I love Tommy as well,i have almost every album he's been on as well as his solo albums.Tommy was an amazing guitarist.When i bought "Spectrum" i played it over and over again,it's still one of my favorites.
Spectrum was truly a treat for lead guitar lovers everywhere! Incredible what Bolin could do on a guitar. Every time I hear Quadrant 4, I get goose pimples. You can't sit still when you hear that.
I saw them in Auckland Nov 13th 75 & Tommy Bolin was fantastic,stole the whole show,what a night!! I will never forget it....Thanks so much for that night Tommy RIP...Carl Mostert Wales UK
I've got that bootleg.... 'live in New Zealand....' Coverdale says he mustn't say that naughty word for fornicating....or he'll get put in jail.... gets the crowd to say it instead....
Stormbringer was always a great song, and Tommy Bolin definitely puts his own stamp on it here. Sounds like the whole band was at the top of their game for this show.
Absofuckinglutely, Tommy just owns this live version. It’s got a great Hendrix-y feel to it as well as plenty of trademark Bolin while still honoring the original take.✌️
The biggest reason (for me) ALL purple line ups are worthy.. is *Ian Paice.* This is no exception. Also, I was 16 when Tommy died. Weeks after accepting he fit right in! I cried for months...
My favorite DP song AND ToMmY is GREAT!!! I wore this out on 33 1/3 and a cassette twice!!! Every great musical artist that left us between 1960 and 1980 has left me a little more empty. But the MusiC never dies.
super groupe, dommage, qu'il y ai peu de video. Là, ils ont atteint une force brute, totale. Coverdale chante comme, il ne chanteras plus, force hargne et maestro bolin, le magnifique, se défendent avec ses harmonies lord, majestueux par ses envolées. magnifique, somptueux
You have made excellent points and my sentiments exactly...I loved the addition of Hughes and Coverdale...Burn and Stormbringer..and then "Come Taste the Band"...Where out of my Billy Cobham/James Gang FUnk here comes Tommy Bolin...Loved his solo LPS....RIP TOMMY BOLIN>...
+Cupidville That's right, instead of playing the riff with single notes he uses a 7+9 chord which Hendrix used all the time in 'Fire','Stone free','Purple Haze' etc.
+Cupidville That's right, instead of playing the riff with single notes he uses a 7+9 chord which Hendrix used all the time in 'Fire','Stone free','Purple Haze' etc.
Iagree,but now alot of people now are getting into Tommy's music thanks to all the people that post all his music on You Tube.but i always knew how great Tommy Bolin was.Istill listen to all his music,i have mostly every album/cd he's played on.
I wish Tommy played this good when I saw them at Radio City in NY. I guess this was one of his few sober nights on the tour and it is a shame because when he was sober he was amazing.
Ritchie is my favorite guitar player of all time but I love funk and when Tommy Bolin came in Deep Purple, I liked it a lot because it was more funky and with Coverdale's voice, it was very good. Gettin's tighter is a great funky rock song with the guitar and the amazing Rickenbacker's bass sound (I'm a bass player by the way)
From zyhper to present bolin never made a bad album did you know he played with Billy Cobham and Alphouse mouzon and 1 Moxy as album get it a grip your so commercial
This purple line up a bit harder than the mk2 purple line up. it just went into overdrive when bolin,hughes an coverdale came on the scene! much harder hitting and much more attitude! brilliant! it has balls!
You said it, like me. I'd say they were at their peak with Tommy, plus Ian Paice's drumming was never better than in those days. 'Burn' and 'Come taste the band' were their best recordings, IMO
@MegaBob77777 Dude you are lucky to have seen Tommy play live. That rates right up there with the lucky ones that have seen Jimi Hendrix. I never got to see either of them, but their music lives on. Thanks for sharing that!
I love MK4 purple, born in early 77, but, I really wish I was born earlier to catch them in action. Liverpool wasn't the best gig by any means, but, your sooo lucky to have been there.
