Saw him in 80 do this song and Out Go The Lights at a bar in Orlando called The Joint in The Woods....wild wild night...many many liberal crazy women doing liberal and crazy things..The Joint was rockin that night!!!
I love that Pat Travers Band still sound brilliant even in 2021. That sound never ages. Best line-up here, as others have said, Pat Travers, Pat Thrall, Mars Cowling and Tommy Aldridge. I always find it difficult to say which album is my favourite, especially with that line-up but I always come back to ‘Heat In The Street’ - fantastic album. As a Brit I am also proud to say that the UK launched PTB in the 70s (particularly at the Marquee - a great rock venue in London). He wasn’t really well known stateside until he came to London and we dug their sound so much every gig was sold out. It was then that the music industry really started to take notice, especially Polydor. Keep rocking PT!
A Good friend of mine turned me on to Pat in 1981 i was and still am blown away by this guy. have been to several Shows he never Dissapoints ROCK ON PAT TRAVERS !!!!!
I knew this solo organ from the album,,,, I remember it note by note, I can't believe how good is Pat Travers playing keyboards.... been an amazing rock guitarist, what a great talent he has!! Maybe some people don't appreciate the chords, harmony and rhythm that many of his songs have. On the other hand Pat thrall is one of the most original rock and progressive guitarist off all the times.
I was PT on this tour and this line up was by far the best he ever had. I saw PT in Oakland California and the show was being filmed. The cameraman was cool enough to let me stand on his platform and take a few pics near the end of the show.
Love Pat! Talent oozes out of his pores. Guitar,keyboards, he just rocks! Good stuff. Saw him once, in Lancaster, Pa. at the Chameleon. He ROCKED!!!!👍🇺🇸❤️
Mars Cowling has lived in Florida for several years and is in the construction business. He spends a lot of time fishing and enjoying life. You're right, he was very underrated, but those who know who he is know just what a fabulous musician he is.
Travers used to be a regular at the Flaming Mug in Fayettenam back in the 70's. $2 cover and first beer for free. Oh, the good 'ol days. Pat was fandamntastic.
Saw them support journey,at the mayfair,newcastle,with this line up,place was packed and wild,then emptied before journey came on,who played to maybe 20 people out of 2000..felt sorry for them...pat travers band are and were one of the best live bands i,ve ever seen....al
awesome tune killer album cool concert just another great tape we used to listen to sitting in the car rapping, watching the city lights and getting baked! the soundtrack to good times :D
I saw this tour in Manchester. This tune was so much more complex than it appears. The syncopated drums & synth line. Pure jazz chord progressions, The Todd Rundgren chorus, great keys from PT (never saw him play them again). I guess he thought this was his future. He seemed anomalous at the time though with his 70's clothes & medallion. He always seemed like a grouch too. I think that was what lost him this band. One of the great lost careers
great haunting song with a vibe you can feel , bass line rocks and its a complete piece that is the concept of less is more, its not what u put into a pice but what you leave out
Primeiro álbum do Pat Travers q adquiri qdo começou a era dos cds nos anos 90! Pete Mars Cowling, subestimado baixista. Pat Thrall faria dupla com Glenn Hughes, depois. Excepcional formação!
I dId a gig backing Travers wth Rick Derringer. And with a different band we backed up Meatloaf in Madison Wisc. and Meats guitarist was Pat Thrall. Very cool guy. His tech completely rebuilt my strat. Reset the neck everything how awesome is that.
One of the best musical line ups of all time--I wish this version of PT band had stayed together...I think Florida inspired a more chill vibe for Crash and Burn and Heat in the Street
At 14, saw this lineup open for Cheap Trick following the live album, then supporting Crash & Burn a year later. (A very young Def Leppard was the first of two opening bands. Hmm, whatever happened to them?) Next time around, Pat cut his hair and opened for Rainbow with I think Sandy Gennaro on drums. Saw Hughes/Thrall with Tommy on drums - and that was that. My favorite combination of musicians of all time. Just a blink, and they were gone.
@chrismcm66 I've uploaded this song and one more--these two clips are the only video of Travers' peak period I've ever seen. VIdeo of PT's peak period is VERY RARE.
First time I saw Pat's band was May 80 in Dortmund, Germany while in the army...brilliant, supporting ol big head Ted Nugent, and blew him away, seen him lots of times since, he remains at the top despite fashion trends etc, Crash and Burn is simply beautifull, also take a listen to School of Hard knocks..excellent
This is what's wrong with music today. Nobody picked up where Pat Travers, MSG, Vandenberg, Gary Moore etc. left off. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who misses heavy, but melodic music. People got heavier or faster...but they never got better...and what's with RAP taking over the music industry?!
