Review: Robin Trower 'Bridge of Sighs-50th Anniversary Edition' (hard rock/blues rock/psych)
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- Join Pete Pardo for a review of the new 50th Anniversary Edition of Robin Trower's 1974 classic 'Bridge of Sighs'. #robintrower
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I pre ordered the box and I have had it for a while now. It is a spectacular package. Highly recommended for any Trower fan. The surround mix is immersive and completely enthralling.
Hopefully Robin gets better soon, one of the greats!!!!
After being a gigantic Trower fan for 46 years I am loving this new BoS set !!!!! Trower forever and ever!!!!
Saw his first ever tour at, Bradford University December 1973. He was exceptional, hard to believe it was 51 years ago so vivid.
I`m usually not a box set kind of guy, but your description of the stereo mix included here of this classic album makes this very tempting.
A true "desert island" masterpiece that every guitar player, regardless of genre, should own
Picked this up at Lazer CD's as soon as it came out and it's awesome!!! This my original introduction to Robin Trower and still my favorite album by Trower. So I just love this..
I moved into my first house after high school and there were 3 albums in the basement. Sighs, Volume 4 and Jeff Beck Group. I WORE OUT SIGHS. It's my DNA.
Have original album vinyl but man have to get the 50th version with live show and the remixes and yea Trower being so at his very young best then and he is so super on alot of his music. I so love . Thanks for the heads up to get Pete. TC folks.
Such a killer album!!!
In this Place is such an unappreciated gem. If Chris Cornell didnt listen to this and get inspired, it would shock me.
The 2nd Outake of Bridge of Sighs, good gawd, the second lead break slays the album version.
If most box sets included this type of content , I'd have no problem buying.
Pete, immediately when I started listening to this one I think of you and remembered how many times you mentioned Robin in your videos. I'm also a Bridge of Sighs fanatic and this box set for me is perfect. Thanks for the review!
Robin Trower.................................. Rules !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Easily one of my favorite albums, regarding the 2024 stereo mix I streamed it tonight, it’s awesome a fresh take on this legendary album. Thanks for the recommendation and review.
Just got my copy..Really awesome release..
Love this format for deluxe collections - I hope it becomes more and more of a standard
Reg Isidore was very underrated! Great review as always!
As a kid back in the day, the first time I heard this album, I was truly blown away. The thing is I still am.What a stunning piece of music.
A must-buy for any Trower fan. Can't wait for next year's "For Earth Below" boxed book set. Thank you for the inspired review Pete!
The Earth Below is still my favourite Trower album just ahead of Sighs. Will be worth waiting to hear how they enhance the original sound which is t half bad.
@@shaunogle530 Hi Shaun -- "For Earth Below" is my favorite as well.
The first album didn't get one. So, why would the next one?
@@JIF882 Well it's not exactly chronological in terms of the logic used when record companies decide what gets reissued - who knows how exactly they decide this stuff - besides potential sales $'s. BTW BOS is the next album after Twice Removed, the album after For Earth Below is Long Misty Days.
Twice Removed has already gotten the 50th Anniversary treatment (last year). Not as interesting as this one & only 2 disks, but disk 2 does have a longer studio version of "Ballerina" plus a couple of good live John Peel/BBC Session tracks ("Twice Removed From Yesterday" & "Daydream")
@wolf1977 I'm just say since the first Trower album didn't get the box set treatment, why would the next one?
Thanks for the review, I'll be looking to pick this up.
Great review Pete! Never listened to this CD new and original. Going out and buying based on your review. Cool and have a great day
The only Robin Trower album in the personal library for years and now another artist's anniversary edition to consider for the library. Really appreciate the inclusion of this boxed set in this week's new product episodes. The review doesn't make the decision any easier as trying to use CD funds for albums not in the library. This may yet become one of the exceptions to that rule. Time to go watch Phil Aston's review and discussion so appreciate your mentioning that as well. Thanks, Pete, once again for the variety of the weekly new product episodes.
Just got mine on Monday from Laser's Edge. That live set at the Record Plant kills!
I ordered the last one Ken had
Trower Power! 🤘 🎸
Nice one Pete between you & Phil Aston you've convinced me Ive just pulled the trigger & ordered it. I was on the fence until now 😊
Thanks for the review. I look forward to listening to the remix and the live stuff.
I've always preferred Robin's 1st two albums to his later releases. It took me awhile, but I finally realized the reason is Reg Isadore. Bill Lordan is probably the superior drummer, chops-wise, but I think Reg's simpler style better suited Robin's music.
Great review! I got the vinyl first, the finally got my copy of the CD set. Love it! Hoping to see For Earth Below next year.
Still nave the original Vinyl LP, never too far from the turntable. Looks like a new purchase is upcoming. Thanks Pete.
Agreed with every word, Pete. Now to backtrack to the Twice Removed deluxe edition before it disappears.
My favorite Trower LP. I've been waiting for this. Thanks Pete. Now please do Machine Head.
One of the great rock albums from the early 70s. This set definitely sounds like it's worth checking out.
thank you will listen today!
ok ill get it. I saw him In 74 with Leslie West opening.
Lucky you! 👍
It was funny to hear Robin in recent interviews about the box conceding that he didn’t know much about the decisions, track choices, etc. on this box. A classic and hope Robin gets well and could go out one more time and promote the album.
Just ordered it!
this is a real treat
Awesome release, mine arrived 3 weeks ago.
New Tull box set excellent to❤
I'm only thru disk 2, have really enjoyed the alternate tunings of all those songs I love. It's like hearing them for the first time.
Love this box.Saw them on that tour.Were backing up Dr.Hook
Thinking I gotta get this, and my birthday is coming up...
