Robin Trower - Too Rolling Stoned - San Francisco 1975

[danbaskin22]

SICKKKKKKK!!!!!!! I love these guys. Shreading......... Im at a loss..

[Gina0071000]

real stuff not fake!!

[10hershel]

I was at that concert, the year I graduated from High School. I can still rememberrrrr the energy and the trippppppppppppppy.....

[photoslum]

some jackass wrote that trower wasnt fit to lick hendrix's boots and that half the world would agree. that may be one of the most ignorant things ever said

[daddyagogo]

Great stuff this 75' Trower songs. I saw this show in Tulsa, OK that year - thanks for bringing it back to life.

[JFPriest]

3 people just ate a shit sandwich.....

[70sMusicFanatic]

F@ck Yeah! That's how its done. Dewar's voice is the coolest. Robin is pretty good too ;-)

[clocktime11]

great tone , very sweet, good wahwah work, it just all comes together here, i really don't understand how rolling stone screwed up so bad.

[davidson2004fatboy]

Not enough credit DUE here, Robin Trower is one of the TOP 5 GREATEST guitarist's in the world!

[tariksba]

i remember when they called him the white Hendrix...

[danoto1000]

@tariksba HE WAS BETTER THEN HENDRIX

[megashred69]

if rollingstone left him out of the top 100 their a bunch of friggin idiots, he should be in the top 6 awesome guitarists, and bridge of sighs is one of the best albums ever

[blue0clock]

Having said that, this was Trower at his finest. So confident, so lyrical. Historical video.

[bweimer157]

I saw Robin Trower two nights in a row at Winterland in the spring of 1975. Also on the bill was Journey, pre-steve perry and the warm up was Pablo Cruise. Leave it to Bill Graham to put Pablo Cruise on the same bill as Journey & Trower. Anyway, I think this video is from that show. It was so awesome the first night that I had to come back for the next. I can't thank you enough for putting the vid up. What ever happened to all of the video that was shot over the years at winterland?

[eslmc]

Yes! One of the all time greats. Saw him at the Cotati Caberet. A small club in N. Calif. Opened with Day of the Eagle. Everyone leaped onto the dance floor and never left.

[blimpboy1]

Everything worked here. The guitarin, the bassin', vocals. This is what it is all about.

[stikhi]

He's just such an awesome. lyrical and funky guitarist. I only just found him. I wish it hadn't taken so long. Awesome clip.

[isl1551]

What a voice and guitar tone! Robin Trower ftw!

[jplent]

Great solo!!!

[lookingood364]

This music makes me want to take my clothes off and dance.

[MsMeatloaf69]

my 14th birthday yeah my pop bought me the album long live robin and co

[Jeet226]

My favorite guitar solo ever period.

[ledfingers1]

Saw him in the 70's outdoor concert in Phoenix AZ with other groups, and back in them days outdoor desert concerts could range in sounds from usually muddy to echo...but Robin Trowers sound was so strong and pure! It was to die for! (but I lived) If you were there, pls. comment, as I am not the historin to those times, but I wa there.

[tmthord]

bad ass

[RMT7312]

i just found out who he is...he clearly has worked very hard to sound as close to Hendrix as possible--he really really...really does. And that's a good thing for sure. I love his sound and his versatility. And this is just a personal thing, but I wish he sounded a little less like Hendrix and found his own really unique sound. Then again, if someone heard me play guitar, they'd probably say I sound like a Trey/Clapton rip off lol.

[pike9346]

@RMT7312 If you can't hear the difference in his playing then you don't have an ear for music! He "has" developed his own unique sound and tone and even at 65 is doin' it up like he did in his 20's! He happened to be buds with Hendrix and they jammed in London but Trower, since the beginning has worked on his own style that an ear for music can decifer!

[RMT7312]

@pike9346 no ear for music? ya I suppose youre right. I'm just a self-taught guitarist, pianist, and singer, born with absolute pitch...no big deal. If you cant hear the similarities in the tone, than you certainly have no ear. His very emphatic vibrato, the notes he chooses, the phrasing in each measure or half measure, the use of dominant sevenths, his effects, the pickups in the guitar he uses. I study guitar solos and the character of every note. Don't tell me about an ear for music.