@rallyivan1234 Yep, you are right. If you want to hear one of Tommy's all-time best drum solos, check out the GARY MOORE Live At The Marquee recording from 1981.
i went to the 1980 GEORGIA JAM headlinging nugent, scorpions, def lep, molly hatchet and pat travers. i waited in 100 degree heat all day for pat to play this song... did he play it? hell no... but it was a great damn show
@jdfromfla That pace kicked ass..Big Tree park rd..I saw Pat at the T bow when Ozzy coudn't make it due to the pane crash...What happened to the rock superbowls? Damn Orlando Renegades..
I had the album back in the day. There's a hidden message scribed into the inner vinyl near the label On both sides of the album, I guess it's really 2 hidden messages
Some of his later stuff was heavier--he went back to a trio format for several years. I've uploaded some videos from 2002 if you'd care to check them out.
My cousin loved The Low Spark at the High Heeled Boys. I liked this way better with the entire heavy metal entry. How can you piss on any great music!?
BARCAT, I saw the same show at the Orange Bowl. The stage was set up on the sideline instead of the end zone and it was even louder than the Ted Nugent show that I saw the old Sportatorium. Travers was as loud as any band that I heard up until AC/DC brought a full sized stadium PA into Tropicana Field for the Ballbreaker tour..LOL Brian Adams and UFO were the openers and Travers completely trashed Foreigner's Pa system.
The definitive band line up right here. Go for what you know may be the best live recording ever made. RIP Mars!
Agreed and agreed
I've always loved Pat Travers music, but it was at it's best with Pat Thrall, Mars and Tommy!
Madam Blue I totally agree, I been listening to the live album over and over for the last week, Pat Thrall’s guitar work is simply amazing!
+Don Smith Imagine if Go For What You Know was double live!
yes great line up !!! the best... go for what you know
You nailed that. Tommy kills it on the live album.
Don't forget Stephen Dees.
Have you noticed Tommy Aldridge never gives a half-hearted effort? He's always fully committed.
Saw him with Black Oak Arkansas when he was real young and he was freaking powerful!! Still is!! Beast mode always!
Saw him on “Diary of a Madman” & “Bark at the Moon” and Tommy is a MONSTER!!!
I have noticed. No fluke he kept getting first rate gig after first rate gig. A machine and ultimate team player.
true Tommy goes all out!! Good advice for player's.
I got to work and meet Tommy with Whitesnake. Awesome person. Great to work with.
Travers and Thrall were the best guitar duo I'd ever heard.
"I'm Fred Garvin...male prostitute."
True along with Gary Moore/Scott Gorham and Glenn Tipton/KK
This age of rock has sadly been lost. Pat Travers Band rocked people's faces off. I long for the return of something this genuine in music.
Best Travers Line Up Ever!! Mars,Pat and Tommy
my lil band "the vouchers" opened up for Pat at a small club in the 90's....what an honor and thrill it was
damn! PT on keys! ...and who didn't crash and burn in the 80's? 😎
I have no problem watching Pat play keyboards especially when he's got Pat Thrall in the band to play guitar ...
Saw him in 80 do this song and Out Go The Lights at a bar in Orlando called The Joint in The Woods....wild wild night...many many liberal crazy women doing liberal and crazy things..The Joint was rockin that night!!!
I was around
I love that Pat Travers Band still sound brilliant even in 2021. That sound never ages. Best line-up here, as others have said, Pat Travers, Pat Thrall, Mars Cowling and Tommy Aldridge. I always find it difficult to say which album is my favourite, especially with that line-up but I always come back to ‘Heat In The Street’ - fantastic album. As a Brit I am also proud to say that the UK launched PTB in the 70s (particularly at the Marquee - a great rock venue in London). He wasn’t really well known stateside until he came to London and we dug their sound so much every gig was sold out. It was then that the music industry really started to take notice, especially Polydor. Keep rocking PT!
A Good friend of mine turned me on to Pat in 1981 i was and still am blown away by this guy. have been to several Shows he never Dissapoints ROCK ON PAT TRAVERS !!!!!
Wow, what talent. Amazing. Pat rocks. So many good songs from this artist. I really think that he deserved to be a lot more popular than he was.
I saw Pat Travers in the late 70's it was the best band I saw next to the group YES
I knew this solo organ from the album,,,, I remember it note by note, I can't believe how good is Pat Travers playing keyboards.... been an amazing rock guitarist, what a great talent he has!!
