Chords for Robin Trower - Interview (part 1 of 2) - Texas 1985
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Em
Eb
G
B
C
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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Your attack and technique in 1967 even on the first album seemed well developed and everything
What have you done before that first album?
What are shade of pale?
well
I've been really two groups previous to
prokohar and one was the group called the paramounts which Gary Brooker was also in and
After leaving the paramounts, I formed a three-piece blues band called the jam which I was actually in
When I saw audition for prokohar
Now but for the time 67 it seemed like your style was a bit to me was ahead of its time
Did what we?
Even back then though you seem to have a clear idea where you wanted to go.
Well, it's very much a blues based
You know, I was into blues guitar players.
Basically, I mean BB King Lois Russian
I think people those players were ahead of their time, you know
And I think you know if their influence rubbed off on me then perhaps that made it sound that way what I was doing
Now talking about when you went when you were in prokohar
Of course broker and read wrote a lot of this stuff
it seemed like
When you when you do a solo like on surties or repent Walpurgis writer Walpurgis
I don't know how you pronounce it, but it seemed like there that you really were trying to say something
Did you feel I mean broker is fantastic, but did you feel stifled by the heavy piano and keyboard, you know main part
No, not at all.
Really.
No, I mean you just try and
Play with as much feeling as possible.
I think that probably gives the effect of
Kind of a breakout kind of feeling to the solos.
Yeah, I mean, it's just that's that's all that was really
Well, I wasn't feeling at that time
In any way stifled it was later on when I started to write
Songs for the guitar that I felt, you know, like keyboards would you know, we're
Won't suitable really that's why I left prokohar
Yeah, it seemed like by 69 with salty dog we're talking about juicy John pink on that one or you know
Crucifixion Lane and then especially in 70 with a whiskey train that you were really really coming to your own in that
Well, I was starting to get into writing songs.
That was that was the thing I think which made it seem
Stronger my part in purple harm, really
Okay now to me broken barricades is my favorite album of the band
Yeah, it was a good album.
Now the song I mean, I know you've heard this question million times but songs for a dreamer
To me I was just writing down some things here.
There's a lot of space in the solos.
There's a lot of breathing to it
You're really working on the notes
Technique the whole the whole deal much more relaxed much more precise
What was it about that song at that time?
It really it seemed like your head had really opened up a lot
Well, that was a written as a tribute to Jimi Hendrix, you know the lyric and music both Keith
he's rather director and
That's really the first song that I'd written
That I really felt I could
Actually write sort of a complete music for the guitar up to that time
It was sort of all right to stick one of my songs in amongst all the others
But after I finished a song for a dreamer, I I thought that
You know that I could carry it with just the guitar playing that that's really what that track did for me
In terms of self-confidence you really thought yeah.
Yeah.
I mean I felt that I could do without keyboards then, you know and
And do the thing completely with just with guitar
So when was it was it during the 71 tour you decided to [G] give it a shot on your [Em] own?
[B] Um, I can't remember how it come about really
You know, I just I think it was only a natural kind of progression that I would I would do that eventually anyway
You know, it's not that year then the next sort of thing
After leaving Proko, I teamed up with a singer called Frankie Miller and
The idea was that we would form a band together, but we wrote a lot of material
But we never really got it together as a band, you know
But through Frankie I met Jimmy who was a friend of his who?
He recommended for bass and backup vocals, but I heard Jimmy sing and I thought he would be absolutely ideal for lead vocals, you know
so
when it came to formula three piece, I thought you know, I'll snatch him away and find a drummer and
Jimmy and actually found Reggie through another musician called suit money is
Who knows everybody, you know in London Peter Green?
Yeah
What was it about that?
I mean quite removed from yesterday and then bridges sighs, but the density of sound there everything I mean
[C] Did you really you obviously felt you had something special but what was there a real quality [Eb] to the music back then?
