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JAMES GANG “MUST BE LOVE” MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, 1974
The elusive performance at the Midnight Special, 25th January 1974.
TOMMY BOLIN “COMMEMORATIVE VIDEO”, 2016
A slideshow featuring various funeral footage, live footage and stills. Audio is ‘Dreamer’ from ‘Teaser’
DEEP PURPLE “WILD DOGS” LIVE JAPAN, 1975
Tommy Bolin singing ‘Wild Dogs’ from his ‘Teaser’ album in Japan 1975. Note: the audio is NOT matched to the video.
ZEPHYR, FILLMORE EAST, 1970
Extremely rare footage of Zephyr performing at the Fillmore East in December 1970. This is a teaser of the entire gig. The video and audio have been enhanced as best as possible from the original bootleg quality.
TOMMY BOLIN “POST TOASTEE” CELEBRATING ‘PRIVATE EYES’, 1976
Celebrating ‘Private Eyes’ from a people's perspective.
CARMINE APPICE ON TOMMY BOLIN
Brief, sad but very true :(
DEEP PURPLE “DEALER” LIVE MIAMI, 1976
Bootleg recording, Jai Alai Fronton, Miami, 8th February, 1976.
DEEP PURPLE “HOMEWARD STRUT” LIVE MIAMI, 1976
Rare footage of Deep Purple, Capitol Theatre, Londover, Maryland USA, 15th January 1976 performing ‘Homeward Strut’.
TOMMY BOLIN “NEW YORK FUSION JAMS”, 1971
A snippet of Tommy Bolin jamming with various musicians in New York 1971. Definitely Jeremy Steig on flute (2nd jam), and POSSIBLY Don Alias on drums & Gene Perla on bass – though, not certain. Tommy was also jamming with the likes of Billy Cobham and Jan Hammer around this period.
TOMMY BOLIN “7 SEAS LOUNGE JAM” 2nd DEC 1976
Rare audio from part of the jam with the house band. Rare video is Tommy Bolin Band, 8mm Bolin, Agora Ballroom, Cleveland 10.04.76. We have restored the video in 2024.
BOLIN/PAICE JAM, 1975
Tommy Bolin & Ian Paice jam during the making of “Come Taste The Band”
JAMES GANG “HEAD ABOVE THE WATER”, 1974
From The James Gang, ‘Miami’ album.
RAINBOW CANYON “THE INVISIBLE SONG”, 1974
Jim Fox producing Rainbow Canyon's “Invisible Song” with TOMMY BOLIN 1974
DEEP PURPLE “HOMEWARD STRUT” LIVE MARYLAND 1976
Rare footage of Deep Purple, Capitol Theatre, Londover, Maryland USA, 15th January 1976
JAMES GANG “MUST BE LOVE” 17th FEB, 1974
17 Feb 1974. From the New York Academy of Music.
DEEP PURPLE “HOMEWARD STRUT”, LIVERPOOL, 1976
Deep Purple Mk4’s final concert in Liverpool. Poor sound quality (audience recording)
DEEP PURPLE “NO VOCAL MIXES” 1975
“Comin’ Home” (excerpt), “Gettin’Tighter” (excerpt) & “I Need Love” (excerpt). All without vocals.
TOMMY BOLIN “GOTTA DANCE” 1976
Demo taken from “Whirlwind” (2013) produced by Greg Hampton and Johnnie Bolin.
JAMES GANG “FUNK # 49” & “STANDING IN THE RAIN” DON KIRSHNER, 1974
From the Don Kirshner Rock Show, 1974.
JAMES GANG “WALK AWAY” DON KIRSHNER, 1974
From the Don Kirshner Rock Show, 1974.
TOMMY BOLIN & THE GOOD RATS “STRATUS” 1974
Well worth the wait after the long intro :) Tommy jamming with the Good Rats & CARMINE APPICE! For those who are curious: Tommy takes the first solo (3:51), John Gatto is the second (7:18), & Mickey Marchello takes the last (9:28-ish).
ZEPHYR “ST JAMES INFIRMARY” 1969
A televised performance, presumably 1969 (possibly early 1970).
