Tommy Bolin
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Sep 22, 2026
Jude GoldHOST
Right.
Jude GoldHOST
So what are some of your favorite, like you're a, if we talk about the footsteps, like Blackmore, I guess Tommy Bolin was here for some time.
Jude GoldHOST
And then of course Morse for like 28 years.
Jude GoldHOST
What's your favorite Morse moment that you might kind of channel when you're doing the show?
Joe StumpGUEST
And I was lucky to see, like, all the, you know, all those guys, you know, Marino and Trower.
Joe StumpGUEST
Never saw Tommy Bolin, but I like Tommy Bolin more, like, solo than with Purple.
Paulie ChristineHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Paulie ChristineHOST
Did you like the James Gang stuff for him?
Mike SpearsGUEST
The, it-
Andrew RichHOST
Mark, Mark IV is Tommy Bolin as the guitar player.
Mike SpearsGUEST
There we go.
Mike SpearsGUEST
There we go.
Tom DobrezGUEST
He also actually he did have a couple of tragedies.
Tom DobrezGUEST
So I don't know if you know Tommy Bolin, that name.
Tom DobrezGUEST
Yeah.
Tom DobrezGUEST
You know, great guitarist, very young guitarist.
Dave HinsonGUEST
... there's, uh, this is cool.
Dave HinsonGUEST
This was Tommy Bolin's Les Paul that I bought in St. Louis in the early 2000s, thinking it was a refinished, broken headstock Les Paul, which it's not refinished, but it wa- it did have a broken headstock.
Dave HinsonGUEST
It's copper iridescent, and we met the guy that gave this guitar to Tommy the other day.
Dave HinsonGUEST
Um, I found out from David Givens who, that this was the only guitar on the Zephyr albums.
Tyson BrydenHOST
Yeah.
Tyson BrydenHOST
And, and I even think to like when they did come taste the band and how different that album was with Tommy Bolin and they, they went a different direction, but what John Lord was playing on that was, it was brilliant.
Tyson BrydenHOST
I loved it.
Tyson BrydenHOST
It was, it was a little bit different, right?