I only noticed this now and am aghast! Ritchie, you took your self-professed love for Mountain a little too far ... :mrgreen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHjhn8VQ_WU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvFdUjnQS8I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0sBfM_zLjI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfwpJFS6Pgk
Curiously, I did see Mountain supporting them in Paris on the #2 1st reunion tour...
Yeah, they stayed friends over the years. There is a Leslie West album with Joe Lynn Turner guesting and also of course this Ian Gillan track here where Leslie plays the solo (and possibly the riffs too):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRWzRwe55_Y
And then there is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6mB-rff6H4
He guested with them in Toronto in 2005 too:
(http://www.deep-purple.net/gallery/toronto05/deep-purple-1.jpg)