David Coverdale's voice is obviously pretty shot in this performance. Probably due to a heavy tour schedule and over-doing it every night. Even so, he is giving it his all, and he remains my favorite male vocalist of all time. What a voice that man has!
Sioux City's best ever musician putting his unique stamp on this song. Ritchie wrote it, but Tommy plays it with more intent. He was quite brilliant, and he painted from a broad pallette, this music being in complete contrast to his solo work and for Cobham and Mouzon. Google: Tommy Bolin and Jim Fox interviewed by Bob Harris on Whistle Test. It's a TV interview from 1973, Tommy had just joined The James Gang. If you're a Tommy fan you'll like it. Best wishes.
A great comment! I know many of my fellow musicians would subscribe to it! Tommy Bolin really contributed to world's music, and that I can not say about many of even highly acclaimed and titled masters of guitar. The grim fact is that the heroin abuse, from which many of the musicians suffered and still suffer, killed him. Some of us were more lucky, but I understand that the Purple period, all that success which suddenly fell upon his head, did a bad job to him, and he is not to blame 4 that...
@@ericodijk Blackmore has only good words to tell about Tommy Bolin. Rainbow also dedicated a song to Tommy when they got the news of his death... Blackmore also spoke good about Steve Morse. I haven' t heard his opinion about Simon McBride (yet) though....
This to me is the best version of Stormbringer by far. Tommy s rhythm guitar mixes a LOT of Purple Haze into the song. His solo is technically sound and really telling a story in its own right. Lots heavier than the Mk3 version. And that does not mean Blackmore did not do this song great, he adds a wonderful solo, of course. But Tommy really added a world to it. If you ever wondered if Tommy was a good fit, THIS IS IT. Even with all that happened, I think those 9 months with Bolin were way more adventurous and exciting than everything with Morse. (and he is good!!)
Mine too, buddy! Although I like what the Mark 2 did, but my soul reacts to the vibrations of Hughes, Bolin and Coverdale most. And for all my life I have great love and pity for the extra-talented boy, Tommy,and a lot of appreciation for Hughes' talent, especially his late Russia and Ukraine tours, he played fucking hot as hell in the 90-es - 2000-es. Years pass, but his voice still kicks ass, while, unfortunately, Gillan is fading away, and new DP is not so rocking as Hughes himself these days
I like the way Bolin is playing here. The whole band is tight and funky. Coverdale's shouting is almost singing, and if it were possible to get rid of Hughes' screeching, it would be a classic rendition.
Bolin was the guitar god praise him Hendrix has nothing on him you unknowable fucks get on the internet and see who tommy really was your comments don't mean shit till you really know and feel the man fuck you tommy lives forever in time
I was at the Long Beach show. I thought Tommy fit in rather well. In fact I wasn't even aware that T.B. was filling in for Blackmore until the downbeat. It wasn't a disappointment at all as I was already familiar with T.B. As for Blackmore being better than Hendrix, sheezz,I guess we're all entitled to our opinion, and music being as subjective as it is, that's a pretty tall statement. But, better than Hendrix??? Nobody was/is/never will be(maybe)as INNOVATIVE as Hendrix, THAT makes him best.
A comment to all: Tommy Bolin was an excellent successor to Blackmore because he was a very different player. Quite frankly no one on earth could replace Blackmore who, in my mind, is the greatest rock guitarist of all time. I think he's better than Hendrix. But to get back top Bolin, if you cant top what you had, change it around a bit. Listen to the Stormbringer album then Come Taste the Band. If you had no idea who the guitarists were they follow each other very well! Purple rules!
I agree with you on the drug thing. Bolin"s live performance were crumby at best and I heard Lord say in an interview say he was ready to quit. I do think though he was a good replacement because he was instrumental in writing the music that easily followed Stormbringer. But that's my take. Happy Thanksgiving all you Purple heads!!
