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Episode #85 – Tommy Bolin – The Final Show

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Jai-Alai Fronton

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Sports complex located in Miami, Florida. The venue hosted concerts during the 1960s and 1970s.

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3500 NW 37th Avenue

Miami, FL 33142

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Lead up to the Album:

  • THE ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE
  • February 26, 1976
  • BY DAVID RENSIN
  • Along with Jeff Beck, Keith Moon, Salvador Dali and 12 roadies, Bolin was named a correspondent in Ritchie Blackmore’s divorce suit against his wife, Babs. As he tugged at a single large silver hoop earring and straightened his tinted hair, Bolin conceded nothing: ” I was in a drunken stupor for four days and I passed out at her place. She was always having these parties. I never fucked her or nothing.” Bolin’s name has since been dropped from the suit.
  • After recording Private Eyes Tommy headed out on the road to tour.  They played their first show on April 28, 1976 in Encinitas.  At this point it’s unclear that Bolin knew Deep Purple had broken up.
  • In May he played a show at Ebbets Field.  “I have the best of both worlds,” he said. “I can make money with Purple and be as artsy as I want on my own.”  As we’ve discussed previously, while Deep Purple had broken up it wasn’t until later than Bolin and Hughes were made aware of this.
  • After leaving Deep Purple his long time girlfriend had left him, starting a relationship with Glenn Hughes.
  • Tommy reportedly pulled back a little on the tour and some fans reported disappointment when he gave some of his solos to Norma Jean Bell.
  • His drug use was increasing and decreasing night-tonight.
  • He verbally insulted record label executives at one show who were in attendance.
  • Shortly after he was dropped by Nemperor records and found a new home with Columbia.
  • The Private Eyes Lineup began the tour, Jimmy Haslip took over on bass with Johnnie Bolin on Drums up until October of 1976.
  • Norma Jean Bell was critical of Johnnie Bolin’s drumming stating he didnt’ have the same jazz style of previous drummers being more of a straight ahead rock drummer and Johnnie left the band.
  • In October Mark Craney took over on drums with Max Gronenthal taking over on keyboards.
  • The band played a show in Sioux City, Tommy’s home town, on November 22 and had a rest there.
  • The next show was December 3, 1976 opening for Jeff Beck on the first date of a new tour.
  • Show at Miami Jai-Alai Fronton, a sports complex located in Miami, Florida. The venue hosted concerts during the 1960s and 1970s.

Personnel

  • Bass – Jimmy Haslip
    • Extremely prolific bassist who has played with everyone from Crosby, Stills, and Nash to Blackjack, and Diana Ross.
  • Drums – Mark Craney
    • Played with Jean Luc Ponty, Jethro Tull, Z (on the Shampoohorn album).
    • Claude Schnell’s Phil Collins story
    • Passed away in 2005.
  • Guitar, Vocals – Tommy Bolin
  • Keyboards, Vocals – Max Gronenthal
    • Played with Rod Stewart, Grand Funk Railroad, 
  • Saxophone, Vocals – Norma Jean Bell

Album Tracks:

  1. Teaser 
  2. People People
  3. You Told Me That You Loved Me
  4. Drum and Guitar Solos
  5. Wild Dogs
  6. Post Toastee

After the Show

  • Tommy returned to the Newport Hotel after the show.  He passed away in the early morning of December 4, 1976.  The coroner’s investigation found the death to be caused by an overdose of morphine, cocaine, lidocaine, and alcohol.
  • It’s reported that his drug and alcohol abuse intensified to battle the depression he was suffering from as a result of his breakup with his longtime girlfriend Karen and financial concerns.
  • His funeral was held on December 10, 1976 in Sioux City and he was buried in his family’s plot at Calvary Cemetery.
  • Karen Ulibarri returned from England and is said to have placed a ring on Tommy’s finger that Jimi Hendrix had been wearing the day he died.
  • It’s said that Deep Purple’s manager had given the ring to Tommy as a gift and Karen had kept it safe because Tommy kept losing it.

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Episode #84 – Whitesnake – Trouble

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Lead up to the Album:

  • Martin Popoff talks in his book “Sail Away” about how David Coverdale’s solo career was a bit disjointed in 1978.  He talks about the confusing album titles and ban names (White Snake vs. Whitesnake) and the Snakebite EP.  He says that the public “did not want funky R&B or blues fusion or whatever it was he was selling.  He cites Ian Gillan Band and Paice Ashton Lord for more evidence to support this.
  • Coverdale had apparently tried to recruit Colin Towns from Ian Gillan Band and also Tony Ashton on keys.  Paice Ashton Lord had also attempted to get Coverdale to join them as we discussed on our PAL episode to form a band called CLAP!
  • Mick Ralphs from Bad Company had been attempting to get Lord to join but the idea was vetoed by Paul Rodgers.  Micky Moody and Paul Rodgers had been in a couple of bands together when they were younger.
  • Bernie Marsden: “Jon brought to the table what Jon Lord did.  I mean, when he overdubbed the stuff on Trouble, we had already recorded with the previous keyboard player, before Jon joined the band.  And literally, when Jon brought his Hammond organ and stuff into the studio I mean, the room literally shook.  And you know, Jon had a presence about him, as a person, and you know what he was like as a musician.”
  • Coverdale: “A lot of people don’t realize . . . they either look at Purple as a collective or particularly Ritchie.  But a huge part of Deep Purple’s sound was Jon Lord’s left hand on that customized Hammond organ.  My God, it would shake your haemorrhoids when he would hit the bottom end of that Hammond.”
  • Neil Murray says that even though Jon recorded over Solley’s tracks that Solley still had a great input on the album seeing that he was involved in the whole process.

