Fuck! Paice is BRILLIANT here! Heard some improvisation in an old-rehearsed song... He's so underrated! Maybe 'cos he's a modest man, but he's a great drummer! Fantastically great! Doing magic on his limited set, while other drummers surrounded themselves with a wall of drums
This is where I piss off all the Rush/Peart fans. Ian Paice is top 5 Drummers , Peart is not top 5 oh he looked cool behind the wall of drums. Paice's hand speed and his single pedal speed and accuracy is second to none. Just listen to Black Night. PDQ
What a genius, with zero 6 string guitar presence on that gig. Even acupuncture treatment wasn't enough to put him in condition. Totally wrong pick on Purple behalf. Blackmore never ever touched drugs .
Tommi usted fue un gran guitarrista.dejo un legado para millones de melenuditos que proclaman sus condiciones de rokeros.simplemente que no eras el guitarrista para purple.como no lo hubiera sido blakmore.para los beatles.tu merito fue poner todo tu conocimiento al servicio de un grupo.pero los vicios ya habian echo su parte sucia.descanse en paz.que millones de guitarristas lo seguiran descubriendo.
I read about this, Tommy couldnt really use his hand so Jon Lord played on the keyboards that normally would have been the guitar part. He tried though. RIP.
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GREAT SONG Three my favorite rock heroes together - DAVID, GLENN and TOMMY TODAY, 64 YEARS AGO when TOMMY BOLIN (August 1st, 1951) was born..
I think this footage shows that this lineup had what it took to work. The problem here was just Tommy's injured hand. I think the melodic line he plays for the solo is very beautiful, if flawed in the execution - no doubt he would have managed it better with a good hand. I saw them on this tour and the next song they played was Lady Luck. It was awesome!
He had overdosed on heroine the day before and lost all feeling on his hand similar to a stroke or something . He nodded off laying on his hand cut of circulation . No disrespect to Tommy he manned up and they played the show . Love his work with spectrum . Ritchie blackmore loved his playing and they had a friendship .
@@williamstrasser8854 Never heard that but as someone who has had a ton of friends get into that stuff (and lost a few along the way) this seems to happen to a lot of users. I worked with a girl who smoked it and now her neck is all screwed up from the same thing. She nodded off and now has to wear some sort of foam around her right shoulder because of it. I knew another person that lost all feeling in their legs and had to learn how to walk again. The hand thing happened to me before just from sleeping on it wrong and I also play. Woke up one morning to no feeling in my right hand. It happened before so I figured it'd come back within a minute. I'd start getting that weird sensation and eventually get feeling back. No such thing happened. It took me 6 months to get all the feeling back. It slowly would creep back every week, where I'd get feeling in one finger and so on. It's been a while since anything has happened (knock on wood) but now any time I wake up and one of my extremities are numb, it's hard not to panic wondering if it's going to stay that way or not.
Don't believe Deep Purple band would have survived if Gillan had not returned. Had his Ritchie conflicts, but Ritchie moody and worse but absolutely BRILLIANT guitarist, love him. (Gillan probably not always that easy to get along with either lol.) DP just blended together and creativity in high gear when everyone got along and happy. As Gillan said in his autobiography, "The glint in the eye is back." Too bad this had to be said in the '90s after Ritchie had quit and been replaced
This is RUBBISH. At this point, Tommy was severely compromised and could barely stay awake, let alone play. The other members of Purple were obviously covering for him.
There's a lot of Purple fans out there that don't realize there just Blackmore fans, Bolin was good with purple and could have helped make the band if it wasn't for drugs gettin in the way, Bolin had a lot of soul and natural flare, Blackmore was just a technical wizzard, a show off, who wanted all the glory, I thought it was disgraceful Blackmore not joinin in to honour Purple at hall of fame. Bolin brilliant guitarist, fit in well in any band, unlike Blackmore who wants a band to fit in with him.
I prefer Bolin over Blackmore also. All this screaming is annoying. I just picked up Teaser and Private Eyes on vinyl. Had them when young but loaned them out and never got back. Tommy used slide and Echo Plex with amazing results. He could play his ass off and sing tastefully. Also great songwriter.
stratocaster1greg Coverdale and Hughes were as bad as each other....Tommy was out of it here and had screwed his arm up....shame could have been brilliant
stratocaster1greg ...Bolin over Blackmore?What ever,you can barely hear the guitar all I hear is Lords organ and the bass,Tommy let drugs ruin him which led to Purples downfall.
Deep Purple remastered with Tommy is good, did you know Tommy couldn't read music, everything he did was adlib, listen to Billy Cobhams Spectrum album, he rips it apart.
tommy bolin was a absolute talent, there is no bigger fan than myself,that being said his playing sounded so much better with james gang zepher his solo stuff [wild dogs] come on,I dont think he was comfortable in that roll,richie plays richie better tommy plays tommy better,he's no blackmores knight. live on my friend
@@Datanditto I absolutely loved that Album. The problem is Tommy Bolin Died way way to young. He never put together a Supergroup A very few have made it Solo. Jeff Beck Robin Trower come to mind. We will never see the likes of those Groups like the early/ mid 70s groups again. I was privlaged to be around for many of these great bands.
