I saw this lineup several times. It was his best in my opinion. One of the planets greatest rock drummers, a killer bassist and Mr Thrall was a great guitarist in his own right. They also were very loud!! I saw them with Rainbow and Krokus and it was the loudest concert of my life!!
I had the video in the closet for years. A friend had it ripped for me. I cleaned up the audio, added credits and posted it. Statesboro Blues and Crash and Burn are coming soon. Check out "Born Under a Bad Sign". We did a pretty cool version. Even our slow tempo songs were intense.
Thank you so much for posting this gem of a video. Believe me when I say I will be watching this repeatedly on days to come. This is indeed gold to me🤘😎🤙
@@howardmishne4840 I have quite a few "scalps" from back in the day. Aside from the general audience stuff (Anthrax, Motorhead) that made its way onto video, I was also filmed on Iron Maiden's Beast on the Road film and was in music videos for Accept, Twisted Sister and Status Quo (usually keep quiet about the last one!) ☺
I seen this tour. I was in 7th grade. The very day Tommy Aldridge became the drummer I always tried to play like. Lol they opened up for Foghat.. and BLEW the doors off Pulmer auditorium Davenport Iowa.
I used to blast "Go For What You Know" in my baracks at Lowry COLORADO AIR FORCE Base and my airmen buddies loved it. 1981. What a great year for emerging ROCK bands. PRIEST..DEF LEPPARD..MAIDEN...RUSH..SCORPIONS!!! Played them non stop.
Travers and Thrall, one of the best dual guitar threats in rock. I've seen Pat Travers play in later years, but if I could warp back to this era, I'd be in the front row.
@@SGED392 Yeah he’s one of those guitarists from that era that is so ridiculously underrated. John Sykes was like that until he got the Whitesnake gig.
I’m 59 now but in 1980 I was fifteen and this was my first concert. Pat Travers band with opener Def Leppard at the Memorial coliseum in Portland Oregon. Great show classic line up for both bands. Thanks for this video! Great memories.🎶
@@timothykeenan3705 Thursday May 29th 1980. Def Leppard opener for Pat travers band. This was the last of nine shows On Def’s On through the night tour as opener for P.T.B. It was a great show I was at the foot of the stage all night. Great first concert for me. Sounds like you saw them on either late High-n-Dry or early Pyromania tour.
The reason PT’s songs live sound so much like the album is he has always recorded live in the studio with the whole band present..which included vocals and guitars ( at least back when he had a four piece band)..nowadays he tours with only three pieces..he still kicks ass at the age of 70…👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
This PT lineup and their kickass party tunes formed the theme music to the soundtrack of my life in the late 70’s, especially the album “Crash and Burn”. I can’t count how many sets of tires I torched driving the twisties with that PT cassette blaring. That album and song title is still used as a term of endearment and toast when I get together with my old desert dirtbike racing buddies of similar age. I turn 65 this week. Seeing PT live when he, pat and Tommy and mars were all together was one of the best shows in memory and I literally saw them all over that period. I keep hoping there will be a renaissance of “real” 3 and 4 piece bands before they nail a lid on my box…
OMG... rare footage of one of the best bands ever assembled!!!!!!! I would pay $200 for that full concert video, wish it was available. Mars, Tommy, Thrall and Travers... it was too good to last. zsnake2, Thanks soooo much for this!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had a Guitar Player Magazine from this time. I would have always thought these blistering solos were all played by Travers for the last 44 years if it wasn't for buying that magazine. This is one of the greatest songs ever imo.
I got to see these guys open up for AC/DC on the Highway to Hell Tour 1979. They were fantastic. Pat Thall's guitar playing still stands out in my memory. These guys rocked the house. They are one of the best opening bands I've ever see. Oh yeah, AC/DC was incredible! 3rd row seating, we got sweated on by Angus.
Scorpions, Travers and Nugent in Edmonton Canada 1980 (I think). PT band was unfuckingbelievable. Blew everyone away. Changed my life for the better. Thanks Mr Thrall. ☮️
I saw the Pat Travers Band playing live at the Taylor County Coliseum in Abilene Texas in 1980. I took a bunch of photos of the show with my Nikon 35mm camera. I believe they were wearing the same or very similar stage wardrobe for that performance. As far as I’m concerned, it doesn’t get any better than this!😊
They warmed up for Foghat when I saw them back then. After Travers played, Foghat didn't need to come out. Travers and Aldridge, with his 20 minute drum solo using his hands, blew Foghat away. They stole the show at Notre Dame.
