Robin Trower-Benny Dancer

Robin Trower's "Benny Dancer" is 9 minutes of Guitar bliss..off of the "Back It Up" album..Most of the pictures were taken by me..some by others

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Music

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• Dewar Benny Dancer
• Trower
• Blues 70's

[TheRockerchef]

So many people have no idea who he is...too bad for them!

[robmlisanti]

@TheRockerchef

You got that right..I'm going to see him here in NYC in June!

[scott93933]

I was a fan back in the 70's and by the early 80's, I didn't like the direction he was going with albums like Caravan to Midnight. It was still good, but just slow and dreamy, not raging and Hendrixy. He was playing in the Bay Area and I had tickets and figured I should get his newest album before seeing him live, but didn't have time to listen to it until I was on my way to the concert. This song blew me away. Now I'm trying to remember whether he played it live. One of his best songs ever!

[robmlisanti]

@scott93933

No Trower never played it live..I've seen him on every tour since the early 80's

[nlgale]

He will never play this live.  It is the single best example of what a guitar legend he is. My favorite of his songs.

[robmlisanti]

@nlgale

Your right about that!

[anthropomorphicide]

@scott93933 totally agree. This song really surprised me. The meanest Hendrix/Machine Gun song Trower ever did in the middle of a lot of mellower material.

Benny Dancer is one of the all time best. Rolling bass and desperate lyrics and Trower just goes off as close to Band of Gypsies as he ever sounded.

fantastic soloing with great lyrics, singing and that bass line. You can almost lay this solos over some Miles Davis, who also inspired by Machine Gun,...Right Off for example.

[anthropomorphicide]

does anyone know if he ever did this one live? I'd give anything to a live performance of Benny Dancer. The lyrics are great too.

[anthropomorphicide]

most unknown Trower masterpiece EVER! Closest I've ever heard him sound like the Band Of Gypsies version of Machine Gun. the singing and the lyrics are all time. Trower just totally goes off and the words just keep driving to go ballistic.

"he'll never get there!" Easily one of the greatest Hendrix inspired songs of all time: great surf soundtrack: "HE"LL NEVER GET THERE!

the tone on the guitar and the improvisation is so fluid....unbelievable.

anyone know of a live performance?!!

[FatWongFoo]

Damn this is good.

[Danthehorse]

@AndyRehfeldt Kinda sounds like a flanger on this one though eh?

[Chase57Tx]

Feedback transition around 5:38 has always been one of my favorite!!

[AndyRehfeldt]

Boy, what a sound!! I'm getting out my Univibe (clone) pedal tonight.

[HenryWinehard]

Good show mate :)

[kbdevo1962]

Hands down one of the best F*%$#g songs of all time. The Only other song that I would dare to compare would be Stevie Ray Vaughns version of Voodoo Chile Slight Return . Better than Hendrix' Version in my opinion. There are TONS of really good guitar players - some are even better than really good . And a tiny percentage make the next round and get labeled great . Then there is the Creme De La Creme . Boyz And Girlz This is one from the top half of that distinguished group . ROCK ON 4-EVER