Tommy Bolin ~ Jeff Beck - Jam pt 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- Jam
28mins
1976
Tommy Bolin ~ Guitar
Jeff Beck ~ Bass
Bobby Berge ~ Drums
After recording this jam, Tommy and Jeff switched instruments and recorded another jam on the other side of the tape.
Unfortunately studio owner Phil Polimeni erased that side.
A mistake, I bet he is still regretting .
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Tommy Bolin was opening for Jeff Beck when he died. Before their meeting, Beck was a blues-rock player,he was so blown away by Tommy that he changed his style and became the foremost jazz-rock guitar player.
i attended that show in Miami the night they played there and Tommy died after the show in his hotel room at the Newport Hotel. Tommy played great as expected but Beck had an off night. the most piss poor performance i have ever seen. R.I.P. Tommy.
Wrong, Blow by Blow was recorded in Oct '74 long before Beck heard Bolin.
Wrong he heard Bolin from Billy Cobhams Spectrum Lp 1973.. original statement was incorrect how he was inspired by Tommy. But then touring together is not just a coincidence. It’s that reason . In a way Becks blow by blow and wired happened because of Tommy’s unique ground breaking style, 🤷🏻♂️
@@44thenazz No, you can find plenty of back up sources out there. TB's playing on Spectrum did influence JB to go into instrumental music, including the fusion style TB was playing. But you will find that John McLaughlin also had a big influence on JB's fusion playing.
I lived across the street and tried to play drums for an hour before Alphonse arrived. The sessions I remember were Tommy, Jeff, Greg Phillingaines, Pip. Hell if I could remember everything, I wasn't there. It was '76...the year of joy and pain. Tommy..thx for including me
I love fusion.Tommy was a rock guitarist with a great feel for funk and jazz and this is what makes Stratus so interesting. He doesn't play complicated jazz scales when he's soloing; he plays rock stuff like he did on Deep Purple's Come Taste The Band ! This fusion of rock guitar, jazzy drums and keyboards makes Stratus sound so fresh, even today .
I so miss Tommy Bolin. Had he lived, he would have continued to blow ALL other guitarists away.
Tommy Bolin.. a wonderful guitarist..the musical world is a bit lost without him.. a real feeling player like Jeff. I know Jeff certainly respected him as a guitar player and that speaks volumes!..kinda similar in way...Your appreciated Tommy:))) Thanks for being around...
Nick
YOU KNOW TOMMY WAS A BADASS, WHEN SOMEONE LIKE JEFF BECK PLAYS BASS FOR HIM! I'VE NEVER HEARD OF HIM PLAYING BASS BEFORE!!
Tommy is one of my top 5 guitarists
Likewiae. IMO - Tommy is next to Hendrix for '"made in America" guitarists.
Tommy was a guy with a unique musical voice. I'm sorry he left the world too soon. Thanks for sharing this with us!
the facts After recording this jam, Tommy and Jeff switched instruments and recorded another jam on the other side of the tape.
Unfortunately studio owner Phil Polimeni erased that side.
A mistake, I bet he is still regretting .
Tommy Bolin ~ Guitar
Jeff Beck ~ Bass
Bobby Berge ~ Drums
THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing this, I love Tommy Bolin, scouring every deep purple vid to see if it may be him & any blessed shred of Bolin's I may find, and so whenever I get to find anything new,anything, I am very happy, but this, this is VERY very cool! Thanks soooo much.
rock in peace Tommy Bolin,
Tommy is so cool!
He is my hometown hero!
Sounds great. Wish I would've know about this sooner. Would've liked to have heard when they switched. But its still a treat, to hear Tommy in such great form. Thanks for posting this. Love it. G
The tape with Jeff on guitar was accidentally erased by Phil Polemini (the producer).
It is truly a shame that the other side of this tape was erased but I think that we should be very thankful that it was this side that survived. Both are truly great guitarists but footage and recordings of Jeff Beck are plentiful. Anything of Tommy Bolin is such an inspirational and classic gem and very different to what a lot of other guitarists throw out. It is Tommy Bolin's guitar work here that makes this recording so interesting. Peace out.
Ahh, thank you for posting this, music to my ears and one of the last recordings.
The amazing guitar players meet each other for an exchanging ideas time...I can't imagine this jam and the related Ambient...I love TB right hand its drawing the music colours as a drummer on his cymbals...Great sensation when I heard TB play Its funkyblezy solos... Sergio
Thank you for posting this. I've been a TB fan since seeing him in New Orleans in the 70s. I didn't know he jammed with Jeff Beck. He really got around. I heard that Hendrix was a TB fan. Awesome!
JB plays Stratus live in tribute to Tommy!
