James Gang Standing in the Rain | The Midnight Special

[@BunyanaRed1958]

Tommy was genius on the guitar. Fantastic player.

[@blayneaugust]

That whole "Bang" lp slaps🎸

[@MichaelBradley1967]

This is great. There's not enough live Tommy Bolin footage out there.

[@krisg3984]

I always liked this song. Great performance,

[@jmont8943]

So glad I grew up in Colorado and was able to see Tommy play. First was with Zephyr, and later when he had his stint with Deep Purple, I think 1976? Never saw him with James Gang. Still relevant today, and that says a lot considering his short life.

[@KittyGrizGriz]

@@jmont8943 You’re SO Lucky!! I’ve read about people in Colorado getting to see Tommy and his band. Yes, it’s so sad he passed at only 25. Yet, he achieved a LOT in his young life. I’d like to have his albums “Teaser” & “Private Eyes,” hope someone surprises me - haha.

[@jmont8943]

@@KittyGrizGriz I found "Private Eyes" CD in a thrift store about a year ago, jumped right on it. I always liked that one.

[@thomasfoss9963]

​@@KittyGrizGrizHey Kitty, I've seen the album in used record stores--- "Rides Again" there too!!

[@KittyGrizGriz]

Tommy Bolin is taking us for a RIDE🚀 at the VERY beginning!! He’s so gorgeous too 😍 🤩, the man can sure PLAY that Strat!

[@JeffreyTheTaylor]

I believe that is Tommy's Strat with a Tele neck. In any event, good stuff. That bass fuzz tone!

[@sweetstevie]

I believe this version of the band is after Joe Walsh left. Tommy Bolin on guitar.

[@BIGLON-cf1ul]

Thanks for that! I wonder which version was more successful?

[@fredcloud9668]

Ya' think !

[@davidemazzer1358]

I think they released two albums before with Domenic Troiano on guitar.

[@jeremyhoke8186]

@@BIGLON-cf1ul They had trouble having hits after Joe left. After a couple of lineup changes they broke up.

[@MichaelBradley1967]

@@fredcloud9668 Yadig?

[@that70sgirl90]

Wow... nice straddle split at the end! Happy Tuesday... thank you for sharing! 💖

[@bluesrocker6l6gc8]

I've been waiting for so long to again hear the Echoplex tape delay pyrotechnics Tommy Bolin used on this song at the beginning!! But Joe Walsh was also a pioneer of the use this effect (and Hendrix!!). I've had one all these years that still works, still use it every now and then.

[@leemark63]

Dale Peters & Jimmy Fox are and always will be the balls of James Gang.🤟

[@DrTomoculus]

THANK YOU MIDNIGHT SPECIAL TOMMY BOLIN!

[@LANDSEAAIRCANADA]

CLASSIC ! Thank You

[@ronm6585]

Thank you.

[@timguzz8844]

Bolin was something else, and i think this was their best song during the period

[@lesliemountain1335]

Thank you!

[@greigskyless334]

Excellent, with Walsh or Bolin!

[@braindeadrichard]

Tommy Bolin 🙌🏻

[@nemfremdem]

Great Band, great Song 💛👌

[@emersonribeiro315]

O vocalista é show aparte. 🎤🎸😎🎶🎶🎶

[@cbalducc]

I wonder if Tommy Bolin was the first to play the Echoplex effect box like an instrument?

[@Fishbulb77]

He certainly used it all over the Billy Cobham - Spectrum record, so cool!

[@mxxjss]

Tommy saw Rick Derringer use it in 1969!

[@brianmerrick2045]

Can't beat Joe. You can try, but ultimately JW is and was the James Gang.

[@meganh4011]

Wow, the end Uchi Woochie

[@festushagan3921]

Tommy Bolin was a master of the Echoplex. This is about as overdriven a guitar tone as he ever used, but it sounds good.

[@minsterhill]

Maybe better than Walsh band, so great as is his period. Love it!

[@curtisphilumalee1447]

No way would I’ve been getting back up on my feet after jumping off that Acoustic Bass Enclosure. Tea bagging the floor Yikes.

[@KittyGrizGriz]

@@curtisphilumalee1447 Ha! Love the way you describe the “boys” Roy Kenner had to have been a gymnast or a trained dancer of some sort, he moves so effortlessly and beautifully. A performance artist.

[@curtisphilumalee1447]

He’s a better man than me. I wouldn’t have even considered the move in my younger days. More power to him for pulling off the move. I remember seeing David Lee Roth doing some split high kicks during VH Mean Street tour and thinking WTF. Pretty wild stuff.

