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| Pat Thrall, Nicko McBrain, Tommy Aldridge, Peter "Mars" Cowling, Jerry Riggs, and Carmine Appice are some of the noted musicians that have been members of the Pat Travers Band through the years.Peter "Mars" Cowling, who would become a mainstay in Travers' band for several years.An appearance on the German TV show Rockpalast in November 1976 was later released on DVD under the title Hooked On Music.The band's next release was a live album entitled Go For What You Know, which charted in the Top 40 in the United States and included Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights).Things began to slide downward for Travers in August of 1980.After an appearance before 35,000 people at the Reading Music Festival in England, both Thrall and Aldridge announced they were leaving the band to pursue other projects.Rainbow followed, and the two bands performed in major arenas across North America.He won the lawsuit, and was able to release Black Pearl in 1982.Travers had recorded earlier.One of Travers' best recorded projects, it went basically unnoticed and is best remembered for the single "Killer".Before the release of Hot Shot, longtime bassist Cowling left the band, and Travers would work with several different bassists until Cowling's return in 1989.The latter half of the 1980s were quite grueling for Travers.Live At The Diamond Club was shot in Toronto the following year, but Travers was still not able to return to the success he had ten years earlier.Blues Bureau International Records, a company formed by noted producer Mike Varney.The relationship was very brief, and Travers has worked with a variety of musicians since that time.Travers has not been able to regain the level of commercial success he once had, but he does have a very large and loyal fan base who call themselves "Hammer Heads".He tours regularly in the U.Europe in the last decade as well.Leslie West from the band Mountain called "Rock Forever".In 2004 he started a project with the great session drummer Carmine Appice and started touring the US; as of now there are 3 albums released.Travers was still rocking in 2006 with the Power Trio playing cover tunes from bands such as Led Zeppelin, Montrose, Queen, Trapeze under the album name: P.Power Trio 2, and they toured Europe in November 2006.Travers has lived in central Florida for several years, and is now married with two children.From the streets of Toronto to the streets of London, now here he is to kick your ass....The Pat Travers Band!!!"Go For What You Know
1980 Crash And Burn
1981 Radioactive
1982 Black Pearl
1984 Hot Shot
1990 School Of Hard Knocks
1991 Boom Boom (Live)
1992 BBC Radio 1 Live Concert
1992 Blues Tracks
1993 Just A Touch
1994 Blues Magnet
1995 Halfway To Somewhere
1996 Lookin' Up
1997 King Biscuit Live
1997 Whiskey Blues (a.Appice albums
2004 It Takes A Lot Of Balls
2005 Live At The House Of Blues
2005 Bazooka (a.Pat Travers Is Credited On The Following CDs
1977 Glenn Hughes Play Me Out
1993 Songs From The Better Blues Bureau
1993 L.III "Hats Off To Stevie Ray"
1993 L.Trivia sections are discouraged under Wikipedia guidelines.The article could be improved by integrating relevant items and removing inappropriate ones.During his first years as a recording artist, Travers would choose members of the audience to join him onstage and play "air guitar" on a cardboard replica of one of his instruments during a jam session.David Hemmings was Travers' manager from 1975 until 1981and is often confused with the British actor of the same name in trivia questions.Travers is generally thought of as playing Gibson guitars, but he has also used Fender Telecasters regularly throughout his career.In recent years Travers has begun to use guitars manufactured by Paul Reed Smith on a steady basis.Gibson guitars produced a special edition sunburst Les Paul double cutaway guitar for Travers in 1983.It would become his main guitar for nearly twenty years and the one he was most often associated with in photos.Travers performed with Todd Rundgren's band on Saturday Night Live in 1980.Send this product information as a text message to a mobile phone.Note: Wireless carriers may charge fees for receiving and using the mobile web to view this Yahoo!Shopping product information ' +
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Crash and Burn
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Live!Pat Travers Biography
One of a handful of hard rock musicians to emerge from Canada in the 1970s, Pat Travers stands sort of midway between Randy Bachman and Bryan Adams historically, but has never developed too much more than a cult following in America.Note: Wireless carriers may charge fees for receiving and using the mobile web to view this Yahoo!Shopping product information ' +
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