He was 18 and a member of Zephyr, which had already attracted a shitload of positive attention from many well-known musicians. He may have liked TB; it isn't far fetched. But TB was an avid Hendrix fan.
Tommy jammed with nearly everyone....because they wanted to jam with HIM.
He played on Moxy's first LP
Jimmy was a Terry Kath fan and said Kath was better than him. It was Joe Walsh that said Tommy could play circles around him. Both Kath and Bolin deserve more recognition,
i feel sad that i ask many guitars players and they dont know who he is i love tommy and i play bass of course i admire him for his song writing but he was a superb guitar player for me one of the most original and unique versatile guitar players
TRUE GUITAR GODS!!!!!
Wow. I recall Beck saying Cobham's Spectrum turned him on to fusion. Of course that was Tommy, and Beck certainly sounded like him after that. If this is real, it's rather awesome.That part at 1:15 really sounds like the Cobham era stuff.
It's real.
Nice to see this get posted. Tommy is just sooooo good at this stuff!!
They are both legendary
Actually @smogbat TB may have had the edge on Beck technique wise being that he played many Charlie Parker bebop type lines very proficiently. TB got Beck and many other rockers to elevate.
If you listen closely you can here parts of Situation and Scatterbrain. Rough and Ready at it's best.
My life is now complete. I never dreamed I would here these two great guitarists play together. Their styles go together so great. This stuff is amazing. I would love to know where the hell you got this.
this is so cool. thanks.
@anndiver not quite. His mother was Syrian and father Swedish, their real family name is Erickson. But, Tommy did play on that Sioux City thing with the died hair and eagle feathers.
The real family name is not Erickson - it is Bolin. His house was on the next block from mine and the boys used to play on the roof of the Ace hardware store. I was blessed to meet his Mom several times and knew all three boys. No he was not a Lakota tho, no native blood.
Actually, I have read the opposite, that his mom was of Swedish ancestry and his dad was of Syrian ancestry.
@cinema33 that's where Jeff borrowed it from. Beck is playing bass here.
This is spectacular, thank you!
Thank You Conneyfogle and Bobby Berge !!!! Incrível isto ter sido preservado e estar vindo à tona depois de tantos anos. Jeff Beck no baixo e Tommy Bolin na guitarra, ambos brincando com os sons, se divertindo nessa Jam de confraternização. Uma lastima o dono do estúdio ter apagado o lado B da fita k7 quando eles trocaram os instrumentos e continuaram a Jam. Há uma carência de vídeos do Tommy Bolin. Sabemos que ele abriu vários shows do Jeff, será que não existe imagens ao vivo ???....Two Gods!
Thank you, is all I have to say. This is fantastic!!
The Best Guitar players of the World, with SRV
@anndiver Yes correct , Tommy had the face of a cherub and musical talents of some of the greatest.
Aq
Tommy Bolin was a mentor for Jeff Beck.
Jeff absorbed a much of Tommy.
amazing, thanks for posting this
I remember Tommy being Lakota Sioux descent... an important tribe - Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Tommy Bolin. I grew up next door in North Dakota and the 70's were a great time to be there.
While he looked as though he had Native American blood, Tommy was actually Syrian and Swedish.
Wolf Soul 100% correct! Johnny confirms this in numerous interviews as well
@@wolfsoul9796 Mama mia, what a HANDSOME DUDE... I bet his mom was Swedish?😆
"Take care of yourself Tommy."....
"Don't worry about me, I've been taking care of myself for a long time and I'll be around alot longer."
YA...HE SAID THAT.
@metacosmos Hard to believe he was half swedish half siryan, being born in Sioux City and using Indian musical motives in his music and developing a culture of drugs as it is traditional in the Indians.
Just think what if Tommy Bolin had have been here and how much 🎵🎶 music singing he would've made, fusion rock and blues etc....
Maestro de la guitarra y creador de nuevos sonidos una lastima su muerte tan pronta
The beginning is pure beck only because he lifted this from Tommy, right here, right now.
where in the world did you find this stuff? Amazing!!
1;13. classic Bolin lick
Tommy Bolin grande chittarista
If this was recorded the night he died that would mean that this was 76 and the late great Mark Craney was on drums?
This was recorded in 1975 with Bobby Berge on drums.
Is this really @bobby berge?
You can easily tell when Tommys playing esp. at the beginning.
Where the hell did this come from?
It is a 1975 jam at Phil Polemini's studio with Tommy, Jeff and Bobby Berge. Tommy and Jeff were friends, and Tommy influenced Jeff's jazz-fusion direction on "Blow By Blow" and "Wired" as a result of this friendship. He admired Tommy greatly.
Is it just me or does anyone else hear a lot of similarities in Tommy's playing and tone w/ the late great Rory Gallagher?? Not necessarily the same, but similar in many ways.
