Ritchie was the driving force of this band. Tommy Bolin unfortunately had a very bad addiction. During this concert he had to have his guitar tuned in 4ths just so he could hit chords with one flat finger because of his "numb" arm. That's knowing your DP.
This is pathetic. Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackass, Roger "Four-Leaf"- Glover, Jon Lord, Ian Paice, THEM were Deep Purple,- the next line-ups produced Burn and Stormbringer and the wonderful "Come Taste The Band", but this here human and artistic tragedy is nothing short of TILT, Game over. Shame there's no "money back" guarantee with phony live concerts. Disbanding altogether was the only honest thing they could do.
Think about this--How many guitar players do you think could learn all of Joe Walsh's licks to replace him in the James Gang, and then turn right around the next year and learn all of Ritchie Blackmore's licks to replace him in Deep Purple? Talk about "BIG SHOES", Tommy Bolin filled them TWICE!
@funkster007 Is this not the gig where Tommy Bolin's left arm was semi-paralysed when he fell asleep on it after taking drugs? There was an album released called "Last Concert in Japan" in 1977, from a gig in '75, released in Japan only I think. Had to turn down Tommy's sound the mix supposedly, sad....have a look at the fan reviews of the album on Amazon, mixed opinions. Album "On the Wings of a Russian Foxbat" is supposed to be a far far better gig
@AidanTA Yeah, Lord played a lot more keyboard solos for a couple of weeks until Tommy got the strength back in that arm. I have a bunch of stuff on VHS from this show and then some of the stuff he did with James Gang. What an amazing talent lost. RIP Tommy.
@funkster007 You got it! I saw Purple twice in the 70's, and they may have been off key there, missed a note here, but nobody kicked ass in concert like Deep Purple. It was fucking awesome.
I don't know why people reckon Bolin's solo was "god awful" here...one or two notes are perhaps slightly out of time near the beginning, but other than that it sounds cool. He just didn't play Blackmore's solo, which would have been boring as hell if you had to play it every night.
@limaktba Tommy's arm was jacked for a few weeks during this tour, secondary to hitting a nerve when fixing. This is nothing like what he was truly capable of; he was phenomenal.
@crayhead Never!!! He hasn't got "the tone" that Richie had. Or the "old school" talent of useing his pick ups to alter his tone during his solo's. Strats have the edge on the guitars today.
Bolin was an overrated, derivative, and repetitive (triplets anyone) drug-soaked wastrel who wasn't fit to be in the same state as Deep Purple, let alone the same stage.
If Bonham actually utteedr the comment referred to by t0h0e0j0o0e0 below, my respect for him has increased exponentially for stating the unvarnished truth.
@jpphoopha everyonhe's entitled to an opinion, even nasty arrogance, He was hardly overrated, he earned respect from talent; it's just true tragedy that the drugs take so many of the best of us. I am sorry you don't recognize his talent, but judge him after his loss. Our loss. Your loss.
@t0h0e0j0o0e0 bonham was an asshole!!! throwing orange juice at the guy..getting him sticky..then bolin getting gunked up!! i do not like nor ever liked john bonham..that's my opinion!!
@t0h0e0j0o0e0 true this solo was god awful - but it was because of his stupid heroin habit - his fingers would be paralyzed from the stupid needles... it's really too bad this vid circulates because it's not a fair representation of Tommy's playing - although it was his own damn fault he sounded so ass...
Wohhh de donde sacaron este video... jamás había visto a Tommy Bolin con los Purple en video... EXCELENTE ejecución de DEEP PURPLE. Grande Tommy Bolin lástima que ya no esté entre nosotros.
@1Milwinmils ...one of the few players I never got to see. Was going to a concert where he was opening for Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart in Lakeland, Fl.,...on the way down we heard the show had been cancelled, Tommy had passed away the night before in Miami....terrible loss for the music world.
Maybe he wasn't at his best here. So what? It's in the nature of live music that every take is different. Rock on. Also - how can you be too high? Not likely, Skip. Rock On!
Yes, you are absolutely right about "Spec trum". Back in the day, I had that on 8 track! Therein lies the real tragedy of all this. Tommy could have morphed, at least here and there, into jazz. I loved "Spectrum". Now that you mentioned it, I'm going to see if its available on disc. I just bought "Teaser Deluxe", where all the songs are much longer ("wild Dogs" is almost 14 minutes). I'll check that out. Such a tragedy, such an amazing talent.
I agree with some of the comments, this is not Tommy at his best. What a total shame. However, Tommy was great in the limited time we had to enjoy his music. Check out his studio stuff. His James Gang ("Bang", "Miami") his two solo records released in his lifetime "Teaser" and "Private Eyes" and you hear a guy who had it all. Oh wel.
Bolin was one the best there was, but I agree, he is barely holding server here. are there any videos of him playing tommy bolin stuff. the james gang stuff is alright, but he sounds his best with his own bands. bolin's greatness just does not come through here, maybe too high?
I know Tommy Bolin was a great guitar player, but that first solo is almost like he's sleepwalking. At this point they really weren't Deep Purple anymore, and I know all about bands evolving and all that but they really should have changed their name or at least stuck to their newer material and tried to stay away from the Gillan era even more than they did.
The impression is, that the parents had left the house and their kids started to wear clothing of their parents. Absolutely mediocre. And indeed it seems that they are all under the strong influence of drugs.
Paice is a powerhouse!! Damn, man just listen to him beat the holy hell outta those drums!! ! R.I.P. Tommy Bolin! This line-up Rocked! It was refreshing & new! Awesome!!!!
Paice is a powerhouse!! Damn, man damn listen to him beat the holy hell outta those drums!! ! R.I.P. Tommy Bolin! This line-up Rocked! It was refreshing & new! Awesome!!!!
One thing that always cracked me up about this clip is when the fan rushes the stage at 2:26 Coverdale pets him like a dog. Actually thought it was cool of him to do it...
for all of you who say "God please take Bieber" God is not an idiot. He doesn't want him as much as the rest of us. and im pretty sure the Devil doesn't want him either. Who's up for blasting him into deep space and letting the alien's deal with him?
@classicrockNo1 For all of our sake please don't even say such a thing,,,,,, think of it man.. and alien crossbreed of J.B. coming back 10 or 15 foot tall ! More Bieber is a wicked thing to wish on our children's children.
