JohnOsbourne Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 Tommy Bolin RIP Deep Purple - The Definitive Mark IV Concert (Come Taste The Band Tour) - YouTube Quote Link to post Share on other sites
luvlz2 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/guitar-legend-tommy-bolin-celebrated-with-new-collection-of-lost-tracks/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Autumn Moon Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 1 hour ago, luvlz2 said: https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/guitar-legend-tommy-bolin-celebrated-with-new-collection-of-lost-tracks/ Thank you so much for the information! Can´t wait to buy the vinyl. Btw, if you love the Private Eyes album on vinyl, I really have to recommend the Speakers Corner Records release of the year 2017. Speakers Corner used the master tapes, remastered them in a gentle, brilliant way and kept the whole manufacturing process pure analogue. I have first pressings and a promo copy in NM, but the Speakers Corner version sounds second to none. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
luvlz2 Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 29 minutes ago, Autumn Moon said: Thank you so much for the information! Can´t wait to buy the vinyl. Btw, if you love the Private Eyes album on vinyl, I really have to recommend the Speakers Corner Records release of the year 2017. Speakers Corner used the master tapes, remastered them in a gentle, brilliant way and kept the whole manufacturing process pure analogue. I have first pressings and a promo copy in NM, but the Speakers Corner version sounds second to none. 👍Will have to keep my eyes open for that, thanks for the heads up! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brigante Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 Not sure who they asked in order to determine that Bustin' Out For Rosey is Bolin's 'most popular song'. I mean, I do love it, but...not Dreamer, not Wild Dogs, not Alexis? Oh, ok. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Autumn Moon Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 On 1/31/2021 at 1:56 PM, Brigante said: Not sure who they asked in order to determine that Bustin' Out For Rosey is Bolin's 'most popular song'. Maybe the same clowns who are responsible for the 2017 vinyl release of the Northern Lights recordings from Sept. 1976. This uneven, uninspired performance clearly shows the limited capacity of Johnny Bolin. I know it was a hard time for Tommy Bolin, the ugly breakup with longtime-love Karen, his increasing problems with booze and hard drugs, Narada Michael Walden had left and Bobby Berge wasn´t available either. But to put Johnny on the same stage with Haslip, Stein & Bell was truly a bad decision. Sorry to say that, but imho every high school band should have a far better drummer than Johnny was back in 1976. There are excellent shows from the first tour in April/May 76 and of course the mindblowing Ebbets Field shows from 1974 which would highly deserve a vinyl release. Anyway, I am excited about the upcoming LP. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brigante Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 True - Johnny's scraped more than one barrel over the years... And Ebbets Field definitely needs more exposure: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LedZep123 Posted Saturday at 06:11 PM Share Posted Saturday at 06:11 PM On 12/5/2020 at 2:59 PM, JohnOsbourne said: Tommy Bolin RIP Deep Purple - The Definitive Mark IV Concert (Come Taste The Band Tour) - YouTube Tommy Bolin was a American guitarist in a British band. Also, that concert was taken in Long Beach California, and was literally their only above-average perforamce of the Come Taste The Band tour. Listen to the Last Live In Japan 1975, and it just sucks, man. Tommy is so god damn high, that Jon Lord has to play the guitar parts on the keyboards. Same with the Liverpool show in '76. It just sucks. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LedZep123 Posted Saturday at 06:12 PM Share Posted Saturday at 06:12 PM On 8/8/2020 at 11:33 AM, reids said: Whoosh! out today. I ordered the cd/dvd combo & should have it next Tues. Until then, I’ve been watching the rehearsal video and listening to several threads. Here’s one with snippets of the album tracks. https://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/deep-purple-whoosh-new-album-listen-stream-download/ R😎 I sorta stopped collecting their records after Rapture Of The Deep.... y'know why. