PAT TRAVERS BAND: CRASH AND BURN Live 1980

[@markcain460]

The definitive band line up right here. Go for what you know may be the best live recording ever made. RIP Mars!

[@davidpearlactorteacherbizman]

Agreed and agreed

[@madamblue7229]

I've always loved Pat Travers music, but it was at it's best with Pat Thrall, Mars and Tommy!

[@donsmith5385]

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!

[@skoalsudol4577]

+Don Smith Imagine if Go For What You Know was double live!

[@pattydevito8892]

yes great line up !!! the best... go for what you know

[@nizzaman63]

You nailed that. Tommy kills it on the live album.

[@winnerkatt]

Don't forget Stephen Dees.

[@YaoEspirito]

Have you noticed Tommy Aldridge never gives a half-hearted effort? He's always fully committed.

[@pottery2790]

Saw him with Black Oak Arkansas when he was real young and he was freaking powerful!! Still is!! Beast mode always!

[@Daddy53751]

Saw him on “Diary of a Madman” & “Bark at the Moon” and Tommy is a MONSTER!!!

[@Twotontessie]

I have noticed. No fluke he kept getting first rate gig after first rate gig. A machine and ultimate team player.

[@MRosati5000]

true Tommy goes all out!! Good advice for player's.

[@ARyan-sr4nn]

I got to work and meet Tommy with Whitesnake. Awesome person. Great to work with.

[@MrUltraworld]

Travers and Thrall were the best guitar duo I'd ever heard.

[@guyfawkes578]

"I'm Fred Garvin...male prostitute."

[@davidpearlactorteacherbizman]

True along with Gary Moore/Scott Gorham and Glenn Tipton/KK

[@toddevans1]

Best Travers Line Up Ever!! Mars,Pat and Tommy

[@Ock62]

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.

[@jdfromfla]

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!!!

[@Charles-s9u]

I was around

[@robertgall5769]

I saw Pat Travers in the late 70's it was the best band I saw next to the group YES

[@mayaslave]

my lil band "the vouchers" opened up for Pat at a small club in the 90's....what an honor and thrill it was

[@mlmr11]

I have no problem watching Pat play keyboards especially when he's got Pat Thrall in the band to play guitar ...

[@magnificentmuttley2084]

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!

[@Turn2God4Hope]

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.

[@41263a]

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 !!!!!

[@MusicZombieGirl]

damn! PT on keys! ...and who didn't crash and burn in the 80's? 😎

[@BloozeRockJunky]

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.

[@douggauzy6258]

People forget about this great song when they talk about Pat Travers but I remember when this came out . A Great song !

[@heartfanjim01]

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.

[@ericarnold2340]

great footage of Pat killing it on electric organ. supper-underrated song, awesome performance. thanks for uploading.

[@davemoyer505]

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!!!!👍🇺🇸❤️

[@jorgeband1111]

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.

[@derekpierkowski7641]

Mars Cowling Baby! Forever Lives.🤘

[@straybeat]

I was at this show in San Diego. Loverboy was first, Pat second, then Heart. Absolutely great show all around!

[@ctfair]

Definitely the best lineup. Some of his best music with these guys. “Crash and Burn” album has always been my personal favorite. 👍👏

[@yoshibax]

I need more from the Pat Travers and Pat Thrall together! They rock!

[@leerose818]

Remember the tour. I was the lighting designer. Couldn't beat that line up. Too bad Mars is gone. RIP

[@ediemacintyre]

I grew up in Winter Park, FL, and this was my Band... I love ya Pat... One of your biggest fans....FernPark Station!

[@garyunsworth726]

Life in London is my fav Travers track

[@KathyJeanActress]

One of my favorite bands in high school! 🤘🏼🎶🖤

[@Modes9]

The Black Pearl is my favorite stuff, but the first half of Crash and Burn is great...especially this tune.

[@awildirishrose4ever]

crash and burn - awesome music memories! Thank you!

[@martinkyle1463]

Pat Travers should've been a huge star.

[@andrewcannon205]

Great band

[@lukemanify]

This line up was awesome. Heat in the street!

[@zzzzzzzzz217]

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.

[@larrygorst8749]

Really enjoyed. Thanks for sharing.

[@JetsRockinDaddy]

what a perfect album!

[@pumasgoya]

Pat Thrall is a bad ass!

[@GrayTTV_]

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.

[@guitarheroal]

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

[@Capitao70]

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!

