A letter, previously only ever seen by Tommy & Karen, from the ‘THEN’ owner of Tommy's famous ‘WHITEY’ Strat with the Tele neck. BTW, this isn't the first time that Tommy was mistakenly referred to as “TOMMY BOLAND” :)
For the record, the guitar was NOT on any Zephyr album cover and Rob Cooksey was Deep Purple's manager, who was NOT the recipient of this correspondence :)
The letter and the 2 photos (in original form) will be part of Kare Bare's ‘Tommy Bolin Lives & Gives’ auction...
A HUGE thank you to Kare Bare for sharing this extremely RARE item with us.
SEE THE RESPONSE BELOW...
Karen's Response (on behalf of Tommy)
13 YEARS LATER
Letter from Eric to Pascal S.A. (Belgium)
A lovely bit of historical correspondence (in the days when we actuallyWROTE letter, lol). Letter kindly sent to us by good friend Pascal. Obviously a few things aren't quite correct - ie Tommy didn't have native Indian blood... but all meant in good faith. It wasn't actually Tommy who wrote the letter, it was of course Karen (as per letter above)
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The Tommy Bolin Memorial Fund was originally established by Johnnie Bolin in memory of his brother, in association with the Siouxland Community Foundation. The Ultimate mission is simple... To preserve the music, the memory and the legacy of Tommy Bolin.