[Em]
Well, it's it's the same for me as it's always been trying to be as soulful as possible, you know as intensely soulful as possible
You know the songs were written to be that way and they were they were the attempt that the performance was to maximize that
You know, that's I think that's what that that all had
now looking
when he got rusty on on bass in
76 and 77 that really added a lot of freedom to the band, right in terms of well
It certainly it certainly enabled me to
Just spread out with my writing a bit more get more into the soul thing, which I was always sort of into, you know
but
More complex rhythms and and you know all that went with it sort of thing, but and that's a fact it
It didn't really work out as I've hoped
I think they were a couple of good albums
But I think it went off in a different direction than I was sort of really thinking
I was thinking that I would bring that into my music rather than what actually happened was that it it sort of changed the way
My music came over dominated.
Yeah, I think it's I think it's
In a way it detracted really from what I was what I had
Although I you know, I was very pleased with the album so I could see now that
You know, it [Eb] was it's a bit too experimental also at the time.
I think you [E] know, there wasn't many
White people making that kind of music then, you know
So and it didn't get played on the radio because I don't think it fitted into any
What have you done before that first album?
What are shade of pale?
well
I've been really two groups previous to
prokohar and one was the group called the paramounts which Gary Brooker was also in and
After leaving the paramounts, I formed a three-piece blues band called the jam which I was actually in
When I saw audition for prokohar
Now but for the time 67 it seemed like your style was a bit to me was ahead of its time
Did what we?
Even back then though you seem to have a clear idea where you wanted to go.
Well, it's very much a blues based
You know, I was into blues guitar players.
Basically, I mean BB King Lois Russian
I think people those players were ahead of their time, you know
And I think you know if their influence rubbed off on me then perhaps that made it sound that way what I was doing
Now talking about when you went when you were in prokohar
Of course broker and read wrote a lot of this stuff
it seemed like
When you when you do a solo like on surties or repent Walpurgis writer Walpurgis
I don't know how you pronounce it, but it seemed like there that you really were trying to say something
Did you feel I mean broker is fantastic, but did you feel stifled by the heavy piano and keyboard, you know main part
No, not at all.
Really.
No, I mean you just try and
Play with as much feeling as possible.
I think that probably gives the effect of
Kind of a breakout kind of feeling to the solos.
Yeah, I mean, it's just that's that's all that was really
Well, I wasn't feeling at that time
In any way stifled it was later on when I started to write
Songs for the guitar that I felt, you know, like keyboards would you know, we're
Won't suitable really that's why I left prokohar
Yeah, it seemed like by 69 with salty dog we're talking about juicy John pink on that one or you know
Crucifixion Lane and then especially in 70 with a whiskey train that you were really really coming to your own in that
Well, I was starting to get into writing songs.
That was that was the thing I think which made it seem
Stronger my part in purple harm, really
Okay now to me broken barricades is my favorite album of the band
Yeah, it was a good album.
Now the song I mean, I know you've heard this question million times but songs for a dreamer
To me I was just writing down some things here.
There's a lot of space in the solos.
There's a lot of breathing to it
You're really working on the notes
Technique the whole the whole deal much more relaxed much more precise
What was it about that song at that time?
It really it seemed like your head had really opened up a lot
Well, that was a written as a tribute to Jimi Hendrix, you know the lyric and music both Keith
he's rather director and
That's really the first song that I'd written
That I really felt I could
Actually write sort of a complete music for the guitar up to that time
It was sort of all right to stick one of my songs in amongst all the others
But after I finished a song for a dreamer, I I thought that
You know that I could carry it with just the guitar playing that that's really what that track did for me
In terms of self-confidence you really thought yeah.
Yeah.
I mean I felt that I could do without keyboards then, you know and
And do the thing completely with just with guitar
So when was it was it during the 71 tour you decided to [G] give it a shot on your [Em] own?
