Robin Trower
Robin Trower
Robin Leonard Troweris an English rock guitarist and vocalist who achieved success with Procol Harum during the 1960s, and then again as the bandleader of his own power trio...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth9 March 1945
kings real three
The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.
past boards my-past
I will obviously take on board everything from my past, I always do.
song arrangements
My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.
I've always been the first to admit that Jimi was a very big influence on my early stuff.
play air stuff
The BBC, during its 24 hours on the air, plays a very wide range of stuff. And it's not commercial.
thinking
There's more power in the simpler things, I think.
thinking people way
Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.
thinking technique fundamentals
I think the fundamental part of my technique is my vibrato.
thinking done proud
I have done some things that I'm very proud of. I don't think you can say any more than that, really.
song thinking way
To me there's a definite way of doing a song. If I didn't think that, I wouldn't have done it that way in the first place.
giving people feels
If you feel people getting on about what you are doing, it gives you a lift.
school weather snow
I remember the snow in Canada and the lovely weather in New Zealand. And I slightly remember going to school there.