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Maybe so, but this article reads like it was written by Trower's press agent. I marked it for some work. Wasted Time R 22:36, 12 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

the man is an amazing guitar player, but he isint really anything new, he sounds like hendrix and clapton combined, he dosent have a super original sound
- nothing wrong with tone of article, Trower is indeed an effing genius
  - Okaaaaay, I get the picture. Wasted Time R 03:33, 6 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, definite work does need to be done on the page, much too short and encompasses so little of his career. I'll update it and write a couple sections in it within the next few days. - Patman2648 04:46, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

But that's Trower - he is indeed an effing genius, but receives less drooling attention than, say, Hendrix or Clapton or Page, or even Jeff Beck for that matter. And I think it's significant that at 62-plus years old Trower is still putting out stuff that is arguably as good as anything he's ever put out, and his live playing is still astounding. DLChambers 03:30, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Trower has been around since 1967 on-record - his Les Paul playing with Procol Harum is different than his Stratocaster solo career. 50.111.59.83 (talk) 05:08, 10 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The tone of this article gets rather discursive at times, particularly in relation to the Stevie Ray Vaughn/Hendrix sound-a-like paragraph. While I concur that Trower is an effing genius, I think I'll probably try and rewrite this section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.254.67.93 (talk) 12:54, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That'd be nice! I really don't like that "if you listen to SRV you can hear Trower" bit at all...OR, non-npov, whatever Vonbontee (talk) 08:15, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Discography Not Complete

Some titles not listed in discography are: King Biscuit Flower Hour, Live At BBC, Live San Francisco 1973, Too Rolling Stoned Live, Live in Seattle -98, Champions of Rock, The Robin Trower Portfolio (1987 - Chrysalis MPCD 1600)

Link

The newest album, "what lies beneath", links to an article about a movie by the same name. There should be a "What lies beneath (album)" article, but I don't know enough about Trower to write it. Perhaps somebody else would do it? ForeignWindowFrame (talk) 13:43, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

secondary school?

The articles says he (and Brooker) attended Southend High School. A person added "[Believe this should be Westcliff High School for Boys]" which obviously doesn't belong in the body of the article, so I move it here. Whether it's true or not I don't know. --Herostratus (talk) 02:44, 27 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect info

Hi,

The article states that Robin Trower grew up in England in the seaside village of Southend-on-Sea, Essex. I am from New Zealand and it's always been known here that although he was born in England his family emigrated soon afterwards and he lived for some years in Canada, then New Zealand (in Gisborne) and only returned to England in his teens(at about 17 years of age). I read plenty of articles about this in my youth in magazines like Cream.

I did a quick search after reading this article and found a site with an actual interview with Trower which confirms this. Details as follows:

Robin Trower: from '20th Century Guitar' Magazine: part one www.procolharum.com/rt-20c-guit-1.htm

Block all www.procolharum.com results

Had Robin Trower remained as Procol Harum's lead guitarist, his place in ... but we emigrated first to Canada then to New Zealand after when I was about two.

You may want to look into this a bit further...

23 August 2012 mw — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.58.67.98 (talk) 10:48, 23 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Studio album "Go My Way" listed twice

I'm just not facile at editing tables and anything I do to delete it just messes everything up. Sorry. Apesbrain (talk) 14:51, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Influence

Good to know which other artists acknowledge his influence on their sound, style and techniques. yoyo (talk) 09:04, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]