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Whats playing on your system today?

Today I decided to listen to two of my favorite rock guitar heros and one great vocalist. Guitarist' Robin Trower, Ronnie Montrose and vocalist Davey Pattison.

I listened to Trower songs:
Bridge of sighs, Stitch in time, The fool and me, my personal favorite- Too rolling stoned and others.....

Then I pulled out "Gamma". 
I listened to: Razor King, Wish I was and Skin and bone and others.....

Davey Pattison hooked has also up with Michael Shenker also. I really enjoyed my day so far. Anybody else heard anything good?

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77jovian
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"Thirds" is under-appreciated, in my view.  James Gang tried to find a new identity after "Thirds", when Joe Walsh left.  They added Dominic Troiano on guitar and Roy Kenner on vocals for two albums that were merely OK, and not essential listening.  But then they re-emerged with Tommy Bolin adding searing guitar and some pretty good tunes.  Two albums, "Bang" and "Miami" resulted.  "Bang" is the better of the two, but "Miami" is good, too.

(Dominic Troiano also stepped into the Guess Who after Randy Bachman's departure, incidentally, but GW's post-Randy albums were not their best,either).

If you find you enjoy Tommy Bolin, you might search out Billy Cobham's "Spectrum", an interesting jazz-rock-fusion collaboration.

And, if you fancy Joe Walsh, don't miss his first solo album, "Barnstorm".

77jovian
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If you're interested in checking out Tommy Bolin, don't miss James Gang "Bang".

Today I listened to New York Rock Ensemble, "Roll Over" and "Freedomburger".  Terrific.

77jovian
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Ghost, thanks for the reminder of "Mind Transplant", which I knew about but have never heard.  Will check into that.  Your reference to Mouzon reminded me of Larry Coryell, "Introducing the Eleventh House", with Mouzon (and Randy Brecker, as I recall).  Tinny sound but interesting music.

I agree with you on Bolin with Deep Purple.  Their styles just don't seem to mesh (for that matter I've never been a huge fan of DP with Steve Morse, though I'm a big fan of the original DP lineup and Steve Morse with the Dregs).

As for Zephyr, I prefer "Sunset Ride" to "Sail On" and Bolin isn't even on that album.

One reason I like Barnstorm is the backing musicians,  Joe Lala (Blues Image, Stills' Manassas, and a host of others), Kenny Passerelli and Joe Vitale, who sort of became the house band at Caribou studio for a while.  Showed up on albums with Dan Fogelberg, Michael Stanley, Fools Gold, and probably a bunch I can't think of.

Back to the theme of the OP, I'm presently listening to, and "The Who Sell Out", extended version.  What a wonderful album.

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