[@KittyGrizGriz]

@@curtisphilumalee1447 Yep! I’ve heard that men can only do the splits that way like DLR? Makes me wonder cause Roy looks like he could go all the way down in a “forward” straight split position. I did the forward splits, forward roll, cart wheel and a handstand dismount on a balance beam, back in the good old days. 10 years ago my young granddaughter was in tumbling. She wanted me to show her the splits as I told her I was in gymnastics when young. I could still do them and couldn’t believe it and about ripped me a new one! Lmbo! Can still visualize her eyes wide open expression. We’ve gotta shock the kids and grands every once in a while. Btw I forget to mention “thank you for serving,” the other day.

[@curtisphilumalee1447]

@KittyGrizGriz lol yeah it’s not a good idea to try and do the things we were once capable of pulling off in our younger days. TY precaite the req

[@KittyGrizGriz]

@@curtisphilumalee1447 Do you remember the artistic gymnast Cathy Rigby, the petite blonde cutie? She was the highest-scoring American gymnast at the 1968 summer Olympics in Mexico City, and was instrumental in popularizing gymnastics in America. She came to my Tulsa, OK HS in the late 70s performing on the beam and uneven parallel bars, she was a li’l firecracker! 🧨 I was a sophomore and entranced, love the sport (and the Olympics).

[@DonaldWebber-o9v]

Love Bolin, but the real James Gang was with Walsh

[@rosskstar]

Think they'd have done better staying a trio, less vocals but more Bolin guitar.

[@skaz777]

This is James Gang?

[@fredcloud9668]

Jim Fox.

[@Washington-Dreaming]

Man, if I had silver pants I’d be cool too. I guess it’s not to be.

[@rosskstar]

You might have to speak with the MAN FROM THE SILVER MOUNTAIN ♫

[@brianmerrick2045]

So not the James Gang. The Tommy Bolin band maybe.

[@BIGLON-cf1ul]

The only James gang I ever heard of was Joe Walsh and the james gang and joe walsh was the singer so i am confused was joe Walsh's James gang a different band with the same name? Can someone enlighten me on this?

[@ragnadrabinowitz7629]

yeah, with joe walsh they were a trio.

[@BIGLON-cf1ul]

@@ragnadrabinowitz7629 so were they both singers? I've only heard Joe Walsh singing? Was he with them when they started or when did he join?

[@ragnadrabinowitz7629]

@@BIGLON-cf1ul joe walsh was guitar and vocals.

[@ragnadrabinowitz7629]

@@BIGLON-cf1ul the james gang was originally a trio

[@curtisphilumalee1447]

This was after Joe Walsh left the James Gang.

[@BIGLON-cf1ul]

Which version of the james gang was better or more successful? With or without joe walsh?

[@barcham]

Neither version was particularly successful, at least not by today's standards. They had their fans, I have always been one of them, but they never had the success of other contemporary successful bands.

[@BIGLON-cf1ul]

@@barcham gotcha! Thanks for that info!

[@brianmerrick2045]

@@BIGLON-cf1ulsuccess? Measured how? The version following JW pales in comparison. Listen to James Gang live. Couldn't hold him back. Started his solo work, eventually the eagles. His music is varied and true to his heart. Killer guitar player with an identifiable sound. I know him when I hear him.

[@thomassargent6684]

Who was on drums at this time?

[@recordguy4321]

Jimmy Fox the original drummer from 66 before Joe Walsh joined

[@MatSymmonds]

I thought that splits was played in reverse, Who the hell did he get back up

[@jimfenstermaker400]

First

[@BrianKliewer]

I prefer the Joe gang, and that's not a political statement.

[@StephanieJeanne]

I do, too. This was okay, just not quite as good, imo.

[@michaelheller8841]

Tommy is a great player and all but James Gang for me is Joe Walsh all the way.

[@KittyGrizGriz]

@@BrianKliewer Joe’s the reason I bought ‘73 album “The Smoker You Drink the Player You Get” when it was released, because of the fantastic “Rocky Mountain Way.” “The song features Walsh using a guitar talk box manufactured by sound engineer Bob Heil, inventor of the Heil high-powered talk box. The distinct tone "... gives Walsh's blues stomp a futuristic wave, as if a hulking mechanical beast was looming just over those rocky mountains." Nobody can rock a head bandanna quite like Joe Walsh, either. I Love the song “Meadows” from the same album, it’s sooo pretty.

[@jmont8943]

@@KittyGrizGriz Barnstorm was the bomb.

[@shanemcconnell1736]

Terrible mix, it’s all Bass?

[@barcham]

Nope. That is the way the song was recorded. Nothing at all wrong with the mix. Oh, and yes, I have the original, on vinyl, and just checked. 😋

[@shanemcconnell1736]

@@barcham so I hadn’t heard this song in probably 35 years until today, so I went back and listen to it. After your comment, you’re right the base is that loud on the LP, but the guitar is louder in the mix, although not really loud, but I can barely hear it on the live version? Great song, though I was like this song.

[@PeterSokol-bl5vz]

Sad.