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Nantucket Sleighride is the second studio album by American hard rock band Mountain, released in January 1971 by Windfall Records in the US and by Island in the UK. It reached number 16 on the Billboard Hot 200 Album Chart in 1971.
Nantucket is a Southern rock band formed in Jacksonville, North Carolina in 1969. Originally known as a beach music band named Stax of Gold, and later Nantucket Sleighride (after the song and album by Mountain) which was eventually shortened to Nantucket, the six-member group—Tommy Redd, Larry Uzzell, Mike Uzzell, Eddie Blair, Kenny Soule, and Mark Downing—first became successful in their ...
A Nantucket sleighride is the dragging of a whaleboat by a harpooned whale while whaling. It is an archaic term from the early days of open-boat whaling, when the animals were harpooned from small open boats. Once harpooned, the whale, in pain from its wound, attempts to flee, but the rope attached to the harpoon drags the whalers' boat along ...
Mountain was an American hard rock band formed on Long Island, New York, in 1969. [1] [2] Originally consisting of vocalist-guitarist Leslie West, bassist-vocalist Felix Pappalardi, keyboardist Steve Knight, and drummer N. D. Smart (soon replaced by Corky Laing), the group disbanded in 1972, but reunited on several occasions prior to West's death in 2020. [3]
Two line-ups of Mountain in 1970 and 2016. Mountain was an American hard rock band from Long Island, New York. Formed in July 1969, the group originally consisted of guitarist and lead vocalist Leslie West, bassist and second vocalist Felix Pappalardi, drummer Norman "N. D." Smart and keyboardist Steve Knight. Pappalardi and Smart had performed on West's debut album Mountain earlier in the ...
From Herman Melville’s 19th-century literary classic Moby Dick to memoirist Herman Raucher’s Academy Award-winning 1971 film Summer of ’42, Nantucket has long played a starring role in the ...
Awarding it two out of five stars – the same rating he gave to Live: The Road Goes Ever On [14] – the writer claimed that "The content [on the album] ends up showing off the best and the worst attributes of Mountain", the latter of which he singled out as being the 32-minute rendition of "Nantucket Sleighride" (although he admitted that "it ...
During the whaling era, they were the “right whale” to harpoon. Now, they are endangered.