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Saw Robin Trower last night. Front row seat, about 4 feet from Robin. He's old, he's ugly, he has mad tone and he's plain awesome. Played one Strat the whole show, through a pair of Marshalls. Fulltone pedals everywhere. He looks to be in good health, and looks like he had a blast playing. Did I mention he's loud? It's true - he plays very loud.

Same small club has George Clinton & P Funk playing in a few weeks (you listening, MAXI?). Life's pretty good :)
 
Lucky you. I'd really like to see him too. Unfortunately that requires that I travel a long distance to do so. Did you take earplugs with you? I knew Robin is loud especially if you are that close in front of him. Playing loud is fun.:dude
 
Saw him once live in concert and it was his birthday. You can imagine the atmosphere was pretty good. Trower is a great player and he has cool songs on board. I like the singer in his band. He looks like a little schoolboy with his glasses, but he's top notch in singing Trowers compositions :-)
 
I saw him twice back in the 80s, both were very good shows, but loud. He had four 100-watt Marshall stacks, IIRC. One would have sufficed at the venue he was playing. Great player, awesome tone.
 
He plays the same club here every year, as does Johnny Winter and a slew of other fine folk. Also, I just bought floor seats to the Rush show about two miles away (June concert). I have a guest bedroom, Marnold, if you ever want to catch some great live music. :)

The venue I saw Robin at was The Handlebar. Taking my daughter there to see Apocalyptica in March, if I can sneak a minor in ;)
 
I like the singer in his band.
I think he has Davey Pattison back in the fold from the 80s, if so, you should have liked him, he's one of the unsung greats and handles the old Trower classics very well in his own style.
 
Yup, it was Davey. The bass player, drummer & singer were all in Gamma a few years ago.
 
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