@classicrockNo1 can i know who the fuck is this guy you call god? i've never seen him! i have seen santa ,the easter bunny bigfoot! but this guy you call god ..ive never seen or heard of him
hmm tomy bolin lets say ,if hw still would be alive,nobody wouls even know him,he gets cult satus ,with his herion death ,thou,,so therfore dont forgot ritchie,hw worte all thos riffs,,i hat steve fuk gay morse,,also glen hughus,,he singsl like a pussy
I don´t know who started to call him like that! But some of his screams ( especially in "BURN") fit really good when he´s doin´ them! But if it sounds like that, he is supposed to shut the fuck up!
@southernboy666 So , is this coverdale on lead vocals and hughes on bass and backing vocals? Bolin on lead ? I think Im right and as far as megalomania i agree.
This does not sound quite right. Sloppy and out of keyish and compromised on too many levels. I dont know. Am I thinking right? Im drunk.
@southernboy666 I agree with the megalomaniac assessment to a point. Coverdale was pretty young when he joined DP and one would have to be pretty grounded to not let that go to your head. It seems to me every video I see of Coverdale in Purple the guy is jumping around more into being a rock star than a singer complete with his recycled Roger Daltry moves. Hughes singing is always pretty second rate as well. Though personally I like what he's been doing since he got clean 15-20 yrs ago
Tommy was a great guitar player, what your getting here is Tommy after getting his fix on a few minutes before the show. this compared to the footage of the train wreck from the Tokyo show as bad as this is is pretty good .Lord and Paice ended up pulluing the plug soon after Japan as John Lord said they were becoming a joke and losing all credibilty.Tokyo is as bad as it gets, Hughes had addiction issues as well. the results well.......
You can tell they're just mailing it in. Coverdale puts up a good physical front with the handshakes but the song sounds a little tentative. Tommy's solos are pretty bland, like where's the beef here?
@NYVoice it's a shame it was all their fault. When they were recording the album, they were very excited and the music shows it. But when it came to the live rehearsals, they told Tommy to stick to Blackmore's solos note for note, so he lost interest. Had them let Tommy do thing his own way, it would be way better. Tommy was pure genius on guitar.
@pdfontana agreed, this is shit, but listen to the live in Long beach album, Tommy is on fire there, and shows that he was a insane guitarist, unfortunately the drugs destroyed both his skills sometimes and him :( But I have to say that Blackmore still is my favourite and without him there is no Purple
@maghole .Blackmore is god no question there and I have heard the Long Beach Show.... Tommy was every bit as good as Ritchie .....just different...a jazz virtuoso at the age of 20 who could jump into any situation.Listen to his work with Billy Cobham..standard setter for jazz fusion I think it was short sighted when he was asked to replace RB.Maybe the only guy who could jump in with name recognition in the middle of the tour and save the day and a lot asses but after that well.....
they kept deep purple name alive,and part of thier history,tommy bolin solo album is so differnt,i even had the james gangs album when he was on them,tho i not heard of him then,me he r.i.p
Tommy's writing was alright with Purple...thispost he must o had a broken finger or the smack down.....Love Tommy but original line up the best,but Blackmore alway's super sloppy,saw them in 1973 thank goodness !!
I heard Tommy Bolin wailing on that Billy Cobham record and went looking for more Bolin. This is one of the worst solos I've every heard. I sat through that awful singing for this? Tommy must have gotten really wasted before this show. What a disappointment.
Best LIVE song that Tommy Bolin did with Deep Purple: Wild DOGS in Aussieville -- well over the TOP!! Homeward Strut on the USA leg of the tour. Absolutely adore his take of BURN , Stormbringer and LAZY from the Longbeach , CA gig. When he was ON, he was SPOT ON!! That's sort what Jon Lord has been qouted as saying as well. Shine on you Crazy Diamond, TOMMY !! RIP.
I'm a huge Bolin fan, but this was not his highest moment. I lost faith in the Bolin Archives (i.e., his family) when they actually rereleased this concert on CD and tried to put a positive spin on it.
It was poor at the end (as outlined in Coverdale's Breakdown on Northwinds) but as a huge Bolin fan I preferred all their solo stuff to the "classic" Purple lineup. I'd rather have Teaser, Malice in Wonderland, Northwinds or Play Me Out than Machine Head. Bolin got a rough ride from Purple fans but they'd clearly never heard his best work. The Cobham stuff pisses all over Blackmore's dull arpeggios.
we are all only human,somedays you do well other days not so well. myself i dig tommy bolin and its not nice to speak ill of people who have passed. God bless you Tommy. Greg.
it's great to see that all you people are DP "know it alls", how do you know that TB was on drugs during this video..were you there? and ian paice is still one of the best rock drummers ever, let's see you even come close to playing like him.
this is DP, glenn hughes did a great job on bass, but, i am a roger glover fan.
i've seen DP 15 different times over the years, they have always put on a great show.
Wow they hung on way too long, surprising that Lord and Paice put up with this nonsense as long as they did. CTTB was a really good record, but this live stuff is dreadful, the product of not properly rehearsing and a lot of drugs.
I DONT KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE READ THE BOOK ON TOMMY BOLIN (TOUCHED BY MAGIC) FIRST OF ALL HE WAS NOT EXCEPTED BY THE BRITISH CROWD AND FELLING LIKE HE HAD TO FILL BLACKMORES SHOES WELL NOTHING LIKE A LITTLE PRESSURE !!!! HE STILL IS A GIANT AMONG GAUTARIST AND ITS NO SECRET THAT HE HAD A SERVE DRUG PROBLEM LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE . R.I.P. TOMMY YOUR THE GREATEST
Too much slagging of TB - the drumming is awful, speeding up, missing beats, thrashing like a lunatic, bass lines that are rambling crap...It is not all TBs fault (he was not at his best in this clip) BUT even Jimi Hendrix would have struggled with faced with playing with such dreadful drumming behind him. Interesting to note that it takes two guys to cover Ian Gillans's vocal range - and both of then are way off too. If you want to hear TB at his best listen to Billy Cobham's "Spectrum" album
TB clearly struggled with the middle 8(lead bit) in thins song. I guess no time to really learn it well, although it's really not that hard. His vague pentatonic meandering doesn't really do it for me in this performance.
pour les imbéciles qui n'ont pas encore compris le talent de tommy BOLIN !! 2 doubles albums vous attendent : the ultimate: redux fait par son frère ! 3 cd pour cerner au mieux sa carrière!! et puis les 2 whips and roses chez spv. afin de ne plus dire que bolin n'était qu'un drogué! merci- arnaud
He was so messed up at this time and therefore this lousy playing. Listen to his other stuff and you will see that he was a magnificent guitarist. This isn´t the performance to judge him from.
his solos for this time period sound choppy, not very fluid. Legend has it he got a bad heroin fix that caused him to lose the dexterity in his fretting hand. But the show must go on. Too bad, ruined his good reputation with a lot of people, & ultimately his life. Junkies are that way- drugs became more important than anything else. Talent, money, sex, friends, health- it all goes out the window. He still played good rhythm though.
