And an all around good dude. My uncle roadied for Pat in the late 70s thru to the early to mid 80s at a guess it was like 77'- 84' ish but anyhow I met him a few times when I was about 12 until the last time I was about 16 my uncle passed away about a year ago but he stayed pretty tight with Pat until the end
Loving every second of this Albert King classic, Greybeard! Man, I can't recall the last time I heard the name - Pat Travers. He was a beast on guitar! Taking me back to my younger days, brother - thank you! I think Harrri liked it just a little bit, too!
Most people recognize this from Albert King, but it was written by Booker T. Jones of Booker T and the MGs. They were the House Band at Stax Records in Memphis, TN. Their biggest hit was an instrumental called Green Onions.
One of my favorite covers of this classic. Their Boom Boom cover is great too along with Snortin' Whiskey and Crash and Burn. PTB always rocks em. Thanks for the reaction! 🤘🍻
I believe the first lead was Pat Thrall. He played quite a bit of lead on the Crash and Burn album. The second was classic Travers. He loved his Cry Baby.
I first heard this done by the group Cream. I was pretty young, but at least I was able to recognise it as Blues. I didn't spot how It was a Jazz-influenced version though. Learned that later.
This is a killer version of the song. I think you're right: that guitar was screaming for help😁 Pat plays the titlesong live without keys, it's all guitar. There are several versions on RU-vid, that certainly are worth checking out. Thanks for your review.
It's fun to see you dive into the sound head first! Pat needed only permission of William bell and Booker T to release his version of the song they gave to Albert King. Plenty of blues tunes had that line. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_Under_a_Bad_Sign_(song)
I got to see Pat Travers live only once, in the summer of 1978 at the Oakland Coliseum. It was a Day on the Green, put on by promoter Bill Graham, who always was able to book the great bands for shows in the San Francisco Bay Area. This will surprise most people, but Pat Travers was quite popular in the Bay Area, and had a higher billing than AC/DC and Van Halen, who were the opening acts for the day. Travers was up next, followed by Foreigner, and finally the headliner, Aerosmith. What a day of great music! AC/DC wasn't well known yet at this time, and Van Halen had just put out their 1st album a couple of months before this show. Personally, I think AC/DC stole the show, but Travers' set was also very good, as I hear he always was live.
PT was above them because he was an established act with 3 albums out,st that point. Van Halen was just hitting the scene,but only had an albums worth of songs. AC/DC was still relatively unknown.
@@heartfanjim01 True. And with that logic, I would have thought AC/DC would have had a higher billing than Van Halen, because they had 5 albums out at the time of this concert.
@rodjohnson2632 those albums were only available as imports. We were just starting to hear them a lot about this time. So they were basically a new band to us. They didn't play the US until this year.
@rodjohnson2632 their first us show was opening for Moxy in 1977. My point was at the time of this show,they were just starting to get known to the masses. They're album High Voltage and the first album we heard.