Maybe some people don't appreciate the chords, harmony and rhythm that many of his songs have. On the other hand Pat thrall is one of the most original rock and progressive guitarist off all the times.
I was PT on this tour and this line up was by far the best he ever had.
I saw PT in Oakland California and the show was being filmed.
The cameraman was cool enough to let me stand on his platform and take a few pics near the end of the show.
I was at this show in San Diego. Loverboy was first, Pat second, then Heart. Absolutely great show all around!
I grew up in Winter Park, FL, and this was my Band... I love ya Pat... One of your biggest fans....FernPark Station!
Love Pat! Talent oozes out of his pores. Guitar,keyboards, he just rocks! Good stuff. Saw him once, in Lancaster, Pa. at the Chameleon. He ROCKED!!!!👍🇺🇸❤️
People forget about this great song when they talk about Pat Travers but I remember when this came out . A Great song !
great footage of Pat killing it on electric organ. supper-underrated song, awesome performance. thanks for uploading.
Definitely the best lineup. Some of his best music with these guys. “Crash and Burn” album has always been my personal favorite. 👍👏
One of my favorite bands in high school! 🤘🏼🎶🖤
Mars Cowling has lived in Florida for several years and is in the construction business. He spends a lot of time fishing and enjoying life. You're right, he was very underrated, but those who know who he is know just what a fabulous musician he is.
Great stuff! Pat Travers / Blue Oyster Cult was my first concert as a young teen! 1981 Swing auditorium San Bernardino CA.
I was at that same show. Great music great time
I need more from the Pat Travers and Pat Thrall together! They rock!
The Black Pearl is my favorite stuff, but the first half of Crash and Burn is great...especially this tune.
crash and burn - awesome music memories! Thank you!
Remember the tour. I was the lighting designer. Couldn't beat that line up. Too bad Mars is gone. RIP
Travers used to be a regular at the Flaming Mug in Fayettenam back in the 70's. $2 cover and first beer for free. Oh, the good 'ol days. Pat was fandamntastic.
1980 I was at the Hammersmith Odeon gig!! I worked fer their Management a/c's Duke Street great footage classic times.. . .
This line up was awesome. Heat in the street!
Really enjoyed. Thanks for sharing.
Saw them support journey,at the mayfair,newcastle,with this line up,place was packed and wild,then emptied before journey came on,who played to maybe 20 people out of 2000..felt sorry for them...pat travers band are and were one of the best live bands i,ve ever seen....al
Life in London is my fav Travers track
awesome line-up for an awesome song!
what a perfect album!
I saw this line-up at Massey Hall in Toronto on April 13th, 1980.
awesome tune killer album cool concert
just another great tape we used to listen to sitting in the car rapping, watching the city lights and getting baked! the soundtrack to good times :D
Saw the PT Band at the Reading Fest in 1980 it was filmed for the big screen but I've never heard of the footage since.
Pat Travers should've been a huge star.
I saw this tour in Manchester. This tune was so much more complex than it appears. The syncopated drums & synth line. Pure jazz chord progressions, The Todd Rundgren chorus, great keys from PT (never saw him play them again). I guess he thought this was his future. He seemed anomalous at the time though with his 70's clothes & medallion. He always seemed like a grouch too. I think that was what lost him this band. One of the great lost careers
Wow! I guess this is the first and the last time as we see Tommy playing such an antidoublebassed reggaebeat! :D
Mars Cowling Baby!
Forever Lives.🤘
@BloozeRockJunky I skipped my senior prom to see this show. Nice mid size hall in Omaha, NE. Amazing.
great haunting song with a vibe you can feel , bass line rocks and its a complete piece that is the concept of less is more, its not what u put into a pice but what you leave out
Primeiro álbum do Pat Travers q adquiri qdo começou a era dos cds nos anos 90! Pete Mars Cowling, subestimado baixista. Pat Thrall faria dupla com Glenn Hughes, depois. Excepcional formação!
I dId a gig backing Travers wth Rick Derringer. And with a different band we backed up Meatloaf in Madison Wisc. and Meats guitarist was Pat Thrall. Very cool guy. His tech completely rebuilt my strat. Reset the neck everything how awesome is that.
love Travers.....
Here I am Again.....I love This Track
This is just another level of badassery...
One of the best musical line ups of all time--I wish this version of PT band had stayed together...I think Florida inspired a more chill vibe for Crash and Burn and Heat in the Street
right on! kool upload thx
I remember when this came out...some people were suprised by this keyboard driven song.
I'll certainly have a look for his stuff, anything on PT is well worth a look as far as i'm concerned.
Thanks for info.