JAMES GANG “STRATUS GUITAR SOLO” 1974
Boulder, Colorado. The video does NOT match audio... LOVE that cool throwaway of his slide at 4.37 seconds :)
ENERGY, ABELINE, KANSAS, 1972
Bobby Berge originally posted the video. For the purposes of this usage I edited Bobby’s drum solo out – I meant NO DISRESPECT by that as he’s on top form, but that can be seen if you see his original version. Tommy Bolin (gtr), Stanley Sheldon (bass), Jeff Cook (vocals), Bobby Berge (drums) & Tommy Stephenson (keyboards)
NORMA JEAN BELL “I'M THE BADDEST BITCH”, 1996
Recorded in 1996. I tagged on an introduction from Tommy during a Tommy Bolin Band performance at Jazz City Studios 11/16/76 purely for fun.
ZEPHYR “SURF STRUT” 1970
Recorded in the vacant 2nd story office space on Pearl Street. Audio recorded by Wyndham Hannaway on a Nagra field recorder during summer 1970 as we prepared material for our second album. A spontaneous jam, one of many we recorded as we tried different approaches to creating music for the record. Sounds to me as though Tommy instigated it. (David Givens Oct 2017)
DEEP PURPLE “AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND” PART 1, 1975
13 November 1975, Western Springs, Auckland. All footage is taken from a TVNZ documentary and all takes place in various locations in Auckland. Audio & Video are not matched. There is no known TVNZ footage of any audio being matched to the video, when it was aired (in 1975) the very brief live footage was accompanied by the Made in Japan Version of ‘Smoke On The Water’.
DEEP PURPLE “AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND” PART 2, 1975
13 November 1975, Western Springs, Auckland. All footage is taken from a TVNZ documentary and all takes place in various locations in Auckland. Audio & Video are not matched.
JAKE E LEE on TOMMY BOLIN
Jake E Lee with Eddie Trunk speaking of his admiration of Tommy Bolin, in particular his guitar playing on Billy Cobham’s ‘Spectrum’.
TIM GOODMAN “TO BE FREE” DEMO, 1973
Tim Goodman featuring Tommy Bolin, Stanley Sheldon & Bobby Berge, Nov 1973. Excuse the poor sound quality.
TOMMY BOLIN “ORIENTAL SKY”, 1975
Early experiment with Adobe Premiere and featuring some rare 8mm footage toward the end.‘Oriental Sky’ is basically work-in-progress ‘Lotus’.
ZEPHYR “PROMO – GOING BACK TO COLORADO” 2016
2016 promo video for 45th Anniversary of Zephyr’s ‘Going Back to Colorado’ featuring Tommy Bolin. Includes unseen footage, plus rare footage
TOMMY BOLIN “RED BARON” BILLY COBHAM, 1973
The final track from Billy Cobham's ground breaking ‘Spectrum’
JAMES GANG “WILDFIRE OUTTAKE”, 1974
Audio and visual not matched. The video is from Don Kirshner & an interview with Bob Harris. We edited out the first part of this as was more or less an instrumental backing run, so decided to come in at the end with Bolin’s outtro solo.
ZEPHYR “SANTA MONICA CIVIC AUDITORIUM”, 1971
Despite the poor audio/visual content and bad sync, this remains as a powerful document of LIVE Zephyr. It was Tommy and Bobby’s last gig with the band (until the 1973 reunion at the “Art’s Bar and Grill’ gig). Also renowned for the fact that both David and Tommy’s guitars were stolen the NEXT day!
TOMMY BOLIN “COMMEMORATIVE VIDEO” 2013
2013 Slideshow using the extended version of ‘Wild Dogs’ from ‘Teaser Deluxe’
TOMMY BOLIN “SHAKE THE DEVIL”, 1976
From ‘Private Eyes’, Tommy's 2nd and final solo album.
TOMMY BOLIN “QUADRANT 4” BILLY COBHAM, SPECTRUM, 1973
Tommy's Echoplex to the fore – AND broken string mid solo!!!
The Tommy Bolin Memorial Fund was originally established by Johnnie Bolin in memory of his brother, in association with the Siouxland Community Foundation. The Ultimate mission is simple... To preserve the music, the memory and the legacy of Tommy Bolin.