Where did you get all this footage? There is almost no footage of mark 4 and there is footage shown here that I’ve never seen! Great video nonetheless.
I got this footage from a semi-official DVD release. At the time they did not know the origin of the footage and no original audio was available. For some reason they dubbed in audio from the album, featuring Ritchie Blackmore on guitar. I felt that was disrespectful to both Bolin and Blackmore, so I edited out the Blackmore era audio, and I dubbed in audio from a different Deep Purple mk4 concert to make the footage more authentic. There is another clip from this show up on UA-cam: ua-cam.com/video/vbPBtzJJB0A/v-deo.html Thanks for watching. Check out this channel, JohnnyVisionquest for more Tommy Bolin and DeepPurpleos for all things Purple.
Marta Nowak if i want to hear some "anhilating" stuff i maybe prefer Jeff Waters ;-) ... but if i wanna hear some funky and swinging rock music i love Bolin most ... and for sure if i´m looking for classic hard rock Richie is one of my favorites
It was on a semi-official DVD release which had Blackmore era audio dubbed over the Bolin era live video. I felt that was disrespectful to both Blackmore and Bolin , so with the permission of Purpleos official Deep Purple UA-cam channel, I changed the audio to live Bolin era audio from the Long Beach concert. Purpleos advised me that 30 minutes of footage exists, and they have some of it posted on their channel, with (lo-fi) original audi.
I definitly agree with that. On the topic of playing electric guitar James Jimi Hendrix was The Innovator No 1. Of course there are many who has developed the way of playing electric guitar with all that comes along with the gear of sound and effects. But Jimi was one of a kind and there hasn't been no one coming close. Listen to Machine Gun from Band of Gypsys at Filmore and you'll understand why, if you don't, then I feel sorry for all of you...
I'm old enough to remember this and as it played out. If Tommy Bolin ever did have the talent to be a credible replacement for Blackmore it showed itself in the studio only. Drugs didn't just kill the man......they stole his ability to play. His live performances are mostly dreadful. This video shows glimpses into what he may have been had he been "clean" but this certainly is no replacement for one of the best Rock Guitarists ever.
I never understood why Hughes and Coverdale seemed to suck so bad singing together onstage and why Glenn always sounded as if he couldn't hear onstage. The guys are great singers and in studio they sound great together. I never saw them live unfortunately, saw Hughes/Thrall in Hollywood in the late 70's once, opened for Eddie Money, stole the show.
Come Taste The Band. Is one of my favourite rock album!!! Tommy Bolin was fantastic in this recording.
One of my favorite guitarist .RIP Tommy
I love Tommy as well,i have almost every album he's been on as well as his solo albums.Tommy was an amazing guitarist.When i bought "Spectrum" i played it over and over again,it's still one of my favorites.
Spectrum was truly a treat for lead guitar lovers everywhere! Incredible what Bolin could do on a guitar. Every time I hear Quadrant 4, I get goose pimples. You can't sit still when you hear that.
@@overrooftops 😂😂😂🤘
I saw them in Auckland Nov 13th 75 & Tommy Bolin was fantastic,stole the whole show,what a night!! I will never forget it....Thanks so much for that night Tommy RIP...Carl Mostert Wales UK
I've got that bootleg.... 'live in New Zealand....'
Coverdale says he mustn't say that naughty word for fornicating....or he'll get put in jail....
gets the crowd to say it instead....
Bolin's tone was alway's GREAT !!!
These guys Inspired ALOT Of Amazing Artist`s :))
Deep Purple were Always AWESOME !!
True LEGENDS :)) !!!
Absolutely This is the Best Version!!!!
Stormbringer was always a great song, and Tommy Bolin definitely puts his own stamp on it here. Sounds like the whole band was at the top of their game for this show.
