Robin Trower - For Earth Below/Live
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Free Music Review: Great 2 on 1 set.
Hit: 5 Stars
This is classic Trower, how could you possibly miss with a master like James Dewar at the microphone, what a voice! Both albums are excellent with the live disc being the best live set to date, check out 'I can't wait much longer' to see the raw emotional playing by the band. 'For Earth Below' is also very good with 'A Tale Untold' ranking as a all-time favourite of mine. Very good sound quality throughout.Free Music Review: Robin Trower and James Dewar at their best
Hit: 5 Stars
Since the earliest Procol Harum, I have been a Trower fan.I have waited for quite a while for For Earth Below to be
reissued. I always HATED the "next Hendrix" moniker albatross
hung around Trower's neck. He is a powerful, unique and
this issue of the two albums together is a fantastic thing
for Trower fans.
Free Music Review: Two Great Trower Albums At One Low Price
Hit: 5 Stars
FOR EARTH BELOW/LIVE is a single-disc compilation of two great Robin Trower albums from the 70s. LIVE is one of the best live albums ever released, and FOR EARTH BELOW was a great follow-up to the exceptional BRIDGE OF SIGHS. Any serious fan of blues-based rock & roll should own this one.Free Music Review: BEST LIVE ROCK ALBUMS EVER
Hit: 5 Stars
BEST LIVE ROCK ALBUMS EVERFree Music Review: Above The Rest
Hit: 4 Stars
By 1975 after the success of his first two albums, Robin Trower was either loved or dissed. If you were lucky enough to attend one of his concerts, there is no way you could admit that anyone on the planet was going to play with more emotion and fire than this man with the bangs, that always dressed in white. If you were thick, you would write-off the amazing talents of this artist as an: "Hendrix Clone".
I was in attendence in San Francisco at the Winterland Arena when Bill Graham made a blunder. He placed Robin Trower, second on the bill to fifties parody rockers: Sha Na Na. Robin's set lasted well over an hour, and almost all of the contents of: "Twice Removed From Yesterday" and "Bridge Of Sighs" were performed. With jaws dropped and still gasping, over half the audience left and headed homewards. It was the greatest guitar playing, I have ever witnessed on any stage, nobody had a right to headline over Robin Trower in 1974...nobody.
How do you top: "Bridge Of Sighs?" Only Robin, himself could answer that question. He simply continued writing music and playing guitar. In 1975, he released his third album: "For Earth Below". It is a worthy successor to the greatness of his first two recordings. Except for the addition of a new drummer: Bill Lordan, this is what we were all expecting from Robin, more great songs and more of his incredible playing.
"Shame The Devil" sets the tone as a solid rock/funk opener. "It's Only Money", is slow and spacey, and Robin uses his effect pedals to fly over you to find notes that exist only out in those galaxies that he is able to soar to. James Dewar, with that gruff voice, is a counterpoint to Robin's guitar, he has never been given his due as a great vocalist, James, gives each number on: "For Earth Below", 150 per-cent of his talents. And the new man; Bill Lordan, does an execellent job as well with his solid playing and accents to everything featured here.
Faster numbers: "Gonna Be Suspicous" and "Alethea" melt together with the slower tunes: "Fine Day" and the dreamlike title track to make this a well-rounded record. "For Earth Below" does not top: "Bridge Of Sighs", but it is that record's equal, in every way.
"Live" was brought out in 1976 and DOES show what Robin's music becomes when he plays in front of an audience. It is my favorite of his 70's records. To hear the amazing track: "Daydream" in this majestic form, will leave you gasping, It is a wonder to hear Robin live,and what he plays here is haunting and beautiful, and this material is so full of fury at the same time. When he held that one note, {For Days} everybody at the concert, I attended, was right there with him for the journey and we could not believe this was happening. "Too Rolling Stoned" goes so much beyond it's studio cousin, as does "I Can't Wait Much Longer", that had grown wings since it's first appearance in 1973. The studio recordings are fine, but they only HINT at what Robin plays live in concert. "Live" is a must-own, for anyone who likes rock, and rock guitar. And when you think about what is not included, it is indeed a shame that the full concert has never been brought forth.
This BGO Two-Fer Disc, is a Bargain. This is One, not to be Missed!
Four Stars!!!