Pat Travers has worse luck than I do

PS, The above vid is 5 years old, and I said woah Pat looks rough for only being about 10 years older than me.

Contrast that to him way back in 76 when I was a mere 12 and about to discover him around 3 years later.


Also, this is none other than Nicko McBrain from Iron Maiden on drums. He lays down some nice grooves Huh?
 
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What an amazing array of musicians to have played with Pat over the years.

Patrick Henry "Pat" Travers (born April 12, 1954) is a Canadian rock guitarist, keyboardist and singer who began his recording career with Polydor Records in the mid-1970s. Pat Thrall, Nicko McBrain, Clive Edwards, Mick Dyche, Tommy Aldridge, Peter "Mars" Cowling, Barry Dunaway, Jerry Riggs, Gunter Nezhoda, Carmine Appice, Michael Shrieve, Rodney O'Quinn are some of the noted musicians who have been members of the Pat Travers Band through the years. Kirk Hammett of Metallica has cited him as one of his favorite guitar players.[1]
 
Yup Frank, I am not sure the one on Go For What you Know but it might be one of his Lesters.

I sure love his raw biting sound and variety of guitar chops. Mars Cowling aint a slouch either.

 
His LUCK I would trade my best year for his worst year! I'll take two of those nasty years. I found one of my stolen guitars through the grapevine. I walk in on an ugly drug deal and my 1969 Lep Paul was the weapon they used to beat me till it broke.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
PS, The above vid is 5 years old, and I said woah Pat looks rough for only being about 10 years older than me.
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Rigors of the Road... the Rock 'N' Roll lifestyle... :dood:

1978: Pat Travers at the Santa Monica Civic. Me was there. PT played with the best drummer I've ever seen in my life to date: Mr. Tommy Aldridge...:yesway:
 
kevinpaul said:
His LUCK I would trade my best year for his worst year! I'll take two of those nasty years. I found one of my stolen guitars through the grapevine. I walk in on an ugly drug deal and my 1969 Lep Paul was the weapon they used to beat me till it broke.
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Well, that really sucks...
 
kevinpaul said:
His LUCK I would trade my best year for his worst year! I'll take two of those nasty years. I found one of my stolen guitars through the grapevine. I walk in on an ugly drug deal and my 1969 Lep Paul was the weapon they used to beat me till it broke.
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True dat Kev, Sorry bout the beat down etc.
Me, I had bike stolen as a kid, at 15 a dirtbike too, within the month after dirtbike $1000 stolen from bank account, later on in life had house broken into by my neighbor's 34 ish year old son, and 2 years into his stint in the pen, his A hole 15 year old son followed in his footsteps and broke into both my houses which are 2 and 3 doors from where they both grew up. Still am short as far as being compensated for the stuff they stole. The boy still lives with the grandma 2 doors away since he got slap on the wrist due to being a minor. Oh and dad gets paroled about 3 years early on his 6.5 year sentence. Haven't seen any restitution in the way of checks from the state of Maryland from payments he should be making. I need to get on the phone and see wtf is the hold up.
Lost my first house to the darn bank in 2016 and had to rush to move all my stuff 1 house closer to the criminals in the height of frigid February snowy weather. Now in the time since, I almost can't bear to be home more than 15 minutes knowing the hoodlums are essentially 150 feet away.

Needless to say I wish the jerks of the world like that Vegas shooter or crooks who steal from hard working people, would all essentially meet their maker sooner than later.
 
After posting that and bumming myself out again, I will hijack my own thread and post something to cheer me up as these guys were some of my first exposure to R n R when I first heard Smoke on the Water coming from the barber's radio as I sat in his chair getting a haircut when I was probably 7-8 years old. That song infected me. The lead off song of Made in Japan likely would have too had I heard it first. Blackmore is one sickly talented axe man.

 
frankblade said:
Yeah the melody maker on the cover here.
yeah Pat thrall was awesome with Travers played with Glenn Hughes off and on over the years
and uhh we all know Glenn Hughes
But do yall know about Black country communion?
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Glenn Hughes is just SO effing impressive. He has one of the greatest rock 'n' roll voices ever. And his pipes are still holding up perfectly at 66 years old.

I just bought the new BCC album. I dig it. Hughes' pipes and Bonamassa's guitar together. Pretty awesome. And that Bonham dude is no slouch behind the kit either!
 
I saw Bonham playing for UFO in a club here in Baltimore before that place closed down.

Better still, I saw Michael Schenker there a few years later, before that place closed down.
 
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