Absolutely a true ass kicking performance here if you can't understand this you don't know music at all
Absofuckinglutely, Tommy just owns this live version. It’s got a great Hendrix-y feel to it as well as plenty of trademark Bolin while still honoring the original take.✌️
The biggest reason (for me) ALL purple line ups are worthy.. is *Ian Paice.* This is no exception. Also, I was 16 when Tommy died. Weeks after accepting he fit right in! I cried for months...
My favorite DP song AND ToMmY is GREAT!!!
I wore this out on 33 1/3 and a cassette twice!!!
Every great musical artist that left us between 1960 and 1980 has left me a little more empty. But the MusiC never dies.
Nothing wrong with this Mk4 Deep Purple! Geat band, powerful and rocking!!
Deep Purple war eine großartige Band
Tommy got this one spot on.
super groupe, dommage, qu'il y ai peu de video.
Là, ils ont atteint une force brute, totale.
Coverdale chante comme, il ne chanteras plus, force hargne et maestro
bolin, le magnifique, se défendent avec ses harmonies
lord, majestueux par ses envolées.
magnifique, somptueux
They were still a pretty good damn band in 76 ! I would have paid the six or seven bucks too have seen them in a heartbeat !
mk 1 2 3 4 all phenomenal !!!!!!
You have made excellent points and my sentiments exactly...I loved the addition of Hughes and Coverdale...Burn and Stormbringer..and then "Come Taste the Band"...Where out of my Billy Cobham/James Gang FUnk here comes Tommy Bolin...Loved his solo LPS....RIP TOMMY BOLIN>...
Killer version. Bolin's kicking ass here.
LOVE IT!!!!🎸🎸🎸🎸
@@cherylnewland6538 Yes, it’s irresistible!! ✨
le meilleur mk,
puissance,énergie, un duo du tonnerre.
dommage pour le peu de vidéo de cette formation
wouah, quelle puissance, je ne m'en lasse pas
This live album is a must if you're a fan mk 4. I love Tommy and Ritchie.
I have loved Tommy Bo!ins music forever, I am listen to Private Eyes' noe. Just love the riffs, talk about organism'
Bolin gives this version a "Jimi Hendrix" kind of vibe to the whole vibe. Great take by the whole band.
+Cupidville That's right, instead of playing the riff with single notes he uses a 7+9 chord which Hendrix used all the time in 'Fire','Stone free','Purple Haze' etc.
+Cupidville That's right, instead of playing the riff with single notes he uses a 7+9 chord which Hendrix used all the time in 'Fire','Stone free','Purple Haze' etc.
Great take by a Master guitar player.
At the end , it went proto extreme metal .. i never thought that Tommy had a heavier sound than Ritchie
More soulfully than any other version I've heard. Paice is the glue here, carrying whole band!
Paice has been carrying the band from start to where they are now. Love his drumming and his dedication!
@@mumblbeebee6546 totally agree, he has always given the band 110%
Ian Paice has always been the glue that holds Purple together
Most overlooked drummer ever along with Roxy Musics Paul Thompson
Ian Paice - push push push!! what a drummer! Tommy did good here
Iagree,but now alot of people now are getting into Tommy's music thanks to all the people that post all his music on You Tube.but i always knew how great Tommy Bolin was.Istill listen to all his music,i have mostly every album/cd he's played on.
Nobody loves Gillan and Blackmore more than me but I love this lineup too.
Storm funky bringer. Amazing!
It's pretty cool to listen to because I don't think I've ever heard Tommy improvise in the minor scale much.
We can clearly feel the immense influence of Tommy in the music's rhytm ...brilliant guitar also
What so wrong about mk4?? This is fantastic! Power and soulfull. Even without RB and IG tey sound very good !!
I wish Tommy played this good when I saw them at Radio City in NY. I guess this was one of his few sober nights on the tour and it is a shame because when he was sober he was amazing.
Ritchie is my favorite guitar player of all time but I love funk and when Tommy Bolin came in Deep Purple, I liked it a lot because it was more funky and with Coverdale's voice, it was very good. Gettin's tighter is a great funky rock song with the guitar and the amazing Rickenbacker's bass sound (I'm a bass player by the way)
Damn!!!!!! that was powerful.
