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Oct 8, 2024 · Credit: Paul Natkin/Getty Images. Pat Travers will be the first to tell you that he had a very good time in the 1970s. “It was an incredible decade,” he says. “We played hundreds of shows ...
During 1977, Travers added a second guitarist to his band, changed drummers twice including using Clive Edwards, and by the time Heat in the Street was released in 1978 had put together the Pat Travers Band. [2] This grouping featured Travers on vocals and guitar, Pat Thrall on guitar, Cowling on bass, and Tommy Aldridge on drums and percussion ...
Apr 12, 2022 · Several years later, in 1979, Travers and his rhythm section – bassist Peter “Mars” Cowling and drummer Tommy Aldridge – were in a Miami rehearsal studio working on material for his fifth studio album, Crash and Burn. Hours went by as the band waited for their second guitarist, Pat Thrall, to show. “We jammed on a number of things ...
Sep 9, 2023 · Rising star Pat Thrall quit to hook up with Travers’s old pal Glenn Hughes in Hughes/Thrall. “It wasn’t a surprise”, says Travers. “We all knew each other and moved in the same circles.”. Tommy Aldridge left to work with Gary Moore on the Dirty Fingers album, and would soon tour in Ozzy Osbourne ’s Blizzard Of Ozz.
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Nov 6, 2018 · There were a lot of great guitar bands in the late Seventies, but one of the greatest to see in concert was the Pat Travers Band. The ultimate lineup — consisting of Pat Travers and Pat Thrall on dueling lead guitars and the rhythm section of Peter “Mars” Cowling on bass and Tommy Aldridge on drums (before he left to join Ozzy Osbourne’s band) — was a powerhouse dynamo, but ...
Sep 4, 2024 · Travers and Thrall trade absolutely unhinged licks, Cowling holds down the fort with his mighty basslines, and Aldridge beats his drumkit as if it owes him money. Put it all together and you’ve got an atomic bomb of a show closer. To the surprise of nobody, Live! was a smash hit, both critically and commercially.
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Thrall has worked with former Deep Purple bassist Glenn Hughes on the Hughes/Thrall project, [2] and was a member of the Pat Travers Band during the peak of their success. He co-wrote one of Pat Travers' biggest hits, "Snortin' Whiskey". Thrall later joined Asia, and played lead guitar for Meat Loaf during that artist's major comeback in the 1990s.