I have listened to some tracks of Bolins personal stuff and he is a good player but he couldn't stand up with Blackmore. Blackmore may be a complete asshole but his musicianship was outstanding. Tommy in this video was really good for playing the gig at the local club
Tommy was a friend of my running buddy. back in the days of 'american standard' in denver, too bad, they're both gone now.... i remember when everyone celebrated the release of 'teaser'. party 'till 'ya puke!!!!
If you think that tommy is overrated just do yourself a favour and listen to private eyes and teaser. If you dont change your mind i dont know whats wrong with you
Love them Both . Blackmore was a huge influence for neoclassical metal blues for me . Tommy was a huge influence on Jeff beck and what became fusion . I would have to say Jimi Ritchie Eddie . For my top 3 all time .
I read Beck heard the Cobham and Bolin album and it influenced Beck to make Blow by Blow and Wired Albums Beck added him to his US tour. I saw Beck in Mobile Alabama maybe two weeks after Tommy's death in Miami. Great loss, Tommy was a natural talent on guitar , good singer and writer. His Spectrum work with Cobhamm is still a great listen.
Tommy never did metal music before or after he was with Purple... Come Taste the Band is hardly a metal sounding album. When they were looking for a new guitarist, he was just a few miles away... and maybe that novelty overshadowed the big decision whether he was right for the job... his drug use also affected his live performances badly.
@xxzeon Have you even listed to this performance? Tommy has shit tone, is playing shit and is out of key in most places. His solo stuff is listenable, but it doesn't compare with what Blackmore has done. Highway Star, Burn, Smoke on the Water, Kill the King, Knocking at your Back Door, Lazy, Demon's Eye, Man on the Silver Mountain, Stargazer, The Battle Rages On, Child in Time.. how many of these is Tommy "too-fucked-to-play-but-could-if-he-wanted-to-really" Bolin remembered for? None.
Tommy was severely injured by the violent incident during the Asia tour before Japan. That’s what I read many years ago. I so, they should have cancelled the show.
Joe Pass. Also, sort of, Jerry Reed. People in the music business know reed was awesome as a guitarist, but most people think of him as a character actor.
Tommy Bolin is & was a good guitar player. All the critics here need to look at the band as a whole, don't blame 1 person for the mess. The rest of this band couldn't even play the jazz fusion music he did solo & with Cobham, totally out of their league.
It's really a shame that Tommy is judged by this Japan concert alone ! Not a good example of the brilliant guitarest\musician he was. Check out the Long Beach Deep Purple concert th-cam.com/video/2fabD7CqnjE/w-d-xo.html for a much better performance. Also his 2 solo albums "Teaser" and "Private Eyes" and his blistering work with Bill Cobham, Alphonse Mouzon, James Gang, Moxy, 2 Deep Purple albums are a testimonial to his talent. Unfortuantly he never had a chance to get his shit together (drug wise) near the end but wow...what a journey and legacy he left us up to that point ! 25 years old..Thank you Tommy !
I heard somewhere that Bolin had some kind of problem with his left arm during this show as a result of passing out on it after being given a large dose of morphine. He had all of his guitars tuned tuned to accommodate the different songs.
A shadow of the Mark II version. What I see is John Lord and Ian Paice being dragged down by 3 coked out poseurs.Paice seems off meter due to Glenn Hughes showboating and less than stellar playing (Roger Glover, where were you?) while Lord is trying his damndest to carry Bolin. Coverdale, I can take or leave...I liked him in the early incarnation of Whitesnake, though, at least when Blackmore was still in the band, there was some cohesiveness. This is horrible.
@strings191 - This is bad can u get more of this concert? haha. That reminds me of a Woody Allen joke where an elderly couple is at a restaurant: The elderly man says "this food is horrible", and his wife then says, "I know..and in such small portions too!"
Tommy moved his left hand so strange because he felt asleep on a chair (intoxicated) right before the gig and damaged the nerve so he couldn't play the guitar as usual and john had to play the solo parts.
First time i heard burn, thought i went nuts, how great!. Paice and Hughes are going crazy filling up the gaps Bolin left due to his injured hand. It is from the album last concert in japan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Concert_in_Japan. Thanks for sharing guys.
It funny that Jon Lord is playing the guitar riff on the keyboards. That's because the night before Tommy passed out and fell asleep on his left hand. So, Lord covered as much as he could on the keys.
+Andrew Perretti It wasn't just that Tommy fell asleep on his left hand, he was also off his fucking face on drugs, so much so he could hardly play a fucking note.
I really enjoyed Tommy's solo work and fusion albums . I thought the James Gangs albums were great as well . This does not sound like the rest , not a good gig for him .
