THAT was a very cool thing.
Rock ON !

 
My first LOUD concert in a hockey arena in Cleveland was Mountain, probably 1970. My ears were ringing for at least 3 days. Not only were the acoustics shite, but it was the most excessive volume I ever subjected myself to, with Frank Zappa in Passaic (1974) a close second. One obvious problem with the amplification in those days was the distortion that seemed unavoidable. That is, until the Grateful Dead figured out how to have volume and clarity. Their sound quality ruined most other acts for me afterward. Thankfully, things have improved vastly since then.
Posted 5 years ago by bam23    [ Reply ]
crank it up!
Posted 5 years ago by jambo    [ Reply ]
Leslie West
Posted 5 years ago by drizzy77    [ Reply ]
suddenly i'm a teenager again. 
Posted 5 years ago by billybob123    [ Reply ]
Ah life's little moments. Your wife is doing yoga so you are using headphones, feet up watching it rain on the patio, and this comes on. "Be grateful of life..."
Posted 5 years ago by ExpatLarry    [ Reply ]
 Angry_Old_Man wrote:
Oooooh YEAH! 

 
 

 
I was just coming in here to say exactly this!
Posted 5 years ago by steeler    [ Reply ]
No. I do not know what you mean.
Posted 5 years ago by eeastridge    [ Reply ]
You listen to this too much...and you'll get 30 days in the hole. 
Posted 5 years ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
Oooooh YEAH! 

robotbass wrote:
{#Guitarist} I used to love this song. Leslie blew the doors off the Ratskeller in Boston many years ago. "Literally" my ears were bleeding.
I saw his lead guitar player sit in with the house band at a Nantucket bar last summer. THAT was a very cool thing.
Rock ON !

 


Posted 6 years ago by Angry_Old_Man    [ Reply ]
Play Nantucket Sleighride PLEASE!
Posted 6 years ago by folkrocker    [ Reply ]
Now that's heavy!
Posted 6 years ago by black321    [ Reply ]
 Art_Carnage wrote:
"The Best of Mountain". An album with just one song on it?
 
No...two
Posted 6 years ago by robotbass    [ Reply ]
{#Guitarist} I used to love this song. Leslie blew the doors off the Ratskeller in Boston many years ago. "Literally" my ears were bleeding.
I saw his lead guitar player sit in with the house band at a Nantucket bar last summer. THAT was a very cool thing.
Rock ON !
Posted 6 years ago by robotbass    [ Reply ]
So this song is not about a steamboat. A-ha.
Posted 6 years ago by gmichaelt    [ Reply ]
 joelb wrote:
Rickvee wrote:
Homer Simpson digs this tune. Not surprisingly.
You say that like it's a bad thing. I'm for anything that makes RP more rockin' and less snoozin'.

 
WOO-HOO!

(if this song was a new release I'd love it, as is it's a vital piece of this suburban white boy's jammin' awakening : )
Posted 6 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
Mountain gave us a great HEAVY sound !
Posted 7 years ago by 1wolfy    [ Reply ]
Oh hell ya!  Brings back great memories from the old daze.  Rock on, Leslie!
Posted 7 years ago by buddy    [ Reply ]
The Great Fatsby- Leslie West! Mountain is one of many bands to be credited as having influenced the development of heavy metal music in the 1970s. (Wikipedia)
Posted 7 years ago by walkerpub    [ Reply ]
West worked that guitar like a strait razor.
Posted 7 years ago by bitbanger    [ Reply ]
This song brings back lots of fun memories!!
Posted 7 years ago by CathyJones    [ Reply ]
 bam23 wrote:
Mountain was the first real concert I attended, in a decrepit hockey arena in Cleveland. My ears rang for 3 days. The only other concert I saw that loud was Frank Zappa at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic. Both quite non-venerable arenas. Had I only appreciated the value of disposable earplugs! In truth, Mountain was not that special, but loudness swamps out other ills.

 
OMG, too much !   I'm from Berkeley and ended up in Cleveburg and you went the opposite direction and yes, I remember the Arena here in town.

