Tommy Bolin, Carmine Appice & the Good Rats - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 1974

Here's a rather strange concert from the Ebbets Field radio broadcasts. This is a rather strange one, since it's just three long instrumentals. The main appeal is the lead guitar work of Tommy Bolin.

I've already discussed Bolin on another Ebbets Field album, because he backed blues singer Big Mama Thornton when she played at that venue, and was part of the band Zephyr when they had a reunion at that same venue. He had a strong connection to the venue, because he lived in the Denver area whenever he wasn't on tour, and he liked playing there as much as possible, even just adding his guitar playing to musical acts that were passing through town. I have two more Ebbets Fields concerts involving him I plan on posting.  

Carmen Appice is a famous rock drummer. He was in the band Vanilla Fudge in the late 1960s. But he and the band's bassist, Tim Bogert, left that band to form the band Cactus. But that band, while successful, didn't last long. Appice and Bogert left it to form a trio with Jeff Beck called "Beck, Bogert and Appice." But that group didn't last long either. So at the time of this concert, apparently Appice was in Denver to see if he could talk Bolin into forming yet another new band, this one to be called "Bolin, Bogert and Appice." That band never materialized. But it seems this concert was a kind of public rehearsal to see if they clicked together musically. 

Here's the Wikipedia entry for Appice:

Carmine Appice - Wikipedia 

I don't know if Bogert was at this concert, however. It seems that Bolin and Appice were backed by the band the Good Rats. They had enough success to merit their own Wikipedia entry:

The Good Rats - Wikipedia

The song "Stratus" from this performance has been officially released on a compilation album called "The Bottom Shelf." But the other two songs here are unreleased. "Stratus" first appeared on the stduio album "Spectrum," which was the debut album for jazz fusion drummer Billy Cobham. Bolin played a very well regarded guitar solo on that studio version.

I don't know the names of the other two songs, if indeed they have names. If anyone else does, please let me know and I'll change the names. Mostly, this album consists of lots of jamming. It seems the first two songs ended with only brief pauses, because the only clapping is at the very end. Also, I don't know the exact date of the concert either. I look forward to being corrected on that as well.

I don't know if this was ever broadcast on the radio, or if a recording of it survives thanks to the devotion of Tommy Bolin fans. Either way, the sound quality is pretty good. I used the MVSEP program to get rid of some noise on all three songs.

This album is 36 minutes long. 

01 Blues Jam [Instrumental] (Tommy Bolin, Carmine Appice & the Good Rats)
02 Stratus [Instrumental] (Tommy Bolin, Carmine Appice & the Good Rats)
03 Jazzy Jam [Instrumental] (Tommy Bolin, Carmine Appice & the Good Rats)

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So far, the only photos I've been able to find that were actually taken inside the Ebbets Field venue are of Tommy Bolin. This is Bolin at the venue at some point in 1974. It may not be from this exact concert, since he played there a number of times that year.