[B] Um, I can't remember how it come about really
You know, I just I think it was only a natural kind of progression that I would I would do that eventually anyway
You know, it's not that year then the next sort of thing
After leaving Proko, I teamed up with a singer called Frankie Miller and
The idea was that we would form a band together, but we wrote a lot of material
But we never really got it together as a band, you know
But through Frankie I met Jimmy who was a friend of his who?
He recommended for bass and backup vocals, but I heard Jimmy sing and I thought he would be absolutely ideal for lead vocals, you know
so
when it came to formula three piece, I thought you know, I'll snatch him away and find a drummer and
Jimmy and actually found Reggie through another musician called suit money is
Who knows everybody, you know in London Peter Green?
Yeah
What was it about that?
I mean quite removed from yesterday and then bridges sighs, but the density of sound there everything I mean
[C] Did you really you obviously felt you had something special but what was there a real quality [Eb] to the music back then?
[Em]
Well, it's it's the same for me as it's always been trying to be as soulful as possible, you know as intensely soulful as possible
You know the songs were written to be that way and they were they were the attempt that the performance was to maximize that
You know, that's I think that's what that that all had
now looking
when he got rusty on on bass in
76 and 77 that really added a lot of freedom to the band, right in terms of well
It certainly it certainly enabled me to
Just spread out with my writing a bit more get more into the soul thing, which I was always sort of into, you know
but
More complex rhythms and and you know all that went with it sort of thing, but and that's a fact it
It didn't really work out as I've hoped
I think they were a couple of good albums
But I think it went off in a different direction than I was sort of really thinking
I was thinking that I would bring that into my music rather than what actually happened was that it it sort of changed the way
My music came over dominated.
Yeah, I think it's I think it's
In a way it detracted really from what I was what I had
Although I you know, I was very pleased with the album so I could see now that
You know, it [Eb] was it's a bit too experimental also at the time.
I think you [E] know, there wasn't many
White people making that kind of music then, you know
So and it didn't get played on the radio because I don't think it fitted into any
Key:
Em
Eb
G
B
C
Em
Eb
G
Your attack and technique in 1967 even on the first album seemed well developed and everything
What have you done before that first album?
What are shade of pale? _
well
I've been really two groups previous to
prokohar and one was the group called the paramounts which Gary Brooker was also in and
After leaving the paramounts, I formed a three-piece blues band called the jam which I was actually in
_ _ When I saw audition for prokohar
Now but for the time 67 it seemed like your style was a bit to me was ahead of its time
Did what we? _ _ _
Even back then though you seem to have a clear idea where you wanted to go.
Well, it's very much a blues based
You know, I was into blues guitar players.
Basically, I mean BB King Lois Russian
I think people those players were ahead of their time, you know
And I think you know if their influence rubbed off on me then perhaps that made it sound that way what I was doing
Now talking about when you went when you were in prokohar
Of course broker and read wrote a lot of this stuff
it seemed like
_ When you when you do a solo like on surties or repent Walpurgis writer Walpurgis
I don't know how you pronounce it, but it seemed like there that you really were trying to say something
Did you feel I mean broker is fantastic, but did you feel stifled by the heavy piano and keyboard, you know main part
No, not at all.
Really.
No, I mean you just try and
Play with as much feeling as possible.
I think that probably gives the effect of
Kind of a breakout kind of feeling to the solos.
Yeah, I mean, it's just that's that's all that was really
Well, I wasn't feeling at that time
In any way stifled it was later on when I started to write
_ Songs for the guitar that I felt, you know, like keyboards would you know, we're
Won't suitable really that's why I left prokohar _ _ _
Yeah, it seemed like by 69 with salty dog we're talking about juicy John pink on that one or you know
Crucifixion Lane and then especially in 70 with a whiskey train that you were really really coming to your own in that
Well, I was starting to get into writing songs.
That was that was the thing I think which made it seem
_ _ Stronger my part in purple harm, really
Okay now to me broken barricades is my favorite album of the band
Yeah, it was a good album.
Now the song I mean, I know you've heard this question million times but songs for a dreamer
To me I was just writing down some things here.