Awesome band. Wish that lineup lasted longer, but this captures a few moments in time from a great time in my life. As a drummer...Tommy has provided a lifetime of inspiration. So clean and powerfu. Those double bass shuffles on the live album lit a fire under me. Thanks for posting this !!!!
Go For What You Know is an all time fave and I can't count the number of times I searched for live footage of this legendary lineup and came up empty...till this. Holy shit what a band. Thanks for posting!
Bunch of us ditched school and went to hear this on my friend's huge new stereo. Hot knives and beers and he cranked this on L O U D so we were all dancing hysterically and eating ju-jubes which turned into a ju-jube fight that got more and more out of control as the song drove us wild until on the last note a ju-jube sailed across the room and hit the power off button and killed the music. The sudden silence was devastating hilarious insane unforgettable.
One of the best two-guitar attacks in rock history. Too bad it was so brief. Where I really loved Thrall’s work though was with Bayete and Doni Harvey and Mike Shrieve. The first Automatic Man record, with its hard rock - funk fusion, is awesome.
これはお宝画像じゃあないですか！ 僕はPat Thrallの大ファンです！ I am 60 now and I bought the Hughes & Thrall record when I was in high school. I listened to it many many times... and I still listen to it :) I also have the remastered CD, too! Love the solo of this song. When I heard this song for the 1st time, the diminished phrase knocked me out ! You were way ahead of the time! A big fan from Japan.
I bet that was lots of fun. Saw Sky show 8 in the same place with Motley Crue and Def Leppard in 83. Think I saw Travers in 88 at a club show in Sarasota FL, they tore it up. Saw Trower in the same place and he killed it too. Ah, such sweet memories
@@kurtkensson2059 I think every generation looks back to their good old days, But damn, we had some fun, no computers, smart phones etc etc. We got out into the mix, raced our friends in gas guzzling carbureted cars made of real metal, went to the beach, went to real live concerts. Damn good times!
❤. Saw them open for somebody a little before this, then again. Shocked by Tommy, of course. Another drumming great to study. BBC Live has the lineup and Crash And Burn stuff. A must hear for fans. Still just love that era, Heat In The Street lp, too.
Yes! A reunion show. I was always hoping for one while Mars was still with us. I’ve seen Pat with Mars, Jerry Riggs and some fine drummers, but have always wanted to see him perform with Thrall, Aldridge, and Cowling. And what better place than the Whisky about a 5 minute drive from my house! Hell…I’d even host the after party!
Love this footage so much Pat thank you for sharing it, its total gold dust! Your playing has been inspiring me since I was a teenager. If you have any other live footage of you from the Travers, Automatic Man, Hughes Thrall eras that you could dig out that would be fantastic as there's not a lot out there from the 70s or 80s.
Thanks so much for the kind words. The only other footage I have is "Crash and Burn" and "Statesboro Blues" The versions that have been on RU-vid are horrible quality. I'm getting ready to post the versions I have which are 100 times better and sound better. Unfortunately that is the only live footage of the Travers band when Tommy and I were playing with him, at least that I am aware of.
@@zsnake2 Thanks for taking the time to reply Pat, can't wait to see those other 2 upgraded clips. As for other footage there is this short clip of Hammerhead from Fresno 1980, starts about 6 mins in ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9xefOwt5_40.html
Travers Band fanatic in '80; live Cotton Bowl show in Dallas (Aug.'79) w/Rush, Thorpe, Foghat, Point Blank, Heart (others). Went to see Tommy mostly. Years later, I met Travers in an East Tulsa bar, sitting w/a beer. Told him I was a huge fan and asked him what happened with the band and where Aldridge went. He got mad at me...wasn't nice. '91 saw him playing ass off in a Dallas bar...still had it! So does Thrall - both true rockers. Great live clip here - Thanks for posting!
Oh man thanks Pat for this rockin’ gem🎸🤘🏻 I was a huge Automatic Man and Stomu Yamashta fan from back in the day so I would be so stoked if you have any footage of those two bands you could post??? Thanks for the music over all these years🤘🏻