Wooooowwwww these is what you call rock $roll bolin forevermore 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
This has, and always will be my favourite version of 'stormbringer' it's honest, not technically perfect by any means, but, it really kicks ass.
I think Tommy fit in better with Coverdale and Hughes than Ritchie did. When Tommy was on he was one of the best out there.
Interesting statement which sound plausible to me
Yes Indeed he was!! 🎸🎶🎙🎵⚘
Yess🙏🏻☀️💕
Dude there's no one bolin your statement is lame
From zyhper to present bolin never made a bad album did you know he played with Billy Cobham and Alphouse mouzon and 1 Moxy as album get it a grip your so commercial
This purple line up a bit harder than the mk2 purple line up.
it just went into overdrive when bolin,hughes an coverdale came on the scene!
much harder hitting and much more attitude! brilliant!
it has balls!
You said it, like me.
I'd say they were at their peak with Tommy, plus Ian Paice's drumming was never better than in those days.
'Burn' and 'Come taste the band' were their best recordings, IMO
Tommy Bolin Kicked Ass!...
@MegaBob77777 Dude you are lucky to have seen Tommy play live. That rates right up there with the lucky ones that have seen Jimi Hendrix. I never got to see either of them, but their music lives on. Thanks for sharing that!
Bolin was excellent, although I was at the Liverpool Gig and Bolin fell off stage ! he was drugged up to the eyeballs
I love MK4 purple, born in early 77, but, I really wish I was born earlier to catch them in action. Liverpool wasn't the best gig by any means, but, your sooo lucky to have been there.
David Coverdale's voice is obviously pretty shot in this performance. Probably due to a heavy tour schedule and over-doing it every night. Even so, he is giving it his all, and he remains my favorite male vocalist of all time. What a voice that man has!
its real good version of this song.. i am impresed !! bolin n blackmore are equal !!
With love from Rīga ❤
Sounds better live so beautiful they trully are the godfathers of heavy metal
stratosferica e epica ,, anche con questa formazione !!! ancora c era molto da sperimentare ,,,,,,,,,,, r i p ,,,,,+,,,,,, Tommy isuna magka ,,
January 1976 Rochester NY Nazareth opened. What a show
Tommy is on fire here!!!!! Drugs unfortunately destroyed him by the end and took him away way to young.
Sioux City's best ever musician putting his unique stamp on this song.
Ritchie wrote it, but Tommy plays it with more intent.
He was quite brilliant, and he painted from a broad pallette, this music being in complete contrast to his solo work and for Cobham and Mouzon.
Google: Tommy Bolin and Jim Fox interviewed by Bob Harris on Whistle Test.
It's a TV interview from 1973, Tommy had just joined The James Gang.
If you're a Tommy fan you'll like it.
Best wishes.
Greatness!!
And THIS is how good Tommy could play when he had all 5 fingers back ( unlike " last concert in Japan" where he only had 1)
Tommy love
A great comment! I know many of my fellow musicians would subscribe to it! Tommy Bolin really contributed to world's music, and that I can not say about many of even highly acclaimed and titled masters of guitar. The grim fact is that the heroin abuse, from which many of the musicians suffered and still suffer, killed him. Some of us were more lucky, but I understand that the Purple period, all that success which suddenly fell upon his head, did a bad job to him, and he is not to blame 4 that...
Well said....
Grew up listening to these guys in the early "70`s"
Glenn & Tommy have got the funk! No wonder Blackmore hated them.
*Blackmore called it "Shoeshine music." I love Blackmore - yet I disagree.
Johnny Chunders Ritchie never ever said anything bad about Tommy, on the contrary! He loved his efforts with Billy Cobham.
You should listen emaretta mark I ...
This is funky as fuck and This is way before Coverdale and Hughes .