дп как всегда навысоте но хочется отметить соло болина из 3х нот и поросячий визг басиста хьюза хотя на басу играет очень хорошо ОСТАЛЬНЫЕ играют на очень высоком уровне особенно ЛОРД
The best "replacement" DP ever had for Blackmore was the Satch, who played live with them in 93 - 94 era. Satch could and still can play circles around Blackmore and most everyone else, for that matter.
***** most people mix up two different structures you simply can´t compare: it´s one thing reaching perfection within the limits and it´s another thing crossing boarders and move them... most of us tend more to one or the other
+Annalize van Jaarsveld Tommy Bolin was brilliant and fast as hell if he wanted to. He played the incredible guitar parts on Billy Cobham's fusion masterpiece 'Spectrum' when he was only 23 (check them out). Three years later he was dead. Such a loss.
Nesse show o Deep Purple se apresentou com David Coverdale (vocals), Glenn Hughes (bass and vocals), Ian Paice (drums), John Lord (organ/keyboard) e Tommy Bolin (guitar) dead.
Comsi Comsa, Blackmore wrote some of the cornerstone songs of hard rock. He played in the front league but Bolin did not. I´ve got most of Bolin records. Spectrum of Cobham is an outstanding record. Cobham was in Espoo , Finland with Brecker a few years ago. I asked him about his favorite guitar player but he ignored the question bluntly, there are so many of them, would you like to buy my new record..?
Eryll Flynn you are correct, Tommy was banging the heroin hard during this period and damaged his arm with infection and bad heroin. I was so very lucky to have heard Tommy play many times over the years prior to his leaving Iowa and after his arrival in Colorado and I am here to tell you the guy was brilliant and was doing things I had never heard any guitarist do prior to him or after him. RIP my old friend Tommy you are so very much missed.
Tommy Bolin is given way too much credit in being posthumously compared to the real greats like Blackmore, Page, Hendrix etc. He was never in their league, neither as a player, nor as a professional. Would a real pro have knocked himself out with "H" and fallen asleep on his arm (rendering it completely useless) whilst on a world tour with a band like Deep Purple? Way over rated! Cobham showed no interest in doing anything else with Bolin after that album, he thought he overplayed. He was right
Yelling Elk Wow, interesting thoughts on being professional. Let's see, Page was a heroin addict and some concert footage of him is painful to watch I.e. The ARMS concert. Blackmore was impossible to work with not professional at all and fired everyone. Hendrix had substance abuse issues and was out of it at times too. Don't think Bolin wanted to play more with Cobbham. Bolin wrote and recorded an insane amount of great stuff in a few years. 2 James Gang albums, 1 with DP which he wrote or co wrote the bulk of, and 2 solo albums all from 73-76. 5 albums in 3+ years in which he wrote 80% of the material. His sound is unique and he was a great talent. Jeff Beck, Joe Walsh, and Blackmore have said as much
I'm sure Tommy had a good reason for doing that.Tommy Bolin is NOT a little fucker if you listened to "Spectrum" or his two studio albums,as well as his work on Moxy etc....Tommy was also with the James Gang for two albums.Tommy Bolin was an amazing guitarist,i like him alot more than Blackmore anyway.
The only real singer of DP is and stays Ian Gillan. David Coverdale and most of all Glenn Hughes ,they both scream like a nun who is getting it up the arse unexpected but not very much against her will.
The ridiculously low level of the guitar in this says everything about Bolin's playing a the time - they would have sounded better with no guitarist at all.
did Tommy Bolin ever talk abt this period ? i wonder if Jon Lord disliked as much as you tuber's hell,i just want to hear something good about this mark. fuck anything will do thnx
+JohnAllanification I don't recall TB ever talking about this period. I saw him twice in 76 (May & Nov) on his respective tours behind his solo LPs, so the focus was on that - DP was in the rear view. Lord has discussed this period and, essentially, pointed out - as politely as he possibly could - that TB & GH were so deeply into drugs that it "ruined" everything. He also has said tho' that when TB auditioned with the band in LA that it was "magic" and that prior to that he (and Ian Paice) were inclined to hang DP up but TB energized them again. The LP itself (Come Taste the Band) has always felt like an outlier, of sorts (to me anyway) in the DP catalog. TB dominates the proceedings if only by being involved as a writer on nearly every tune. I was already predisposed to like the LP - being a TB fan prior - but a lot of the older DP fans did not (to put it mildly) embrace the enterprise. In the end, if TB & GH could have curbed their demons it may have been interesting to see where it went. We do have a bit of a hint of that with the LP's Whitesnake did once JL & IP got on board (very Bluesy/Hard R&B based if you will - this is in the pre-Hair Metal days of the 80's). As somebody did point out here in another post: Tommy was Tommy and Ritchie was Ritchie. When TB took what was the Joe Walsh slot in the James Gang, there was no pressure/obligation for him to play like JW (or play his parts) and the band went off in it's particular direction. Obviously not so when he stepped into Ritchie's shoes in DP...and so it goes! Just my opinion here since you asked the question...
