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Tommy Bolin formed the Tommy Bolin Band in March 1976, immediately after the collapse of Deep Purple Mk 4. The band toured playing material from Tommy’s Teaser album along with a few songs from keyboardist Mark Stein and drummer Narada Michael Walden until the departure of Walden in late May 1976. Tommy has also just finished moving from the Nemporer Records label to Columbia Records, and it was time to come up with a new album to promote and tour in support of. Private Eyes was co-produced by Tommy Bolin and Dennis MacKay. MacKay had first met Tommy in October 1975 at Trident Studios in London during work done there to complete Tommy’s Teaser album. At that time MacKay had been instructed to help Tommy play back the 16-track tapes of Teaser basic tracks so he could hear the sound of Trident’s mixing room, and they had developed a connection during playback that led to MacKay working with Tommy in earnest, receiving credit as Producer for “People People” and “Marching Powder” on Teaser. After Teaser was finished Tommy played with Deep Purple and then formed the Tommy Bolin Band. During this period MacKay stayed in touch with Tommy and his manager Barry Fey, and before Tommy entered the studio to work on Private Eyes he contacted MacKay, summoning him to Los Angeles to stay at Tommy’s place so they could choose material and do pre-production. Tommy played most of the songs and ideas he had together for MacKay right in his living room in the course of one evening using an aco
