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Robin Trower — Bridge Of Sighs
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woodchuk
(Lunar Lagrange point L1)
Posted: May 09, 2013 - 04:36
 
The first time I went to Venice and saw the "Ponte dei Sospiri" I could not help but think of this Robin Trower masterpiece.  The last thing you'll see before disappearing into the dungeons..

hayduke2
(Southampton, NY)
Posted: Apr 27, 2013 - 07:57
 
huuuuuuwwwwwwwp...................................................poooooooooooooooooooooooo, aw maaannn!!!   Yeah, Trower dude!


He fuckin rulesssss, pass it over here again man.... 

On_The_Beach
(The Blue Planet)
Posted: Apr 08, 2013 - 00:41
 
http://www.clevelandleader.com/files/smoking-joint.jpg
"Duuuuude!"

toterola
(Further)
Posted: Mar 26, 2013 - 20:07
 
 Steve5957 wrote:
My high school buddy bought a pair for Boise 901's that I hung from the ceiling for him in about 1975.  He played the great Bridge of Sighs constantly in a very smoky room.  Damn that was a long time ago! But it is still one of the best ever today!
 
Sounds like we traveled in similar circles. Good times! {#Devil_pimp}

Steve5957
Posted: Mar 07, 2013 - 13:08
 
My high school buddy bought a pair for Boise 901's that I hung from the ceiling for him in about 1975.  He played the great Bridge of Sighs constantly in a very smoky room.  Damn that was a long time ago! But it is still one of the best ever today!

Gajdzin
(Warsaw, Poland)
Posted: Mar 07, 2013 - 13:03
 
Great sound - great recording. Pity everyone knows and discusses the artist behind the microphone or guitar, while the artist behind the mixing board rarely gets mentioned.

nook
(gone)
Posted: Mar 07, 2013 - 12:59
 
this song, delivered directly to the brain via a decent set of headphones can still put me into an altered state of reality....... must be the mental version of muscle memory.

DJ_BellsEye
Posted: Mar 07, 2013 - 12:59
 
Happy to make the acquaintance of Robin Trower. Heavy listening.

ziakut
(Slightly North of Obvlivion)
Posted: Feb 23, 2013 - 09:16
 
Pass the doob dude.

Propayne
(Richmond VA)
Posted: Feb 04, 2013 - 05:54
 
 sbegf wrote:

Ohhhhh....that must be good.  Got to find a copy of that.  :)
 
It is on Opeth's "Watershed" collector's edition 2-disc set.

They do a very nice cover. 

Propayne
(Richmond VA)
Posted: Feb 04, 2013 - 05:50
 
 ScottishWillie wrote:

Totally missed this back in the day but I like this more and more every time I hear it on Radio Paradise.

Is this typical of Robins work and would Bridge of Sighs be a good first album to get?

 
Most would say that the "Bridge of Sighs" album is the best place to start if you are just discovering Trower.

My personal favorite, in fact one of my favorite albums of all-time, is the under rated "In City Dreams" - a very funky, slow simmering late night album.

Give "Falling Star" a spin and crank it up. 

ScottishWillie
(The Scottish Lowlands)
Posted: Jan 23, 2013 - 01:51
 

Totally missed this back in the day but I like this more and more every time I hear it on Radio Paradise.

Is this typical of Robins work and would Bridge of Sighs be a good first album to get?



master_betty
Posted: Jan 03, 2013 - 21:13
 
Reminded me of "What do you want from me?" by Pink Floyd.

Too familiar. 

solrac
(38th parallel)
Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 12:24
 
saw him play this one at day on the green oakland! wine and smoke got me there!!!

Toke
(Bournemouth UK)
Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 12:23
 
Thought it was 'David Clayton Thomas' singing and was quite suprised to see that it wasn't, They would have made an interesting duet.

sbegf
(Manchester, Maryland)
Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 12:21
 
 1wolfy wrote:
Opeth does this song as well, but this is better..
 