It even before mark II
But as i know RB accepts Tommy's performances ... why hate ???
@@ericodijk
Blackmore has only good words to tell about Tommy Bolin. Rainbow also dedicated a song to Tommy when they got the news of his death...
Blackmore also spoke good about Steve Morse.
I haven' t heard his opinion about Simon McBride (yet) though....
This to me is the best version of Stormbringer by far. Tommy s rhythm guitar mixes a LOT of Purple Haze into the song. His solo is technically sound and really telling a story in its own right. Lots heavier than the Mk3 version. And that does not mean Blackmore did not do this song great, he adds a wonderful solo, of course. But Tommy really added a world to it.
If you ever wondered if Tommy was a good fit, THIS IS IT.
Even with all that happened, I think those 9 months with Bolin were way more adventurous and exciting than everything with Morse. (and he is good!!)
The Maryland concert was at the Capital Centre in Landover. That was my first concert..the opening act was Nazareth and the tickets were $ 8.
Lucky you! I wish I were there to see Tommy!! 🤟
grande Bolin
IT WAS when i hear ..Tommy in Spectrum of Billy Cobham...
...dicevo SARA' UN GRANDISSIMO..avevo ragione. azzz....r.i.p.
Mine too, buddy! Although I like what the Mark 2 did, but my soul reacts to the vibrations of Hughes, Bolin and Coverdale most. And for all my life I have great love and pity for the extra-talented boy, Tommy,and a lot of appreciation for Hughes' talent, especially his late Russia and Ukraine tours, he played fucking hot as hell in the 90-es - 2000-es. Years pass, but his voice still kicks ass, while, unfortunately, Gillan is fading away, and new DP is not so rocking as Hughes himself these days
I like the way Bolin is playing here. The whole band is tight and funky. Coverdale's shouting is almost singing, and if it were possible to get rid of Hughes' screeching, it would be a classic rendition.
Bolin was the guitar god praise him Hendrix has nothing on him you unknowable fucks get on the internet and see who tommy really was your comments don't mean shit till you really know and feel the man fuck you tommy lives forever in time
Could not agree more!!!
keep rockin bro!
I think that this line up brought fun to the bend which they needed by the all fights between Richie and Ian....
Great sound! .. A few months after this, David, Ian, and John left and formed Whitesnake - and the rest is history.
TommyBolin is a great guitarist Tommy Bolin is above much talent that is beyond the complete Ritchie Blackmore
serius stuff - bro !
O timbre da guitarra do Tommy era muito legal.
Leider ist Tommy Bolin am 04.12.1976 gestorben
Damn right, man!
nobody killed deep purple- still alive and kicking-
thank you for Uploading :) QC
Oh yeah! I can subscribe to every word you say, as a listener and DP fan and as a musician.
8:22 'Eargasm' hummmmm
"In Rock" is without a doubt their very best album.The solo on "Child in time is amazing,and it's the one that got me into Purple in the first place.
how true !
At about 5.00 they sung a piece of Sly and the Family Stone !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bolin was so cute! RIP
Thx
BIO JEDNOM JEDAN LAV TAJ JE JEO STA JE HTEO A STO NIJE JEO TE JE ODUVO ISORIJA
This is great due to Bolin. A real harsh hard rock sound, nothing to do with Blackmore's.
Even metal , the end could be thrash
But There s heavy stuff with blackmore
But even with Bolin , fusion stuff background , he had a heavier sound than blackmore
frenetic
Looking at this you would never think he was a heroin user, he looks healthy in the prime of his life.
最高涙が出るかっこいいまたみたい
I was at the Long Beach show. I thought Tommy fit in rather well. In fact I wasn't even aware that T.B. was filling in for Blackmore until the downbeat. It wasn't a disappointment at all as I was already familiar with T.B. As for Blackmore being better than Hendrix, sheezz,I guess we're all entitled to our opinion, and music being as subjective as it is, that's a pretty tall statement. But, better than Hendrix??? Nobody was/is/never will be(maybe)as INNOVATIVE as Hendrix, THAT makes him best.
