PAT TRAVERS BAND: STATESBORO BLUES Live 1980 *Rockin' Classic!****You Gotta See This One!***

[pastore909]

1 of the best live album  go fo rwhat you know

[quailblaster]

Thrall was the better guitarist and ahead of his time.

[huntersingle]

Trall was better (solos)

[TheDanielWardExp]

Best guitar battle I've seen, they knew exactly what do to.

[MrKiss5150]

Awesome thanks for posting.. Those who saw this live are very lucky. Pat has never made it down to Australia but is very known to guitar players. I agree with flamecolumn well said brother!!

[joynthis]

Talk about mud flaps, my girl's got em.

[TheMichaelseymour]

Rocks like a bastard!

[sludgefingers]

I actually think PT's singing was a bit underrated. Great rock voice.

[dameke1]

Saw him in Dover. He rocked

[petro062]

Great job dudes. Good sound. Great song too. UR smoken.

[couch63]

saw Travers and Thrall open for RUSH in 78. They killed

[Danh103663]

Some great end of the 1970's excess!

[flamecolumn]

I saw this tour. Agora Ballroom in Atlanta.

Utterly devastating. One of the best shows I've ever seen and I've seen hundreds.

Mars is the most underrated bassist of all time, a true genius. Tommy Aldridge was the most badass sonuvabitch drummer in the world and when he soloed and started beating his drums with his hands the audience went insane. Then you have two fantastic guitarists weaving in and out and around each other, both obviously having a great time. An amazing memory.

[b26com]

Pat Thrall blows PT away!

[BlackmoreRules]

Love the intro ! If this song is on a cd,I need to buy it NOW!!

[MrSmokeydog]

I saw him this year at the cow palace in san francisco must have been this tour had a good time that night with esther the molester plenty of everything to smoke

and drink good times indeed.

[flytotherainbow61]

Saw Travers twice; Dec 78 opening for UFO (w/out Schenker :( ) & Outlaws & they stole the show !! Again in 80 as a headliner & they were mind-blowing !!The LIVE Go for what you know LP didn't come close to capturing how amazing this line-up could be . Too bad there seems to be scant footage of it.

[jerlu69]

My favorite version of this song,P.T. Rocks!!!

[ravbav73]

i have a version of this on the b side of boom boom,its awesome.wish there was live footage of that

[MrTexmojo]

excellent version of this song..that dude tears up a guitar

[wahwahcolin]

thrall would have been a guitar god!!!

[backthisway]

@wahwahcolin he has been to me for at least 33 years since I heard him with Automatic Man then with PT.

[jmroxx]

Pat's jaw is flying, mucho cocaine back then !!!!!!!!

[rb300dx]

The Pat Thrall era was the best lineup gee!!!

[SugarBear0199]

Loudest band I've ever heard live...def worth the hearing loss...haha!

[MrSmokeydog]

Man, I get so angry with people that have a problem with Pat Travers. He cant play

clean or accurate enough for you .? but his ability to write the songs and sing them besides performing them still makes you knock him. Geez show

me all the great hits from Pat Thrall. other

then with Glenn Hughes.

[flowerdrop1]

Travers is adequate, tends to ger lost outside the basic pattern. But Thrall was truly ahead of his time.

[DPEXP]

See kids, thats how its done!

[gmasterg13]

classic line-up. wish there was more footage. like the reading show!!

[dukeofkbs]

Yeah..the Reading show would be great ..I've been listening to the audio for ages...originally when it was broadcast on the BBC Rock Hour and later when it was released as a CD on Windsong Records...that was a great show!!

[bru69noRoryGallagher]

(Putain).... qu'c'est bon !.........

[tex8252]

this version kicks ass,travers is great

[NikkoCorfu]

I loved this band but looking at it now, it's very Spinal Tap

[BloozeRockJunky]

Not sure how you could compare this version of the PTB to Spinal Tap...

[804pillow]

dude;make up your mind-ever seen a group as talented these days;proper musicianship&FUN??

[NikkoCorfu]

No really guys, I absolutely love them. No offence meant, they're fab. Just a bit y'know, Spinal Tap. But they go all the way to eleven!

