Who remembers Tommy Bolin?

[pfitz59]

Thinking about great guitarists tonight.......

[Wickerman]

1. Don't let you mind Post Toastee

I really loved his Private Eyes LP.

edited for wrong title

[Martin Eden]

7. I still play my old vinyl copy

and Shake the Devil still shakes the room with its booming bass

[coloradodem2005]

2. I know who he is.

Wasn't he in The James Gang, and briefly Deep Purple?

[loftycity]

3. I met Tommy in the 70's very hip and fun!! Great Hair!

[SummerGrace]

4. Sioux City IA

has a Tommy Bolin Festival every August.

[Wickerman]

5. I saw his brother's band in the ealy 80's

he was drummer. They weren't memorable. His brother must have been very much younger than him.

[mitchum]

9. I think his brother now plays in Black Oak Arkansas

someone turned me on to "Private Eyes" a few years ago, I also really like it

[Wickerman]

10. cool

he seemed good enough, there just wasn't a lot of talent around him, iirc. After seeing this thread I went to the Tommy Bolin page and there is a whole catalogue of stuff put out by his estate. I like his solo work - like Private Eyes and Teaser. Teaser is a better LP, I think, but PE has the more memorable songs.

[lucidmadman]

6. I do! I crank 'Wild Dogs" up to 11...

...a few times a year and remember...

[chaska]

8. I love his solo stuff, but...

boy did he suck in Deep Purple. I have live vinyl and video. He didn't even play the songs right. I think he may have been high. The guy would have to have been the most inconsistent player on the planet otherwise. Bolin and Purple did a really good studio album (Come Taste the Band) though. The James Gang albums he did were pretty good too. And, of course, the stuff he did with Billy Cobham was nothing less than astonishing. I still have all of this stuff.

My band, back in the day, did 'Owed to G' and 'Homeward Strut'.