There are only the 2 LPs with the James Gang and not everybody cared for the singer (Roy Kenner). You'll note that TB and his two writing partners - Jeff Cook and John Tesar - wrote a fair amount of the tunes. In the end it's not particularly related to the JW James Gang LPs but is in spirit. I also think that Dale Peters (bs) & Jim Fox (dr) are really underrated both as players and as a rhythm section. They lock down with TB. I read somewhere that JW "personally recommended" TB for the James Gang gig. I have no idea if this is true or not. There are some explosive tracks on each of the LPs but "From Another Time" (on "Bang") is the one that gets me every time. Eventually, if you haven't gone there already, check out the tracks with Energy. This the band TB had in Colorado w/Jeff Cook singing. They never got signed and TB went off on his odyssey, but they were onto something. My final thought for the day is that I am consistently astounded at the sheer amount of music that TB made/recorded from 73-76. Almost as if he was in a hurry.
I had not heard of him outside DP but I guess this is rather due to me than to his merits. But if Paice and Lord picked him it means he was a great player just as they did with Steve Morse. But stop comparing them : They all have their personal style and it's all individual taste.
this sounds like it's from the live lp, LAST CONCERT IN JAPAN. I didn't know Bolin has a hand injury when I heard this lp many years ago- like 40? - that would account for him missing things. Honestly, I thought it was just sloppy, drug induced mistakes.
Blackmore did Some not so nice things to his bandmembers . I read the book written about him. The same happened than with Winter, Page , Eastwood and some others; these people are very ecocentric.
Glenn Hughes can still sing great at age 65. He can do it all, rock and soul
Fuck! Paice is BRILLIANT here! Heard some improvisation in an old-rehearsed song... He's so underrated! Maybe 'cos he's a modest man, but he's a great drummer! Fantastically great! Doing magic on his limited set, while other drummers surrounded themselves with a wall of drums
This is where I piss off all the Rush/Peart fans. Ian Paice is top 5 Drummers , Peart is not top 5 oh he looked cool behind the wall of drums. Paice's hand speed and his single pedal speed and accuracy is second to none. Just listen to Black Night. PDQ
Tommy Bolin was an angel a genius listen to his soloalbums with songs like People People - outstanding..
What a genius, with zero 6 string guitar presence on that gig. Even acupuncture treatment wasn't enough to put him in condition. Totally wrong pick on Purple behalf. Blackmore never ever touched drugs .
Tommi usted fue un gran guitarrista.dejo un legado para millones de melenuditos que proclaman sus condiciones de rokeros.simplemente que no eras el guitarrista para purple.como no lo hubiera sido blakmore.para los beatles.tu merito fue poner todo tu conocimiento al servicio de un grupo.pero los vicios ya habian echo su parte sucia.descanse en paz.que millones de guitarristas lo seguiran descubriendo.
well, now we have bolin and lord playing together in heaven.
I read about this, Tommy couldnt really use his hand so Jon Lord played on the keyboards that normally would have been the guitar part. He tried though. RIP.
GREAT SONG
Three my favorite rock heroes together - DAVID, GLENN and TOMMY
TODAY, 64 YEARS AGO
when
TOMMY BOLIN
(August 1st, 1951)
was born..
yep i know his brother john bolin good drummer john is he plays for black oak arkansas
Larry Buchholz yes he is a good drummer, I knew the Bolins from way back in the day in Iowa and northeastern Nebraska.
Poor guy, I just don't know how he managed to even stand there...
I think this footage shows that this lineup had what it took to work. The problem here was just Tommy's injured hand. I think the melodic line he plays for the solo is very beautiful, if flawed in the execution - no doubt he would have managed it better with a good hand. I saw them on this tour and the next song they played was Lady Luck. It was awesome!
He had overdosed on heroine the day before and lost all feeling on his hand similar to a stroke or something . He nodded off laying on his hand cut of circulation . No disrespect to Tommy he manned up and they played the show . Love his work with spectrum . Ritchie blackmore loved his playing and they had a friendship .
@@williamstrasser8854 Never heard that but as someone who has had a ton of friends get into that stuff (and lost a few along the way) this seems to happen to a lot of users. I worked with a girl who smoked it and now her neck is all screwed up from the same thing. She nodded off and now has to wear some sort of foam around her right shoulder because of it. I knew another person that lost all feeling in their legs and had to learn how to walk again. The hand thing happened to me before just from sleeping on it wrong and I also play. Woke up one morning to no feeling in my right hand. It happened before so I figured it'd come back within a minute. I'd start getting that weird sensation and eventually get feeling back. No such thing happened. It took me 6 months to get all the feeling back. It slowly would creep back every week, where I'd get feeling in one finger and so on. It's been a while since anything has happened (knock on wood) but now any time I wake up and one of my extremities are numb, it's hard not to panic wondering if it's going to stay that way or not.
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I'm perfectly agree. He was a nice guy, but this not means also a good guitarist. I can't explain why the band choose him on that rule.
