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JAMES GANG “MUST BE LOVE” MIDNIGHT SPECIAL | 1974
FINALLY! The elusive performance at the Midnight Special, 25th January 1974
Tommy Bolin, guitar | Roy Kenner, vocals & nose(lol) | Dale Peters, bass & Jim Fox, drums
DEEP PURPLE “I NEED LOVE” | 1975
From the infamous concert(s) at Senayan Stadium, Jakarta, Indonesia, 4th December, 1975
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 2024.
TOMMY BOLIN “ODE TO G” EARLY DEMO | Date Unknown
An early demo of what would radically change and eventually appear as “OWED TO G” on Deep Purple's “Come Taste The Band” album
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, guitar | Candy Givens, vocals & harp | David Givens, bass | John Faris, Organ and flute & Robbie Chamberlin, drums
JAMES GANG “FUNK#49 & STANDING IN THE RAIN” | 1974
From the Don Kirshner Rock Show, 1974. The band performed 4 songs for this televised show, “Walk Away”, “The Devil Is Singing Our Song”, “Ride The Wind” & “Funk#49”. Tommy Bolin, guitar | Roy Kenner, vocals | Jim Fox, drums & Dale Peters, bass
TOMMY BOLIN “ACOUSTIC REFLECTIONS Part 1” | Date Unknown
A rare home demo kindly presented to us by the “Pirate Sound Consortium’
DEEP PURPLE “DIFFERENT MIXES” | 1975
“Comin' Home” (excerpt), “Gettin'Tighter” (excerpt) & “I Need Love” (excerpt). All without vocals.
JAMES GANG “MUST BE LOVE” | 17 Feb 1974
From the New York Academy of Music.
DEEP PURPLE “DEALER” | 1976
Bootleg recording, Jai Alai Fronton, Miami, 8th February, 1976.
TOMMY BOLIN COMMEMORATIVE VIDEO 2016
A slideshow featuring various funeral footage, live footage and stills. Audi is ‘Dreamer’ from ‘Teaser’
DEEP PURPLE | ‘WILD DOGS’ 1975
Tommy Bolin singing ‘Wild Dogs’ from his ‘Teaser’ album in Japan 1975. Note: the audio is NOT matched to the video. Tommy Bolin, guitar & vocals| David Coverdale, vocals (not on this track) | Ian Paice, drums | Jon Lord, keyboards & Glenn Hughes, bass & vocals
MIKE FINNIGAN, TOMMY BOLIN, STANLEY SHELDON & FRIENDS ‘TEND TO YOUR OWN BUSINESS’ 1974
A rehearsal at Ebbets Field 1974. Tommy & Stan were keen to get Finnigan in a band and despite showing potential, it never came to fruition. The song is preceded by what was listed as ‘Lotus’, but, despite a similarity, it's more than likely just jamming to ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ which had been recently released & of which Tommy was a fan.
DEEP PURPLE | ‘HOMEWARD STRUT’ MARYLAND 1976
Rare footage of Deep Purple, Capitol Theatre, Londover, Maryland USA, 15th January 1976 performing ‘Homeward Strut’.
POOR SOUND QUALITY
Tommy Bolin, guitar | Jon Lord, keyboards | David Coverdale, vocals | Glenn Hughes, bass & vocals & Ian Paice, drums
TOMMY BOLIN ‘THE 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 (hence Cobham using Tommy for the ‘Spectrum’ LP 2 years later).
CARMINE APPICE ON TOMMY BOLIN
Sad, poignant... & true
TOMMY BOLIN 2013 COMMEMORATIVE VIDEO
Slideshow using the extended version of ‘Wild Dogs’ from ‘Teaser Deluxe’
ZEPHYR ‘ST. JAMES INFIRMERY’ 1969
A televised performance, presumably 1969 (possibly early 1970).Tommy Bolin, guitar | Candy Givens, vocals | David Givens, bass | John Faris, saxophone & Robbie Chamberlin, drums
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).
JAMES GANG ‘STRATUS SOLO’
1974
James Gang 1974 | Tommy Bolin | “Stratus : Guitar Solo | Boulder, ColoradoThe video does NOT match audio... LOVE that cool throwaway of his slide at 4.37 seconds lol. ENJOY...
ZEPHYR ‘SURF STRUT’ 1970
Bobby Berge on drums. 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)
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. I loved the bluesy feel of Jeff’s vocals here.Tommy Bolin (gtr), Stanley Sheldon (bass), Jeff Cook (vocals), Bobby Berge (drums) & Tommy Stephenson (keyboards)
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’.
DEEP PURPLE | NEW ZEALAND Part 2
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’.
BILLY COBHAM ‘QUADRANT 4’ 1973
Video experimentation. None of the audio and audio match. Tommy Bolin, guitar | Jan Hammer, keyboards | Billy Cobham, percussion & Leland Sklar, bass
TOMMY BOLIN ‘ORIENTAL SKY’ 1975
Experimenting with Adobe Premiere and featuring some rare 8mm footage toward the end.‘Oriental Sky’ is basically work-in-progress ‘Lotus’.
MIKEFINNIGAN, TOMMY BOLIN, STANLEY SHELDON & FRIENDS ‘PART TIME LOVE’ 1974
A rehearsal at Ebbet's Field. The story is told in the video itself...
ZEPHYR PROMO VIDEO FOR RELEASE OF ‘GOING BACK TO COLORADO’ RELEASE 2016
2016 promo video for 45th Anniversary of Zephyr’s ‘Going Back to Colorado’ featuring Tommy Bolin. Includes unseen footage, plus rare footage
‘DREAMER’ DEMO
Not too sure about the EXACT details, but a beautiful demo version that would later appear on ‘Teaser’
TIM GOODMAN ‘TO BE FREE’ 1973 DEMO
Tim Goodman featuring Tommy Bolin, Stanley Sheldon & Bobby Berge, Nov 1973. Excuse the very poor sound quality.
ZEPHYR ‘SANTA MONICA’ 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!
JAMES GANG “WILD FIRE” (MIAMI OUTTAKE EXCERPT
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.
DEEP PURPLE, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND 1975 Part 1
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’.
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.
