STEVE KNIGHT
Steve Knight (May 12, 1935 – January 19, 2013) was an American musician best known as the keyboardist for Mountain, a rock band of the early 1970s. In 1969, producer/vocalist/bassist Felix Pappalardi organized Mountain. Prior to release of Mountain’s debut album, Climbing!, Pappalardi, who had known Knight from prior musical affiliations, added him to the line-up on keyboards. He performed with the band at Woodstock in August 1969. After the band called it quits in 1972, Knight then returned to traditional jazz. For the next 25 years, Knight worked in specialty engineering (as a door engineer), and as a songwriter, author and part-time musician. (More from Wikipedia)
After Mountain, the solo album by Leslie West was released, the group then went on the road using the band name Mountain, bringing along Steve Knight on keyboards after Norman Landsberg and Ken Janick left to start the band Hammer. Their fourth concert as a working band was at the 1969 Woodstock festival; though they were not included on the first album or the concert film, their performances of “Blood of the Sun” (from the Leslie West solo album, Mountain) and “Theme for an Imaginary Western” (written by Jack Bruce and Pete Brown) were included on the double album Woodstock 2 that came out in 1971.
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