WOW - That stereo mix is awesome
Just got it... haven't opened yet.
Can't wait.
Saw them '75ish in Tucson and the room was melting
(If you know what I mean.)
Frampton opened (recording his live album.)
I'm throwing the remix on tonight.
Thanks.
...I love how you, when you know an album intimately, can wax poetic about "different" versions of the songs that were "the norm" and make it sound like a brand new listening experience...and your description of the live stuff (you and I are brothers from different mothers when it comes to live albums, my friend...) also pique my interest as well...if only Robin knew how to play guitar worth a shit...HAHAHAHAAA!!! Great review, Pete!
You sold me on this, Pete. I'm very familiar with this album. My dad had it on cassette in the '80s wjeh i was little. I have only listened to Day Of The Eagle. Not sure about that one. The vocal track is different. To me, remixes from artists like the Beatles and Tull aren't too different from the original mix.
It looks like a book😂😂😂, i like it!
Aaaah I wasn't going to get this....going to have to "dig deep" and get it now🙂
Trower and Foghat deserved double Iive albums!
Gorgeous thing
I never knew that Robin Trower and Robert Fripp knew each other.
Robert Fripp showed Robin some finger exercises in his Procol Harum days, sensing a major talent was about to emerge, and when King Crimson and the Trower band were on tour in the U.S. in '74 he observed how Robin blew the audiences minds with the way he put maximum expression into every note he played. Robin then showed him his approach and Fripp returned to England after the tour and recorded "Red", which features his own take on that approach on tracks like "One More Red Nightmare" and "Starless".
Check out the WIX site for some Fripp/Trower pix & stories...A quote from Fripp: "Robin Trower is one of the very few English guitarists that have mastered bends and wobbles. Not only has he got inside them, with an instinctive knowing of their affective power, but they went to live inside his hands. It is the rare English guitarist who has been able to stand alongside American guitarists and play with an equal authority to someone grounded in a fundamentally American tradition.
Trower has been widely criticised for his influences. This has never bothered me. I toured America in 1974 with Ten Years After top of the bill, King Crimson second, and Robin Trower bottom. The chart positions were the opposite: TYA in the Billboard 160s, Crimson in the 60s and Trower climbing remorselessly through the top twenty. Nearly every night I went out to listen to him. This was a man who hung himself on the details: the quality of sound, nuances of each inflection and tearing bend, and abandonment to the feel of the moment. He saved my life. Later, in England, he gave me guitar lessons."
Robert Fripp, Wiltshire, England, 19 November 1996.
Just ordered my copy a few days ago and hope to be receiving it soon. Getting hard to find, most places have it listed as on backorder or OOP. Hopefully there will be a repress for those who still want it.
The Stereo mix is outstanding. Reminds me of the remixes of Be Bop Deluxe which came out a couple of years ago which are also excellent.
It's only been out a month but the CD/Blu-Ray box is sold out everywhere. I've tried all my usual places, no one has it.
The only minor complaint I have on the stereo remix is that there is no longer the cool wind sound led segue between Bridge of Sighs and In This Place. Otherwise I love the longer versions.
Btw Pete, did you not get the Dweezil remix of Machine Head??? It is amazing.
regarding the 2024 stereo mix, from what i gatherd in the liner notes, it sounded like the band wasn't even aware that so much had been cut off those songs for the original release. i assume it was done so the songs would fit on a single LP. but I agree, awesome release.
Sounds essential. Just placed my order for it at my local shop.
@@garyh.238 hopefully it's not much more than the Wings release.
@@independenceltd. $70 bucks CAD! Oh well, seems like I'll have to bite the bullet this time.
@@garyh.238 highway shrubbery!
@@independenceltd. Exchange rate, mark-up and taxes.....killing me, but gotta have it.
Hi Pete,
Can't beat Trower. Changing the subject: have you checked out the Dutch band DeWolff? I suggest you do. Blues rock with touches of soul. They are terrific
The one "remix" that is totally different is the title track. No overdubs, different vocal, and an extra guitar solo. It sounds like a single live take.
hey! how does pete already have "Bursting Out"! Why has my copy not arrived!
Trower recently canceled his latest tour due to upcoming "major surgery". Oh boy! Love the extended tracks on disk 2 (as Pete says this is the reason to buy this), plus a couple of the live numbers on disk 3 (especially "Day Of The Eagle" - I actually like the live version of "Twice Removed" from State To State: Live Across America 1974-80 more). Don't have the BD, only the music on the cd's. I think this is a nice package, especially if you don't already own that live stuff on the 3rd disk & those fabulous extended versions.
To me the original album sounds good enough to basically skip disk 1/the remastered original album. I already have the 2007 reissue of Bridge (which was also a remaster), with bonus John Peel BBC session tracks added. More live stuff would've been cool but this is a nice set for Trower fans
...had this is my Want List & didn't pull the trigger. So, is this already OOP? The prices on various sites have skyrocketed.
Where have you guys picked this up?
Just like all of these deluxe editions, they do small print runs and they go oop very quickly. I got mine from lasers edge but Ken is already out of them.
The 2024 stereo remix kicks the crap out of the original.
My own review was a little more mixed. 5/5 content and a 2.5/5 presentation. The discs’ mastering is crushed to high heaven and I don’t like the alternate Bridge of Sighs take on the stereo remix. The choices on this set are rather baffling to me, even down to the cheap packaging. The best thing for me in this set was the bluray which has good mastering - and the Atmos mix … 5.1 mix is a little underwhelming. I could toss the CDs and save $30. YMMV !
I just read that the cover of the album is a 2d representation of a mobius. I always thought it looked like a deformed belly button.
RT went beyond Hendrix with this release. Just sayin