Robin Trower was on her bucket list, said a friend, who loves guitars and blues-rock. Another friend who describes herself as a “hippie chick” had been wanting to see Trower for years.

A bunch of guitar geeks and holdover hippies — and their progeny — packed the Fitzgerald on Sunday for a powerful show by the 64-year-old British guitarist. For 90 minutes, he played his mesmerizing blues-rock with a haunting, heavy eloquence.

Using his signature butter-creme Stratocaster and several effects pedals, Trower made you feel stoned even if you weren’t. For me, the concert peaked in the middle with the 1974 classics, the rip-roaring “The Fool and Me” and the plaintive but heavy “Bridge of Sighs.”

Later in the set, Trower kept his solos too economic but expressive; singer Davey Pattison never mounted the passion to spark Trower, especially on the lumbering “Too Rolling Stoned.”

Still, it was a memorable flashback with one of rock’s guitar heavyweights.

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