The band sounds good here with the exception of Tommy Bolin. I was a fan of his Zephyr days, James Gang and his work with Billy Cobham and his solo work. This is a totally uninspired solo. I guess he just didn't fit in with DP.
This is probably the best Bolin-era live DP I've heard yet that has real-time video. Great post, I don't know where you got this but thanks for sharing it with everybody. Ian Paice was ever-present and that cat is one of my favorite drummers, and probably the most under-rated. This is all child's play to Bolin.
Totally agree with MeanBeanr. The 70,s were very special.Vinyl records for Five Dollars.Outstanding Rock n Roll.Long hair.Cute girls in Peasant shirts.Head Shops.Blacklights. and Dime Bags/ Ten dollars.God I miss that time.And of course the Late Great Tommy Bolin.Kids have no idea,what they missed.
The album Medusa by Trapeze kicks major ass! Glenn Hughes kicks ass. Bolin, Coverdale, Paice and Lord rock! Even on they're worst day they are 1000 times better than most so called rock bands from the 80's on up. Thats not me being a bootlicker thats just FACT.
A lot of people think their performance totally sucked here, but it has a lot to do with a combination of a dozen other factors such as very bad accoustics, reverb, microphone set up, total absence of good sound engineering and production. The problems are mostly to do with the sound, but agree they didn't really put in much effort at all. In fact in parts it was pitiful. They clearly didn't care how they sounded.
crazydavedisco : I Love all these critics (w**k**s) who say Tommy Bolin was crap, I bet they are all sat in their bedrooms now practicing hard just in case they get a gig in the local pub - Tossers !
GOD BLESS THIS GUY WHO MADE SUCH A WISE COMMENT! TOMMY ACHIEVED IMMORTALY HE IS A LEGEND OF ROCK. TRULY ADMIRER, RESPECTED AND LOVED. CAN U DARE TO ACCOMPLISH WHAT HE DID? SPEECHLESS HA? SEE YA LOOSERS! TOMMY IS GOD!
this must be one of the far east concerts when Bolin's arm was partially paralyzed. They should have cancelled the gigs. Bolin's solo was terrible, a waste of time...unravelling Deep Purple's reputation indeed! If I was Lord or Paice after this show I would have killed Bolin.
It sounds like an amateur band try to covering Deep Purple - Lord and Paice did their job very good, but it is a pity what Bolin plays!! Glenn should shut up if it sounds like he hardly gets some breath... It is very poor - millions of lightyears away from a live-record from 1972 with Blackmore & Gillan!!!
I like the studio-performance on "Come taste the band", but this here is ridiculous!!!
I'm not a big fan of DP more so i've recently started listening to TB, however like somebody said the sound is a fair bit to blame on the sound engineers & technology of the time.
However what was so bad about it? i thought the solo was pretty slick & if Bolins arm was really f*cked from drug use at this point then its even more amazing.
I'm not quite sure what you people are saying. It is a shame that drugs got Tommy Bolin. I do believe that Richtie Blackmoore is still with us. This is a good thing.
Tommy's guitar sound not strinking but still remain Deep purple sound. In May 2010 Deep purple will come to Bangkok, Thailand. I decided not to go because I don't like Steve morse. His guitar style not be appropriate with Deep purple.
steve morse is the best they,ve had !!!,,,,,and thats from a long time ritchie fan !!!!,check out sometimes i feel like screaming and when a blind man cries from perehelion live dvd !!
I realise that it can't be easy to walk into Blackmore's shoes, but for Bolin to not even bother to TRY and play a half decent solo it's a shame. Let's blame hard drugs, eh!
And he almost took Glenn Hughes with him! from the sound of this video they both sound wasted way to many mistakes,Glenn can hardly sing!This is awful...I never saw this before it disturb's me.Fuckin Drug's
Thanks. Those of us who knew him when he was still in Zephyr, and were there when he struck out on his own, remember him with love as a friend and then a great guitarist. He was TRULY OUTSTANDING< and ALL of KNEW IT.
Thanks again for the kind words, they are appreciated by those of us who truly knew him BEFORE the pressure of rising fame started to take its toll....along with the blood-suckers w\didn't leave him alone at the end..
Thanks. Those of us who knew him when he was still in Zephyr, and were there when he struck out on his own, remember him with love as a friend and then a great guitarist. He was TRULY OUTSTANDING and ALL of us KNEW IT.
Thanks again for the kind words, they are appreciated by those of us who truly knew him BEFORE the pressure of rising fame started to take its toll....along with the blood-suckers w\didn't leave him alone at the end
I Love all these critics (w**k**s) who say Tommy Bolin was crap, I bet they are all sat in their bedrooms now practicing hard just in case they get a gig in the local pub - Tossers !
yeah its terribly sad to see rockstars kill themselves,youd think they wld see it from watching others die but they seem to keep making the same mistakes and wastes their talent away
Someone said many years ago that in this live it was present Ritchie Blackmore that mocked Tommy Bolin for his way to play guitar. Said besides that this concert was a disappointment
Man...Bolin and Hughes were really bombed in this clip. Bolin was good, and he couldn't even play in key unless he just played alternating full steps, and Hughes is one of my favorite vocalists and he couldn't even sing in key.
not bad ,good imitation.
svetlana470 2 weeks ago
Ritchie was the driving force of this band. Tommy Bolin unfortunately had a very bad addiction. During this concert he had to have his guitar tuned in 4ths just so he could hit chords with one flat finger because of his "numb" arm. That's knowing your DP.
pitamoncha2112 1 month ago
Listen to Long Beach - Tommy blazes through highway star- everyone knows he played this show with a numb arm- learn your DP!!!
daneden805 1 month ago
This is pathetic. Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackass, Roger "Four-Leaf"- Glover, Jon Lord, Ian Paice, THEM were Deep Purple,- the next line-ups produced Burn and Stormbringer and the wonderful "Come Taste The Band", but this here human and artistic tragedy is nothing short of TILT, Game over. Shame there's no "money back" guarantee with phony live concerts. Disbanding altogether was the only honest thing they could do.