At 14, saw this lineup open for Cheap Trick following the live album, then supporting Crash & Burn a year later. (A very young Def Leppard was the first of two opening bands. Hmm, whatever happened to them?) Next time around, Pat cut his hair and opened for Rainbow with I think Sandy Gennaro on drums. Saw Hughes/Thrall with Tommy on drums - and that was that. My favorite combination of musicians of all time. Just a blink, and they were gone.
1980...I can almost remember it.
Maybe the most underrated musical lineup in rock history.
@BloozeRockJunky I have that and the Dirty Fingers, excellent records and excellent work :-) Aldridge
Pat Thrall is a bad ass!
Damn, Pat is a helluva singer.....
this guy was in the sawm leauge as Robin Trower. Both Great.
I Love Music
this goes out to my good old friend Greg Farthing THANKS for turnig me on to Pat Travers
Agreed! Tommy is THE MAN!!
Yes, Tommy was with Travers from late 1977 until late 1980, and recorded 3 albums with PT during that time
@chrismcm66 I've uploaded this song and one more--these two clips are the only video of Travers' peak period I've ever seen. VIdeo of PT's peak period is VERY RARE.
Where is a good quality version of this... or the complete show!!
First time I saw Pat's band was May 80 in Dortmund, Germany while in the army...brilliant, supporting ol big head Ted Nugent, and blew him away, seen him lots of times since, he remains at the top despite fashion trends etc, Crash and Burn is simply beautifull, also take a listen to School of Hard knocks..excellent
i agree wholeheartedly...
This is what's wrong with music today. Nobody picked up where Pat Travers, MSG, Vandenberg, Gary Moore etc. left off. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who misses heavy, but melodic music. People got heavier or faster...but they never got better...and what's with RAP taking over the music industry?!
I saw this line up opening for Rush #NY
@rallyivan1234 Yep, you are right. If you want to hear one of Tommy's all-time best drum solos, check out the GARY MOORE Live At The Marquee recording from 1981.
Didn’t know he played keyboards on this sometimes. Great
I had heard his builds custom boats in Florida. That was a while back tho.
i went to the 1980 GEORGIA JAM headlinging nugent, scorpions, def lep, molly hatchet and pat travers. i waited in 100 degree heat all day for pat to play this song... did he play it? hell no... but it was a great damn show
I crashed and burned during this time but I rose like a Phoenix a couple of years later when I met my future wife ❤❤❤❤❤❤🍺🍻🤙🎸
@jdfromfla That pace kicked ass..Big Tree park rd..I saw Pat at the T bow when Ozzy coudn't make it due to the pane crash...What happened to the rock superbowls? Damn Orlando Renegades..
this be awesome -wish technology would clean this up proper
saw them. fuckin awesome
paul gilbert brought me here and i steayed here for the music :P
Does anybody know what Peter Cowling is doing these days? He is my alltime fav bass player....VERY underrated!
when organs rocked!
@BloozeRockJunky Did you know that next year Tommy appears on the album "Dirty Fingers" by Gary Moore?
amen
Pat Travers, Frank Marino, Alex Lifeson, Lenny Breau, Randy Bachman. What do they have in common?
All of them are Canadian
Yeah Pat Travers!!! Can this shit be bought?
Where did this footage come from? In the statesboro blues video from this tape credits start to roll, so was this a commercially available tape?
It's London Hammersmith Odeon in 1980. The BBC TV show Old Grey Whistle Test broadcast two songs from the show.
For me this was the beginning of the end. You don't go to a Pat Travers concert to watch him play keyboards.
I had the album back in the day.
There's a hidden message scribed into the inner vinyl near the label
On both sides of the album, I guess it's really 2 hidden messages
yes
@philthy627 Isn't that what Roth said about Eddie?
THEE ONE
Some of his later stuff was heavier--he went back to a trio format for several years. I've uploaded some videos from 2002 if you'd care to check them out.
THRALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
some of us do want the keyboards. fight the power.
My cousin loved The Low Spark at the High Heeled Boys. I liked this way better with the entire heavy metal entry. How can you piss on any great music!?
BARCAT, I saw the same show at the Orange Bowl. The stage was set up on the sideline instead of the end zone and it was even louder than the Ted Nugent show that I saw the old Sportatorium. Travers was as loud as any band that I heard up until AC/DC brought a full sized stadium PA into Tropicana Field for the Ballbreaker tour..LOL Brian Adams and UFO were the openers and Travers completely trashed Foreigner's Pa system.
Is this the only footage from this era?
You all forget Stephen Dee's he was part of P T"s line up.