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The moon don't move the tides,
To wash me clean
The sun don't shine
The moon don't move the tides
To wash me clean
Why so unforgiving, and why so cold
Been a long time crossing Bridge of Sighs
Cold wind blows
The Gods look down in anger,
On this poor child
Cold wind blows
And Gods look down in anger,
On this poor child
Why so unforgiving and why so cold
Been a long time crossing Bridge of Sighs
Me too - not played often but it's cranked up when it's on!
I've got the album on vinyl too but I'm going to download it now because I listen to music (mainly RP) when I'm working and it's so much easier to play downloads from a Mac, even if the sound quality isn't as good.
BTW I first saw Robin Trower when he was with Procol Harum. That was a long time ago.

I had a friend whos room looked just like that...
I've got this one on vinyl and love it....
Me too - not played often but it's cranked up when it's on!
Edit: Well actually the other way around. DT might have been inspired by this riff :o)
Sounds so much like David Clayton-Thomas
vocalist sounds like David Clayton--Thomas AND plays a mean bass.
Thats a good thing!
Album: Watershed
Genre: Progressive Death Metal
Country: Sweden
Opeth is a Swedish progressive metal/rock band from Stockholm, formed in 1989.
Other great tunes on Bride of Sighs that should be played here: In this Place, The Fool and Me, and Little Bit of Sympathy.
Get this album and Caravan to Midnight at least.
Long Misty Days....
Bridge of Sighs? More like House of Pies
Mmmmmmmmm....Pies.
RP again proves to be a great learning institution.
Today's lesson: Blues 101; Robin Trower.
Get this album and Caravan to Midnight at least.
if this is not a 10 for you, you weren't there. ☺
Now burdened with the sadness of having left...
Actually, it's not an ear, it was a sort of sculpted Mobius strip concept. The designer - Paul Olsen (aka "Funky Paul") - did some other covers for Trower. Nothing to do with Pink Floyd.
Fascinating (raises one eyebrow.)
I thought a 3D Mobius was a Klein bottle - never thought of seeing it in a plane.
Today's lesson: Blues 101; Robin Trower.

Not bad fot a guy who as a member of Procol Harem left the band feeling they were not continuing in a 'heavy' direction. His playing seems to 'out Jimmy' Hendrix and he dedicated a song, "Song for a Dreamer" off "Broken Barricades" to the man.
He took guitar lessons from Robert Fripp, who had just left King Crimson.
The cover picture depicts another take on that by Pink Floyd on "Meddle" - it's an ear !
Actually, it's not an ear, it was a sort of sculpted Mobius strip concept. The designer - Paul Olsen (aka "Funky Paul") - did some other covers for Trower. Nothing to do with Pink Floyd.
Iommi should be proud
Could this be a song about the bridge that led from the jail to the gallows? that's what i've heard anyway
IIRC it's about the bridge that, as prisoners walked from interrogation to imprisonment. They could see through the window their last view of freedom, and would sigh. I got a chance to walk over it a while back. Kinda cool.

I wonder if Joe Bonnamassa has ever covered this?
Could be, Steve Lukather has it in his last LP.
Black Sabbath's Paranoid and Soundgarden's Down on the Upside come a little close at times. And both albums are worth owning, IMO. :)
Can you imagine Chris Cornell covering this track.... sadly we will never know.
What a sound.
So heavy.
Such desolation.
Never heard anything like this before or since.
A truly unique bluesy rock.
Black Sabbath's Paranoid and Soundgarden's Down on the Upside come a little close at times. And both albums are worth owning, IMO. :)
if this is not a 10 for you, you weren't there. ☺
Of course and the grass was also very good!
I think that this was the bridge in Venice (Italy) where the people convicted crossed from the court to jail. This was their last view of the beautiful city (sigh)

Tony in NJ
W.A.S.T.E.

Agree. It was the beanbag chair. With the lava lamp in the corner, black light on, the fluorescent posters on the wall.
That experience of sitting, "doing nothing" and just being in the music. Do kids these days ever get that?

Nope, they don't. Trust me, they can't sit still even two minutes. Poor babes gonna lose it when power grids get attacked.
on FM rock stations in the 70s..

Musta been some pretty clean acid!!
Well, him and Dio!! Consider....thunder...drums......lightning strikes...RT & RJD shredding the strings!!
Can't bash Rush, at all!! Loved them! Still do!! But, they don't even come CLOSE to Robin Trower!!
If this is your 1st RT, you are missing one helluva lot of Killa tunes by him!! He's got many, many awesome tunes, with no less conviction than Bridge of Sighs....
He took guitar lessons from Robert Fripp, who had just left King Crimson.
The cover picture depicts another take on that by Pink Floyd on "Meddle" - it's an ear !

Oh. HELL yea!
So heavy.
Such desolation.
Never heard anything like this before or since.
A truly unique bluesy rock.

this is what i was thinking... chris cornell put out a lot of different material, so it wouldn't surprise me if i missed some.

They didn't call him "Trower the Tower" for nuthin.


The moon don't move the tides,
To wash me clean
The sun don't shine
The moon don't move the tides
To wash me clean
Why so unforgiving, and why so cold
Been a long time crossing Bridge of Sighs
Cold wind blows
The Gods look down in anger,
On this poor child
Cold wind blows
And Gods look down in anger,
On this poor child
Why so unforgiving and why so cold
Been a long time crossing Bridge of Sighs
Probably not. . .
Dream on. . .