The song an 8. 
Posted 7 years ago by kurtster    [ Reply ]
 kcar wrote:

Beavis and Butthead headbanging 

10+ 

 
Exactly
Posted 7 years ago by Steely_D    [ Reply ]
 jhorton wrote:
You and THIS GUY are the only ones who want to hear this song again:

 
Hahaha!!!
Posted 7 years ago by akaehud    [ Reply ]
You and THIS GUY are the only ones who want to hear this song again:
Posted 7 years ago by jhorton    [ Reply ]
Third (or fourth) greatest lefthanded guitarist.
Posted 8 years ago by lemmoth    [ Reply ]
 lily34 wrote:
MORE COWBELL!!!
 

Posted 8 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
 lily34 wrote:
MORE COWBELL!!!
 
That would violate laws governing our space-time continuum. 

Beavis and Butthead headbanging 

10+ 
Posted 8 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
This song and band were very popular with my peers in high school in the early 1970s.
Posted 8 years ago by westslope    [ Reply ]
Mountain was the first real concert I attended, in a decrepit hockey arena in Cleveland. My ears rang for 3 days. The only other concert I saw that loud was Frank Zappa at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic. Both quite non-venerable arenas. Had I only appreciated the value of disposable earplugs! In truth, Mountain was not that special, but loudness swamps out other ills.
Posted 8 years ago by bam23    [ Reply ]
This always gets turned up to 11 squared. Wests weapon of choice for playing this was a Les Paul Jr. with a single P-90 and those magnificent Marshalls. What a sonic assault! Pappallardi produced some of my favorite electric Hot Tuna. First played Climbing! on my GE fold up record player all those decades ago. Mom was not pleased, less so when my parents bought a 100 watt Magnavox four speaker console in '70.
Posted 8 years ago by chinaski    [ Reply ]
We were talking about Leslie at band rehearsal last night. The guy would play a small club with a wall of Marshalls and blast you out of the room. I am surprised he can still hear.{#Bananajam}
Posted 8 years ago by robotbass    [ Reply ]
A great 2-1/2 minute power rock tune about a guy blowing his pay check on a hooker, the good old days
Posted 17 years ago by bergjr    [ Reply ]
cowbell alert! Flashback to the first LP I bought. Still remember playing it to death on little lime gree record player.
Posted 17 years ago by MCKY    [ Reply ]
hanssachs wrote:
... how about NOT? They were bad enough the first time around, and the next couple hundred times after that ...
For the most part I'd agree, but Smoke on the Water was a pretty good groove, even if was about a casino burning down.
Posted 17 years ago by Zep    [ Reply ]
Kevstar wrote:
How about some old Ted Nugent, Scorpions, Def Leppard, Blue Oyster Cult, Rainbow, Deep Purple...
... how about NOT? They were bad enough the first time around, and the next couple hundred times after that ... There's a lot of music that wasn't that good to begin with, and really hasn't gotten better over time -- like Def Leppard, BOC, Rainbow, Deep Purple, yadda, yadda ... like Frank said, "strictly from commercial!"
Posted 17 years ago by hanssachs    [ Reply ]
Thanks for the Cowbell, Bill!
Posted 17 years ago by ScopArch    [ Reply ]
On RP? Really? Cool! "When in doubt, just add more cowbell."
Posted 17 years ago by winter    [ Reply ]
It isn't so bad to heard such an oldie (but a great tune) when you throw it in with the other RP tunes. If I heard this on regular radio I would turn it off from overplay..but here, it's a bit more of a pleasant memory.
Posted 17 years ago by Shesdifferent    [ Reply ]
"The Best of Mountain". An album with just one song on it?
Posted 17 years ago by Art_Carnage    [ Reply ]
Rickvee wrote:
Homer Simpson digs this tune. Not surprisingly.
You say that like it's a bad thing. I'm for anything that makes RP more rockin' and less snoozin'.
