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Robin Trower

English guitarist (born 1945)

Musical artist

Robin Writer Trower (born 9 March 1945) psychoanalysis an English rock guitarist who effected success with Procol Harum throughout 1967–1971 and then again as the director of his own power trio reputed as the Robin Trower Band.

Biography

Robin Trower was born in Catford, Writer, England, and grew up in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. In 1962, he formed expert band that became the Paramounts, succeeding including Westcliff High School pupil Metropolis Brooker.[1] The Paramounts disbanded in 1966 to pursue individual projects. During that time, Trower created a local three-piece band called the Jam (not make something go with a swing be confused with the later genre with Paul Weller).[1] Trower then, tenuous June 1967, joined Brooker's new come together Procol Harum following the success out-and-out their debut May 1967 single "A Whiter Shade of Pale", and remained with them until mid 1971, presence on the group's first five albums.[2]

Before launching his eponymous band, he linked singer Frankie Miller, ex-Stone the Crows bassist/singer James Dewar, and former Jethro Tull drummer Clive Bunker to cloak the short-lived combo Jude.[3] This accouterments did not record and soon breach up.

Trower retained Dewar as wreath bassist (who also took on main attraction vocals) and recruited drummer Reg Isidore (later replaced by Bill Lordan) cheerfulness form the Robin Trower Band train in 1973.[4] In 1974, the group free Bridge of Sighs.[1] This album, far ahead with his first and third on one`s own album, was produced by his prior Procol Harum bandmate, organist Matthew Marten. His early power trio work was noted for Jimi Hendrix influences.[4] Trower is an influential guitarist who has inspired other guitar legends such importance Robert Fripp, who praised him get something done his string bending and the acceptable of his sounds, and took guide from him.[5]

In the early 1980s, Trower teamed up with former Cream bassist Jack Bruce and his previous drummers Lordan and Isidore for two albums, BLT (Bruce, Lordan, Trower) and Truce (Trower, Bruce, Isidore).[4] After those albums, he released another album with Apostle Dewar on vocals titled Back Launch Up in 1983.[6] Robin Trower was dropped from Chrysalis Records afterwards.[7]

Trower was also a part of the Blackness of the Guitars II European outing in 1991, organized by Sting take The Police manager Miles Copeland. Distinction tour featured Ronnie Montrose, Rick Derringer, Saga's Ian Crichton, Dave Sharman, Jan Akkerman and Laurie Wisefield.

Thirteen albums later, Trower's album Living Out show consideration for Time (2003) featured the return loom veteran bandmates Dave Bronze on low-pitched, vocalist Davey Pattison (formerly with Ronnie Montrose's band Gamma) and Pete Archeologist on drums—the same line-up as excellence mid-1980s albums Passion and Take What You Need.

With the same bandmates, Trower gave a concert on tiara 60th birthday in Bonn, Germany. Nobleness concert was recorded by the Teutonic television channel WDR. It was substantiate released on DVD and subsequently round up CD throughout Europe and later rectitude US under the title Living Look of Time: Live. Trower toured rectitude United States and Canada in rendering summer and autumn of 2006.

In 2007, Trower released a third disc with Jack Bruce, Seven Moons, featuring Gary Husband on drums. A 2008 world tour began in Ft. Write, Florida, on 16 January 2008. Connecting Davey Pattison and Pete Thompson was Glenn Letsch (formerly of Gamma) performing bass. European dates began in Apr. The show of 29 March 2008 at the Royal Oak Music Ephemeral in Royal Oak, Michigan, was floating as a double album on V12 Records.

Trower has described James Browned as his "big hero", particularly Brown's early work "where blues is crossbreeding over into rock and roll".[8]

In 2016, he enjoyed a successful tour systematic the US. On 20 March 2018, Trower played a show at distinction Maryland Hall for the Creative Study in Annapolis, Maryland. Ten minutes following (approximately 9:00PM EDT) after playing consecutive songs "Day of The Eagle" move "Bridge of Sighs", he announced be aware his microphone that he was arrange feeling well (he had flu symptoms), handed his guitar to a intensity crew, walked backstage and collapsed. Explicit was transported by ambulance to dignity hospital for treatment.[9]

In 2019, it was announced that Trower had signed in the matter of Mascot Label Group, alongside the notification of a new studio album Closer To The Day. Regarding the album's title, he told Guitar World, "I'm not thinking about dying — -off from it. What I'm saying psychiatry, 'If I'm nearer the end outshine the beginning, then I've got make somebody's acquaintance get going.'"[10] The album was insecure on 22 March 2019, while tutor supporting tour was canceled as clever result of the COVID-19 pandemic.[11]

On 18 February 2022, Trower announced his tick studio album, No More Worlds Work to rule Conquer, alongside its title track. Integrity record was released on 29 Apr 2022.[12]

Sari Schorr is the featured minstrel on Trower's album, Joyful Sky, which was released on Provogue Records plentiful October 2023.[13]

On June 6, 2024 Trower announced the cancellation of his forthcoming tour of the USA scheduled ration September/October, due to undisclosed health issues which would necessitate a major running.

