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Rating: I will not talk about the album nor the "Deep Purple" (which has already been well described here as well) but about their new guitarist ehm, of whom I don't believe God had any special regard (quoting our own Ivan Graziani equally great on guitar).
He began to play at a very young age, after seeing with his dad nientepopàdimenochè Elvis Aaron Presley at a concert.
Between '75 and '76 he was part of the "Deep Purple" and it was His last band (sigh!) because during their last and short tour on March 19, 1976 he collapsed on stage due to drug issues and as a result, the legendary group disbanded only to reform in '84.
Right after he would return to the States to record and tour his second solo album: "Private Eyes", as the opening act for Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck and Peter Kenneth Frampton.
Much earlier he formed the "Zephyr", a group that played blues rock and also hard rock and he stayed with them from '69 to '71 while they continued rocking on till 2002.
He was with the "James Gang" from '73 to '74, a group (also engaging in blues rock, hard rock & rock and roll) born in '66, that never kept the original lineup over the years until 2006 when it closed shop.
He never played the same things twice, he said he perceived the notes a fraction of a second before playing them, almost like magic, His talent was entirely natural.
He was also a lead guitarist for Mr. William Emanuel "Billy" Cobham who said of Him "He didn't play many notes, he played the right notes!" ehm, and the funny thing is that when Billy contacted him on the phone (to have him play on his first solo album) He, completely incredulous, confessed he couldn't read music, to which the drummer replied it didn't matter, he was twenty-one...
After a live performance at a Jeff Beck concert he returned to his Hotel Newport in Miami and was involved in a "party after-concert" (the last) with various friends, he lost consciousness while on the phone after having heavily abused whisky, champagne, cocaine, and heroin a deadly cocktailmix, he died the morning of December 4, 1976, he was only twenty-five, he had even been compared to Johnny Allen Hendrix alias James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix, he was becoming a true legend but gnaa fece, maremma majala!
He was born on the first of August of '51 in the States, in a small town in Iowa and was buried in the same, at "Calvary Cemetery" of Sioux City and gnente... oh no, his name was Tommy Bolin.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Lady Luck (02:46)
She was a juke-box dancer
A blue eyed gypsy queen
She always had an answer
For what she'd done
And where she'd been
A feathercane Lady Midnight
For all around to see
She spoke with words of wisdom
And this is what she said to me
Lady luck
C'mon give me what I want
Pull me up
Lady luck
If I see you again
I will call you my friend
I have always been a sinner
But then the lady came along
She stole my heart and turned me 'round
'Till I didn't know right from wrong
She whispered words of kindness
I'd never ever heard before
Golden words and silver tongue
Till I really couldn't take no more
Lady luck
C'mon give me what I want
Pull me up
Lady luck
If I see you again
I will call you my friend
C'mon shake me
03 Gettin' Tighter (03:36)
When night time comes
And I'm ten thousand miles away
Just lose yourself
And watch the band kick back and play
Get up--keep in line
It's gettin' tighter all the time
You say you're feelin' fine
It's gettin' tighter all the time
Get a load off your mind
This place is right
It's hard to find
The mood is set alright
It's gonna be a long long night
You keep spinnin' 'round
You find it hard to touch the ground
And time is all it takes
You'll find it easy once you make
Get up--keep in line
It's gettin' tighter all the time
Gettin' tighter
Gettin' tighter
06 Drifter (04:01)
I was born a rambling man
An' I never got the chance
To settle down an' get a hold on love
Takin' air an' movin' around
Is all I can see that I'm doin'
An' it is bringin' me down
Drivin' on a highway going nowhere
Desolation destination
Guess I'll find it somewhere
I know if there's trouble
I ain't takin' the blame
That's why I keep movin'
So nobody knows my name
Born a loser
I'm beyond the law
Women behind me
Never can find me
They can never get together
What I've been here for
Cos I'm a drifter
Rollin' on
Ain't wastin' my time no more
09 You Keep on Moving (05:17)
You keep on moving
Far away far away
You keep on moving
Far away far away
Everyday wheels are turning
And the cry still returning
Dawn will soon be breaking
The day has just begun
You put your arms around me
Like a circle 'round the sun
Dance across the seasons
To a place that no one knows
Where angels fear to tread
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