12rosebud12 2 months ago
the solo is incredibly awful
simobanf 2 months ago
Sometimes I think that Tommy should not join those Britishers. He is much more than Purple boom-boom-boom all the way...
Vasil108 2 months ago
Tommy Bolin was much more Purple than Steve Morse.
djdjany 2 months ago 2
Wow...he really killed that solo...amazing what drugs can do.
theblindoc 2 months ago
4 notes in the solo, no feeling, no blues... and you imagine comparing that to Blackmore or Morse?
MotorMax66 2 months ago
Tommy Bolin was a geeat guitar player. Unfortunately, this clip does not show any of his talents.
roquero42 4 months ago 2
love Tommy Bolin, R I P
Marievicc 4 months ago
hahhahahaha japanese dude at 2.28
folladordeprostis 4 months ago
Underrated version of highway star
folladordeprostis 4 months ago
Unfortunately this is a very bad example of Tommy B, hardly any T playing . No wonder he was outa there.
OGCrystalBay 4 months ago
Now thats some serious energy
bobbysbackingtracks 4 months ago
I'm in a fantasy-band frame of mind tonight.
Tommy Bolin, Jaco Pastorius, Mingo Lewis, David Sancious, David Sanborn, and N'Dugu Chancler, all in their prime.
heubler1 6 months ago
@heubler1 Jaco Pastorius, yeah !!
Grahf777 5 months ago
Rar!
boilingdancer70 6 months ago
Justin Bieber he's the Ken (as in Barbie) of plastic pop, just a puppet of the money grabbing music industry who doesn't support real music anymore!
Creativeo88 6 months ago
Think about this--How many guitar players do you think could learn all of Joe Walsh's licks to replace him in the James Gang, and then turn right around the next year and learn all of Ritchie Blackmore's licks to replace him in Deep Purple? Talk about "BIG SHOES", Tommy Bolin filled them TWICE!
notfragile33 6 months ago 2
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David Coverdale should have done the high notes not Glenn. Both good singers but Coverdale had the edge over Glenn.
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1960pj 7 months ago
To me, this is what rock and roll is all about. As much of a train wreck this live version is, it's bad ass.
Leave the pristine and polished concerts to the London Symphony.
I hope Tommy fucked up the solo on purpose. lol
funkster007 7 months ago
@funkster007 Is this not the gig where Tommy Bolin's left arm was semi-paralysed when he fell asleep on it after taking drugs? There was an album released called "Last Concert in Japan" in 1977, from a gig in '75, released in Japan only I think. Had to turn down Tommy's sound the mix supposedly, sad....have a look at the fan reviews of the album on Amazon, mixed opinions. Album "On the Wings of a Russian Foxbat" is supposed to be a far far better gig
AidanTA 7 months ago
@AidanTA I'm not sure... very possible. I'll check out those reviews. Thanks.
funkster007 7 months ago
@AidanTA Yeah, Lord played a lot more keyboard solos for a couple of weeks until Tommy got the strength back in that arm. I have a bunch of stuff on VHS from this show and then some of the stuff he did with James Gang. What an amazing talent lost. RIP Tommy.
rockerjt 6 months ago
@funkster007 You got it! I saw Purple twice in the 70's, and they may have been off key there, missed a note here, but nobody kicked ass in concert like Deep Purple. It was fucking awesome.
MegaBob77777 6 months ago
"She's got big fat knockers" hahaha
I don't know why people reckon Bolin's solo was "god awful" here...one or two notes are perhaps slightly out of time near the beginning, but other than that it sounds cool. He just didn't play Blackmore's solo, which would have been boring as hell if you had to play it every night.
limaktba 7 months ago
@limaktba Tommy's arm was jacked for a few weeks during this tour, secondary to hitting a nerve when fixing. This is nothing like what he was truly capable of; he was phenomenal.
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"She's got big fat knockers"
limaktba 7 months ago
died when glen arrived and was buried when blackmore left
rmf09024 7 months ago
Mark IV is horror
EugenCluster 7 months ago
I like Ian Gillan, but Coverdale is so much better of a front man than Gillan. Purple was better with him; too bad they only lasted 3 albums.
mse1576 7 months ago
Morse eats everyother guitarist for breakfast....
crayhead 8 months ago
@crayhead In your dreams!!! Stop the Stuff or change it:))) But first Chil out.
sashkovsasho 8 months ago
@crayhead Never!!! He hasn't got "the tone" that Richie had. Or the "old school" talent of useing his pick ups to alter his tone during his solo's. Strats have the edge on the guitars today.
zsxd55 7 months ago
Bolin was an overrated, derivative, and repetitive (triplets anyone) drug-soaked wastrel who wasn't fit to be in the same state as Deep Purple, let alone the same stage.
If Bonham actually utteedr the comment referred to by t0h0e0j0o0e0 below, my respect for him has increased exponentially for stating the unvarnished truth.
jpphoopha 8 months ago
@jpphoopha everyonhe's entitled to an opinion, even nasty arrogance, He was hardly overrated, he earned respect from talent; it's just true tragedy that the drugs take so many of the best of us. I am sorry you don't recognize his talent, but judge him after his loss. Our loss. Your loss.
Scarlet0Darkstar 8 months ago
Wow. Lord carried that act.
tommyo777 8 months ago
where is the solo? Bonham was right, A SHIT GUITARIST!!!!
t0h0e0j0o0e0 9 months ago
@t0h0e0j0o0e0 bonham was an asshole!!! throwing orange juice at the guy..getting him sticky..then bolin getting gunked up!! i do not like nor ever liked john bonham..that's my opinion!!
exgroupiefromelmont1 8 months ago
@t0h0e0j0o0e0 true this solo was god awful - but it was because of his stupid heroin habit - his fingers would be paralyzed from the stupid needles... it's really too bad this vid circulates because it's not a fair representation of Tommy's playing - although it was his own damn fault he sounded so ass...
TheBass2themax 8 months ago
Wohhh de donde sacaron este video... jamás había visto a Tommy Bolin con los Purple en video... EXCELENTE ejecución de DEEP PURPLE. Grande Tommy Bolin lástima que ya no esté entre nosotros.
aacugna8 9 months ago
Hughes sings better than Coverdale here.
pentagonoenllamas 10 months ago
I was lucky to see Mr.Tommy Bolin w/Deep Purple on the "Come Taste The Band" tour in San Bernardino,Ca. in the late 70's.Rock & Roll everyone....
