[Music clip, Too Rolling Stoned from the 1974 release Bridge Of Sighs]

Bob:  What a great night for rock and roll, and a super night if you love   guitar.  I’m Bob
            Coburn, welcome back to Rockline 1-800-344- rock is our number Robin Trower has just
            given us a brand new  cd called Living Out Of Time which features that patented Trower
            sound with a 2004 slant and Rockline welcomes guitarist extraordinaire Robin Trower,
            how are ya?

Robin:  Hello, I’m good.  Nice to be here.

Bob:  Nice to see you face to face.  Move a little closer to that  microphone so we can hear you
             very well.  We’re in the Complex Studios in Los Angeles and you’ve been patiently
             waiting your turn and now it is your turn.  Congratulations on  the album, it’s beautiful.

Robin:  Oh, thank you very much.  I appreciate that.

Bob:  It really does have… you hear the first couple of notes and you  know that it’s
            Robin Trower.

Robin:  You’re the second guy that’s said that to me today.

Bob:  Really?

Robin:  Yeah.

Bob:  Second in one day…

Robin:  Yeah, I’m absolutely thrilled…

Bob:  We’re onto something good then here.  You actually recorded  this a little while ago
            didn’t you?

Robin:  Yeah, that’s right.  I finished it at the beginning of last year and  it just took ages to
                get it together to get it out and everything, but  it’s worth it.

Bob:  How do you get that patented Trower sound that two people   would notice in one day?

            (Laughter)

Robin:  Ah, it’s not something that I really consciously do, I think it’s  just me searching for the
                tone you know, and this sort of impact  I’m trying to make.

Bob:  I think tone is so important with guitar and when it’s right, you  can really, really hear it.
            Was this every an import?  Is it new to  the States or is it new internationally?

Robin:  Ah, I think, it’s not out anywhere else in the world.

Bob:  Oh really?  Only the States.  So we‘re the lucky ones who get it.    Oh that’s ever better.
             I think part of the sound that you get too,    you’ve got that great Passion band and
            Davey Pattison on  vocals and that has an air of familiarity to it as well.

Robin:  Definitely, yeah and  it just came together by accident, but it was so great working with
               guys that I’ve worked with before.  We  just went straight into it you know.  I mean
               because we knew each other so well and done a lot of live work together which goes a
               long way.

Bob:  You wrote virtually everything on the album, you co-wrote a  couple of songs with
            Richard Watts.  Who is he and do you have any future projects in store with him.

Robin:  Yes, at the moment I’m working on his solo album…

Bob:  Oh, okay.

Robin:  … which I’ve been doing for the last few months now, and he’s  just a wonderful, wonderful
             singer and great writer.  A young  guy, you know.   He’s got a very, very soulful, lovely
             musical  voice.

Bob:  I think we all have something to give one another if we’re given the chance to do so…

Robin:  Absolutely.

Bob:  …so that’s good to hear.  You can speak with Robin toll free at 1-800-344-rock.  I have to
            tell you, every single line is going  right now at Rockline.  We will start with a song from the
            brand new album, Living Out Of Time.  This is called,  Step Into The  Sun.
            Robin Trower on Rockline.

           [Played in its entirety]

Bob:  That is just outstanding! You gotta be really happy the way that turned out.

Robin:  Yeah that really did turn out well, that track.

Bob:  Man, Step Into The Sun, and we will shine.  It’s Robin Trower.  Brand new cd, Living
            Out Of Time.  I’m Bob Coburn.  Time for  Robin to talk to you.  From Kansas City,
            Missouri it’s Brian.  Hi  Brian you’re on Rockline.

Brian:  Hi Robin, how ya doing?

Robin:  I’m doing fine.  How are you doing?

Brian:  I just have a two-part question.  How was your experience  working on the soundtrack to
              the movie, The Good Humor  Man, and is  this the first soundtrack you’ve ever done?

Robin:  Oh you heard about that eh?  I absolutely loved it.  It was a  fantastic experience.  It’s
                something I’ve always wanted to do,   and I hope I get asked to do another one.

