★★★★★
Now there's a name I haven't heard in quite some time. Without unnecessary snickers from my reading audience about my age, I remember listening to Pat Travers back in the late Seventies. My first experience was with 1977's Putting It Straight, a decent album, But the real kicker was the 1979 live album Live! Go for What You Know with Travers's essential, and kick-ass, recording of the Stan Lewis's number Boom Boom (Out Go the Lights). Fraggin' awesome, and it's still a staple of his live sets...
- www.dangerdog.com
2013-06-27
★★★★★
For someone who's made his reputation as one of heavy-metal's more creative axemen, Canadian Pat Travers doesn't play a hell of a lot of raveup guitar on Crash and Burn, his sixth LP with his Anglo-American group. In the past, Travers has often employed keyboards and synthesizers to fatten his sound, but in four of the eight songs here, he smothers his chops and those of second guitarist Pat Thrall with a rich yet generally pointless layer of electronic frosting...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Travers demonstrates his mastery of the Clapton/Beck/Page school of blues-rock with some extended soloing on the live Whiskey Blues, which contains such Travers staples as "Boom Boom (Out Go the Lights)," "Snorting Whisky, Drinking Cocaine," and twelve others.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
2005's PT=MC2 is Pat Travers' first album of all-new original studio material since 1996's Lookin' Up. Not that he's been inactive in the near-decade between the two records: he's been playing music and has released a couple of live albums in between. But this not only is his first full-fledged studio record in a while, it's a reinvigorating return to form, a pile-driving collection of hard rock...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Pat Travers never sounded more focused and inspired than he does on Live! Go for What You Know, which was recorded during the Canadian hard rocker/blues-rocker's U.S. tour of early 1979. Travers can really burn on stage, and this album reflects that...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert collects highlights from the Pat Travers Band's two BBC performances: a July 1977 appearance on Sight & Sound and the group's 1980 Reading Festival set, which includes "Boom Boom out Go the Lights," "Life in London," and "Rock 'n' Roll Susie." "Makin' Magic," "Your Love Can't Be Right," and "Snortin' Whiskey" are some of the album's other high points.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
No matter how far away he moves from the average rock fan's consciousness, one thing you can always count on from '70s guitar hero Pat Travers is guaranteed fret-board excitement and a certain element of surprise. Or can you...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28