Friends,this isn't a song , this is a work of art, for ever!
Don't believe Deep Purple band would have survived if Gillan had not returned. Had his Ritchie conflicts, but Ritchie moody and worse but absolutely BRILLIANT guitarist, love him. (Gillan probably not always that easy to get along with either lol.) DP just blended together and creativity in high gear when everyone got along and happy. As Gillan said in his autobiography, "The glint in the eye is back." Too bad this had to be said in the '90s after Ritchie had quit and been replaced
coverdale really didn't find his voice til whitesnake.
This is RUBBISH. At this point, Tommy was severely compromised and could barely stay awake, let alone play. The other members of Purple were obviously covering for him.
Pena vivió poco Tommy gran talento
There's a lot of Purple fans out there that don't realize there just Blackmore fans, Bolin was good with purple and could have helped make the band if it wasn't for drugs gettin in the way, Bolin had a lot of soul and natural flare, Blackmore was just a technical wizzard, a show off, who wanted all the glory, I thought it was disgraceful Blackmore not joinin in to honour Purple at hall of fame. Bolin brilliant guitarist, fit in well in any band, unlike Blackmore who wants a band to fit in with him.
At the come And Tast'vin the Band only made pentatonic licks, what he did was ruin Deep Purple.
No disrespect to the guy as a human being.. but musically I don't get all the craze over Tommy Bolin. Dethrone Hendrix? Come on.
I'm withya on that.
Dethrone Backmore!! Sorry not close. Bolin was overrated. Had alot of awesome friends that promoted him.
I prefer Bolin over Blackmore also. All this screaming is annoying. I just picked up Teaser and Private Eyes on vinyl. Had them when young but loaned them out and never got back. Tommy used slide and Echo Plex with amazing results. He could play his ass off and sing tastefully. Also great songwriter.
stratocaster1greg Coverdale and Hughes were as bad as each other....Tommy was out of it here and had screwed his arm up....shame could have been brilliant
Tommy passed out and laid on his hand and it was numb and couldn't play . He and drugs broke up this band.
What is it with Ian Gillan on this one? He looks kind of different?
stratocaster1greg ...Bolin over Blackmore?What ever,you can barely hear the guitar all I hear is Lords organ and the bass,Tommy let drugs ruin him which led to Purples downfall.
Deep Purple remastered with Tommy is good, did you know Tommy couldn't read music, everything he did was adlib, listen to Billy Cobhams Spectrum album, he rips it apart.
tommy bolin was a absolute talent, there is no bigger fan than myself,that being said his playing sounded so much better with james gang zepher his solo stuff [wild dogs] come on,I dont think he was comfortable in that roll,richie plays richie better tommy plays tommy better,he's no blackmores knight. live on my friend
I didn't like that James Gang line-up. Check out the Don Kishner's performance. That lead singer is crap. Peace
Come Taste The Band
@@Datanditto I absolutely loved that Album. The problem is Tommy Bolin Died way way to young. He never put together a Supergroup
A very few have made it Solo. Jeff Beck Robin Trower come to mind. We will never see the likes of those Groups like the early/ mid 70s groups again. I was privlaged to be around for many of these great bands.
@@gerggbergr8976 I only listen to ‘old’ music.
@@Datanditto I call it Real Music. No sampling or studio BS. That take average at best. Then turn it into heavily over produced junk.
I have listened to some tracks of Bolins personal stuff and he is a good player but he couldn't stand up with Blackmore. Blackmore may be a complete asshole but his musicianship was outstanding. Tommy in this video was really good for playing the gig at the local club
Blackmore is GROSSLY over-rated. All his solos suck.
Blackmore would have sucked at the fusion stuff on the Cobhamm album. Love rithies purple stuff, they were good together, wasn't Bolins style.
God Bless You TB....
She makes you burn with the wave of her hand
Tommy was a friend of my running buddy. back in the days of 'american standard' in denver, too bad, they're both gone now.... i remember when everyone celebrated the release of 'teaser'. party 'till 'ya puke!!!!
UFFF, COMO KEMA!!!
If you think that tommy is overrated just do yourself a favour and listen to private eyes and teaser. If you dont change your mind i dont know whats wrong with you
Tommy Bolin during live play mediocre, but at the time of recording, playing neat and nice.
R.I.P.
Iwould put Tommy's work on "Spectrum" against anything Blackmore has done.
Love them Both .
Blackmore was a huge influence for neoclassical metal blues for me .
Tommy was a huge influence on Jeff beck and what became fusion .
I would have to say Jimi Ritchie Eddie . For my top 3 all time .
I read Beck heard the Cobham and Bolin album and it influenced Beck to make Blow by Blow and Wired Albums Beck added him to his US tour. I saw Beck in Mobile Alabama maybe two weeks after Tommy's death in Miami. Great loss, Tommy was a natural talent on guitar , good singer and writer. His Spectrum work with Cobhamm is still a great listen.
