Essential Robin TrowerAmazon. com Based on his subtle playing on Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale," no one expected Robin Trower to become an arena rock guitar god in the '70s a guitarist, in fact, that some pundits compared to Jimi Hendrix. Trower certainly was very much influenced by Hendrix; he loved throwing atonal fireworks into his blues based rock, as all 16 tracks here demonstrate. Essential is the best U. S. compilation available, with tracks from all eight