@@Paulsworks not sure if true or not but I believe Blackmore was in the audience for that show. He was a fan of Tommy Bolin.
this is fuckin bad ass groovy my brother.........yessup
A comment to all: Tommy Bolin was an excellent successor to Blackmore because he was a very different player. Quite frankly no one on earth could replace Blackmore who, in my mind, is the greatest rock guitarist of all time. I think he's better than Hendrix. But to get back top Bolin, if you cant top what you had, change it around a bit. Listen to the Stormbringer album then Come Taste the Band. If you had no idea who the guitarists were they follow each other very well! Purple rules!
The End of HEAVY METAL MARK ONE!
From beign as well Of the Heavy metal mark I , Judas Priest put the Heavy metal mark II and opening doors for the 3 , 4 , 5 ...
I agree with you on the drug thing. Bolin"s live performance were crumby at best and I heard Lord say in an interview say he was ready to quit. I do think though he was a good replacement because he was instrumental in writing the music that easily followed Stormbringer. But that's my take. Happy Thanksgiving all you Purple heads!!
good.................................................
Where did you get all this footage? There is almost no footage of mark 4 and there is footage shown here that I’ve never seen! Great video nonetheless.
I got this footage from a semi-official DVD release. At the time they did not know the origin of the footage and no original audio was available. For some reason they dubbed in audio from the album, featuring Ritchie Blackmore on guitar.
I felt that was disrespectful to both Bolin and Blackmore, so I edited out the Blackmore era audio, and I dubbed in audio from a different Deep Purple mk4 concert to make the footage more authentic.
There is another clip from this show up on UA-cam:
ua-cam.com/video/vbPBtzJJB0A/v-deo.html
Thanks for watching. Check out this channel, JohnnyVisionquest for more Tommy Bolin and
DeepPurpleos for all things Purple.
I actually like bolins version better than Ritchies
Marta Nowak if i want to hear some "anhilating" stuff i maybe prefer Jeff Waters ;-) ... but if i wanna hear some funky and swinging rock music i love Bolin most ... and for sure if i´m looking for classic hard rock Richie is one of my favorites
Tommy had it . He aced Hughes and Blackmore.
Where did you find the Maryland footage?
It was on a semi-official DVD release which had Blackmore era audio dubbed over the Bolin era live video.
I felt that was disrespectful to both Blackmore and Bolin , so with the permission of Purpleos official Deep Purple UA-cam channel, I changed the audio to live Bolin era audio from the Long Beach concert. Purpleos advised me that 30 minutes of footage exists, and they have some of it posted on their channel, with
(lo-fi) original audi.
pmz62 thank you! Thanks for posting it!
made in europe...the best version...
much faster than the original studio record but great anyway!!
I definitly agree with that. On the topic of playing electric guitar James Jimi Hendrix was The Innovator No 1. Of course there are many who has developed the way of playing electric guitar with all that comes along with the gear of sound and effects. But Jimi was one of a kind and there hasn't been no one coming close. Listen to Machine Gun from Band of Gypsys at Filmore and you'll understand why, if you don't, then I feel sorry for all of you...
I'm old enough to remember this and as it played out. If Tommy Bolin ever did have the talent to be a credible replacement for Blackmore it showed itself in the studio only. Drugs didn't just kill the man......they stole his ability to play. His live performances are mostly dreadful. This video shows glimpses into what he may have been had he been "clean" but this certainly is no replacement for one of the best Rock Guitarists ever.
I never understood why Hughes and Coverdale seemed to suck so bad singing together onstage and why Glenn always sounded as if he couldn't hear onstage. The guys are great singers and in studio they sound great together. I never saw them live unfortunately, saw Hughes/Thrall in Hollywood in the late 70's once, opened for Eddie Money, stole the show.