There's a lot of space in the solos.
There's a lot of breathing to it
_ You're really working on the notes
Technique the whole the whole deal much more relaxed much more precise
What was it about that song at that time?
It really it seemed like your head had really opened up a lot
Well, that was a written as a tribute to Jimi Hendrix, you know the lyric and music both Keith
he's rather director and
_ That's really the first song that I'd written
_ That I really felt I could
Actually write sort of a complete music for the guitar up to that time
It was sort of all right to stick one of my songs in amongst all the others
But after I finished a song for a dreamer, I I thought that
You know that I could carry it with just the guitar playing that that's really what that track did for me
In terms of self-confidence you really thought yeah.
Yeah.
I mean I felt that I could do without keyboards then, you know and
And do the thing completely with just with guitar
So when was it was it during the 71 tour you decided to [G] give it a shot on your [Em] own?
[B] _ Um, I can't remember how it come about really
You know, I just I think it was only a natural kind of progression that I would I would do that eventually anyway
You know, it's not that year then the next sort of thing _ _ _ _
_ After leaving Proko, I teamed up with a singer called Frankie Miller and
The idea was that we would form a band together, but we wrote a lot of material
But we never really got it together as a band, you know
But through Frankie I met Jimmy who was a friend of his who?
He recommended for bass and backup vocals, but I heard Jimmy sing and I thought he would be absolutely ideal for lead vocals, you know
so
when it came to formula three piece, I thought you know, I'll snatch him away and find a drummer and
Jimmy and actually found Reggie through another musician called suit money is
Who knows everybody, you know in London Peter Green?
Yeah
What was it about that?
I mean quite removed from yesterday and then bridges sighs, but the density of sound there everything I mean
[C] Did you really you obviously felt you had something special but what was there a real quality [Eb] to the music back then?
[Em] _ _
Well, it's it's the same for me as it's always been trying to be as soulful as possible, you know as intensely soulful as possible
You know the songs were written to be that way and they were they were the attempt that the performance was to maximize that
You know, that's I think that's what that that all had
now looking
when he got rusty on on bass in
76 and 77 that really added a lot of freedom to the band, right in terms of well
It certainly it certainly enabled me to
Just spread out with my writing a bit more get more into the soul thing, which I was always sort of into, you know
_ _ _ but
More complex rhythms and and you know all that went with it sort of thing, but and that's a fact it
It didn't really work out as I've hoped
I think they were a couple of good albums
But I think it went off in a different direction than I was sort of really thinking
I was thinking that I would bring that into my music rather than what actually happened was that it it sort of changed the way
My music came over dominated.
Yeah, I think it's I think it's
_ In a way it detracted really from what I was what I had
Although I you know, I was very pleased with the album so I could see now that
You know, it [Eb] was it's a bit too experimental also at the time.
I think you [E] know, there wasn't many
White people making that kind of music then, you know
So and it didn't get played on the radio because I don't think it fitted into any
What have you done before that first album?
What are shade of pale? _
well
I've been really two groups previous to
prokohar and one was the group called the paramounts which Gary Brooker was also in and
After leaving the paramounts, I formed a three-piece blues band called the jam which I was actually in
_ _ When I saw audition for prokohar
Now but for the time 67 it seemed like your style was a bit to me was ahead of its time
Did what we? _ _ _
Even back then though you seem to have a clear idea where you wanted to go.
Well, it's very much a blues based
You know, I was into blues guitar players.
Basically, I mean BB King Lois Russian
I think people those players were ahead of their time, you know
And I think you know if their influence rubbed off on me then perhaps that made it sound that way what I was doing
Now talking about when you went when you were in prokohar
Of course broker and read wrote a lot of this stuff
it seemed like
_ When you when you do a solo like on surties or repent Walpurgis writer Walpurgis
I don't know how you pronounce it, but it seemed like there that you really were trying to say something
Did you feel I mean broker is fantastic, but did you feel stifled by the heavy piano and keyboard, you know main part
No, not at all.
