Looking for specific sound: Leslie west (Mountain)

Leslie west's famous guitar sound !!

The answer is in your question . I heard a story about a man walking at NAMM and suddently hearing a monstruous guitar sound like he never heard before , then discovering Leslie West in person on a little cranked mosfet demo combo , without any pedal or anything else. His tone mostly comes from his fingers & bottleneck , and the fact that the amp is fully cranked and also the lespaul Junior with P90 vibe.

You can achieve this tone with the vintage marshalls fount on the rig exchange I guess (JTM 45 , Bluesbreaker brownie , CREAM JTA 45 ...) as long as you play it loud to get some sustain, feedback. Also try boosting (green screamer & pure booster ..).

here is a short text I just googled to illustrate :

"
Gibson: Mountain made its performance debut in 1969, at Fillmore West. Do you remember much about that?

LW: Yes, I do. I remember that Albert King’s amplifiers blew, and he
had to use my amps. It was funny. I was supposed to get these Marshall
amps, and they didn’t arrive, so Sunn had sent me some amps. I was
pissed off when I got them because it was actually a Coliseum PA head
they sent me. I thought, “Shit, what am going to do with this?” I had no
choice but to use them, but it turned out that they gave me the
signature sound that I used for years. [Coliseum PA heads] had four
microphone inputs and a master volume, which sort of turned into what
amps are now. You could get a particular distortion by plugging in the
microphones and turning up the master volume. It was a mistake that
proved to be great. Nobody else knew how I was getting that sound.

Re: the tone-in-the-fingers part, in a Budda amps interview (and
other places), Leslie talks about the fact that he couldn’t play fast
(he only used his first and fourth fingers): “I couldn’t play fast [so] I
focused on my vibrato and my tone. I used to work every day on the tone
of the guitar. I wanted [his guitar] to sound like Pavarotti. I wanted
that tremolo, that vibrato.”

Do you know anyone else who’s said that they used to work every day – in the ’50s and ’60s – on just TONE?

Gotta love Leslie.

Of course, Leslie’s axe of choice back in the day was a Les Paul
Junior, TV models first. In a House of Blues interview, he said: “To me a
Les Paul Junior is a tree with a microphone.” And “there’s a hum to it
[because of the P-90 pickup], but I managed to hide the hum.”

So that was it: Les Paul Junior (mahogany + P-90), cord, Sunn Coliseum head, Marshall cabs. No fuzz, no effects of any sort.

And fingers. Fingers full of attitude and conviction."
I really love this sentence " To me a
Les Paul Junior is a tree with a microphone. "

R.