Love this classic psychedelic space!! Takes me back

Hot moonless Texas night
lying in the back yard
tripping...peaking
Trower screaming
from the quadraphonic
the moon don't shine....
Falling stars...streaking, swirling colors
Wash me clean...wash me clean
Cool green grass...rustling leaves
Cold wind blows...why so unforgiving...
in the hot still night
sun don't shine....on this poor child....
on this poor child....sun don't shine....
the moon don't move
the sun don't shine...shine...shine...
on this poor child
so unforgiving
and so cold
on this poor child
been a long time crossing...
been a long time crossing...
why so unforgiving
so cold...wash me clean...
bridge of sighs....
bridge of sighs....
bridge of sighs....
Isn't that the back of Spencer's Gifts store, circa 1974?
Sounds about right.......
Me thinks Bill is kind of partial to this tune. Frequent rotation and I don't recall ever hearing any other Trower here.
Its OK, did it back in the day. But honestly all those swirly phasey guitars are over effected and its not all that IMO. ITs a 5 or 6 for me.
The view from the Bridge of Sighs was the last sight of Venice that convicts had before their imprisonment.
The bridge's name comes from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their final view of beautiful Venice
as they crossed and saw the city through the bridge portals before being taken down to their cells.
“Many an innocent man walked the Bridge of Sighs and descended into the dungeon,
which none entered hoping to see the sun again.”
- Mark Twain.
I sighed too when I saw the gondola prices, almost $100 for 40 mins. But the vaporetta are only $10. Sorted.


Hey, that's Huey MacDuffy's room at Cloyne Court! Wow! I never thought I'd see it again!





Isn't that the back of Spencer's Gifts store, circa 1974?

I know exactly how that room smells!

The view from the Bridge of Sighs was the last sight of Venice that convicts had before their imprisonment.
The bridge's name comes from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their final view of beautiful Venice
as they crossed and saw the city through the bridge portals before being taken down to their cells.
“Many an innocent man walked the Bridge of Sighs and descended into the dungeon,
which none entered hoping to see the sun again.”
- Mark Twain
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not putting it down
Good videos on youtube of him talking about his guitar , amp and pedal settup as well
Mine was a little white thing with holes in the floor your heel would slip into as you drove, one Saturday after a morning workout I was leaving the gym in the hard rain, you could hear the drops pounding down like you're inside a tin bucket, so I stop at a red light facing up a slight hill when I notice a brown spot growing in the center of the hood, "what the f—-?" engine sputters, smoke spews out of every crevice (many), and the little pile of a debris Ford called a Pinto lost power and rolled backwards towards a massive El Dorado YIKES!
was able to swerve off to the side and avoid any collision, but I had to hitch home, what a sorry little piece of crap that thing was...
oh man but Trower ROCKS!!! WOOOO-HOOOOOO!!!
Indeed!!!
Mine was a little white thing with holes in the floor your heel would slip into as you drove, one Saturday after a morning workout I was leaving the gym in the hard rain, you could hear the drops pounding down like you're inside a tin bucket, so I stop at a red light facing up a slight hill when I notice a brown spot growing in the center of the hood, "what the f—-?" engine sputters, smoke spews out of every crevice (many), and the little pile of a debris Ford called a Pinto lost power and rolled backwards towards a massive El Dorado YIKES!
was able to swerve off to the side and avoid any collision, but I had to hitch home, what a sorry little piece of crap that thing was...
oh man but Trower ROCKS!!! WOOOO-HOOOOOO!!!
That is perfect! I didn't have a car in 74, but did get the album and loved it. Still do. And aspired to the 6x9 Jensens. How many people remember the Pinto?
My dad had one and gave it to my brother when he graduated high school in '77. Still see them at the racetrack.
Lucky me I got a Vega.
That is perfect! I didn't have a car in 74, but did get the album and loved it. Still do. And aspired to the 6x9 Jensens. How many people remember the Pinto?
That experience of sitting, "doing nothing" and just being in the music. Do kids these days ever get that?
Good question, and I think for the most part, the answer is no.
Social Media seems to be the big thing for "kids these days". It seems to occupy their every waking moment.
Who's got time to disappear into Dark Side of the Moon when there's Khloe Kardashian tweets to read?!
That and the fact there's just not as much "bean bag chair" music being produced these days (IMO).
This is a generalization of course; there will always be exceptions.
I have 7 grown nieces and nephews and only one of them ever showed any real interest in music.
I don't think they do. Partly because I don't think the X Factor generation are producing this kind of music. The other thing is that even ones that adore music, like my boys, view it as something to be enjoyed on the move while doing something else.
Never mind the kids, I find it hugely difficult to carve out time to indulge in this kind of thing myself these days.

That experience of sitting, "doing nothing" and just being in the music. Do kids these days ever get that?
Good question, and I think for the most part, the answer is no.
Social Media seems to be the big thing for "kids these days". It seems to occupy their every waking moment.
Who's got time to disappear into Dark Side of the Moon when there's Khloe Kardashian tweets to read?!
That and the fact there's just not as much "bean bag chair" music being produced these days (IMO).
This is a generalization of course; there will always be exceptions.
I have 7 grown nieces and nephews and only one of them ever showed any real interest in music.
To add to these comments, I was playing something on my big Altec's, and my son came downstairs and asked me to turn the music down. Sigh. Must be a generational thing.
The same scales - just slowed up massively.
It makes those blues licks epic - because that's all they really are, blues licks!