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 Post subject: [2012-02-27] Robin Trower "Farther On Up The Road: The Chrysalis Years 1977-1983" 3 CD box set (Chrysalis/EMI)
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Chrysalis Records will follow up the previous Robin Trower anthology, A Tale Untold: The Chrysalis Years 1973-1976 from last year with a continued collection called Farther On Up The Road: The Chrysalis Years 1977-1983. This 3CD box will contain the following compilation of tracks that were remastered for this 2012 release.

CD 1
1. Somebody Calling (2012 – Remaster)
2. Sweet Wine of Love (2012 – Remaster)
3. Bluebird (2012 – Remaster)
4. Falling Star (2012 – Remaster)
5. Farther On Up the Road (2012 – Remaster)
6. Smile (2012 – Remaster)
7. Little Girl (2012 – Remaster)
8. Love’s Gonna Bring You Round (2012 – Remaster)
9. In City Dreams (2012 – Remaster)
10. Bluebird (7″ Edit) (2012 – Remaster)
11. My Love (Burning Love) (2012 – Remaster)
12. Caravan to Midnight (2012 – Remaster)
13. I’m Out to Get You (2012 – Remaster)
14. Lost in Love (2012 – Remaster)
15. Fool (2012 – Remaster)
16. It’s for You (2012 – Remaster)
17. Birthday Boy (2012 – Remaster)
18. King of the Dance (2012 – Remaster)
19. Sail On (2012 – Remaster)

CD 2
1. Jack and Jill (2012 – Remaster)
2. Roads to Freedom (2012 – Remaster)
3. Victims of the Fury (2012 – Remaster)
4. The Ring (2012 – Remaster)
5. Only Time (2012 – Remaster)
6. Into the Flame (2012 – Remaster)
7. The Shout (2012 – Remaster)
8. Mad House (2012 – Remaster)
9. Ready for the Taking (2012 – Remaster)
10. Fly Low (2012 – Remaster)
11. One in a Million (2012 – Remaster)
12. Into Money (2012 – Remaster)
13. What It Is (2012 – Remaster)
14. Won’t Let You Down (2012 – Remaster)
15. No Island Lost (2012 – Remaster)
16. It’s Too Late (2012 – Remaster)
17. Life On Earth (2012 – Remaster)
18. Once the Bird Has Flown (2012 – Remaster)
19. Carmen (2012 – Remaster)
20. Feel the Heat (2012 – Remaster)
21. End Game (2012 – Remaster)

CD 3
1. Gonna Shut You Down (2012 – Remaster)
2. Gone Too Far (2012 – Remaster)
3. Thin Ice (2012 – Remaster)
4. Last Train to the Stars (2012 – Remaster)
5. Take Good Care of Yourself (2012 – Remaster)
6. Fall in Love (2012 – Remaster)
7. Fat Gut (2012 – Remaster)
8. Shadows Touching (2012 – Remaster)
9. Little Boy Lost (2012 – Remaster)
10. Back It Up (2012 – Remaster)
11. River (2012 – Remaster)
12. Black to Red (2012 – Remaster)
13. Benny Dancer (2012 – Remaster)
14. Time Is Short (2012 – Remaster)
15. Islands (2012 – Remaster)
16. None But the Brave (2012 – Remaster)
17. Captain Midnight (2012 – Remaster)
18. Settling the Score (2012 – Remaster)

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 Post subject: [2012-02-27] Robin Trower "Farther On Up The Road: The Chrysalis Years 1977-1983" 3 CD box set (Chrysalis/EMI)
PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 2:18 pm 
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Sweet. I guess this will be the only way to get these albums remastered. Looks like 2 rare tracks included as well.
Each album is here in full:
In City Dreams
Caravan To Midnight
Victims Of The Fury
B.L.T.
Truce
Back It Up

How was the first box? Can anyone describe the sound quality, packaging and if there were any liner notes? Thanks!

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:16 pm 
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I liked the first box a lot. Didn't spend the time getting serious about the sound quality, but it sounded ok on my computer. I THINK some have complained about the mastering, but I don't remember it being irritating.

Packaging is similar to the UFO box, 1 fat jewelcase. Minimal liner notes if i remember right.

IP, how is the music on this one? I am into early Trower, & Jack Bruce period Trower, but nothing in between.