1Milwinmils 10 months ago
@1Milwinmils ...one of the few players I never got to see. Was going to a concert where he was opening for Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart in Lakeland, Fl.,...on the way down we heard the show had been cancelled, Tommy had passed away the night before in Miami....terrible loss for the music world.
55slice 10 months ago
Maybe he wasn't at his best here. So what? It's in the nature of live music that every take is different. Rock on. Also - how can you be too high? Not likely, Skip. Rock On!
arhatyellow 10 months ago
Yes, you are absolutely right about "Spec trum". Back in the day, I had that on 8 track! Therein lies the real tragedy of all this. Tommy could have morphed, at least here and there, into jazz. I loved "Spectrum". Now that you mentioned it, I'm going to see if its available on disc. I just bought "Teaser Deluxe", where all the songs are much longer ("wild Dogs" is almost 14 minutes). I'll check that out. Such a tragedy, such an amazing talent.
Crossbow0106 10 months ago
I agree with some of the comments, this is not Tommy at his best. What a total shame. However, Tommy was great in the limited time we had to enjoy his music. Check out his studio stuff. His James Gang ("Bang", "Miami") his two solo records released in his lifetime "Teaser" and "Private Eyes" and you hear a guy who had it all. Oh wel.
Crossbow0106 10 months ago
@Crossbow0106
Not to mention the excellent Billy Cobham album Spectrum, Tommy showed real wizardry on that one! All great music.
Bartolucci711 10 months ago
This is so terrible, shame to DP. Is Tommy in drugs. Can¨t play at all.
100nidp 10 months ago
what an awful version of highway star!!!
Aldipfleger 10 months ago
....let me get this staight... the keyboard player and drummer are the only original members at this time?
str8bttr 10 months ago
69 is a good number but not fukkin now , 69 thumbs down hurts my feelings
torkerbmx 10 months ago
This guy was and is a valuable piece in the history of Purple, Thanks Tommy, always with God my friend, miss you brother.
PauloHenriqueBr1 10 months ago
Bolin was one the best there was, but I agree, he is barely holding server here. are there any videos of him playing tommy bolin stuff. the james gang stuff is alright, but he sounds his best with his own bands. bolin's greatness just does not come through here, maybe too high?
mmusicmann 11 months ago
Bolin plays terrible!!! Wo was Blackmore at this time?? Blackmore was the Best! The riffs are total poor!!! My God!!
Rockparasempre 11 months ago
Bolin plays terrible!!! Wo was Blackmore at this time?? Blackmore was the Best!
Rockparasempre 11 months ago
I know Tommy Bolin was a great guitar player, but that first solo is almost like he's sleepwalking. At this point they really weren't Deep Purple anymore, and I know all about bands evolving and all that but they really should have changed their name or at least stuck to their newer material and tried to stay away from the Gillan era even more than they did.
tomshea69 11 months ago
The impression is, that the parents had left the house and their kids started to wear clothing of their parents. Absolutely mediocre. And indeed it seems that they are all under the strong influence of drugs.
MrHalych 11 months ago
@MrHalych AMEN JAJAJAJA THAT IS EXCATLY THE WAY I FELT WHEN I SAW THIS... THIS IS LIKE THE CIRCUS ANIMALS HAVE BROKEN LOOSE AND RUNNING THE SHOW...
imocomgt 11 months ago
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Paice is a powerhouse!! Damn, man just listen to him beat the holy hell outta those drums!! ! R.I.P. Tommy Bolin! This line-up Rocked! It was refreshing & new! Awesome!!!!
ThunderBass68 11 months ago
Paice is a powerhouse!! Damn, man damn listen to him beat the holy hell outta those drums!! ! R.I.P. Tommy Bolin! This line-up Rocked! It was refreshing & new! Awesome!!!!
ThunderBass68 11 months ago
Omg that's definitely worst solo i've heard so far. And then if you listened to Bolin/Cobham you wouldn't believe it!
gietek 11 months ago
@gietek Sad that fucking drugs took such a talent.
Dp with Bolin would have done great albums if these drugs werent there.
RIP TOMMY BOLIN
77elvistheking 9 months ago
i grew up in sioux city,ia and was born 18 years after him so tommy is my home town hero
encinoman82601 1 year ago
Bolin was great, and Come Taste The Band was great. His solo on this take is an absolute trainwreck though.
lidbjork 1 year ago
One thing that always cracked me up about this clip is when the fan rushes the stage at 2:26 Coverdale pets him like a dog. Actually thought it was cool of him to do it...
loewsmoore 1 year ago
Who's doing the back vocals?
zeberzeleniev 1 year ago
@zeberzeleniev That would be Glenn Hughes, an amazing singer.
ZeGentlemen 1 year ago
@ZeGentlemen Thank you! His voice sounds even better than Coverdale's, in my opinion. :-)
zeberzeleniev 1 year ago
for all of you who say "God please take Bieber" God is not an idiot. He doesn't want him as much as the rest of us. and im pretty sure the Devil doesn't want him either. Who's up for blasting him into deep space and letting the alien's deal with him?
classicrockNo1 1 year ago 14
shouldn't do that either. It's worth Nuking an entire planet to make sure there aren't more. We have no choice but to send him into the sun
ScreamGreek 9 months ago
@classicrockNo1 So much years and aliens have done nothing to us with their superior technology.Why to start a war now?????
LONG LIVE ROCK N ROLL ASS THE GREAT RONNIE WOULD HAVE SAID
77elvistheking 9 months ago
@classicrockNo1 WE ARE!!!!!
whitemanik1 9 months ago
@classicrockNo1 God is a illusion
EugenCluster 7 months ago
@EugenCluster your an illusion
rmf09024 7 months ago
@classicrockNo1 there is no god
minusthebear59 7 months ago
@classicrockNo1 For all of our sake please don't even say such a thing,,,,,, think of it man.. and alien crossbreed of J.B. coming back 10 or 15 foot tall ! More Bieber is a wicked thing to wish on our children's children.
eddielang2 6 months ago
@classicrockNo1 can i know who the fuck is this guy you call god? i've never seen him! i have seen santa ,the easter bunny bigfoot! but this guy you call god ..ive never seen or heard of him
pompei1968 3 months ago
hmm tomy bolin lets say ,if hw still would be alive,nobody wouls even know him,he gets cult satus ,with his herion death ,thou,,so therfore dont forgot ritchie,hw worte all thos riffs,,i hat steve fuk gay morse,,also glen hughus,,he singsl like a pussy
MrDrumclown 1 year ago
The concerts were really happening back then!
cosmicdoorway 1 year ago
353 : 65 ? :(
AgurkTomatGulerod 1 year ago
horrible for any real deep purple fan
bajaracer40x 1 year ago 2
@bajaracer40x
Absolutly......it just seems like everything is messed up and noone exept John Lord and Ian Paice knows how to play/ sing!
