Ever since seeing Pat at the Marquee in London, I was Hooked On (pt) Music! I have seen Pat play in many different parts of the world and he always kicks my ass!. PT Rocks! Hope to see Pat again soon!

I loved this guy in the 70's, had all his first six album's. Now I can play some of his tunes, love it. I just wish he would've got more famous than he did. I remember seeing Aerosmith, Foreigner, Pat Travers, Ac-Dc and Van Halen in that order at Oakland Day on the Green in 1980's, what a show. Love ya Pat, keep rockin.

Great guitarist and really nice guy. Love his music. Been a fan for years.

I just discovered this guy. AMAZING.

Travers was good Pat Thrall did all the hard stuff ..saw them live so many times in the 80's Thrall was Killer

I never knew much about Pat Travers, other than "Snortin Whiskey" & a killer guitar player. But if it wasn't on the f.m. waves or one of my brothers albums I didn't have the resourses like today to Google him. Glad to finally put it together, what a great musician, singer,song writer.👍

I heard Pat's version of statesboro blues and went right out and bought the record-Makin' Magic. That was a really great record that Pat doesn't ever mention. Everyone who borrowed that record from me thought it was great-a really good rockin' record.

Pat,i just want to say i Love you 😀!!!Heat in the street,Making Magic,Go for what you know!!!That's the soundtrack of my life!!! Don't take this the wrong way,but you can express more in 4-5 notes than Yngwie can in a whole album.

man pat is awesome i seen him way back in the early 80s and he killed it,great player,great music!!!

I wonder why his record Makin Magic is not mentioned-it absolutely rocks!!!

@petewoodroffemusic

5 жыл бұрын

I agree. Heat In The Street is also a gem!

@masterdoug69

5 жыл бұрын

Yes it does, my first intro to PT. Love it!

Pat is a good stand up guy. Met him when he came to stockton ca. We hung out few times. He was playing small spots like stockton rocks. I often wonder if he remembers how humble he and the band were to me. We party'd each time they came. His music speaks for it self Great R&R .

Cool interview.Pat Travers Band.!!!!

I wanted to know his feelings about Eddie Van Halen because i tend to agree with him... He's got to be talking about the tapping. Eddie's tapping was great; revolutionary. But when everybody began doing it then it began to rot at the core.

Pat Rocked harder than the best of Em He should be in the Rock'n'Roll hall of fame his Boogie Rock is undeniable untamed Badass Peter mars one of the great bassist Respect!! Gave nicko mcbrain his start !!

Pat Thrall is just as good as Travers. That live album is jammed with fantastic solos

@DRCRANKNSTEIN

3 жыл бұрын

that's very true- but Pat T. has a habit of financially chumping his band mates- believe it...he, in his mind always comes first, second and last..a true dick.

Pat sums up the English here in one quote "NO - you can't do that!"

Seen him an his band in San Antonio in the 80s.A W E S O M E show for DAM sure.One of my favorite front men.

The last time I saw Pat was in 2010 at BB KINGS in N.Y.C.He had the Fidelis record out at the time. The coolest thing about Pat was when he n the band would come out on stage he would say and i quote, I'm Pat Travers and "I'm going to kick your ass" BTW he sure did. He also signed my CD. GOT to Hang with him for a minute or 2 after the show. Kool dude.👍🎸

Pat is/was an awesome blue collar rocker, like George Thorogood, Ted Nugent, Bob Seeger, Grand Funk Railroad..

He is so right about Eddie, everyone started tapping....then Satriani totally kicked the doors open and blew our minds! Surfin with the alien album was sooo good! But Pat Travers always kicked A$$!!

I gave Pat a lift to the Cunard International after he played the Hammersmith Odeon many years ago! He had twin sisters in the back of the car! He said, as you can see, I’m gonna be a little tied up, but there’s an after gig party and your welcome to go! Oh what a night!

Great Guitarist. good feeling for the music. My band played a few of his tunes. Sad he developed a dependency on heroin. Saw him in Indy outdoors 2015 and he's still using. Best wishes to the OL Sport

@robertnagel3972

Жыл бұрын

Kind of a bit too much information for somebody you met once, don't you think? We don't care what Mr. Travers does in his spare time. He will be 69 this year so he must be doing something right.

Ask him how he got that scar on his chin. Was it from Cain's Ballroom Tulsa,Ok. 1977?

@eastexxxan

5 жыл бұрын

I need to hear this story

Is there any video footage from the Go For What You Know album ?

@christianboddum8783

5 жыл бұрын

I have seen some. Very bad quality though.

