Wild Dogs 12-3-1976 - The Tommy Bolin Band

VIDEO PREMIER - The Tommy Bolin Band - Wild Dogs -December 3rd 1976. - Tommy Bolin did not have to die after his performance on December 3, 1976 in Miami. Tommy was running away and running to becoming Elvis. He couldn’t help and it wasn’t his fault that he had addictive tendencies. He came to Denver in the fall of 1967 at 16 at exactly the same time that the mafia bread, and born gambling addict Barry Fey had opened The Family Dog with Chet Helms from San Francisco in Denver. Tommy, at that moment, figured he had found his key to the highway. Instead he had found his key to a coffin. We love you Tommy - we were and still are here for you. You deserved much much much better. You became Elvis just as Rich demanded. Except you were more talented. And the ultimate irony is you preceded him in death and both of you died because of your managers. But I don’t believe Col. Tom collected a million dollars in life insurance like Fey did - leaving nothing but chaos for the Bolin family. It was a unpunished crime.