Bob:  Hopefully you will as well. Did you write expressly for that?

Robin:  Yes it was a score written for the actual movie.  It was tough to do it, but it was a very
               thrilling thing to do.

Bob:  And of course you have to write completely differently because  you’re trying to match
             up to something.

Robin:  That’s right.  You have to get the right note, the emotional note  for the scene and
                everything and the pulse and… yeah it’s a  whole different ballgame.

Bob:  A whole different ballgame.

             [Laughter]

Bob:  A lot of people have made that transition.  Trevor Rabin from  Yes does a lot of score
             work and other people as well.  Danny  Elfman from [Oingo] Boingo…

Robin:  Yeah he does some great stuff.

Bob:  He does some great stuff.  Let’s take another call.  This time  from Knoxville, it’s Sam.
             You’re on Rockline.

Sam:  Hi Robin, how ya doing tonight?

Robin:  Good.

Sam:  Good.  As an avid concertgoer, I got the main question, I think  the most important of all,
            are you going to tour again, and when?

Bob:  Yeah Sam, there you go.

Robin:  Well I’m very hopeful.  I’m wanting to get out there and do it,   but we haven’t been able
               to line everything up just yet, so keep  your ear to the ground about that one I think.

Bob:  If you do, will it be with this band?

Robin:  I’m not sure. I mean that’s a long time ago when that was  finished, you know and…

Bob:  Sure.

Robin:  … and people move on that’s the thing, so I’d have to look at  who I’d come out with if
               and when it comes together.

 Bob:  I know Davey has had a couple of solo albums…

Robin:  Yeah, that’s right.

Bob:  … as the years have gone by, and you co-produced this with Dave Bronze who plays on
            the album as well.

Robin:  That’s right, yeah.  I mean he’s such a wonderful musician.  Big  ears, you know, a great
                player, yeah.

Bob:  Well we’ll play at least one more song from the brand new album.  If you’ve not heard it,
             boy you’re in for a treat.  This is  an absolutely outstanding cd.  Let’s head to Portland
            Oregon and   speak with Cory.  Hi Cory.

Cory:  D.C.!

Bob:  Heey Cory [Laughs]

Cory:  R.T.!

Robin:  Hi.

Cory:  What an honour.  I feel like I’m livin’ in a daydream, and there’s no fool in me right now.

             [Laughter]

Cory:  Say listen, it’s been thirty years since  the release of Bridge Of  Sighs and I’d like to
              know… what are you most proud of  over  that span of time, and I’ve got a second
              question for you Robin.   I’d like to know what kind of response and feedback have you
             got from other guitar players on your guitar player instructional  video?  It made an impact
             on me and I’m a drummer, so…

Robin:  [Laughs]  Well, what am I most proud of…  I think obviously the track itself.  Bridge Of
               Sighs I think is still  perhaps my best bit of work I’ve ever done on record and…  No, I
               haven’t had  a lot of feedback from guitar players, I mean occasionally you  meet
               somebody outside the stage door and they’ll say, ’I’ve got  your video and it’s great’,
               but not a lot of feedback on that.

  Bob:  Yeah, but it’s certainly beneficial and if you can influence a drummer like Cory…
              [Laughter]… you do something pretty  well.

Bob:  We will play one song out of the past, and I think you’ll  recognize this song, it’s
             Day Of The Eagle.  Robin Trower on    Rockline.

             [Played  just short of its entirety]

 Bob:  Day Of The Eagle, Robin Trower.  We’ll save a few second on  the end of that song
              and allow you to speak with Robin.  Every  line jammed right now, 1-800-344-ROCK.

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Bob:  Welcome back to Rockline.  The time belongs to Robin Trower.    The brand new album
             is, Living Out Of Time, I’m Bob Coburn.    We’ll take a call from Talladega,  Alabama
             and this is Freddie.     Freddie you’re up.

Freddie:  Robin…

Robin:  Hi.