Personnel

Album Art & Booklet Review

  • US Snake/Egg Cover
  • Art Direction, Design – Bill Burks (2)
    • Designed covers for Kenny Rogers, Dusty Springfield, Tina Turner
  • Illustration – Bill Imhoff
    • Did covers for Billy Joel, Willie Nelson, The Beach Boys

Album Tracks:


Side One:

  1. Take Me With You (Coverdale, Moody)
    • Neil Murray calls this “a big and exciting work-out with lots of solos in it.”
  2. Love to Keep You Warm (Coverdale)
  3. Lie Down (A Modern Love Song) (Coverdale, Moody)
    • First UK single in late September of 1978 with “Don’t Mess with Me” as the B-side.
    • There are also a number of TV appearances available for Lie Down and Trouble, from the Uk and from Germany
  4. Day Tripper (Lennon, McCartney)
    • In Germany Day Tripper was released as a single, coupled with Love To Keep You Warm
    • Marsden said that he wanted to do a funky version of the song.  MArsden said that DAvid Dowle was a really good funk drummer which gave this song a great feeling.
    • This was the first Whitesnake hit.
  5. Nighthawk (Vampire Blues) (Coverdale, Marsden)
    • Marsden had the idea for the song and says Coverdale came out with a dark lyric.
    • The song gets its title from Coverdale’s mother’s name for him.  I’m assuming this means “Nighthawk.”

Side Two:

  1. The Time Is Right For Love (Coverdale, Marsden)
    • Second UK single in March 1979
    • A: The Time Is Right For Love B: Come On (Live Version)
    • Videos for Day Tripper and The Time Is Right For Love were recorded early November 1978 (4th and 5th, if I can trust a 1978 tour rider I recently found).
  2. Trouble (Coverdale, Marsden)
  3. Belgian Tom’s Hat Trick (Moody)
    • Allegedly Coverdale had done a solo on this song but it got scrapped.  Marsden disputes this saying Coverdale never did any guitar on their albums.  Marsden does say that Coverdale was “a pretty good soloist.”  He says in rehearsals Coverdale was always playing the guitar.
  4. Free Flight (Coverdale, Marsden)
    • Marsden sings this one.
    • Marsden says Coverdale wanted him to sing this one.  He says in those days Coverdale didn’t want his name on the band, wanted it to be a real band.
  5. Don’t Mess with Me (Coverdale, Moody, Marsden, Murray, Lord, Dowle)

Reception and Review

  • Micky Moody states that the band was a lot of fun and that there was a lot of camaraderie.  He says that they didn’t make a lot of money since they never really broke our toured in the States and that’s where the money was.
  • Coverdale would share the publishing rights on one song per album in hopes of keeping the guys happy with their low pay.
  • Stargazer: Issue 17  October/December 1978
    • For those of you who don’t like bad reviews, read the live report below. I saw the band before I heard this, and there ain’t no comparison. ‘Take Me With You’ has a nice opening, synthesised noises and chunky guitar before the track proper starts, but it kind of tails off after a while. I don’t think Dowle is right for the band, but not being a drummer I can’t really say why. ‘The Time Is Right For Love’ is a track which, had it had the time devoted to it that ‘Northwinds’ had might have been very good. In case you miss the news about Lord, they just turn him up as it ends, both on this and other tracks. Overall it’s very ordinary and two-dimensional.
  • On November 9 1978 both Whitesnake and Gillan played a show in Manchester
  • The UK tour was in October/November 1978 and the last show in London was released later as “Live At Hammersmith” in Japan March 1980 and as part of “Live In The Heart Of the City” late 1980 worldwide

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Episode #83 – Hughes/Thrall Videos

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Episode #82 – Down to Earth (Part 2 with Martin Popoff)

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Side One:

  1. All Night Long (Blackmore/Glover)
  2. Eyes of the World (Blackmore/Glover)
  3. No Time to Lose (Blackmore/Glover)
  4. Makin’ Love (Blackmore/Glover)
    • Steve Pilkington says that the “Don’t Believe that I’m a liar” sections sounds reminiscent of Kiss.