Ohhhhh....that must be good.  Got to find a copy of that.  :)

Sloggydog
(UK)
Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 12:21
 
Heard a song off this album the other day then spotify'd the album and then bought the album the same day.  Cracking album.

gypsyman
(just passing through....)
Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 12:21
 
A gettin-high-to oldie......still sounds pretty good....

{#Yes}

nagsheadlocal
(North Carolina, the new New Jersey)
Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 12:21
 
Man, this has long been a favorite of mine. The notes just seem to drip off the strings . . . 

lily34
(GTFO)
Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 12:20
 
never got the appeal of this song.

DoctorHooey
(/etc)
Posted: Nov 21, 2012 - 08:21
 
My teakettle went off just as the wind was building at the end of this track. That turned it up to 11!

capandjudy
(Huntington, WV)
Posted: Nov 02, 2012 - 04:17
 
 Somaosteo wrote:
Am I the only one who can hear someone like Jimi Hendrix in the background????
 
 
Derivative for sure. When this came out I guess that people still had a hunger for Jimi Hendrix. Robin Trower is no Hendrix but he does get an awsome tone.  

Somaosteo
(Bendigo)
Posted: Oct 20, 2012 - 23:58
 
Am I the only one who can hear someone like Jimi Hendrix in the background????
 

nagsheadlocal
(North Carolina, the new New Jersey)
Posted: Sep 19, 2012 - 11:14
 
A perfect cloudless day at Nags Head in '75, relaxing on the fantail of "The Croatoan" after a surf session with a bowlful of square grouper. Woody puts this on the cassette player and the afternoon seems to stretch on forever.

 

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Jul 30, 2012 - 19:23
 
 cc_rider wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_of_Sighs

When I visited the actual bridge, I couldn't help but think of this song. It's just so perfect.
 
Bridge of Sighs is also the first of Olen Steinhauer's mystery/espionage series about a police homicide division in an unnamed eastern European country just after WWII. The others are The Confession, 36 Yalta Boulevard, Liberation Movements, and Victory Square. If you enjoy the genre (think high end: LeCarre, Alan Furst), these are excellent.

Tamster
(Thousand Islands Canada)
Posted: Jul 30, 2012 - 19:16
 
wonderfullllllllllllll, love this so much !

lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Jul 18, 2012 - 12:57
 
So, if we are going to play songs of this kind of style, how about more Soundgarden.

1wolfy
(Mission Viejo California)
Posted: Jul 18, 2012 - 12:55
 
Opeth does this song as well, but this is better..

cc_rider
(Austin Texas. Y'all.)
Posted: Jun 29, 2012 - 08:52
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_of_Sighs

When I visited the actual bridge, I couldn't help but think of this song. It's just so perfect.

sbegf
(Manchester, Maryland)
Posted: Jun 29, 2012 - 08:50
 
 SirLars wrote:
wish i wasn't at work... so this could go LOUD!

 
 
Right with you there!!!

KaiT
(Toronto Canada)
Posted: May 28, 2012 - 11:41
 
 Alexandra wrote:
I grew up with Trower playing across the hall—-on my big brother's stereo. Many times, it was just the bass parts I heard playing, as he played along with headphones on.
 
Grew up with a lot of great sounds floating down from the attic - my brother is also a bassist. At 16 he was crap. Now at 50 he is amazing.

Uriah Heap, Deep Purple, BOC, Zep, Floyd, Grand Funk Railroad. I would sneak into his room and pour over his albums (how I miss double wide album covers). The first album he gave me as a birthday gift, along with his hand-me-down Sears turntable, was Heart's 'Dreamboat Annie' circa 1977. I was 8 years old. To this day I can't help but get transported back to my bedroom with its flowered wallpaper and shag carpet..... 

