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Title: Molehill
Review: This was Mountain MkII - the original quartet had split in 1972, then Leslie West and Felix Pappalardi re-formed with a new drummer and second guitarist for one passable if uninspired studio album ("Avalanche" in 1974) and this concert souvenir. And that's putting it politely; both West and Pappalardi seem to be phoning it in, and drummer Schwartzberg - aside from being no Corky Laing (one of the most underrated hard rock drummers of the early 1970s) - is more sledgehammer than rhythm expander. The original double album included a two-sides-long version of "Nantucket Sleighride" that seemed an exercise in lost self-indulgence upon original release, and it still sounds that way. If you're a longtime Mountain fan, you've heard way better from them. This album is thoroughly unworthy of them even today.
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