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| | Procol Harum/Robin Trower |
 | | Trower's career trajectory makes a remarkable story: initially just another British blues-rocker, albeit one with a harsh, piercing guitar tone, after going solo he seems to have become obsessed with Jimi Hendrix's late-period guitar technique and production style. |
 | | Trower's galloping, heavily Cream-influenced, one-riff blues workout "Whiskey Train" is the most memorable track, and his other contribution is just superb (the brutal, cathartic "About To Die," with a soaring, notably Band-like chorus). |
 | | And Trower's overall approach is far lighter, piling on a lot of fuzzy, atmospheric leads that are drenched with chorus, wah-wah, phasing, and even a primitive delay effect, and over-using Hendrix's spacey "Angel" ballad formula ("Little Girl"; "Bluebird," not the McCartney song and almost ruined by Dewar's mock-Eastern mannerisms, but damn good anyway). |
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