I met Carmine briefly at a gig upstate NY .Nicest guy in the world …gave me a pair of sticks. Thank you!

God bless Tommy Bolin 🙏🏽❤️🙏🏽

@samiam9059

2 жыл бұрын

such a one of a kind

When I heard Hendrix as a kid I knew there was something special about his tone he's playing his effects, that he was the best to my tastes . Then I heard Tommy, same deal. to me they are equals to their genius. My two favorite guitar players, if I had to add another one it would be Jeff Beck, because he plays with such personality, he make's the guitar talk/sing, and uses his whammy bar like no other

My fav drummer

When King Karmine Speaks people MUST listen! you have to love the guy a living legend!

What a phenomenal guitarist. So glad have a lot of rare CD's of his playing and killer book.rip

@bumpyroad3251

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, his Deep Purple 1975 album was epic and heavily overlooked. I have Bolin's album with Billy Cobham "Spectrum" and it's a masterpiece

@samiam9059

2 жыл бұрын

@@bumpyroad3251 yep, was so terrible that the jeff beck concert he was opening never called for an ambulance all night until it was clearly too late the next morning. Was the roadies that made that call sadly. Was going to see him for that tour. 😪

I saw Tommy at Winterland in SF. He was so nodded out that at one point there were two guys walking him around on the stage, each holding him up by an armpit. Then they went offstage and that was the end of his set. This was in '76. He opened for Marriot, followed by Trower. I've seen the Trower set here on YT if anyone is interested.

@davidstreeten1382

2 жыл бұрын

wow, appreciate your candid comments. So sad that he was so bloody loaded!

@user-ss3xw1ow7n

29 күн бұрын

1976 was a terrible year in Tommy’s life. Whether with Purple or solo there were some pretty bad shows. Even some that I heard where people said he was great, weren’t really, if you’re honest. We all heard Tommy at his best and 1976 was not that!

That's the first interview that Carmine didn't tell everybody how great he was

@martinmoffitt4702

2 жыл бұрын

He does NOT have to.. Cause he knows that we know that everybody knows that he is the greatest!

@yamahasuperbike2202

2 жыл бұрын

@@martinmoffitt4702 not hardly.

@martinmoffitt4702

2 жыл бұрын

@@yamahasuperbike2202 SARCASM... no buddy is better than Carmine and did you know he discovered Led Zeppelin too

@yamahasuperbike2202

2 жыл бұрын

@@martinmoffitt4702 I should be ashamed of myself...My bad!😊

@martinmoffitt4702

2 жыл бұрын

@@yamahasuperbike2202 all good i know you are a true music fan! and apparently a superbike fan ! We had a local superbike champ / Hero here in my hometown who was a friend of mine #26 Jimmy Adamo. Be well Sir

Gotta say that Carmine looks great...

Mark Stein has said that he knew it was just a matter of time before Bolin would be gone. What a waste.

@lindagreaney5136

2 жыл бұрын

I’m so sorry for him❤️🙏🏻💜

@TheJohnnyCotts

2 жыл бұрын

I remember an interview where Jon Lord said that if they had known how much of a drug addict Tommy was, they would have never brought him into Deep Purple.

@flyingburritobro68

Жыл бұрын

@@TheJohnnyCotts That’s rich considering how Deep Pirples crew and management supplied the band with road cases full of coke and any pills they wanted. Coverdale and Hughes both have stated that on video interviews. Every band member was into drugs snd booze to a certain extent. Bolin would have lived a lot longer if he didn’t join Purple where he became hopelessly addicted to opioids provided by their crew and his so called minders who worked for Purple

@Wheelio

5 ай бұрын

@@TheJohnnyCotts I think another large issue was that Glenn Hughes was basically "drug buddies" with Tommy Bolin and encouraged the behavior. Who knows if Bolin straightens up or not if Hughes and his own drug addictions weren't in Deep Purple at the time.

Don't tell me, Carmine created Tommy.

Tommy Bolin is the GOAT

@acepaul407

2 жыл бұрын

@@jaysantos536 shut up

@hughjass7025

2 жыл бұрын

Really good, sure but GOAT ..........um no

@steviec67

2 жыл бұрын

Sad 😞

@Nonconformistwilderbeastman

2 жыл бұрын

@@hughjass7025 just one of the many g.o.a.t 's Bolin was way up there did massive amounts of amazing stuff for being only 25 when he croaked R.I.✌️⚡💥🎸☄️

@martinmoffitt4702

2 жыл бұрын

Goat to me means the guy getting the short end of the stick/or the heat like Bill Buckner Game six 86'.. Tommy from what I understand beside being an amazing guitarist and one of my all time favorites was a great guy that had a serious addiction problem that ultimately took his life...is that what you mean...and Mr.Appice is fortunate to have lived to his ripe old age this can happen to anyone..Too bad more people did not try to help the guy

Carmine invented music and the internet

I was hitch hiking out of northwest Georgia near the Tennessee border heading home to NY in 1980 early summer and he and his girlfriend picked me up in a powder blue mustang heading back from Florida I thought they said, I was holding a cardboard sign that read NY unless it was someone else from the Vanilla Fudge. I was 18 years old and grateful to get a ride all the way to near the NY/Pa border.

Him and Nikki Sixx are going to write a book called my ego Diaries in that book They're going to tell you how they're better than everybody else

@viciousdope66

2 жыл бұрын

I gotta say one thing about Carmine: that drum book that he wrote is LEGENDARY. There’s something to learn for any drummer at any level in it.

@bh-zj4yt

2 жыл бұрын

@@viciousdope66 I used that book for teaching 30 years ago

@buckster2575

6 ай бұрын

Carmine isn't as near as bad as sixx is.

Yep I saw em in Austin just before Miami where it all ended for him.

Is he still with The Radio Chick ?

Gone 2 soon

I often wonder what Tommy Bolin would be like today. It’s so sad he never got to grow old. It’s a waste of tremendous talent🥲🙏🏻✌🏻

How tragically sad...

Multiple drug intoxication. Read Glen Hughes biography.

@billybarnett

2 жыл бұрын

One of my personal faves.

@notgivennotgiven7776

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, Hughes is lucky to be alive

Tommy Bolin chose drugs over creativity and it killed him...end of story.