The Firm

After the band split, Page and Rodgers returned to solo work while Chris Slade joined AC/DC and Franklin teamed up with guitarist John Sykes in Blue Murder. Gilmore also had a minor role in the 1998 movie The Big Lebowski as a bowler named Smokey. In subsequent press interviews, Page had indicated that the band was never meant to last more than two albums. Gilmore's fans admire his fine tenor voice, which delivers expressive, pure, country singing. Both Page and Rodgers refused to play any material from their former bands and instead opted for a selection of songs from both their solo albums and new songs which were heavily infused with a soulful and more commercially accessible sound, courtesy of Franklin's fretless bass guitar underpinning and understated song structure. His first solo album, Fair and Square, was released in 1988. Page originally wanted former Yes drummer Bill Bruford and fretless bass virtuoso Pino Palladino in the group; however, Bruford was contracted to another label and Palladino had tour commitments with singer Paul Young. In the 1980s, he moved to Austin.

Formed in 1984, the band—although having a distinguished pedigree (and thus qualifying as a supergroup)—had only mediocre album sales, although they did have sellout tours. Gilmore spent much of the 1970s in an ashram in Denver, Colorado, studying metaphysics. The Firm were a rock group comprising ex-Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, former Bad Company singer Paul Rodgers, ex-Uriah Heep drummer Chris Slade, and Roy Harper bass player Tony Franklin. The three friends continued to reunite for occasional Flatlanders performances, and in May of 2002 released a long-awaited follow-up album, Now Again, on New West records. United States (March 14, 1985 - May 28, 1985). It has since been acknowledged, through Rounder's 1991 reissue, (More a Legend Than a Band) as a milestone of progressive, alternative country. United Kingdom (May 18, 1985 - May 22, 1985). The band's first recording project, from the early 1970s, was barely distributed.

United States (February 28, 1985 - May 11, 1985). The group has been performing on and off since 1972. Europe (November 29, 1984 - December 9, 1984). With Joe Ely and Butch Hancock, Gilmore founded the Flatlanders. Five From the Firm (1986). He was profoundly influenced in the 1960s by the likes of The Beatles and Bob Dylan and the folk music and blues revival in that decade. The Firm Live at Hammersmith 1984 (1984) (limited release video). In the 1950s, he was exposed to the emerging rock and roll of other West Texans such as Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison.

Mean Business (1986). His earliest musical influence was the honky tonk brand of country music that his father played as a bar-band guitarist. The Firm (1985). Gilmore was born in Amarillo, Texas and raised in the West Texas town of Lubbock, Texas. Chris Slade -- Drums and percussion. Jimmie Dale Gilmore (born May 6, 1945) is a country singer, songwriter, recording artist and producer, currently living in Austin, Texas. Tony Franklin -- Bass, keyboards. ISBN 0-679-41567-x.

Paul Rodgers -- Vocals, guitar. In The Country of Country: A Journey to the Roots of American Music, Nicholas Dawidoff, Vintage Books, 1998. Jimmy Page -- Lead guitar. One Endless Night, 2000. Braver Newer World, 1996. Spinning Around the Sun, 1993.

After Awhile, 1991. Jimmie Dale Gilmore, 1989. Fair and Square, 1988.