When Bolin was.on form he was peerless. Unfortunately when you go down the slippery slope of addiction it all comes to a sticky end
Yuk. Is this when he was sleeping on his arm?
Tommy never did metal music before or after he was with Purple... Come Taste the Band is hardly a metal sounding album. When they were looking for a new guitarist, he was just a few miles away... and maybe that novelty overshadowed the big decision whether he was right for the job... his drug use also affected his live performances badly.
@xxzeon
Have you even listed to this performance? Tommy has shit tone, is playing shit and is out of key in most places. His solo stuff is listenable, but it doesn't compare with what Blackmore has done.
Highway Star, Burn, Smoke on the Water, Kill the King, Knocking at your Back Door, Lazy, Demon's Eye, Man on the Silver Mountain, Stargazer, The Battle Rages On, Child in Time.. how many of these is Tommy "too-fucked-to-play-but-could-if-he-wanted-to-really" Bolin remembered for? None.
Tommy was severely injured by the violent incident during the Asia tour before Japan. That’s what I read many years ago. I so, they should have cancelled the show.
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Если бы Болин не умер, то возможно мы услышать бы ещё не один альбом.
Pretty cool!
come taste the band is a great album funky ass swing from TB here RIP
Joe Pass. Also, sort of, Jerry Reed. People in the music business know reed was awesome as a guitarist, but most people think of him as a character actor.
Tommy Bolin is & was a good guitar player. All the critics here need to look at the band as a whole, don't blame 1 person for the mess. The rest of this band couldn't even play the jazz fusion music he did solo & with Cobham, totally out of their league.
The best thing you can say about Bolin is: There is a person who *never* should've used drugs.
roguenation Tommy is 1 of the artists that's touched me most in my 57 years. So take your opinion n shove it up your ass
Bolin was great touching his own things, at Deep Purple was horrible, only basic pentatônico licks. Blackmore's solos come out horrible.
@@MarcoPolo82 Bkackmores middle name is ‘Pentatonic’
What are you kidding?!
Right on bother
It's really a shame that Tommy is judged by this Japan concert alone ! Not a good example of the brilliant guitarest\musician he was. Check out the Long Beach Deep Purple concert th-cam.com/video/2fabD7CqnjE/w-d-xo.html for a much better performance. Also his 2 solo albums "Teaser" and "Private Eyes" and his blistering work with Bill Cobham, Alphonse Mouzon, James Gang, Moxy, 2 Deep Purple albums are a testimonial to his talent. Unfortuantly he never had a chance to get his shit together (drug wise) near the end but wow...what a journey and legacy he left us up to that point ! 25 years old..Thank you Tommy !
Bolin isnt even playing the parts, Jon Lord is playing everything
Согласен, нарк
I heard somewhere that Bolin had some kind of problem with his left arm during this show as a result of passing out on it after being given a large dose of morphine. He had all of his guitars tuned tuned to accommodate the different songs.
A shadow of the Mark II version. What I see is John Lord and Ian Paice being dragged down by 3 coked out poseurs.Paice seems off meter due to Glenn Hughes showboating and less than stellar playing (Roger Glover, where were you?) while Lord is trying his damndest to carry Bolin. Coverdale, I can take or leave...I liked him in the early incarnation of Whitesnake, though, at least when Blackmore was still in the band, there was some cohesiveness. This is horrible.
ths is indeed embarassing,,,,, tommy couldnt even play intro,,,,, if it wasnt for jon lord filling in,,,, cancel the gig
@strings191 - This is bad can u get more of this concert? haha. That reminds me of a Woody Allen joke where an elderly couple is at a restaurant: The elderly man says "this food is horrible", and his wife then says, "I know..and in such small portions too!"
Anyone who says that Tommy Bolin on guitar is not good, not good at it!
Yeah, tommy saved DP... and DP killed Tommy... RIp
Tommy moved his left hand so strange because he felt asleep on a chair (intoxicated) right before the gig and damaged the nerve so he couldn't play the guitar as usual and john had to play the solo parts.
First time i heard burn, thought i went nuts, how great!. Paice and Hughes are going crazy filling up the gaps Bolin left due to his injured hand. It is from the album last concert in japan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Concert_in_Japan.
Thanks for sharing guys.
It's Jon Lord filling in what Bolin couldn't play.
Amazing performance
Deep Purple is the best
tommy saved deep purple and the james gang...
At the come And Tast'vin the Band only made pentatonic licks, what he did was ruin Deep Purple.
It funny that Jon Lord is playing the guitar riff on the keyboards. That's because the night before Tommy passed out and fell asleep on his left hand. So, Lord covered as much as he could on the keys.
+Andrew Perretti
+Andrew Perretti It wasn't just that Tommy fell asleep on his left hand, he was also off his fucking face on drugs, so much so he could hardly play a fucking note.
thanks gonzo r.i.p. tommy
Can the band's guitarist play any of Tommy's work on "Spectrum" eg: Quadrant four,Stratus? or his work on Moxy's first album?
