Pat Travers Band @ The Ferry, Glasgow 24/10/2008.
With a flourish, Pat Travers arrived on stage and announced “I’m Pat Travers, this is my band, and we’re here to kick your ass tonight”. After this, they launched into a superb version of Life In London and had the audience in raptures thereafter. Pat was in Glasgow to showcase his latest album, Stick With What You Know. Live In Europe, and confirmed that he is still a live act of some standing. He also managed to throw in Ask Me Baby from his eagerly awaited next album but this won’t be released until next year. If this track is anything to go by then the new album will be extremely good. For those of a Pat Travers persuasion, the evening followed a familiar path with Crash And Burn, Heat In The Street, Snortin’ Whiskey and Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights gleaned from past albums. He also showed his blues side with excellent versions of Red House and If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day (a Robert Johnson song not tackled by many). The blues connection continued in the encore with a scorching Statesboro Blues. Despite being a fan of Pat Travers for some years, this is the first time that I have seen him play and I was not disappointed. He has lost none of the vitality in his playing and he currently has an excellent band of Sean ‘The Cannon’ Shannon (drums), Kirk McKim (guitar) and Rodney O’Quinn (bass). These three give Pat the base on which to build and they form such a tight unit.
If you haven’t seen the Pat Travers Band yet then don’t leave it as long as I did!
David Blue.
An after show interview with Pat follows.
With a flourish, Pat Travers arrived on stage and announced “I’m Pat Travers, this is my band, and we’re here to kick your ass tonight”. After this, they launched into a superb version of Life In London and had the audience in raptures thereafter. Pat was in Glasgow to showcase his latest album, Stick With What You Know. Live In Europe, and confirmed that he is still a live act of some standing. He also managed to throw in Ask Me Baby from his eagerly awaited next album but this won’t be released until next year. If this track is anything to go by then the new album will be extremely good. For those of a Pat Travers persuasion, the evening followed a familiar path with Crash And Burn, Heat In The Street, Snortin’ Whiskey and Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights gleaned from past albums. He also showed his blues side with excellent versions of Red House and If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day (a Robert Johnson song not tackled by many). The blues connection continued in the encore with a scorching Statesboro Blues. Despite being a fan of Pat Travers for some years, this is the first time that I have seen him play and I was not disappointed. He has lost none of the vitality in his playing and he currently has an excellent band of Sean ‘The Cannon’ Shannon (drums), Kirk McKim (guitar) and Rodney O’Quinn (bass). These three give Pat the base on which to build and they form such a tight unit.
If you haven’t seen the Pat Travers Band yet then don’t leave it as long as I did!
David Blue.
An after show interview with Pat follows.
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