And Glenn Hughes voice simply sucks in this one here.....I think at that point of Deep Purple´s career Coverdale and Hughes became megalomaniac!
southernboy666 1 year ago 2
@southernboy666 Glenn Hughes' voice always sucks... He doesn't sing. He screams. Who's that jerk that started calling him The Voice Of Rock??
StigFarCry 1 year ago 2
@StigFarCry
I don´t know who started to call him like that! But some of his screams ( especially in "BURN") fit really good when he´s doin´ them! But if it sounds like that, he is supposed to shut the fuck up!
southernboy666 1 year ago
@southernboy666 So , is this coverdale on lead vocals and hughes on bass and backing vocals? Bolin on lead ? I think Im right and as far as megalomania i agree.
This does not sound quite right. Sloppy and out of keyish and compromised on too many levels. I dont know. Am I thinking right? Im drunk.
fweekstir 1 year ago
@fweekstir
You´re right! Nice that you are drunk! :-)
southernboy666 1 year ago
@southernboy666 I agree with the megalomaniac assessment to a point. Coverdale was pretty young when he joined DP and one would have to be pretty grounded to not let that go to your head. It seems to me every video I see of Coverdale in Purple the guy is jumping around more into being a rock star than a singer complete with his recycled Roger Daltry moves. Hughes singing is always pretty second rate as well. Though personally I like what he's been doing since he got clean 15-20 yrs ago
pdfontana 1 year ago
Tommy was a great guitar player, what your getting here is Tommy after getting his fix on a few minutes before the show. this compared to the footage of the train wreck from the Tokyo show as bad as this is is pretty good .Lord and Paice ended up pulluing the plug soon after Japan as John Lord said they were becoming a joke and losing all credibilty.Tokyo is as bad as it gets, Hughes had addiction issues as well. the results well.......
pdfontana 1 year ago 2
You can tell they're just mailing it in. Coverdale puts up a good physical front with the handshakes but the song sounds a little tentative. Tommy's solos are pretty bland, like where's the beef here?
NYVoice 1 year ago 2
@NYVoice it's a shame it was all their fault. When they were recording the album, they were very excited and the music shows it. But when it came to the live rehearsals, they told Tommy to stick to Blackmore's solos note for note, so he lost interest. Had them let Tommy do thing his own way, it would be way better. Tommy was pure genius on guitar.
bessadale 1 year ago
@pdfontana agreed, this is shit, but listen to the live in Long beach album, Tommy is on fire there, and shows that he was a insane guitarist, unfortunately the drugs destroyed both his skills sometimes and him :( But I have to say that Blackmore still is my favourite and without him there is no Purple
maghole 1 year ago
@maghole .Blackmore is god no question there and I have heard the Long Beach Show.... Tommy was every bit as good as Ritchie .....just different...a jazz virtuoso at the age of 20 who could jump into any situation.Listen to his work with Billy Cobham..standard setter for jazz fusion I think it was short sighted when he was asked to replace RB.Maybe the only guy who could jump in with name recognition in the middle of the tour and save the day and a lot asses but after that well.....
pdfontana 1 year ago
they kept deep purple name alive,and part of thier history,tommy bolin solo album is so differnt,i even had the james gangs album when he was on them,tho i not heard of him then,me he r.i.p
keven11224 1 year ago
...a shambles.
marts500 1 year ago
A great Deep Purple cover band! I think they should've changed the name though, because this was a great band in it's own right!
kwakis 1 year ago
始めて見た
トミーボーリンはすばらしいギタリスト
だが、酷評されるとおり、日本でのこのライブはひどすぎる。
senjimiyamoto 1 year ago
They were all crazy by then...
metacosmos 1 year ago
Great Band. Not really Deep Purple anymore, but a great band.
swikkis 1 year ago
2:12 It's ELVIS
Subhuman80 1 year ago
tommy bolin had a diffrent style of playing guitar but he was a good guitarist i was about 10 years old when tommy passed away
erichani1 1 year ago
Tommy's writing was alright with Purple...thispost he must o had a broken finger or the smack down.....Love Tommy but original line up the best,but Blackmore alway's super sloppy,saw them in 1973 thank goodness !!
pecowart 1 year ago
Deep Purple were one of the greatest bands ever but on that 1976 tour they were tired and jaded.
Khatrubill 1 year ago
this must have been from the tour that Tommy Bolin had a broken finger..
hotdaveog 1 year ago
assolo deludente...
raffaele80xyz 1 year ago
@raffaele80xyz Aveva un braccio paralizzato per una iniezione d'eroina andata male...
TheMurame 1 year ago
This proves my point how much Richie was missed.
zgolijan 1 year ago
This version of the band is MONSTROUS.
mse1576 1 year ago
Also known as the "Deep Purple Sucks Era."
marktv3 1 year ago
youtube.com/watch?v=9d0iB2P7onw
switcherx 1 year ago
This clip is a testement of what heroin did to him, Tommy's solos are very different when you see his solo work, and with James Gang on stage....
switcherx 1 year ago
This clip is a testement of what herion did to him, Tommy's solos are very different when you see his solo work, and with James Gang on stage....
switcherx 1 year ago
I heard Tommy Bolin wailing on that Billy Cobham record and went looking for more Bolin. This is one of the worst solos I've every heard. I sat through that awful singing for this? Tommy must have gotten really wasted before this show. What a disappointment.
waldo2384 1 year ago 2
Best LIVE song that Tommy Bolin did with Deep Purple: Wild DOGS in Aussieville -- well over the TOP!! Homeward Strut on the USA leg of the tour. Absolutely adore his take of BURN , Stormbringer and LAZY from the Longbeach , CA gig. When he was ON, he was SPOT ON!! That's sort what Jon Lord has been qouted as saying as well. Shine on you Crazy Diamond, TOMMY !! RIP.
