Day Of The Eagle - The Best Of Robin Trower

I have always liked "Bridge of Sighs" and "Day of the Eagle" and I did not know if there was much more from Robin Trower that I would be interested in, but even if I just found two more songs, I would find it worth it. I found those two and some more. I did not know that he did "Too Rolling Stoned" which I was super happy to find and I had not heard Caledonia before either - if you are fan of guitar legends, pick this up and find some new favorites.

I cannot make a connection between the music and the cover title. This music gives me a feeling of empowerment. I have never looked up the meaning of the lyrics for I listen to the musical instruments. Anyways, RT's music launches my senses (spirit) to an out of body experience. I do not do drugs!

This is an excellent collection of Robin Trower tunes. Next to 'Too Rolling Stoned', 'Day of the Eagle' is one of the greatest Trower songs ever recorded. The remaster on it makes it the ultimate version. 'Alethea' is a text book on the wah wah - the live version here even includes the drum solo. I remember hearing 'Bridge of Sighs' for the 1st time - wondering how he got the magical guitar sound (swirling univibe). Take a Fast Train was the B side of Man of a world now available for the 1st time. Of course for the die hard fans, there is always discussion of songs that should have been included that were left out. I only give it a 4 because they left off a few my favs - live versions of 'Lady Love', 'Little bit of Symphathy', and 'Rock me Baby' to name a couple. But just go get the Robin Trower LIVE cd and you will have all of those great tunes. For those who do not have all of Robin Trowers cd's (shame on you...), this is a great place to start. So get this one NOW- then buy all his other stuff. He is a legend you know!

What a wonderful blast from the past! After realizing I had only one disc of Robin Trower (Essential) I realized how lacking my current digital collection was. Searching for original CDs is expensive, especially with late 70's releases that were pre-CD age, and sometimes hard to find. The Day of the Eagle: The Best of Robin Trower covers so many of the spaces left by the earlier Essential CD, but the 2007 and 2008 remasters make the CD sound so much more like the original sound of the tracks on vinyl. The warmth and feeling is back, compared to so many CD masters of classic vinyl albums. Quality slice of much of the guitar legend's legacy, quality sound. This is a keeper and a value.

One iconic song...take a guess...the rest, just o.k.

This has the hits, including "Long Misty Days" which is what I bought this for. I love all of Day of the Eagle, and already had that, but I needed this one song to complete my collection of Trower. I had a ticket to his concert, but he cancelled out and Triumph took the headline. That turned out to be great as well, but I still have not seen him in concert. Hopefully one day I will.

I'm a huge Hendrix fan. We knew of Robin Trower's efforts to sound like JImi back in the 60's and respected him for it. But Jimi checked out early and Robin kept going. If you like psychedelic rock played loud, this is your kind of music. Several of his older and greater songs are on this disc, even though it is not billed as a greatest hits compilation.

Great CD. Well done on the remix.

This album was my introduction to Robin Trower - en-masse - after seeing an old clip of his band, on the BBC, playing 'Bridge of Sighs'. In short a superb CD. Anyone who loves Hendrix will really enjoy Mr. Trower's work as such is in a similar vein. Blues rock at it's best, with the 'classic power trio' all superbly matched so as to create wonderful tracks, or should I say, more importantly, wonderful songs (no guitar solos 'just for the sake of' here!). Mr. Trower's guitar tone is devine and his skill as a player unsurpassed, some have argued that his work is 'derivative', yet I would argue that RT has taken inspiration from others and then crafted his own destiny - I can see, and hear, why Fripp, SRV et al. have been inspired by RT! I am a big fan of Zeppelin, Cream, Tull et al. and this album, the RT band and Mr. Trower's guitar work are all easily up to the standard of those giants of rock, Robin Trower's work sits nicely - and easily - alongside them. My favourite track? That's a difficult one, as there are, IMHO, no 'duds' on this CD, yet it would have to be 'Bridge of Sighs', the track that led me here in the first place. Even when one thinks that he has heard everything that there is to hear - in this genre of music - it is exciting and refreshing to stumble across, what was for me, an undiscovered - past - master.....

Day of the Eagle really is a 'best of' the classic work of Robin Trower and serves as a terrific introduction to those that may be unfamiliar wityh the man's work.Trower could be said to be cut from the same cloth as luminaries such as Clapton, Page, Frampton and maybe even Page but he has never sought neither received the attention or accolades of said peers.This album is album choc a block full of superb inspiring guitar playing from Trower but at all times it is contained and never veers into self indulgent guitar histrionics. He is ably supported by Jimmy Dewar not only on bass but by a man with a really authentic blues rock gravelly vocal and a skin tight drummer.Picking out highlights is something of a dichtotomy, easy on the one hand almost impossible on the other as each of the selected 17 selected has its highs but would be emiss ofme not to focs on the title track Day of the Eagle, Too Rolling Stoned and the astonshingly atmosospheric and moving Bridge of Sighs. This is true hair on the back of the neck territory.Masterful music and now of course with the additional of a digital remaster, a must for lovers of Blues driven rock!

We've all got our personal favourite Trower tracks. This album doesn't cover all mine but it isn't far off.I would have liked some more slow tracks, at which Trower always excelled with his slow bends and slides.Never did understand why he never gained the heights of popularity here in GB as he did in the USA.OK, he was Hendrix inspired, but he never copied him, and he did develop his own, instantly recognisable style,played with such feeling (which always showed in his contorted facial expressions).

If this cd only had three tracks....Bridge of Sighs, Daydream, and Long Misty Days I'd still give it five stars. The rest's pretty good too.Ironically for me, he sounds best when he stops being the Hendrix soundalike he has so often been criticised for.Probably as good a blues/rock collection as money can buy.

class album from a guitarest who is as good as the other known greats Trower always seems to be in the shade from others this is a album of the best of robin trower its so lovely to sit back and let these tracks take you somewhere you want to be A really lovely album