[CaptainKeithM]

they are nothing like spinal tap LOL its just that this perticular video has really loud and shitty sound

[CaptainKeithM]

(cont.) ...they were literally to this day the hottest-tightest rock and roll band i have ever seen live! (more to follow lol)

[CaptainKeithM]

i saw pat travers in san antonio (my home town) just before the crash and burn album was released. the opening act was 'scorpions' (first time in s.a.) then pat travers band, then sammy hagar headlined......OMG!!! LOL it was a totally HOT show! but honestly as a professional musician, my opinion is .... Pat Travers - Pat Thrall - Mick 'Mars' Cowling - and - Tommy Aldridge ...STOLE THE F***ING SHOW!!!!!

[madstork43]

As a fellow professional musician, I could not agree more!!! Great band, and Pat Thrall freaking kicks ASS!!!!!!

[TBplayer12]

PT ROXX

[mlmr11]

Pat Thrall was friggin immense!!

Holy shit!

[capitaine666]

Do you have any other videos from this show? or the whole show... I'm looking for any good quality PT shows from the 70s and 80s... the only good ones I have is The 76 Rockpalast DVD and 90 Toronto DVD

[BloozeRockJunky]

Video from Travers' peak period is VERY RARE--not too much exists. I have posted stuff from '77 and the 1990's--check it out.

[divgtrslingr]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jimiboyd]

best band he ever had

[Staffy1964]

This was the BEST rock'n'roll back then! Watch Pat Thrall, he's doin some of the guitar stuff kiddies do today even before they were thought of beeing conceived... *lol*

[srvcanada]

He was in his prime in the '80s. Having Pat Thrall, Peter "Mars" Cowling and Tommy Aldridge were FINE additions! His best years!

[jerryask1]

I would argue his prime (when this lineup occured) was in the late 70s. Crash & Burn came out in early 80 and was a great last record for this line-up. After that, Radioactive in 81 which was marginal at best and only featured appearances by Thrall and Alldrigde. Black Pearl in 82 was very good but Mars Cowling was the only remaining member from this lineup. Nothing stands out after that.

[srvcanada]

Oops, my mistake. I was thinking about the Live album "Go for what you Know" 1979 on PolyGram/Polydor. There's 8 songs on it. Wonder if there's any video footage of the same (?)

[MrSmokeydog]

@srvcanada Hell Yeah his best lineup by far and his best albums were from

back in those early years. Puttin it Straight. Makin Magic, Heat in the Street and

Live " Go for What you Know ". most of my favorite bands are from Canada April Wine, Rush, Loverboy, Triumph, Bryan Adams

[Gearbob]

@srvcanada

An insane line up!!

[backthisway]

If this was Hammersmith Odeon March 1980, I was there and it was a friend who filmed it .. Simon Fallon .. is that right ??

[tbolin76]

i was at hammersmjth and the last tjme i saw this was on THE OLD GERY WHISLE TEST on BBC 2 in 1980 and what a night it wasbrillaint

[filmmaker456]

My Dad toured with him in the 80's and did the album Black Pearl and wrote i la la la love you and i'd rather see you dead with pat

[santyrush]

I like very mucht Black pearl album, and Hot Shot too, congratulations, I`m from Spain and a big fan.....and guitarrist too. sincerely santy

[jerryask1]

I think the Pat Travers Band with PT, Mars Cowling, Pat Thrall and Tommy Alldridge was his best line-up and the records he put out with this band were his best. BUT ... Black Pearl was a GREAT record ... the only one after Crash & Burn that held up compared to those others. No one is credited for cowriting I La La Love You. Who is your dad ... Alonso or Harris?

[TBplayer12]

P.T. at his best!!! ripping!

[LauryWard]

yea!

[tboy66]

saw these guys in the early 80s at the apollo

manchester uk i was about 18 at the time

brilliant !

[teamodave]

Fantastic. Thanks for the upload. I saw these guys on this tour in San Francisco at the Warfield Theatre and they kicked ass. I still have the tape I had my buddie's Mom tape for me off the radio of that show. The two Pat's, Mars and Tommy were definitely an amazing collection of musicians. Too bad it was not to last.