Cupidville 1 year ago
I'm a huge Bolin fan, but this was not his highest moment. I lost faith in the Bolin Archives (i.e., his family) when they actually rereleased this concert on CD and tried to put a positive spin on it.
mcadarette 1 year ago
It was poor at the end (as outlined in Coverdale's Breakdown on Northwinds) but as a huge Bolin fan I preferred all their solo stuff to the "classic" Purple lineup. I'd rather have Teaser, Malice in Wonderland, Northwinds or Play Me Out than Machine Head. Bolin got a rough ride from Purple fans but they'd clearly never heard his best work. The Cobham stuff pisses all over Blackmore's dull arpeggios.
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glammer 1 year ago
we are all only human,somedays you do well other days not so well. myself i dig tommy bolin and its not nice to speak ill of people who have passed. God bless you Tommy. Greg.
stratocaster1greg 1 year ago
@stratocaster1greg Bolin is god !!!
LONELION17 1 year ago
i miss you
DaphneRhiannon 1 year ago
not the vid for this song.
deracinated1 1 year ago
it's great to see that all you people are DP "know it alls", how do you know that TB was on drugs during this video..were you there? and ian paice is still one of the best rock drummers ever, let's see you even come close to playing like him.
this is DP, glenn hughes did a great job on bass, but, i am a roger glover fan.
i've seen DP 15 different times over the years, they have always put on a great show.
rockinhorse1974 1 year ago
Wow they hung on way too long, surprising that Lord and Paice put up with this nonsense as long as they did. CTTB was a really good record, but this live stuff is dreadful, the product of not properly rehearsing and a lot of drugs.
UncleSusanAcoustic 1 year ago
it's a song where you can't sing the high bits Coverdale
MickeyLove01 1 year ago
Bolin's guitar playing sucks so bad he could clean up the BP oil spill with one note.
jpphoopha 1 year ago
I DONT KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE READ THE BOOK ON TOMMY BOLIN (TOUCHED BY MAGIC) FIRST OF ALL HE WAS NOT EXCEPTED BY THE BRITISH CROWD AND FELLING LIKE HE HAD TO FILL BLACKMORES SHOES WELL NOTHING LIKE A LITTLE PRESSURE !!!! HE STILL IS A GIANT AMONG GAUTARIST AND ITS NO SECRET THAT HE HAD A SERVE DRUG PROBLEM LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE . R.I.P. TOMMY YOUR THE GREATEST
ilovetofish100 1 year ago
Too much slagging of TB - the drumming is awful, speeding up, missing beats, thrashing like a lunatic, bass lines that are rambling crap...It is not all TBs fault (he was not at his best in this clip) BUT even Jimi Hendrix would have struggled with faced with playing with such dreadful drumming behind him. Interesting to note that it takes two guys to cover Ian Gillans's vocal range - and both of then are way off too. If you want to hear TB at his best listen to Billy Cobham's "Spectrum" album
kenscott 1 year ago
TB clearly struggled with the middle 8(lead bit) in thins song. I guess no time to really learn it well, although it's really not that hard. His vague pentatonic meandering doesn't really do it for me in this performance.
djangolad 1 year ago
Tommy could do this stuff in his sleep, and probably did. Phenomenal musician despite what people are saying here.
joeyinempirestate 1 year ago
until now no one overcame deeps
ivan89705 1 year ago
pour les imbéciles qui n'ont pas encore compris le talent de tommy BOLIN !! 2 doubles albums vous attendent : the ultimate: redux fait par son frère ! 3 cd pour cerner au mieux sa carrière!! et puis les 2 whips and roses chez spv. afin de ne plus dire que bolin n'était qu'un drogué! merci- arnaud
arnaudkip 1 year ago
He was so messed up at this time and therefore this lousy playing. Listen to his other stuff and you will see that he was a magnificent guitarist. This isn´t the performance to judge him from.
gammelsvanen 1 year ago
his solos for this time period sound choppy, not very fluid. Legend has it he got a bad heroin fix that caused him to lose the dexterity in his fretting hand. But the show must go on. Too bad, ruined his good reputation with a lot of people, & ultimately his life. Junkies are that way- drugs became more important than anything else. Talent, money, sex, friends, health- it all goes out the window. He still played good rhythm though.
gatorcarter 1 year ago
his solo was terrible and he was a heroine addict. maybe he was a good guitarist, but a terrible choice for DP.
hobosox 1 year ago
The band sounds good here with the exception of Tommy Bolin. I was a fan of his Zephyr days, James Gang and his work with Billy Cobham and his solo work. This is a totally uninspired solo. I guess he just didn't fit in with DP.
crosscatch 1 year ago
Coverdale with a beard? Cool vid man!
hartistry1957 1 year ago
his solos sucks
suka992 1 year ago
Coverdale swinging that mic - what a twat !!!
dacotv 1 year ago
why did that guitar solo totally suck!???? It was nothing like on the album! Love the energy of the video tho!
davidbrucemusicvideo 1 year ago
This is probably the best Bolin-era live DP I've heard yet that has real-time video. Great post, I don't know where you got this but thanks for sharing it with everybody. Ian Paice was ever-present and that cat is one of my favorite drummers, and probably the most under-rated. This is all child's play to Bolin.
beelzabubba 1 year ago
Totally agree with MeanBeanr. The 70,s were very special.Vinyl records for Five Dollars.Outstanding Rock n Roll.Long hair.Cute girls in Peasant shirts.Head Shops.Blacklights. and Dime Bags/ Ten dollars.God I miss that time.And of course the Late Great Tommy Bolin.Kids have no idea,what they missed.
jwhitepngnboy 1 year ago
The album Medusa by Trapeze kicks major ass! Glenn Hughes kicks ass. Bolin, Coverdale, Paice and Lord rock! Even on they're worst day they are 1000 times better than most so called rock bands from the 80's on up. Thats not me being a bootlicker thats just FACT.
stomp919 1 year ago
A lot of people think their performance totally sucked here, but it has a lot to do with a combination of a dozen other factors such as very bad accoustics, reverb, microphone set up, total absence of good sound engineering and production. The problems are mostly to do with the sound, but agree they didn't really put in much effort at all. In fact in parts it was pitiful. They clearly didn't care how they sounded.
SounzNice 1 year ago
Very dissappointing performance..no wonder they disbanded soon after..
