Though it's really intended for diehard fans like myself, Days May Come and Days May Go offers a fascinating glimpse into a band in transition. The listener is a veritable fly on the wall of a recording studio, witnessing the meeting of a venerable British rock band and a feisty new American guitarist, Tommy Bolin. It's a combination of jams and songs, two of which ("Owed to 'G'" and "Drifter") would appear on their only studio album together and another ("Dance to the Rock and Roll") that appears in bits during live performances.
The title is particularly apt, as it is a line from the song "Drifter" that didn't make it to the final version that appears on Come Taste the Band. Ultimately the band would part ways with the studio these tracks were recorded at and start anew in Europe. The Bolin era itself was very short, ending with the collapse of the entire band in 1976. Bolin himself died of a heroin overdose at age 25 in December of that year.
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