FrankThuis
Posted: May 16, 2012 - 04:30
 
Ashamed to admit it, but I didn't know this. Why didn't anybody tell me?
Thank you, Bill.

number7
(Napanee, Ontario, Canada)
Posted: Apr 26, 2012 - 18:05
 
Absolutely one of a kind......great.
Thank you Bill

ri_shelton
(A few clicks up the river)
Posted: Apr 26, 2012 - 18:02
 
Mmmmm, maybe a seque into an Iron Butterfly? Maybe "Unconscious Power"

ansugon
Posted: Feb 23, 2012 - 08:07
 
 Proclivities wrote:

If you walk into a record store and ask for the latest Robin Trower eight track, the salesperson is going to stare at you as if you just floated out of a flying saucer.
 
{#Clap}

One of my college roommates had this album on reel-to-reel.

sportskid
(Earth)
Posted: Feb 23, 2012 - 08:04
 
Definative 70's stoner guitar rock. Headphone listening in a cloudy haze.
Not a bad song on the whole album + the great Mr Dewars on vocals.

ckcotton
(Adding snarky comments since 2007)
Posted: Feb 23, 2012 - 08:04
 
8!

Wow.....

NEVER would have guessed..... just dull and drolling

 

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Jan 10, 2012 - 06:05
 
 countyman wrote:

If you walk into a record store and ask for the latest Robin Trower eight track, the salesperson is not going to give you a cd, a cassette tape, or a vinyl record.  the salesperson is going to sell you an eight track tape. 

 
If you walk into a record store and ask for the latest Robin Trower eight track, the salesperson is going to stare at you as if you just floated out of a flying saucer.

Tamster
(Thousand Islands Canada)
Posted: Dec 21, 2011 - 21:24
 
more please...............

Stingray
(NWO reloaded)
Posted: Dec 09, 2011 - 10:52
 
 williamlayla wrote:
 Poacher wrote:
I saw Robin play this at Reading 1975. . . 

 http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/reading-75.html 

It was jolly good if I remember correctly through a haze of Bells whisky and smoke. 

 
For me too it was BELLSD...



Stingray
(NWO reloaded)
Posted: Dec 09, 2011 - 10:48
 
Totally underrated album and artist!

Zep
Posted: Dec 09, 2011 - 10:42
 
Starts at 9 and goes up from there.

The segue to U2 New Year's Day, however, I could skip. 

williamlayla
Posted: Dec 09, 2011 - 10:41
 
 Poacher wrote:
I saw Robin play this at Reading 1975. . . 

 http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/reading-75.html 

It was jolly good if I remember correctly through a haze of Bells whisky and smoke. 
Me too, but it was tequila! 


unclehud
(300 feet above the planet)
Posted: Dec 09, 2011 - 10:38
 
Far out, man.  The world just went into slow motion ...

{as for Archer — see below — the show has a rating for nudity, even though it's a cartoon.  Is cartoon nudity really that dangerous to the youth of the world?}

dlucek
Posted: Dec 07, 2011 - 18:02
 
Great Song, "DayDream" is also excellent.

Bleyfusz
Posted: Nov 20, 2011 - 03:28
 
Somehow, this does not sound like 1974. But neither do BÖC, at the time.

ajlept
(Athens, GA)
Posted: Nov 07, 2011 - 19:50
 
 TerryS wrote:
RT and David Clayton-Thomas have some vocal similarities, but I'm in RT's corner.
 
Actually, vocals on Robin's early stuff including this are sung by James Dewar. A most underrated, soulful singer who left us in 2002.


TerryS
(Another SW)
Posted: Nov 07, 2011 - 19:24
 
RT and David Clayton-Thomas have some vocal similarities, but I'm in RT's corner.

justsomeone
(Between a rock and a hard place)
Posted: Nov 07, 2011 - 18:52
 
 SirLars wrote:
wish i wasn't at work... so this could go LOUD!

 
  
Try {#Music}



listen_n_sf
Posted: Oct 19, 2011 - 13:31
 
 DavidS_UK wrote:
Never heard that before, what an excellent track. an '8'
 
More like 8 track!