[RMT7312]

@pike9346 but I do like his playing very much, so don't think I'm undermining the skill of one of your favorite artists. He is unique, every guitarist is. It just screams Hendrix more than any guitarist I've ever heard besides the man himself.

[manixman111]

@RMT7312 Well said, Trower absolutely copied Jimi's style as did Stevie Ray!

[manixman111]

@pike9346 Decipher is the correct spelling!

[jplent]

@pike9346 yes....

[ibcalif]

Robin always had the best "guitar sex" faces! Great video!

[lebowski61]

outstanding trio for that time in music

[56BUICKRiviera]

Winterland was a rock n roll dreamland till the show was over and your car was vandalized.

[captinvideo1]

Rolling Stone magazine left him off of the 100 greatest guitarists list. What a crock!

[stockliskirep]

@captinvideo1 I agree 1000% after all its rolling stone mag they left out a bunch and I would say around 60 who did make it shouldnt even be in the top million on anyones pole

[rich655]

@captinvideo1

Rolling Stone stopped being a credible music magazine 30 years ago!!!

What the flying shit do they know!!!!

[petrus805]

@captinvideo1 Rolling Stone magazine sucks.

Lets make all together a youtubelist.

[sharktooth1959]

@captinvideo1 WHAT ?!?! Who's the editor, Justin Dweeber ?

[jasilvapt]

Awesome. I was at this show I was thirteen and it was my first concert ever. If it is the one from winterland, Wishbone ash and Eddie Money opened up the show. He was the reason I started playing guitar and continue to play even at 48.

[56BUICKRiviera]

@jasilvapt yourthinken of the next show trower did at winterland. This show opened with Steve Marriot and Tommy Bolin. I remember Eddy Money openin the next trower concert.

[privatebollocks]

they were awesome last night! just as good as when this video was taken, man!

[GuitarsPeople]

NOW Thats the way a Strat is supposed to Sound Kids! 

[plumpjoint]

@GuitarsPeople Les Pauls sound better play easier. Did I mention Gibsons Rule

[homeworldmusic]

@plumpjoint yeah, I'm a Gibson fan over Fender, but Robin is so fluid it has got to be partially the axe that gets him to that point, so kudos to Fender

[68mpalmer]

have seen Robin 3 times in and around Chicago. Got to meet and greet with him in Elgin,Il. Coolest dude to sit and talk with and OMG what a f---ing amazing guitarist!

[CLARKPEST]

Yeah, he's coming to Chico March 4th at the El Rey Theater. I won't miss it.

[Larkd1]

@CLARKPEST Glad to see the El Rey is still going strong. Long live Chico State (Chico Alum class of 78)

[nuge4pres]

This is just SICK!!!!!!!!!! and Trower has gotten better with age!

[mamaoz1275]

WOW!

[mamasboy815]

We used to call it underwater lead.Very uniqe,kin to hendrix but uniqe!

[MinorMeriwether]

2:40 is sooooooo fucking killer. robin kills it.

[MrLonghairlimy2]

Trower just plain kicks ass.

[chuck6289]

This should be a Fender advertisement!

[nuge4pres]

This is music!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MrDavidcole]

The closest we can......to a time machine! I plan on catching two shows in Baton Rouge LA and New Orleans this coming Feb........But the past is the past....Thank you for finding this stuff and putting it up for every one to experience. Live forever the right to post and view over the net these remarkable videos.........Thanks!

[bang12shock]

An under-appreciated artist if ever there were. Thank goodness for this YouTube stuff or we would have lost Trower's work forever...and the late great Dewar and Lordan also deserve props they never received. I was 17 and living in Palo Alto when this was recorded.  I didn't see it live but I had the disks and I wore them out.

[Sio122804]

THE MAN !! I`m a player & this man absolutely makes the hair on my neck stand up . Great video for the time. He`s tearin it up at the end of this. I love that modulation, and so does Robin by the look on his face !

Thanks for posting this

[HemiHead66]

Had this in my favs and it vanished. What happened, the music police caught up with ya? Thank's for putting it back. Now, if I can find the, Messin the blues, that also vanished, youl'll have made my day.

[StephenRedrobe]

@HemiHead66 - Well, I've made your day, because that one is back too.