Freddie: … I’d like to know what happened to the blues vocalist you had that I just heard singing,
                 the Day Of The Eagle and…

Robin:  James Dewar unfortunately was very ill for many years and he  passed away last year,
               sorry the year before last now.   It’s  getting on to two years since he died in actual fact,
               and obviously he’s very, very sadly missed.  Yeah, he was a great vocalist wasn’t he.

   ****  ( for additional information on James Dewar please click here )

Bob:  He was a great vocalist and if I recall, he was ill for a prolonged    period of time.

Robin:  That’s right.  He was ill for over ten years I think it was.

Bob:  What a shame.  Freddie did you have anything else tonight?

Freddie: Yeah.  Will you be coming out with another blues album?

Robin:  I’d like to.  I mean give me half a chance and I’ll be in there…

[Laughter]

Robin:  … ‘cause I love doing it you know, yeah.  Definitely.

Bob:  That would be good too ‘cause you can play so many styles.   That’s one of the things
             I’ve enjoyed about your playing.  You cover a lot of ground.

Robin:  I did a blues album a few years ago and in actual fact, I’m at the moment putting Davey
               Pattison’s vocals on it where mine were and I’m reworking the album, so that’s going to
               be coming out towards the beginning of next year I think.

Bob:  And which album is this?

Robin:  It’s an album I did about eight years ago called, Someday Blues.

Bob:  Someday Blues, right, right.

Robin:  I just listened to it a few months ago and I thought, ‘This would  be a very good album
               if the vocals were any good’.  [Laughs]

Bob:  You did the vocals originally so now you’re inserting Davey into this.  [Laughs]

Robin:  I’m putting Davey on it and I’m sort of remaking it.  Just because I thought, well the
               material’s so good and everything and with a great singer in there it’s gonna be good
              you know,  so…

Bob:  Outstanding.  I love hearing that we’re gonna get more.  That’s  good news.  Freddie
             thank you.  Let’s talk to Cameron in  Oklahoma City.  Cameron, hi.

Cameron: Hey, I was just wondering what you feel is most important,  recording great albums
                    or playing great live shows,

 Robin: I have to say the biggest thrill of all is definitely a great live night in front of a great
               audience, you know, if you get a great sound on stage and everything goes right… there’s
              absolutely  nothing to touch it for the feeling of satisfaction and creativity that you get
              out of that, you know.   But I love going in the  studio and cutting tracks as well because
              that’s fresh and that’s  very creative.

Bob:  But live… it’s the ultimate, instant gratification.

Robin:  Yeah, absolutely.  I mean it’s the energy thing isn’t it when  you’re getting feedback off
                an audience and it drives you on and builds the whole thing up and you reach places that
                you can’t do without an audience, you can’t get there.  That’s why it’s so  satisfying.

Bob:  Sitting in this chair for so many years, so many great artists have told me, ‘Ah, that show.
             I felt so bad.  I walked out on stage  and I felt great and then went back to the hotel room
             and collapsed’.  It’s just that adrenalin hits and you get pumped up  and there you go.

Robin:  I remember Pete Townsend said once, ’ You come out on stage  and there’s several
               thousand people there that are glad to see  you’!!

               [Laughter]

Bob:  What a great way to put it.

Robin:  You’re going to feel good aren’t you, really.

Bob:  Cameron, thanks for joining us tonight.  We’ll talk to… there’s a   lot of S's here… we’ll
              talk to Steve in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,    hi Steve.

Steve:  Hi, how ya doing Robin?

Robin:  Good, thank you.

Steve:  Good to hear ya.  I just wanted to know… I’ve admired your songwriting more than
               anything and I just wanted to know, for the most part where do you draw your lyrical
               inspirations from.   Is it from the media, or personal experience, for example the song,
              Please Tell Me,  off Living Out Of Time.   What inspired  you with the lyrics for that?

