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The Vagrants - Satisfaction - RARE Recording of Leslie West - Circa 1968

The RAREST Recording of Leslie West, courtesy of the Great Fatsbies' Leslie West & Mountain Fan Club!!! We originally thought this was played live at the legendary Action House, located at 50 Austin Boulevard, Island Park, New York. in 1966. We are still searching for the facts but we tend to believe this happened in 1968 in a music studio on Long Island, Even as a very young man, you can see this kid from Long Island was oozing TALENT. NOBODY played a guitar like Leslie West, even in the beginning. ABOUT THE ACTION HOUSE -- As Lenny Kaye wrote in his essay "New York in the Sixties": "[T]he real home of the Long Island sound, as it came to be known, was a large club outside the city in Island Park called the Action House, where groups like the Vagrants (featuring guitarist Leslie West), the Rich Kids, the Hassles (with a young Billy Joel behind the Hammond) and the Vanilla Fudge indulged in all manner of baroque showmanship, complete with drummers twirling sticks, heavily-vibratoed voices, ornamental starts and melodramatic stops." In operation from the mid-'60s through the early-'70s, the club also hosted many of the era's biggest international touring acts. From the album As Phat As It Gets, Leslie West tributes the band he started with. Like fellow New Yorkers the Rascals, the Vagrants prominently featured a Hammond organ, and often played soul-influenced rock. The Vagrants were far more guitar-based than the Rascals, however, as well as projecting a more garagey, less mature outlook; their later material lands somewhere between the Rascals and Vanilla Fudge. Most famous for featuring Leslie West on guitar in his pre-Mountain days, the Vagrants were extremely popular in their home base of Long Island, NY in the mid-'60s. Although they never charted, several singles are now choice collectibles. One of the few rock bands signed to the folkie Vanguard label, the Vagrants cut some fair singles between 1965 and 1968. "I Can't Make a Friend," which shows up on some garage compilations, is the most well-known of their initial efforts. The group took their closest swipe at stardom after Felix Pappalardi helped them sign to Atco. A rock version of Otis Redding's "Respect" (which surfaced on the Nuggets compilation) was a hit in some Eastern regions in 1967. After a couple of other singles on Atco, the group broke up in late 1968, when West formed Mountain (which also included Pappalardi). Much of the Vagrants' material was reissued in the mid-'90s. Today, it's Leslie West who remains a rock 'n roll legend. In fact, the term "legend" is no exaggeration. Leslie's exploits include rare demo "jam" sessions with John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. His creative partner, the late Felix Pappalardi, took Leslie into the deep space that is "superstardom." Mountain's "Climbing" and "Nantucket Sheighride" are staples in any classic rock collection. Later, as "West, Bruce and Laing," Leslie filled stadiums. This is my tribute to a time long gone. Leslie West - Guitar, Vocals Larry West - Bass, Vocals (Leslie's brother) Peter Sabatino - Lead Singer, Harmonica, Tamborine Jerry Storch - Organ, Vocals Roger Mansour - Drums, Vocals