No shit. But Trower was savvy not to mar those early records with his iffy visage.
― Ian in Brooklyn, Tuesday, 24 January 2006 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Wasn't hard, was it?
― Ian in Brooklyn, Tuesday, 24 January 2006 23:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link
Sabbath = too pro-active and perky. Heh, good joke, you make it sound like a power pop band.
Try and imagine Andrew Eldritch playing guitar on "Day of the Eagle." Now that's hard. It's also hard to imagine singing anything as well as Jimmy Dewar.
― George the Animal Steele, Tuesday, 24 January 2006 23:12 (eighteen years ago) link
I seriously don't know what "goth" is when describing music? Are any of these bands goth?
-early Cat Power-Palace (will oldham)-the CURE's "pornagraphy"
― Brian Jones (Brian Jones), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 01:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 01:43 (eighteen years ago) link
There was the rockin, bluesy, post-Spooky Tooth, Hendrixoid Trower, who did things like "Day of the Eagle."
Clearly, I'm not addressing that Trower. I'm talking about the guy who, on "Hannah", with its buidling multi-track wash of high agita wretched guitars set the foundation for something like Pornography (don't hit me, Ned).
Listen to it. The only thing truly missing is gender confusion--which is why he'd be a godfather of goth, and not the direct link.
Really, if you found a pic of some guy with sunken cheecks, sallow mien and long black hair, played this stuff to a Hot Topic regular and said whaddaya think, you'd get a CD sale pronto.
― Ian in Brooklyn, Wednesday, 25 January 2006 08:07 (eighteen years ago) link
This is insanity, unless you're talking very-end-of-the-first-era Sab (Never Say Die, whose title track btw is fucking awesome). Black Sabbath is quaaludes-n-beer. Yes, in fact, they did have a song called "Snowblind." This does not make their jams any more coke-approprioate. Ludes. Ludes and beer. Please, man.
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 13:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Ludes = USMandies = UK
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 26 January 2006 01:39 (eighteen years ago) link
Not too goth though.
― squrl plise, Thursday, 26 January 2006 04:23 (eighteen years ago) link
It's also hard to imagine singing anything as well as Jimmy Dewar.
May he rest in peace.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 4 January 2009 09:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Been listening to a couple of late-'70s Trower albums lately--In City Dreams and Caravan to Midnight. They're quite good. Dreams still has traces of Bridge of Sighs in it but some of the songs have more of a Santana vibe, and some point towards a cool Hendrix/disco vibe.
Caravan is even better; I've been playing "I'm Out to Get to You" in outloud and people have been going nuts for it. It's not entirely clunker-free and there's no trace of the "goth" sensibility anymore, but its got lots of slow burner jams.
Plus, Jimmy Dewar is the shit.
― Blah Sabbath (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 8 January 2012 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
WHY SO UNFORGIVINGAND WHY SO COLDLONG TIME CROSSINGTHE BRIDGE OF SIGHS
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 26 February 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
I got curious about what he might have done beyond Bridge of Sighs and it turns out he has a new album and it's really good - he really does love an ominous vibe!
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 01:52 (eight years ago) link
All of Trower's recent albums (he's released 7 in the last decade, including one that comes out tomorrow) have been shockingly strong. He's aged into this autumnal blues vibe that I'm not hearing from anyone else except maybe Buddy Guy (check "Done Got Old" from Sweet Tea, way back in 2001, or "A Few Good Years" from last year's The Blues is Alive and Well, or "Crying Out of One Eye" from 2015's Born to Play Guitar).
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 22 March 2019 00:03 (five years ago) link
yeah he's on a roll. then again I love all his 70s albums and a fair number of his 80s ones
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 22 March 2019 01:25 (five years ago) link
I love the old stuff too, but I really feel like Trower is really interesting for having aged gracefully in a way I don't see anybody else doing (though I admit I'm not following Bob Dylan or Van Morrison or whichever old country guys are still alive, maybe they're in some kind of similar mode).
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 22 March 2019 02:17 (five years ago) link
Check this one out, an unexpected new collaboration with Maxi Priest. Unexpected and pretty good. It's got that mix of strings and blues restaint like some of those classic early 70s tracks by BB King or Bobby Womack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBpd_3kIW-Q&feature=youtu.be
― earlnash, Sunday, 11 October 2020 11:35 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD15RrE9v54
― earlnash, Sunday, 11 October 2020 11:36 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y8XVuRG0Gc
― earlnash, Sunday, 11 October 2020 11:37 (three years ago) link
In my mind, I'm kinda loving the idea of a 75 year old Robin Trower calling up his pals to 'check out my new band dudes'. That "Are We Just People" track is good too. Production is really lush.
― earlnash, Sunday, 11 October 2020 11:48 (three years ago) link
Cool.
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 12:45 (three years ago) link
Trower's got a new album out this week, with a female singer, Sari Schorr, on the whole thing. It's called Joyful Sky, which is weirdly optimistic for him: his last two were called Coming Closer to the Day and No More Worlds to Conquer. Anyway, I'm listening to it now and it's really good if you like what he does. Schorr's voice suits the material.
― read-only (unperson), Friday, 27 October 2023 20:35 (five months ago) link
I saw Robin Trower played his first gigs in like 4 years last week or so ago.
It's been almost 20 years since I saw him play with Davey Pattinson, but he was great. At least as a few years ago, he could play as well as ever.
I was listening to the records Trower did with Jack Bruce quite a few times this past winter. That was a good pairing.
― earlnash, Friday, 27 October 2023 22:57 (five months ago) link