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 Post subject: [2012-02-27] Robin Trower "Farther On Up The Road: The Chrysalis Years 1977-1983" 3 CD box set (Chrysalis/EMI)
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Geff R. wrote:
I liked the first box a lot. Didn't spend the time getting serious about the sound quality, but it sounded ok on my computer. I THINK some have complained about the mastering, but I don't remember it being irritating.

Packaging is similar to the UFO box, 1 fat jewelcase. Minimal liner notes if i remember right.

IP, how is the music on this one? I am into early Trower, & Jack Bruce period Trower, but nothing in between.


Been a while Geff, but I remember liking all of these. Trower updated the production values as he went along, thus not sounding as dated as the older albums which of course, are killer anyway, but pretty much remained true to himself throughout the 80's.
Even the last few albums on GNP and Atlantic in the late 80's were pretty good but more of a commercial Blues/Hard Rock/AOR hybrid. But ex-Gamma singer Davey Pattison sang on those and he was great. I don;t know if Passion (1986) and Tear It Up (1988) have ever been remastered. Those were his last 2 albums to chart.
However, I don't remember much about the 2 albums with Jack Bruce. I think I liked them and my friend Geoff had both on vinyl in high school and I borrowed them, but it's been 30 years since I heard them!
I'd like to get this and the other box-I just wish the albums had been stand-alones. Oh well.

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 1:38 pm 
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In City Dreams and Caravan To Midnight were both tremendous releases and an artistic evolution for Trower. They hired a bassist with a more expansive musical palette and moved James Dewar strictly to vocals. The songs are quite R&B feeling, very soulful. Unfortunately that didn't square with Trower's hard rock fan-base so they went back to the classic sound and trio for Victims of The Fury. Thereafter came the Jack Bruce era which left me indifferent but lots of folks dug it.

The first collection sounds fine but is devoid of detailed liner notes. I suppose they keep the price down that way. This looks to be every bit as fine a value even AFTER I tracked down pristine vinyl copies of Caravan, Victims and Dreams precisely because a package of this caliber was unavailable

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 Post subject: [2012-02-27] Robin Trower "Farther On Up The Road: The Chrysalis Years 1977-1983" 3 CD box set (Chrysalis/EMI)
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Rustee Allen, Sly Stone's ex-bassist, was on both In City Dreams and Caravan To Midnight. Both albums still had the great Trower tone, and of course Dewar's great voice. Most of the tunes from both albums are on youtube so sniff around on there and check them out. Also some great live clips of the band with Allen. Wolfgang's Vault also has a live show with Allen on bass:

http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/robin-tro ... -1977.html

I think this show also came out on cd a few years back.

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 Post subject: [2012-02-27] Robin Trower "Farther On Up The Road: The Chrysalis Years 1977-1983" 3 CD box set (Chrysalis/EMI)
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IP, how is the music on this one? I am into early Trower, & Jack Bruce period Trower, but nothing in between.

Just my opinion.....those of a big Trower fan who digs ROCK and GUITAR.....this set starts out with the worst records Trower ever released.

Both In City Dreams and Caravan to Midnight are dreadful detours into something like R&B or disco, which were big in the charts back then. I didn't like his previous album to these either though (Long Misty Days). That being said, Caravan To Midnight starts off with a killer song, My Love (Burning Love), but then falls off a cliff (I can't even remember the last time I was able to sit through this album).

After the 3 album run of LMD, ICD, and CTM, I was afraid Trower had completely lost the plot and wasn't sure if I would ever bother buying another record of his again.

Thankfully his next record, Victims of the Fury, was a big return to rock glory, with some GREAT songs, but disappointingly for me they were all too short, lasting only like 3-4 minutes each, missing his jamming/long solos. Maddeningly, the original release of this album on CD is very hard to find & expensive, and the remaster on BGO (which is a twofer with Caravan) is a bastardized version of the album that screws around with the tracklisting and LEAVES OFF 3 of the original songs (goddamit!). So if this set restores Victims to its original running order with all the correct tracks then I will have to get this set (sigh).

The next album, BLT, with Jack Bruce is good but I don't like the weird followup at all (Truce).

Next up and last in this box is, Back It Up, which was probably his last great and essential album.

