Robin Trower – Living Out Of Time

 

Picture: C+     Sound: B-     Extras: C     Concert: B

 

 

Robin Trower is one of those great bassists like Chris Squire of Yes who just continues to be one of Rock’s great survivors after decades of amazing work and talent that just gets better and better.  Living Out Of Time is his new concert DVD taped 9/3/05 at The Rockpalast Crossroads in Bonn, Germany and featuring the following tracks:

 

1)     Too Rolling Stoned

2)     Sweet Angel

3)     What’s Your Name

4)     Rise Up Like The Sun

5)     Daydream

6)     Living Out Of Time

7)     Breathless

8)     Day Of The Eagle

9)     Bridge Of Sighs

10)  Close Every Door

11)  I Want You To Love Me

12)  Please Tell Me

13)  Little Bit Of Sympathy

 

 

Trower became the bassist for Procol Harum about the time their classic version of Whiter Shade Of Pale was cut and stayed with them until the early 1970s, when he went solo and had at least as many hit albums as that famous band.  Despite no hit singles, he was one of the big (and often forgotten) successes of the vinyl record album Rock era of the early to mid 1970s.  His work remains very impressive, as does this concert, which runs over 111 minutes alone.  He is a great showman, performer, loves what he does and has no end of talent or ways to use it.

 

The anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1/16 X 9 image was shot on newer videotape, though not specifically identified as digital High Definition.  It has detail limits and colors have some slight hazing, but it is not bad otherwise.  The sound options are Dolby Digital 5.1 and PCM 16Bit/48kHz 2.0 Stereo, both of which are good, about even with each other.  Too bad Inakustik did not have DTS here, but there is good necessary bass sound here as well.  Extras include stills and an on-camera interview with Trower about his career that runs over a half-hour.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo