Tommy Bolin Portrait T-Shirt

I first heard Tommy on the Billy Cobham 'Spectrum' album. I recall it vividly. I was in Alan Fearnley's record shop in Middlesbrough, UK in 1975 looking through the secondhand records as per usual. He put the album on and Quadrant 4 came on. It sent all the hairs up and down my spine on end. This was in the summer before 'Come Taste The Band' came out. It blew my 14-year-old mind. I'd never heard anything like it before and I've never heard anything like it since. It was once of those moments.

I went back and bought the Zephyr albums on import, and thw two James Gang records, and the stunning Alphonse Mouzon album and then discovered he'd joined my favourite hard rock band. And he is stunning on CTTB. I never understood the criticism. Even most of the Last Concert In Japan album is wonderful to these ears.

Obviously there is much sadness and tragedy surrounding TB, but the music he left us with, including his two great solo albums, is exceptional and I want to celebrate that, rather than his sad demise.

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