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The early Seventies were the age of the great guitar heroes: Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, and Toni Iommi. It was also the era of Ritchie Blackmore and his extravagant stage show and unusual style, which helped to make Deep Purple one of the most important hard rock acts of their generation. When Blackmore left Deep Purple in 1975, the heir to his throne was Tommy Bolin, a young guitarist who had the world at his feet and a promising future at the tender age of 23. However, BolinÂ?s career was to last merely a brief seven years. When he died on December 4, 1976, he was only 25 years old. Similarly to Jimi Hendrix, Bolin also enjoys an excellent reputation beyond his death. BolinÂ?s solo albums, Teaser and Private Eyes, which arrived at the stores shortly before and after PurpleÂ?s Come Taste The Band are considered to be 70s rock classics. Following a stunning show with Jeff Beck in Miami/Florida on December 3, 1976, Bolin lost consciousness at his hotel. He was already dead by the time the paramedics arrived the next morning. A drug overdose, together with alcohol, was diagnosed as the cause of death. But his short musical journey has left us with a taste of just how great this musical genius was, and how he would have changed the course of modern music had he lived. Thirty years later his fans are still shocked by his early passing. SPV have compiled this second Bolin retrospective, Whips And Roses 2, featuring previously unreleased tracks, which testify to the AmericanÂ?s amazing talent as a guitarist, vocalist and composer. All tracks on Whips And Roses 2 are either alternative versions of familiar material or previously unreleased songs from incredible studio sessions, previously believed to have been lost. Project producer Greg Hampton has gone to painstaking efforts to ensure that the Whips And Roses compilations are unquestionably the best sounding Tommy Bolin releases to this date. Both Whips And Roses releases are perfect introduction points for the curious and casual and absolutely essential for fans of 70Â?s guitar wizardry and of BolinÂ?s unsurpassed and lost talent.