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LedZep123 Posted Saturday at 06:15 PM Share Posted Saturday at 06:15 PM On 4/18/2020 at 3:34 PM, Rodrigo said: I have a CD of 'Made In Europe' Russian version (pirate for sure), that comes with some bonus tracks, among them, 'The Gypsy'. I love the album 'Stormbringer', it was the first Deep Purple album I heard. Stormbringer is much for funk & R&B then the previous Burn. I do enjoy funk music, but I also find it sad that it was the first album you heard. The first one I heard was Fireball. However, at least you got to Soldier Of Fortune before me.... and damn, that is a song only a Mr. David Coverdale could do Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JohnOsbourne Posted Saturday at 10:27 PM Share Posted Saturday at 10:27 PM 4 hours ago, LedZep123 said: Tommy Bolin was a American guitarist in a British band. Also, that concert was taken in Long Beach California, and was literally their only above-average perforamce of the Come Taste The Band tour. Listen to the Last Live In Japan 1975, and it just sucks, man. Tommy is so god damn high, that Jon Lord has to play the guitar parts on the keyboards. Same with the Liverpool show in '76. It just sucks. I've heard the last show in Liverpool was a disaster, and the Asian tour in '75 was ill-fated to put it mildly. (I believe the reason Lord had to fill in the guitar parts in Japan was because Bolin got some bad smack in Indonesia and his left arm was immobilized. A former Zep roadie working for Purple was murdered in Indonesia, probably by the promoters who were shaking the band down.) But the bootlegs from New Zealand in '75 and Miami in '76 are both kick-ass, so I disagree that Mark IV couldn't get it done on stage. Obviously the drug problems made it hit-or-miss, but there was too much rock 'n roll talent in that line-up for it to be sub-par live. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LedZep123 Posted Saturday at 11:54 PM Share Posted Saturday at 11:54 PM 1 hour ago, JohnOsbourne said: I've heard the last show in Liverpool was a disaster, and the Asian tour in '75 was ill-fated to put it mildly. (I believe the reason Lord had to fill in the guitar parts in Japan was because Bolin got some bad smack in Indonesia and his left arm was immobilized. A former Zep roadie working for Purple was murdered in Indonesia, probably by the promoters who were shaking the band down.) But the bootlegs from New Zealand in '75 and Miami in '76 are both kick-ass, so I disagree that Mark IV couldn't get it done on stage. Obviously the drug problems made it hit-or-miss, but there was too much rock 'n roll talent in that line-up for it to be sub-par live. Bolin did not get some bad smack in Indonesia. Or at least, that's not the reason he played shit. He had gotten high at the Tokyo hotel, and fell asleep on his arm for 8 hours. Their show at the Budokan was attended by 14,000 people - a record breaking crowd. However, they did play a beautiful "Soldier Of Fortune". Miami had an amazing setlist, and NZ was pretty good, considering it to be one of the first shows of the tour. But, as soon as they hit Australia it was clear the end was near.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Autumn Moon Posted Sunday at 06:36 AM Share Posted Sunday at 06:36 AM 5 hours ago, LedZep123 said: Bolin did not get some bad smack in Indonesia. Or at least, that's not the reason he played shit. He had gotten high at the Tokyo hotel, and fell asleep on his arm for 8 hours. Their show at the Budokan was attended by 14,000 people - a record breaking crowd. However, they did play a beautiful "Soldier Of Fortune". Miami had an amazing setlist, and NZ was pretty good, considering it to be one of the first shows of the tour. But, as soon as they hit Australia it was clear the end was near.... Wheter inferior smack or bad shot, his left arm was numb after that event in Indonesia, badly affecting his playing on the following Japan shows. His claim of falling asleep on his arm was just a lame excuse. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brigante Posted Monday at 09:46 PM Share Posted Monday at 09:46 PM Yeh, we always used to howl whenever Glenn Hughes trotted out that 'Tommy fell asleep on his arm' yarn. As feeble excuses go, that's up there with my homework ate the dog and Skylab fell on my nan... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BobDobbs Posted Tuesday at 03:28 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 03:28 PM 17 hours ago, Brigante said: Yeh, we always used to howl whenever Glenn Hughes trotted out that 'Tommy fell asleep on his arm' yarn. As feeble excuses go, that's up there with my homework ate the dog and Skylab fell on my nan... and I may add Jimmy getting "food poisoning" in Chicago 1977. The man was living on a diet of banana daquiris & french fries, how does anyone get food poisoning from banana daquiris & french fries? Bad spud? Bad banana??? There sure were quite a few musicians back in the day either falling asleep on their arms or getting food poisoning. Curious that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brigante Posted yesterday at 02:16 AM Share Posted yesterday at 02:16 AM Brilliant, Bob! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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