I really enjoyed Tommy's solo work and fusion albums . I thought the James Gangs albums were great as well . This does not sound like the rest , not a good gig for him .
i don't think he cared for being in deep purple , sick of glenn hughes hair hitting him in the face
дп как всегда навысоте но хочется отметить соло болина из 3х нот и поросячий визг басиста хьюза хотя на басу играет очень хорошо ОСТАЛЬНЫЕ играют на очень высоком уровне особенно ЛОРД
The best "replacement" DP ever had for Blackmore was the Satch, who played live with them in 93 - 94 era. Satch could and still can play circles around Blackmore and most everyone else, for that matter.
***** most people mix up two different structures you simply can´t compare: it´s one thing reaching perfection within the limits and it´s another thing crossing boarders and move them... most of us tend more to one or the other
this tommy bolin guy was a real bad fit to purple. great slow playen but sucks at any thing faster than 30 bpm
+Annalize van Jaarsveld his left arm was nearly paralysed on this tour, so he just could play a few notes
+Annalize van Jaarsveld Tommy Bolin was brilliant and fast as hell if he wanted to. He played the incredible guitar parts on Billy Cobham's fusion masterpiece 'Spectrum' when he was only 23 (check them out). Three years later he was dead. Such a loss.
+MrSpeedyrocks surely his arm wasn't 'paralysed' for the whole tour?!?
Ian Gillian on bass David Coverdale on vocals
not Ian Gillan on bass-- it's Glenn Hughes
5150samson are you sure? its looks alot like him
Nesse show o Deep Purple se apresentou com David Coverdale (vocals), Glenn Hughes (bass and vocals), Ian Paice (drums), John Lord (organ/keyboard) e Tommy Bolin (guitar) dead.
Glenn Hughes. Ian Gillan was not part of this lineup.
Plus, Ian Gillan didn't play bass... Lol
Total destruction of Blackmore's magnificant solo.
Tommy Bolin was in deep purple? 🤔
Yep... just looked it up. Neat-O!
Really not filling the requirements to ritchies standard of musicianship.
Comsi Comsa, Blackmore wrote some of the cornerstone songs of hard rock. He played in the front league but Bolin did not. I´ve got most of Bolin records. Spectrum of Cobham is an outstanding record. Cobham was in Espoo , Finland with Brecker a few years ago. I asked him about his favorite guitar player but he ignored the question bluntly, there are so many of them, would you like to buy my new record..?
this is not tommy bolin at his best.. his best is solo!!
Glen Hughes, OMG
100% good
had Tommy lived he would have dethroned Hendrix. Ritchie was Ritchie, Tommy hated playing Ritchie, Tommy needed to just play Tommy.
I tough same
"he would have dethroned Hendrix."
Thanx for the laugh.
67goldtops
You know what they say about opinions....You have yours I have mine. Glad I could brighten your day for a very short time.
INDEED.
I love Tommy Bolin and Ritchie Blackmore but if Jimi Hendrix would have live he would have dethroned Jimi Hendrix.
It was more like from a badly "adminstrated" heroin dose. Guess we will never really know. RIP Tommy
The music of Harry Potter.
Only members of purple here are lord and Paice
I think he was tryin to tell someone to turn it up.....
I fell asleep on my arm once too, still suck at the guitar.
That wasn't the Only thing wrong with his arm.
If you catch my drift.
R.I.P. Tommy ✌
Eryll Flynn you are correct, Tommy was banging the heroin hard during this period and damaged his arm with infection and bad heroin. I was so very lucky to have heard Tommy play many times over the years prior to his leaving Iowa and after his arrival in Colorado and I am here to tell you the guy was brilliant and was doing things I had never heard any guitarist do prior to him or after him. RIP my old friend Tommy you are so very much missed.
blackmore
Head lining at the full throttle saloon opening for jackel and spinal tap ……dated shit for sure
Yeah, Quadrant a good song. I just felt he was out of control, which we all were sometime in our lives.
Tommy Bolin is given way too much credit in being posthumously compared to the real greats like Blackmore, Page, Hendrix etc. He was never in their league, neither as a player, nor as a professional. Would a real pro have knocked himself out with "H" and fallen asleep on his arm (rendering it completely useless) whilst on a world tour with a band like Deep Purple? Way over rated! Cobham showed no interest in doing anything else with Bolin after that album, he thought he overplayed. He was right
Yelling Elk Wow, interesting thoughts on being professional. Let's see, Page was a heroin addict and some concert footage of him is painful to watch I.e. The ARMS concert. Blackmore was impossible to work with not professional at all and fired everyone. Hendrix had substance abuse issues and was out of it at times too. Don't think Bolin wanted to play more with Cobbham. Bolin wrote and recorded an insane amount of great stuff in a few years. 2 James Gang albums, 1 with DP which he wrote or co wrote the bulk of, and 2 solo albums all from 73-76. 5 albums in 3+ years in which he wrote 80% of the material. His sound is unique and he was a great talent. Jeff Beck, Joe Walsh, and Blackmore have said as much
He was just an axe....