Why did you edit out all the Eddie talk?..PT was giving his opinion..BAD interview.

@eltigre8978

3 жыл бұрын

My guess is that Eddie "set the bar to a higher level" for guitar players but in reality Eddie's playing is just a different style, certainly not "better". Then all the silly hair bands came along and piggy backed off Eddie's style. Everyone's tone went to super hi gain, etc......They all forgot the blues which is which is what rock n roll is all based from. Hair bands and Van Halen turned rock n roll into pop music.

@trippy_nation5300

3 жыл бұрын

@@eltigre8978 exactly

I saw Pat Travers end of the seventies in Germany, fantastic - "Boom Boom, aus gehn die Lichtn" - legendary. He looks fuckin old, just like myself...

@robertnagel3972

Жыл бұрын

He will be 70 this year. Heavy touring and partying will make anybody old.

I had never noticed the scar on his chin; any story to that? Thanks

@Magnetron33

4 жыл бұрын

Me neither! I was wondering too. Car wreck?

I can’t believe I haven’t heard this guy and band till a week ago.wtf! I fucking hate the radio and I’m sure because he was Canadian he didn’t make it big. Just like another favorite band of mine Saxon.i def can’t rely on people to help me anymore.

Eddie was his own. So many copied him in the 80s...the record companies went crazy pushing it and signing it like they do with every new taste. I would like to put it that way. If you think Eddie was all about tapping, then you do not know or understand every else about his solos and also his rhythm playing etc... tapping big part of his style, but he did much more.

@Magnetron33

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah! Harvey Mandel was tapping several years before VH

Ronnie Hawkins wrote some big hits and classic standards.

Looks like Jeff Beck!

5:23 that's a joint..LoL

sure looks like a joint he's smoking.

Canadian. Canada has the best musicians in the world.

@DRCRANKNSTEIN

3 жыл бұрын

RUSH!

@tyronejefforeillyramirez7961

3 жыл бұрын

Rush!

This man snorted whiskey, drank cocaine .. boom boom , bridge of sighs 🤟🏼✌️

Eddie did discourage more players then he inspired.

@rogerwhitaker9960

5 жыл бұрын

Saying hi to kelly hanson. Daryl hall. Sylvia. Country music singer

@mookytc

5 жыл бұрын

Would like to have heard more on Pat's take on EVH. Good interview though!

Tail waggin the dog - record company tells ya ta do it...

2:41 flushes the toilet!

Second tier talent

@inkblack6256

5 жыл бұрын

Bill Swinford Third tier talent. All his ex-bandmates went on to greater heights.

@jeffgortful

5 жыл бұрын

@@inkblack6256 Yeah. Unlike the heralded "Ink Black". Yeah.

@inkblack6256

5 жыл бұрын

Jeff Gort Grow up kiddo

@jeffgortful

5 жыл бұрын

@@inkblack6256 "Kiddo" ha ha ha ha!!! You know as much about me as you do about musicians.

@inkblack6256

5 жыл бұрын

Jeff Gort I know more about music and its history than you do kiddo. Don’t sob.

3:40 - exactly right about the EVH effect: all of a sudden everyone stopped playing blues-based stuff in favor of tapping and all that crap, and it was AWFUL.

he looks to burnt to currently have a scene, except for the old folks home...just saying.

@perry12328

6 жыл бұрын

Piss ant, shut your trap.

@SuperAnimelover100

5 жыл бұрын

DR. CRANKNSTEIN You sound like sad sh-t that came out of a worried Butt !

@DoktorDamage

5 жыл бұрын

@@SuperAnimelover100 lol

@SmiTTyy-sh8nc

4 жыл бұрын

@@SuperAnimelover100 LMAO..😅😅😅😅

@DRCRANKNSTEIN

4 жыл бұрын

@jimjd1969 I have been a P.T. fan since 1978 and have seen him in concert dozens of times- recently as 2017- I have met him several times talking with him, and my band Dr. Cranknstein opened for him in switzerland in 2008. I am also in good communication with ex P.T.B. member Kirk Mckim, who told me how he was"layed off" from the band- due to financial reasons- meaning Pat hired some cheaper newcomers, and currently has no 2nd. guitar player. so, I have been watchng Pat's career almost since it's begining, and have seen how it has gone "down-hill" so, all you wanna be P.T. experts- I give you all back a big- "shut up"- you don't know shit, except your blind admiration for a has-been guitar hero that once was, and now only plays shit gigs - living off his name, and gray and going bald old fans like yourselves..