[@xxzeon]

love Travers.....

[@BrianRamseysg01]

1980 I was at the Hammersmith Odeon gig!! I worked fer their Management a/c's Duke Street great footage classic times.. . .

[@raitisfreimanis]

I saw this line-up at Massey Hall in Toronto on April 13th, 1980.

[@waybent335]

Here I am Again.....I love This Track

[@Dedamme]

awesome line-up for an awesome song!

[@WinstonTexas829]

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

[@tatsandteles]

@BloozeRockJunky I skipped my senior prom to see this show. Nice mid size hall in Omaha, NE. Amazing.

[@JetsRockinDaddy]

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

[@bassclef41]

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

[@billunmuth3396]

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.

[@Sneixx]

Wow! I guess this is the first and the last time as we see Tommy playing such an antidoublebassed reggaebeat! :D

[@Tazz77]

I remember when this came out...some people were suprised by this keyboard driven song.

[@jfrockon]

This is just another level of badassery...

[@jfrockon]

Maybe the most underrated musical lineup in rock history.

[@BloozeRockJunky]

Agreed! Tommy is THE MAN!!

[@davidpearlactorteacherbizman]

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

[@jfrockon]

Damn, Pat is a helluva singer.....

[@rallyivan1234]

@BloozeRockJunky I have that and the Dirty Fingers, excellent records and excellent work :-) Aldridge

[@silvertuna6270]

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.

[@tjpopp9071]

1980...I can almost remember it.

[@pantsdid]

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.

[@Modes9]

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?!

[@41263a]

this goes out to my good old friend Greg Farthing THANKS for turnig me on to Pat Travers

[@Neilbear5820]

this guy was in the sawm leauge as Robin Trower. Both Great.

[@jackiewaltenburg1672]

I Love Music

[@ju12ver]

right on! kool upload thx

[@pantsdid]

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

[@FaceDrummer]

I saw this line up opening for Rush #NY

[@portrayedbyjim]

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

[@ajarnfrankie]

i agree wholeheartedly...

[@jfrockon]

I had heard his builds custom boats in Florida. That was a while back tho.

[@BARCATNEW]

@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..

[@MissingMars]

this be awesome -wish technology would clean this up proper

[@BloozeRockJunky]

Yes, Tommy was with Travers from late 1977 until late 1980, and recorded 3 albums with PT during that time

[@williamshrader272]

Didn’t know he played keyboards on this sometimes. Great

[@qrstw]

paul gilbert brought me here and i steayed here for the music :P

[@BloozeRockJunky]

@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.

[@philthy627]

For me this was the beginning of the end. You don't go to a Pat Travers concert to watch him play keyboards.

[@manalishifilms]

I crashed and burned during this time but I rose like a Phoenix a couple of years later when I met my future wife ❤❤❤❤❤❤🍺🍻🤙🎸

[@discmotoslots]

when organs rocked!

[@stevenkimsey7039]

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

[@tatsandteles]

THRALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@stevehartke]

Where is a good quality version of this... or the complete show!!

[@zzerovisibility]

yes

[@msozzlover]

saw them. fuckin awesome

[@bluesmanzzz]

amen

[@imaginos2009]

Does anybody know what Peter Cowling is doing these days? He is my alltime fav bass player....VERY underrated!

[@jackiewaltenburg1672]

THEE ONE

[@BloozeRockJunky]

@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.

[@rallyivan1234]

@BloozeRockJunky Did you know that next year Tommy appears on the album "Dirty Fingers" by Gary Moore?

[@musiciangonefishin]

some of us do want the keyboards. fight the power.

[@davidgrizzle9647]

Yeah Pat Travers!!! Can this shit be bought?

[@jmforge]

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.

[@jarlath6815]

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?

[@gillianroffey4914]

It's London Hammersmith Odeon in 1980. The BBC TV show Old Grey Whistle Test broadcast two songs from the show.

[@ruffalo09]

Pat Travers as a Jamaican keyboard player mahn

[@dr.know-it-all5148]

Pat Travers, Frank Marino, Alex Lifeson, Lenny Breau, Randy Bachman. What do they have in common?

[@paulcalder2792]

All of them are Canadian

[@jamiemoll4128]

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!?

[@Narpets2112]

@philthy627 Isn't that what Roth said about Eddie?

[@winnerkatt]

You all forget Stephen Dee's he was part of P T"s line up.

[@BloozeRockJunky]

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.