Really.
No, I mean you just try and
Play with as much feeling as possible.
I think that probably gives the effect of
Kind of a breakout kind of feeling to the solos.
Yeah, I mean, it's just that's that's all that was really
Well, I wasn't feeling at that time
In any way stifled it was later on when I started to write
_ Songs for the guitar that I felt, you know, like keyboards would you know, we're
Won't suitable really that's why I left prokohar _ _ _
Yeah, it seemed like by 69 with salty dog we're talking about juicy John pink on that one or you know
Crucifixion Lane and then especially in 70 with a whiskey train that you were really really coming to your own in that
Well, I was starting to get into writing songs.
That was that was the thing I think which made it seem
_ _ Stronger my part in purple harm, really
Okay now to me broken barricades is my favorite album of the band
Yeah, it was a good album.
Now the song I mean, I know you've heard this question million times but songs for a dreamer
To me I was just writing down some things here.
There's a lot of space in the solos.
There's a lot of breathing to it
_ You're really working on the notes
Technique the whole the whole deal much more relaxed much more precise
What was it about that song at that time?
It really it seemed like your head had really opened up a lot
Well, that was a written as a tribute to Jimi Hendrix, you know the lyric and music both Keith
he's rather director and
_ That's really the first song that I'd written
_ That I really felt I could
Actually write sort of a complete music for the guitar up to that time
It was sort of all right to stick one of my songs in amongst all the others
But after I finished a song for a dreamer, I I thought that
You know that I could carry it with just the guitar playing that that's really what that track did for me
In terms of self-confidence you really thought yeah.
Yeah.
I mean I felt that I could do without keyboards then, you know and
And do the thing completely with just with guitar
So when was it was it during the 71 tour you decided to [G] give it a shot on your [Em] own?
[B] _ Um, I can't remember how it come about really
You know, I just I think it was only a natural kind of progression that I would I would do that eventually anyway
You know, it's not that year then the next sort of thing _ _ _ _
_ After leaving Proko, I teamed up with a singer called Frankie Miller and
The idea was that we would form a band together, but we wrote a lot of material
But we never really got it together as a band, you know
But through Frankie I met Jimmy who was a friend of his who?
He recommended for bass and backup vocals, but I heard Jimmy sing and I thought he would be absolutely ideal for lead vocals, you know
so
when it came to formula three piece, I thought you know, I'll snatch him away and find a drummer and
Jimmy and actually found Reggie through another musician called suit money is
Who knows everybody, you know in London Peter Green?
Yeah
What was it about that?
I mean quite removed from yesterday and then bridges sighs, but the density of sound there everything I mean
[C] Did you really you obviously felt you had something special but what was there a real quality [Eb] to the music back then?
[Em] _ _
Well, it's it's the same for me as it's always been trying to be as soulful as possible, you know as intensely soulful as possible
You know the songs were written to be that way and they were they were the attempt that the performance was to maximize that
You know, that's I think that's what that that all had
now looking
when he got rusty on on bass in
76 and 77 that really added a lot of freedom to the band, right in terms of well
It certainly it certainly enabled me to
Just spread out with my writing a bit more get more into the soul thing, which I was always sort of into, you know
_ _ _ but
More complex rhythms and and you know all that went with it sort of thing, but and that's a fact it
It didn't really work out as I've hoped
I think they were a couple of good albums
But I think it went off in a different direction than I was sort of really thinking
I was thinking that I would bring that into my music rather than what actually happened was that it it sort of changed the way
My music came over dominated.
Yeah, I think it's I think it's
_ In a way it detracted really from what I was what I had
Although I you know, I was very pleased with the album so I could see now that
You know, it [Eb] was it's a bit too experimental also at the time.
I think you [E] know, there wasn't many
White people making that kind of music then, you know
So and it didn't get played on the radio because I don't think it fitted into any