Robin Trower or/as Jimi Hendrix

[flyingace]

I just don't hear that much Hendrix in Trower's playing. Yes, he used a variant of a Jimi riff for Bridge of Sighs, but gee whiz doesn't everybody copy everybody else? I think the accusation that he 'copied' Hendrix is utterly unwarranted and it hurt his career.

If he sounds like anybody, it's SRV. But Trower came first.

 

[teddy]

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[John Watt]

It might seem difficult to see Robin Trower as being so Hendrix influenced,
now that the whole world is saturated with Marshall amps and effects.
Right away, a real musician is thinking about musical abilities and stylings,
not the simple act of getting a Stratocaster and Marshall with effects,
what was new and partially designed by Jimi Hendrix back then.
Trower had a more expansive echo and Marshall sound, SRV kept to basic blues,
at least what was the new basic blues after Hendrix tore it up.