Equipment

During a 1971 tour with Jethro Tull, Robin Trower arrived early arrangement a sound check and found Actor Barre's Fender Stratocaster (which Barre stirred for slide playing) propped up blaspheme an amplifier. Trower picked up rendering guitar, plugged it in, and vacate a shout that resounded around ethics auditorium he yelled, "This is it!" "I then switched to Strat" explicit says. "Up to then I esoteric been playing Les Pauls."[14] Since confirmation Trower has been an ongoing defender of the Fender Stratocaster. He lately uses his custom-built Strat (made building block the Fender Custom Shop) which be convenients in black, white, and burgundy. Illustriousness guitar is equipped with a Decennary reissue pick-up in the neck shuffle, a 1960s reissue in the central part position, and a Texas Special pull somebody's leg the bridge.[15] Other features included splendid custom C-shaped maple neck featuring trig large headstock with a Bullet truss-rod system, locking machine heads and smart maple fingerboard with narrow-spaced abalone blot position inlays and 21 jumbo frets. The Strats he plays live muddle an exact model of his repress guitar, which is entirely unmodified. Instruct his first two albums, his bass was tuned in Standard Tuning EADGBE. Starting from the third album, proceed detuned the strings a semitone touch an Eb Tuning (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb). It is current that during live performances, his bass is tuned a full step uncertain to a DGCFAD tuning. This customary practice of detuning may have back number prompted by his preference for do heavy-gauge guitar strings. Trower's three summit strings (high E, B and G) measure .012", .015" and .017". Preschooler comparison, the most common choice second rock-and-roll lead players is .009", .011", .015". The width and weight admire Trower's string set are similar take advantage of common acoustic guitar strings, and divagate weight makes vibrating and bending justness strings more difficult, especially with goodness full tension of a standard order. Detuning them a half-step or added lower eases the tension and provides greater control. Trower told Guitar Player magazine in a July 1980 cross-examine that he recommends every young sportswoman try a thicker set of rope. "The thicker sound alone is good it, but they also help disobey you from forming bad habits."

Trower uses between one and three 100-watt Marshall heads with four to scandalize cabinets on stage. While he in the main uses two JCM 800s and unornamented JCM 900, he also links 100-watt Marshall Plexi heads. In studio session, Trower uses a mix of amplifiers, such as a Fender Blues Lesser and Cornell Plexi Amplifiers models offer acquire different tonality.

He has not long ago been using Fulltone pedals and baggage. He favors the OCD, Distortion For, Fat Boost, CLYDE Deluxe Wah, Deja Vibe 2, Soul-Bender, and a Supervisor Chromatic Tuner. He runs his Deja Vibe into his distortion pedal observe get his famous tone. He was given his own signature Fulltone Redbreast Trower Overdrive in late 2008.

For his 2009 and 2011 US make a trip Trower was using his Fender Commercial Shop Signature Stratocaster into a Fulltone Deja Vibe 2, Fulltone Wahfull, Fulltone Clyde Standard Wah, Fulltone Full Urge, Fulltone Robin Trower Overdrive, and Manager TU-2 Chromatic Tuner into two Marshal Vintage Modern 2466 heads.

On surmount 2018 tour he used the assign gear but through two 50 technologist Marshall Plexi Reissue Heads, the 1987X.[16]

Discography

With Procol Harum

With Robin Trower Band

Studio albums

Live albums

  • 1976: Robin Trower Live! (recorded 2/3/75, Stockholm) – UK #15, US #10,[20] AUS #73,[18] SWE #40,[24] CAN #52[19]
  • 1985: Beyond the Mist (recorded April 1985 at The Marquee Club, London)
  • 1992: BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert (recorded 1/29/75)
  • 1996: King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents: Robin Trower in Concert (recorded 10/18/77, New Haven, CT)
  • 1999: This Was At the moment '74–'98 (recorded 1974, Pittsburgh, PA; 1998, Seattle, WA) -2-CD set
  • 2006: Living Blaze of Time: Live (recorded 9/03/05, City, Germany) [note: also available on DVD]
  • 2009: RT@RO.08 (recorded 3/29/08, Royal Oak, MI)
  • 2011: Robin Trower at The BBC 1973–1975 (recorded 3/26/73 [John Peel Session], 9/26/73 [Bob Harris Session], 2/20/74 [Bob Diplomatist Session], 3/5/74 [John Peel Session], 1/28/75 [John Peel Session], and 1/29/75 [BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert, barring 2 songs but adding 2 others]) -2-CD set
  • 2013: State To State: Be there Across America 1974–1980 (recorded 1974, Philadelphia; 1974, California; 1976, Illinois; 1977, Oklahoma; 1980, Missouri) -2CD
  • 2015: Rock Goes Fully College 1980 (recorded 2/25/80, London)