TheGrabsplatter 1 year ago
horrible solo.... blackmore in top
saradisper 1 year ago
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crazydavedisco : I Love all these critics (w**k**s) who say Tommy Bolin was crap, I bet they are all sat in their bedrooms now practicing hard just in case they get a gig in the local pub - Tossers !
GOD BLESS THIS GUY WHO MADE SUCH A WISE COMMENT! TOMMY ACHIEVED IMMORTALY HE IS A LEGEND OF ROCK. TRULY ADMIRER, RESPECTED AND LOVED. CAN U DARE TO ACCOMPLISH WHAT HE DID? SPEECHLESS HA? SEE YA LOOSERS! TOMMY IS GOD!
twiggysangelfromhell 1 year ago
this must be one of the far east concerts when Bolin's arm was partially paralyzed. They should have cancelled the gigs. Bolin's solo was terrible, a waste of time...unravelling Deep Purple's reputation indeed! If I was Lord or Paice after this show I would have killed Bolin.
repetitivemotion 1 year ago
It sounds like an amateur band try to covering Deep Purple - Lord and Paice did their job very good, but it is a pity what Bolin plays!! Glenn should shut up if it sounds like he hardly gets some breath... It is very poor - millions of lightyears away from a live-record from 1972 with Blackmore & Gillan!!!
I like the studio-performance on "Come taste the band", but this here is ridiculous!!!
pillermaik 1 year ago
@pillermaik
I'm not a big fan of DP more so i've recently started listening to TB, however like somebody said the sound is a fair bit to blame on the sound engineers & technology of the time.
However what was so bad about it? i thought the solo was pretty slick & if Bolins arm was really f*cked from drug use at this point then its even more amazing.
tvrulesnation 1 year ago
This noise is seriously irritating. It's not Bolin's fault.
onefodderunit 1 year ago
I'm not quite sure what you people are saying. It is a shame that drugs got Tommy Bolin. I do believe that Richtie Blackmoore is still with us. This is a good thing.
MrR962 1 year ago
Tommy's guitar sound not strinking but still remain Deep purple sound. In May 2010 Deep purple will come to Bangkok, Thailand. I decided not to go because I don't like Steve morse. His guitar style not be appropriate with Deep purple.
monthesun 1 year ago
steve morse is the best they,ve had !!!,,,,,and thats from a long time ritchie fan !!!!,check out sometimes i feel like screaming and when a blind man cries from perehelion live dvd !!
terrysteward 1 year ago
John Lord said of TB he was a gentle lost soul.You get to be in 1 of the greatest rock band of all by being crap.But drugs deprived us of his best
musicsavesme09 1 year ago
I realise that it can't be easy to walk into Blackmore's shoes, but for Bolin to not even bother to TRY and play a half decent solo it's a shame. Let's blame hard drugs, eh!
pteeng1 1 year ago
And he almost took Glenn Hughes with him! from the sound of this video they both sound wasted way to many mistakes,Glenn can hardly sing!This is awful...I never saw this before it disturb's me.Fuckin Drug's
NoyzyBoyZ3 1 year ago
Tommy Bolin should be in Rolling Stone 100 best guitarrists list !!
Pravindaswani74 1 year ago 2
come taste the band is a good album. bolin plays great on it. its a shame some one didnt take him to the hospital when he first started getting sick
smithdsmit 1 year ago 6
Tommy Bolin was very gifted musician, just different from Blackmore
I love his solos in DP4 album
and as far as i know Blackmore said good words about him (which is not usual for RB :))
LittleWarSnail 1 year ago 25
@LittleWarSnail lol, yeah RB usually only had good words for himself. Peace.
TheTrickzta 1 year ago
@LittleWarSnail
Hey, appreciate what you have said about Tommy.
Thanks. Those of us who knew him when he was still in Zephyr, and were there when he struck out on his own, remember him with love as a friend and then a great guitarist. He was TRULY OUTSTANDING< and ALL of KNEW IT.
Thanks again for the kind words, they are appreciated by those of us who truly knew him BEFORE the pressure of rising fame started to take its toll....along with the blood-suckers w\didn't leave him alone at the end..
earthwalkerable 1 year ago
@LittleWarSnail
Hey, appreciate what you have said about Tommy.
Thanks. Those of us who knew him when he was still in Zephyr, and were there when he struck out on his own, remember him with love as a friend and then a great guitarist. He was TRULY OUTSTANDING and ALL of us KNEW IT.
Thanks again for the kind words, they are appreciated by those of us who truly knew him BEFORE the pressure of rising fame started to take its toll....along with the blood-suckers w\didn't leave him alone at the end
earthwalkerable 1 year ago
I Love all these critics (w**k**s) who say Tommy Bolin was crap, I bet they are all sat in their bedrooms now practicing hard just in case they get a gig in the local pub - Tossers !
crazydavedisco 2 years ago
Love what u said! LOL TOMMY IS THE BEST FOREVER.PERIOD!
twiggysangelfromhell 1 year ago
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wow this pretty much sucks, deep purple is not deep purple without blackmore, these guys are way off pitch, tommy bolan is just not up to par here ,
fraterlucifer888 2 years ago
Tommy's arm was practicly numb because he was an IV drug user... one of the things that eventually killed him
dawnabrendan 2 years ago
yeah its terribly sad to see rockstars kill themselves,youd think they wld see it from watching others die but they seem to keep making the same mistakes and wastes their talent away
fraterlucifer888 2 years ago
THATS TRUE...SHAME
MrZOMBIFICATION 2 years ago
I agree, Gillan and blackmore is the shit tho'!
sweffe96 1 year ago
great and powerful .. ian paice's drums shine through .
petebest22 2 years ago 2
Someone said many years ago that in this live it was present Ritchie Blackmore that mocked Tommy Bolin for his way to play guitar. Said besides that this concert was a disappointment
Muzio58 2 years ago
not bad for essentially a cover band.
the bones of Deep Purple songs were so good
they knew rythym like few others
hard to imagine calling it deep purple without those 3 though
ben909ben 2 years ago
Man...Bolin and Hughes were really bombed in this clip. Bolin was good, and he couldn't even play in key unless he just played alternating full steps, and Hughes is one of my favorite vocalists and he couldn't even sing in key.
Really sad.....
shaner5150 2 years ago
tommy bolin had a short life. he died at age 25. really short life
claire1667 2 years ago