# Flowers of Evil guitar solo > Leslie West's guitar solo on Flowers of Evil by Mountain (1971) starts at about 1:23. From the album Flowers of Evil. A hard rock classic from the 1970s. Canonical URL: Mountain, 1971, from *Flowers of Evil*. Solo by *Leslie West*. A dark, powerful title track with piercing, distorted leads. Flowers of Evil by Mountain is #7 in our ranking of the best Mountain guitar solos. The solo is played by Leslie West and the song was released in 1971. ## In our lists - [The Best Mountain Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/mountain-guitar-solos/) — #7 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on Flowers of Evil? Leslie West played the solo on Mountain's Flowers of Evil (1971). --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)