And now something more heavy and different than blues...:-)) Pat Travers was born in Toronto, Canada on April 12, 1954. Soon after picking up the guitar at age 12 Pat saw the legend Jimi Hendrix perform in Ottawa. This obvious inspirational concert must have sparked the young Pat to go after the dream of becoming a star like so many of his early influences. Inspired by such guitarists as Hen...
I'd never even heard of Pat Travers until the early 80's when I started doing rock and roll radio. I'd like to do rock and roll radio again, but it wouldn't be the same. I picture some master programmer sitting in a shed somewhere with a master computer and IP to every radio station under his corporate wing, laughing despicably as he forces WWWW to play Bob Seger one more time. Like the guy in ...