OMG
It's all hair, man,,,
Tommy Bolin era un virtuoso pero con deep purple.... definitivamente, no.
I'm sure Tommy had a good reason for doing that.Tommy Bolin is NOT a little fucker if you listened to "Spectrum" or his two studio albums,as well as his work on Moxy etc....Tommy was also with the James Gang for two albums.Tommy Bolin was an amazing guitarist,i like him alot more than Blackmore anyway.
AGUANTE BOLIN, LA PUTA MADRE!!!
Maybe everybody just had too much coke. I'm sure to the high and drunk audience it sounded okay tho. heh
Ian..Neff said
こんな貴重な映像があったとは、
True
The only real singer of DP is and stays Ian Gillan. David Coverdale and most of all Glenn Hughes ,they both scream like a nun who is getting it up the arse unexpected but not very much against her will.
LMAO!
Awesome
Mirkov The one and only shu up
Mirkov The one and only l
Your fuckin stupid n deaf
Who's Glenn flippin' the bird to at 2:34? lol!
I thought he was just requesting his monitor being turned up.
Sound like Ritchie Blackmore’s solo from one of the Green Bullfrog jam album numbers, only worse.
this is bad can u get more of this concert.
The ridiculously low level of the guitar in this says everything about Bolin's playing a the time - they would have sounded better with no guitarist at all.
So brillant....! Mark IV best line up for Purple...!! Bolin , pure talent
did Tommy Bolin ever talk abt this period ? i wonder if Jon Lord disliked as much as you tuber's hell,i just want to hear something good about this mark.
fuck anything will do thnx
+JohnAllanification I don't recall TB ever talking about this period. I saw him twice in 76 (May & Nov) on his respective tours behind his solo LPs, so the focus was on that - DP was in the rear view.
Lord has discussed this period and, essentially, pointed out - as politely as he possibly could - that TB & GH were so deeply into drugs that it "ruined" everything. He also has said tho' that when TB auditioned with the band in LA that it was "magic" and that prior to that he (and Ian Paice) were inclined to hang DP up but TB energized them again.
The LP itself (Come Taste the Band) has always felt like an outlier, of sorts (to me anyway) in the DP catalog. TB dominates the proceedings if only by being involved as a writer on nearly every tune. I was already predisposed to like the LP - being a TB fan prior - but a lot of the older DP fans did not (to put it mildly) embrace the enterprise.
In the end, if TB & GH could have curbed their demons it may have been interesting to see where it went. We do have a bit of a hint of that with the LP's Whitesnake did once JL & IP got on board (very Bluesy/Hard R&B based if you will - this is in the pre-Hair Metal days of the 80's).
As somebody did point out here in another post: Tommy was Tommy and Ritchie was Ritchie. When TB took what was the Joe Walsh slot in the James Gang, there was no pressure/obligation for him to play like JW (or play his parts) and the band went off in it's particular direction. Obviously not so when he stepped into Ritchie's shoes in DP...and so it goes!
Just my opinion here since you asked the question...
+Tom McCarthy
..glad that you expressed ... Tom. i know more now
- on to James Gang and TB it'll be a 1st/should've been sooner
There are only the 2 LPs with the James Gang and not everybody cared for the singer (Roy Kenner). You'll note that TB and his two writing partners - Jeff Cook and John Tesar - wrote a fair amount of the tunes.
In the end it's not particularly related to the JW James Gang LPs but is in spirit. I also think that Dale Peters (bs) & Jim Fox (dr) are really underrated both as players and as a rhythm section. They lock down with TB.
I read somewhere that JW "personally recommended" TB for the James Gang gig. I have no idea if this is true or not.
There are some explosive tracks on each of the LPs but "From Another Time" (on "Bang") is the one that gets me every time.
Eventually, if you haven't gone there already, check out the tracks with Energy. This the band TB had in Colorado w/Jeff Cook singing. They never got signed and TB went off on his odyssey, but they were onto something.
My final thought for the day is that I am consistently astounded at the sheer amount of music that TB made/recorded from 73-76. Almost as if he was in a hurry.
I saw them - there is nothing good to say.
Guitar sounds like a wasp in a bottle!
I had not heard of him outside DP but I guess this is rather due to me than to his merits. But if Paice and Lord picked him it means he was a great player just as they did with Steve Morse. But stop comparing them : They all have their personal style and it's all individual taste.
this sounds like it's from the live lp, LAST CONCERT IN JAPAN. I didn't know Bolin has a hand injury when I heard this lp many years ago- like 40? - that would account for him missing things. Honestly, I thought it was just sloppy, drug induced mistakes.
Not at all man. Tommy killed Tommy....
Blackmore did Some not so nice things to his bandmembers .
I read the book written about him.
The same happened than with Winter, Page , Eastwood and some others; these people are very ecocentric.
tommy was amazing leave it at that
He can't? Have you ever listened to anything else from Tommy Bolin besides Purple?