I thought they never played together; Tommy Bolin's does have technique.
Where can I buy this?
You can't. Just enjoy it on YT. Then again, check with Johnnie Bolin. He may have copies at this point.
@booger70 Listen to the "California rehearsals" with Deep Purple in 1975 and you will see what I mean by "being too repetitive".
Bolin was a Sioux indian without musical training but with a lot of ideas.
He was not Sioux Indian. He was Syrian and Swedish. And when you have music flooding your soul, you don't necessarily need any training. And "too repetitive"? Someone has ears of tin and aluminum, though sometimes repetition has its place (depending on the motif and its context). TB always knew what to do for optimal effect.
"Walsh was often heard" - I meant to say.
Didn't Tommy play with Jeff right before he checked out?? How lucky to be there that night???
He was Jeff's opening act on that tour. It was the first night of said tour as well.
@gblueslover2 Jonnhy Bolin keeps the webs of Tommy Bolin in ijnternet.
its jeff beck on gutiar, go see jeff beck at ronnie scotts live and learn something
Tommy Bolin was the best; I mentor him on guitar!
No, darling. He mentors you spiritually. That is a gift ~ use it wisely.
The Ultimate!!!
So Jeff isn't playing bass here - he's playing guitar?
stevieVantanna no. Bolin is playing guitar and Beck bass.
A little on the rough side- actually it's a lot on the rough side
who cares if it is on the rough side? Historical things some times are....It sure beats not existing at all.
+Mike Campbell
True... So true.
And that is why it is so great.
Love this. Beck/Bolin - what's not to like? Recorded at Glenholly Studios, early April 1976.
So it's rough. It's a jam, for Pete's sake!
Wasent this the day before his death? RIP
No. It was recorded in 1975.
there is only 1 guitar player on this and its not Jeff Beck
Tommy on guitar, Jeff on bass.
@gblueslover2 You bettr ask his brother Jonnhy Bolin, Tommy was expelled from his high-school because his long hair and his romance with a " white" girl, besides Tommy 's face was very Sioux and even some of his riffs come from Indian music, such the riff of :"I need love".
Romance with a white girl? Tommy was Caucasian and Middle Eastern. He was not Native American. And he had his romances as a teenager, but that had nothing to do with the fact that he dropped out of high school with his parents' blessing as he simply wanted to leave Iowa and play music. Get your facts straight.
@wheater59 sent you a PM
If someone has the documentation that this is with Jeff Beck, I'd like to see it for myself. I seem to recall (back when I got part of it on a 'WinMX' down-load, years ago) thinking it was Joe Walsh jamming with Tommy...as both were in 'James-Gang', and Walsh was often hear mimicking Beck-isms in his playing. So (unless it can be proven other-wise), I'd say this is from the 'James-Gang'-era. Possibly Tommy's audition? /I'll have to listen to all if it, to better assess my opinion.
Opinions... Opinions... Opinions... Opinions...
Please give me a break. Tommy and Jeff were friends, and Jeff was an ardent admirer of Tommy's playing. This is a 1975 jam with Tommy on guitar, Jeff on bass and Bobby Berge on drums. (There was also another jam with Jeff on guitar and Tommy on bass, but producer Phil Polemini ~ in whose studio the jams were recorded ~ accidentally erased that tape.) This is definitely not an audition, naysayer. Moreover, Tommy imitated NOBODY. For fuck's sake, the man was a genius. Open your senses and hear it, feel it.
Άμαν Γιάννη αυτά είναι τζαμαρίσματα!!
Also - "I'd have to listen to all of it". (Damn, I need to cut these nails!)
Tommy Bolin died the very next day.
No, he did not. This jam was recorded at Phil Polemini's studio in 1975.
Damn fine guitar player! Not worth a shit at being a drug addict.
Bolin was creative enough inside the jazz-rock wave on fashion by then ,
but he lacked musical training and this is the reason why he sounds too often as repetitive.
So there is a problem with repetitive? What would that be now, Mr. Too-concerned-by-lack-of-musical-training? Maybe you had lots of formal musical training and are just jealous because Bolin made great music and you are know for what musical piece now?
Quite the opposite..If you listen to many guitarists...THEY are too concerned with getting record perfection and rehearsed......You can listen to an guitarist and never hear those musical changes ,those diffent genres or improv skills done from feel that Tommy possessed....Especially when he was doing Jazz and Blues with Zephyr and not affected by drugs...This young man was the most talented ,AT THAT TIME of them all....its only now your hearing other players of today or the 80s at earliest where you hear a huge crop of technical players with improved equiptment...VERY few of that time had Tommys NATURAL explosiveness or tone..and they r in the HOF....Of course many WITHOUT his skills are there also so I give no creedance to the HOF!.....