Wow,… brilliant, daring,… less than obvious but a perfect choice. Tommy was not 100% Purple. In fact,.. Purple was to small for this fellow. Now hold your horses,.. I do NOT state that he’s better,… that’s not my point.

It’s funny because his solo album “Teaser” has so much more historical value than the imho really good but slightly less than brilliant “Come taste…”

In fact,.. while the other Purple members became better working as a equal member in a group,… Tommy got worse,… and was huge when he was a natural leader (dunno if he saw that like that himself) of his own (less popular) bands,…

So,.. he’s perhaps not that most representative of Deep Purple,.. but i’m filled with joy that he’s on the cover.

…and here´s the MySpace page of the photographer that took the Bolinshot on the cover,
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=139299388

Mike

I still think they should release something else

A 2 or 3 cd disc with live takes from the Lord and Morse era and NOT the old rehassle of Live in Japan Tracks

We dont need that, never will anything be better than that

Mike

A behavioral disorder maybe…..but no crime.

On the bright side………..its probably treatable.

Again, as a collector, I want releases from all periods, including the one with Joe Satriani. It´s just history.

It will all come out eventually. Too much money in it not to.

Mike

I guess we will have wait another 10-20 years for DP MkV with Joe Lynn Turner to get recognition for what they offered just like TB and MkIV were slated up until a few years ago!!

1. Martin Popoff is a good writer, I´ve enjoyed his books about Rainbow, Dio, Black Sabbath and Judas Priest a lot. I like his very personal approach, going through the history of these acts album by album, track by track, with plenty of quotes (almost about every single song in fact) from the members of these acts. So a book on Deep Purples first period sounds like a perfect christmas present to oneself this year!

2. Deep Purple MK4 was great. I know a lot of rock journalists and they all rate CTTB as a rock classic, period. But the band never had a chance to carve out a proper reputation. It simply didn´t last long enough, and they had way to many problems. Still, who can challenge the power on the “Long Beach” 1976 live-CD? I reckon it´s the most powerful live-CD alongside “Made In Japan” in the back catalouge.

Nice of Martin to put Tommy Bolin on the cover.

Cheers,

MIKE

till this day he still regrets not seeing hughes coverdale and bolin

I really love CTTB

I never really got to grips with the live outings of this incarnation, though.
Paicey and Lordy on the other hand were EXCELLENT during that tour.

Uhmm, were they never?

Great Bolin

CTTB is not as good as ‘Burn,’ but lightyears better than the uneven ‘Stormbringer.’ Tommy Bolin was definitely one of rock’s most gifted guitar players and I always wondered what he would have done musically if he had lived.

I really enjoy just about anything that DP puts out - from Blackmore to Bolin to Blackmore to Morse, and from Evans to Gillan to Coverdale to Gillan. Didn’t care for the “Joe Lynn Turner Year.” That album sounded like a bad Rainbow record.

Anyway, unclenched your keesters and give CTTB a fair shot and be amazed at Tommy Bolin’s viruosity.

‘Rapture of the Deep’ was very good — can’t wait to hear what’s next!

I totally agree…..I know many hardliners detest the Bolin era, and try their best to erase it from their memory! I´d just ignore those “Purple Taleban” fundamentalists, and state CTTB as one of the best DP albums ever!It sure would have been interesting if they had done a second album….what might have been?

Have to add the book to my christmas list.it´ll fit nicely in my DP section rock library!ROCK ON!

The only fault is Bolin and Hughes were lost their way into the heaven of drugs and others; that didn’t get along with the clear air life of Coverdale, Lord, and Paice which dedicated all their life at the time for Deep Purple. Sad to say, but I must admit their live shows (as I read from many reviews) is totally horribly bad and made the way to the split of the band.

Bolin is a nice guy, he brought the joy to the studio when make CTTB. Gettin’ Tighter, Comin’ Home, and Drifter are wonderful guitar songs, make Blackmore and Morse look different. I still love to hear CTTB again and again. He should at least make a place in the cover of at least one of Deep Purple biography or something else. That’s this particular book has done.