Robin:  Well, the actual inspiration of that was the Afghan thing…  Afghanistan.  The soldiers
                going into Afghanistan and I sort of  just put myself in their place.   About having to
                go into this strange land and what would it be like.  You just wouldn‘t know  what you
                were feeling about it definitely.  That’s what that  song’s about, basically.

Bob:  So you would then draw inspiration from almost anything.

Robin:  Everything that comes in that you’re exposed to, it’ll end up in a   lyric in one way or
               another because you’re writing from within  yourself.  From you own imagination, but
               also from your own  feelings about things, so that’s got to end up in your lyrics, if
               you’re truthful about what you’re writing.

Bob:  We had a guest on recently and one of the quotes that he had, I  really love, was,
             ‘Honesty is my only armor’.

Robin:  Yeah.

Bob:  I thought that was a really good way to put it.  Let’s play another   song off of this
             outstanding new album by Robin Trower, Living   Out Of Time.
            This is Another Time Another Place.

             [Played in its entirety]

Bob:  Man can you create a mood.  That is just in the pocket there.

Robin:  Thank you very much.

Bob:  Another Time Another Place from a brand new album, Living Out Of Time by Robin
            Trower.  Before we run out of time let’s take more calls.  From Jacksonville, North
            Carolina, David you  get to be on.

David:   Hey Robin.  I have two questions for you.

Robin:  Okay.

David:  How did you come up with the song, Too Rolling Stoned, and  do you keep in touch
               with Procol Harum?

Robin:  I don’t see so much of the guys from Procal Harum these last  few years.  I bump into
              Gary [Brooker] occasionally.  Now how did I come up with, Too Rolling Stoned.   I
              think it started off  with just the guitar riff idea,  but the chorus part is really a pinch  from
              a James Brown song, which, I’ve always admitted to it..   the song was called, Down And
             Out In New York City,  just that chord change really is taken from that song,  but
             obviously the  lyric and everything is different.  Yeah, that’s really where it was coming
             from.  Pretty much a James Brown kind of vibe, you  know.

Bob:  We all do that though, a little nick here a little nick there…

Robin:  Yeah..

               [Laughter]

Bob:  David thanks.  Let’s talk to Steve in Nekoosa, Wisconsin.   Hi  Steve.

Steve:  Yes, Robin, the ten-minute song, I Want To Take You With Me  on your new album…

Robin:  Yeah.

Steve:  It blows the doors off of anything you’ve ever done, in my  opinion and my question is,
              do you prefer doing those ten minute songs versus three to four minute ones.

Robin:  Obviously as a guitar player I love the chance to stretch out and  in that kind of place
                it is my kind of home.  I’m very, very  comfortable there and I saw an opportunity there to
               do it on this song and took it.   So that was a live performance that just came off, you
               know.

Bob:  Really… what we heard on the cd?

Robin:  Yeah.

Bob:  I’ll be darned.  And the sequencing, the placement of it as the  last song is outstanding…

Robin:  Thank you.

Bob:  … because it keeps going and going, we don’t want it to stop.     We have to stop, but we’ll
            return.  It’s Rockline, I’m Bob  Colburn with Robin Trower.

[Advertisement - exiting with music clip from Bridge Of Sighs]

[Return to interview leading in with music clip from Tear It Up]

Bob:  Welcome back to Rockline.  I’m B.C.,  Bob Coburn.  If you have not heard, Living Out
            Of Time by Robin Trower,  boy  you’ve  got to pick it up.  At least you heard some of it
            tonight on  Rockline.  I want to thank everyone for listening in, for calling  to our affiliate
            stations…
           [Continued thanks given to radio stations, and individuals who contributed to the show]

Bob:  … and Robin, it’s just great to see you face to face.

Robin:  It’s been a great pleasure for me.

Bob:  This album is just so outstanding.  If anyone has ever liked Robin Trower’s music, you
             have to pick this up, I gotta tell you that.

Robin:  Thank you very much indeed.

Bob:  It’s good to see you and everybody, I’m B.C.  and I’ll be seeing  you too.