Not included in this set is his next record Beyond The Mist which is something of a curiousity. I love that album but it came after he lost his record deal with Chrysalis, I wonder what the scoop was with that. Maybe they went out of business or had a change in direction or something (I say that because Rory G. also lost his contract with Chrysalis around the same time I think)? I say that Mist is a curiousity since it only has 2 studio songs on it (both fantastic but atypical for the "Trower sound"), features lead vocals by bassist Dave Bronze (also fantastic), and the rest is all live from that period, Dave also singing on the live tracks, much different from the sound of Dewar's voice. The 2 studio cuts (The Last Time and Keeping A Secret) are both very melodic, jangly up tempo type songs compared to usual Trower fare. I think there are 1-2 other new songs (done live) on it that are also pretty good, like the title track.

I saw Trower as a 3 piece with Bronze on bass & vocals around this time, from dead center/1st row at the Tower theater. It was billed as "Trower at the Tower". Great show but from then on I think I've only seen Robin in small clubs, he pretty much fell off the map with the general public after he switched to the more R&B type stuff that starts off this set which cost him his core audience.

None of his records after Beyond The Mist has been consistent enough to get him noticed beyond guitarheads or his old core audience unfortunately. A few good songs here & there, and always great playing, but the vocals/songwriting haven't been good enough. Davey Pattison is OK I guess & sounds a bit like Dewar but for some reason I don't like his voice that much. I remember thinking his last one or two records have been better but I can't recall much about them, need to spin them again.


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Slip, thanks for the review. I'll probably skip this one; sounds like there was a reason I avoided those albums first time around.

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This set has a US release date of 3/13. Picked up a promo copy today at 'Rama. I think I only had a previous twofer of B.L.T./Truce on CD before, so it's a worthwhile purchase for me.

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Loved B.L.T. (had that one on vinyl back in the day). I think I have it on CD somewhere around here. My collection is a total mess.

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Wasn't planning on spending the money, but I just got this new and sealed from Discorama for 17.99. Just couldn't pass that up. And, I haven't heard these albums in years, so this was a good find!

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That is a great buy.

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Invisible Pedestrian wrote:
Wasn't planning on spending the money, but I just got this new and sealed from Discorama for 17.99. Just couldn't pass that up. And, I haven't heard these albums in years, so this was a good find!



Thanks for the heads up. I want it just for the proper release of Victims of the Fury! Can't turn it down at that price (plus free shipping). Just ordered it. Sweet!


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It's showing sold out at Discorama. I haven't seen any markdowns from them like that in over a year; I rarely even check the site anymore.

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Invisible Pedestrian wrote:
Wasn't planning on spending the money, but I just got this new and sealed from Discorama for 17.99. Just couldn't pass that up. And, I haven't heard these albums in years, so this was a good find!



Thanks for the heads up. I want it just for the proper release of Victims of the Fury! Can't turn it down at that price (plus free shipping). Just ordered it. Sweet!


No problem-glad you snagged it! Plus, it's new and sealed, I have to get the first set now.

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Geff R. wrote:
It's showing sold out at Discorama. I haven't seen any markdowns from them like that in over a year; I rarely even check the site anymore.


I'm on there all the time and continue to get amazing deals every time I order. But-you must find the deals before others, or sometimes you lose out (and I have sometimes). Other times, items will pop up again which is why I was hoping someone else might find one of these Trower sets today. Always check back, because sometimes this stuff comes back a few weeks later-that's how I got the Floyd remasters cheaper than anywhere else.
They are a great place to deal with.

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I used to buy alot from them, than had a problem with a return followed by not finding much; &/or the prices being quite a bit higher than they were the year before.

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There's no accounting for taste. I think In City Dreams is Trower's best album overall.
Song quality from start to finish is better than any others and all the key players are there.
Disco? Really? I must be listening to the wrong album. Whoever it is, I like it.
I put it right up there with the first two albums.


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Invisible Pedestrian wrote:
No problem-glad you snagged it! Plus, it's new and sealed, I have to get the first set now.



Just got my copy in today. I don't have a problem this but wasn't expecting it either, am a bit surprised by this - what I got is a promo copy. All the CDs have "PROMOTIONAL NOT FOR SALE" stamped on them and the back cover has whole punchouts (cutout).

Is yours a promo copy too?


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