Robin Trower/ Eddie Money Suffolk Forum 11/5/1977

The one and only time that I attended a concert with Big Frank from my high school, Saint Francis Prep in Fresh Meadows, Queens, was a trek to a hockey arena in Suffolk County to see Robin Trower for a second time and Eddie Money for the first time. A seemingly odd pairing for a tour, it was fairly typical in the late 1970’s to pair up dissimilar acts on the same bill thus broadening the exposure of everyone on stage. The Suffolk Forum was general admission on the floor and it was pretty packed in front of the stage. Undeterred, Big Frank waded through the crowd and we ended up directly beneath Mr. Trower as he wailed on guitar in the somewhat odd venue for a concert. The audience was full of true believers as Robin Trower’s live album and the classic “Bridge of Sighs” collection were in steady rotation on turntables and boomboxes owned by heavy lead guitar aficionados throughout the teenage rock universe. The hypnotic tunes performed by Robin Trower are timeless and worth revisiting.

Little Bit of Sympathy

Rock on!

GQ

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