Posted 17 years ago by joelb    [ Reply ]
djblitz wrote:
BOOYAAAA!!
Only way I can describe it is "CHUNKY"! Great tune.
Posted 17 years ago by Zarba    [ Reply ]
Oh, man!
Posted 17 years ago by steeler    [ Reply ]
Wow, someone is fired up (its only 8:45 a.m. on the East Coast).
Posted 17 years ago by jbtidwell    [ Reply ]
BOOYAAAA!!
Posted 17 years ago by djblitz    [ Reply ]
How about some old Ted Nugent, Scorpions, Def Leppard, Blue Oyster Cult, Rainbow, Deep Purple...
Posted 17 years ago by Kevstar    [ Reply ]
Yeehah!!! Serious flashback here.
Posted 17 years ago by AlienRelic    [ Reply ]
tg3k wrote:
This was on one of the first albums I played over and over in my lifetime, so it holds a certain nostalgic place in my history. Hearing it again all these years later, it was pretty simple stuff for a comparatively simple time in my life, but it still rocks in its own sort of way. Nice surprise to hear it on RP.
Ditto!!! I couldn't have said it better. Every line.
Posted 17 years ago by Geecheeboy    [ Reply ]
ezzyme wrote:
How about some Molly Hatchet too!
Would that be Flirting with Disaster? I could be wrong on this....
Posted 17 years ago by stevo_b    [ Reply ]
Drummer Corky Lange had intimate ***** with 70s sex goddess Marilyn Chambers, the lucky dog! (it's in his published autobiographical tell-all "Stick It", folks) The song ROCKS!!! Outstanding percussion, and the cowbell is totally cool, enough to be featured forefront and centre in Ozzy's '05 cover. Turnpike Billy
Posted 18 years ago by turnpike    [ Reply ]
It's the COWBELL that makes it work! Check out this if the cowbell references are baffling: https://www.blueoystercult.com/Media/Vc-SNLclip.html Classic SNL...
Posted 19 years ago by bschena    [ Reply ]
How about some Molly Hatchet too!
Posted 19 years ago by ezzyme    [ Reply ]
This was on one of the first albums I played over and over in my lifetime, so it holds a certain nostalgic place in my history. Hearing it again all these years later, it was pretty simple stuff for a comparatively simple time in my life, but it still rocks in its own sort of way. Nice surprise to hear it on RP.
Posted 19 years ago by tg3k    [ Reply ]
i saw Mountain open for Jack Bruce and Friends right after Cream broke up (Jack Bruce, Larry Coryell, Mitch Mitchell and a keyboardist whose name i can't recall). Johnny Winter also played. anyway, to give them their due, they were huge and tight, kind of like an even more metal Steppenwolf, and certainly starting to mine the Led Zepplin vein. don't forget that Felix Pappalardi, Cream's producer, was the bass player and other singer in this band. his version of 'Theme for an Imaginary Western' is truly beautiful. they were a 'period piece', but had their moments. jay
Posted 19 years ago by jayscott    [ Reply ]
Homer Simpson digs this tune. Not surprisingly.
Posted 19 years ago by Rickvee    [ Reply ]
No problem, I've heard this song enough times to play the rest in my head. ;-) One of Mountain's best, which isn't actually saying much.
Posted 19 years ago by Roverfish    [ Reply ]
stratrjb wrote:
just loop the begining!!!!!
I can't for the life of me figure out what I liked about this band. A couple of night ago I downloaded a bunch of their stuff, listed to a couple of them and then nuked them all. I think I liked a couple of the "power cords" and that was about it. Oh well
Posted 19 years ago by Coppertop    [ Reply ]
The first three seconds before either my computer, or Bill's computer or the hundred thousand miles of cable in between, packed up was excellent!
Posted 19 years ago by slimeylimey    [ Reply ]
just loop the begining!!!!!
Posted 19 years ago by stratrjb    [ Reply ]
More cowbell!!!!!!!!
Posted 19 years ago by hideglue    [ Reply ]
MORE COWBELL!!!
Posted 19 years ago by lily34    [ Reply ]