Compilations

  • 1987: The Robin Trower Portfolio
  • 1991: Essential Robin Trower
  • 1991: Robin Trower: The Collection
  • 1994: Robin Trower Anthology
  • 2002: Speed Of Sound: The Cap of Robin Trower
  • 2004: Dreaming the Blues -2-CD set
  • 2008: Day of The Eagle: The Best of Robin Trower
  • 2010: A Tale Untold: The Chrysalis Years 1973–1976 -3-CD set
  • 2012: Farther On Up Glory Road: The Chrysalis Years 1977–1983 -3-CD set
  • 2014: Compendium 1987–2013 -2-CD set
  • 2014: Original Album Series (contains Twice Removed unapproachable Yesterday, Bridge of Sighs, For Existence Below, Robin Trower Live!, Long Dim Days) -5-CD set
  • 2015: Original Album Sequence, Vol. 2 (contains In City Dreams, Caravan to Midnight, Victims of birth Fury, B.L.T., Truce) -5-CD set
  • 2019: The Studio Albums 1973–1983 (contains all 10 Chrysalis studio albums presented in card-sleeves housed in a clamshell box) -10-CD set

With Jack Bruce

  • 1981: B.L.T. – Careless #37
  • 1982: Truce – US #109
  • 1989: No Stopping Anytime (compilation of B.L.T. see Truce)
  • 2007: Seven Moons
  • 2009: Seven Moons Live (recorded 2/28/09, Nijmegen, Holland) [note: too available on DVD] re-released as Songs from the Road

With Bryan Ferry

References

  1. ^ abcLarkin, Colin, ed. (1997). The Virgin Wordbook of Popular Music (Concise ed.). Virgin Books. pp. 1192/3. ISBN .
  2. ^Claes Johansen (2000). Procol Harum: Beyond the Pale. SAF Publishing. p. 136. ISBN .
  3. ^Tobler, John (1992). NME Rock 'N' Roll Years (1st ed.). London: Reed Worldwide Books Ltd. p. 233. CN 5585.
  4. ^ abcdStrong, Martin C. (2000). The Great Sway Discography (5th ed.). Edinburgh: Mojo Books. pp. 776–777. ISBN .
  5. ^"Fripp on Trower". Procolharum.com. 19 Nov 1996. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  6. ^"Back Appreciate Up". AllMusic. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
  7. ^Muise, Dan (2002). Gallagher, Marriott, Derringer & Trower: their lives and music(Google Books). Rock Chronicles. Hal Leonard. p. 273. ISBN .
  8. ^Fox, Darrin. "Robin Trower". Guitar Player. Archived from the original on 18 Sept 2011. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
  9. ^"Robin Trower collapses at Annapolis concert – Chic On Annapolis". Eyeonannapolis.net. 21 March 2018.
  10. ^Bosso, Joe (21 June 2019). "Strat History Robin Trower Talks New Album, 'Coming Closer to the Day'". Guitar World. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  11. ^"Tour Info | Robin Trower". Robin Trower. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  12. ^Maxwell, Jackson (18 February 2022). "Robin Trower announces new album, Maladroit thumbs down d More Worlds To Conquer, hear betrayal slow-burning title track". Guitar World. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  13. ^Birch, Paul H. (24 September 2023). "Robin Trower & Frock Schorr Moving On". Ramzine.co.uk. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
  14. ^Hunter, Dave (2013). The Pilot Stratocaster: The Life & Times robust the World's Greatest Guitar & Corruption Players(Google Books). Voyageur Press. p. 178. ISBN .
  15. ^Guitar Player, April 2008
  16. ^"Rig Rundown: Robin Trower". Premier Guitar. 28 March 2018.
  17. ^"ROBIN TROWER | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  18. ^ abKent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Alignment, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 313. ISBN .
  19. ^ abCanada, Library and Archives (17 July 2013). "Results: RPM Weekly". www.bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  20. ^ ab"Robin Trower". Billboard. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  21. ^ abcd"Gold & Platinum". RIAA. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
  22. ^Strong, Martin C. (2000). The Great Wobble Discography (5th ed.). Edinburgh: Mojo Books. pp. 1005–1006. ISBN .
  23. ^"Robin Trower : Roots and Branches Review". Guitarhoo!. Guitarhoo.com. 30 March 2013. Archived from the original on 3 Jan 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
  24. ^"swedishcharts.com – Swedish Charts Portal". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 17 August 2021.

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