Side Two:

  1. Since You Been Gone (Russ Ballard)
  2. Love’s No Friend (Blackmore/Glover)
  3. Danger Zone (Blackmore/Glover)
  4. Lost in Hollywood (Blackmore, Glover, Powell)

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Episode #81 – Down to Earth (Part 1)

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Lead up to the Album:

  • We talked in a previous episode about how Roger Glover had bumped into Ritchie in Munich when they were recording “Stargazer” and Ritchie had played the tracks for Roger.  Glover said he was blown away and told Ritchie he thought it was a masterpiece.
  • The band sort of fell apart and Blackmore asked Glover to produce their next album.  Glover joined and worked on writing songs and playing bass as a session player.
  • Glover: “Why have a grudge against someone who’s such a great artist? I gave him a pass and decided to let him get away with it.”
  • In Martin Popoff’s book “Sensitive to Light” he says that Glover says he started his production duties on the album before Dio left the band and that it was very clear that Dio and Blackmore weren’t on the same page.  Glover acted as a go between the two.
  • Glover describes Dio sitting in the corner writing lyrics as the band played but not going to the mic to sing anything.
  • Just before Christmas of 1978 Ritchie Blackmore turned up at Ian Gillan’s house.  They ended up drinking a lot of vodka and Blackmore invited Gillan to join Rainbow.  Despite the vodka Gillan refused the offer.
  • They hired a bass player named Clive Chaman for a brief period.  As well as Jack Green who had been with The Pretty Things.  Pete Goalby, who’d been in Trapeze with Glenn Hughes, was also considered as a replacement for Dio.
  • They set up to record at Chateau Pelly de Cronfield in the south of France with the Maison Rouge mobile studio.
  • Bonnet’s vocals were recorded separately after the rest of the recoding was done at Kingdom Studios in Long Island.  Bonnet said he didn’t want to record unless it was in an actual studio.
  • They were still in need of a singer and they thought Graham Bonnet would be perfect. They’d heard him in the band The Marbles who had a hit called “Only One Woman.”
  • Don Airey claims Bonnet’s name came up when the band was playing “name that tune” and Cozy sang some of “Only One Woman.”
  • Bonnet says he got the interview to audition and had to go to the store to buy some Rainbow albums because he’d never heard of them.  Ritchie told him to learn Mistreated which he did and used that for his audition.
  • By all accounts Bonnet hated being at the castle and just wanted to go home.  Cozy wasn’t crazy about being there too.  Both stating there was nothing to do there in the middle of the countryside.
  • Again there were pranks of Ritchie making ghostly sounds and hazing Bonnet and Airey.

Personel

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Album Art & Booklet Review

  • Art Direction – Bill Levy
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  • Illustration – Ron Walotsky
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  • Album cover bares some resemblacnce to the cover of Fireball.
  • No gatefold, just an insert with band photos.
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Technical:

Credits:

  • Recorded at Château Pelly de Cornfeld, somewhere in France, 1979 with the Maison Rouge Mobile Studio and thanks to Bernie.
  • Comes with a full colour picture inner sleeve, an insert with pictures of the previous albums and a merchandise insert.

Album Tracks:

Side One:

  1. All Night Long (Blackmore/Glover)
    • Reached number 5 in the UK singles chart.
    • Glover penned all lyrics with Dio gone.
    • It was released as the follow up single to “Since You Been Gone.”
    • This is the only song Bonnet felt like he might have deserved writing credit on.  He says Ritchie had written it and Bonnet came up with the medley.
    • Ritchie reportedly contributed some lyrics to the song which was unusual for Blackmore.  Ritchie says his idea was about playing a gig, catching the eye of a girl in the crowd, and spending the night with her.
  2. Eyes of the World (Blackmore/Glover)
    • Classic ‘epic’ Rainbow style.
    • Keyboard intro a nod to Holst’s “Mars – The Bringer of War?”
  3. No Time to Lose (Blackmore/Glover)
  4. Makin’ Love (Blackmore/Glover)
    • Steve Pilkington says that the “Don’t Believe that I’m a liar” secions sounds reminiscent of Kiss.
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Side Two:

  1. Since You Been Gone (Russ Ballard)
    • Reached number 6 in the UK sing chart, and the peak of Rainbow’ commercial success
    • Very divisive song for the old school fans while gaining them lots of new ones
    • Cozy Powell reportedly strongly disliked this song and would only do one take
    • The band’s first cover since the debut album
    • Glover says Bruce Payne, Rainbow’s manager played the track for Glover and asked if it would be a hit.  Glover said he thought so.  Then he said he meant for Rainbow and Glover said Blackmore would never play the song.  Payne told Glover that Ritchie really wanted to do the song and Glover was in disbelief.
  2. Love’s No Friend (Blackmore/Glover)
  3. Danger Zone (Blackmore/Glover)
  4. Lost in Hollywood (Blackmore, Glover, Powell)
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Reception and Review

  • Ritchie and Roger both claim that Bonnet wasn’t “up to” being in Rainbow.  Glover says he couldn’t go the distance and Ritchie says that he wasn’t highly motivated.  Ritchie said Graham needed a lot of coaching and didn’t really come up with ideas on his own.

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