# Anybody remember Pat Travers? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 11, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-remember-pat-travers/717388 "2015-04-11T00:27:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-remember-pat-travers/717388/1 "2015-04-11T00:27:56Z")
I got the new issue of Vintage Guitar magazine and he’s on the cover. I was really into his stuff back in the late seventies-early eighties. Monster player (at least in the genre I prefer). Got to see him live back in the day, awesome show. [Boom, Boom](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtsClj04oIE) ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-remember-pat-travers/717388/2 "2015-04-11T00:41:34Z")
[Another good clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8cSyJY0dKI) ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-remember-pat-travers/717388/3 "2015-04-11T00:44:35Z")
He got a lot of play in the day on WRIF in Detroit. Good stuff. I lived within WRIF’s broadcast region in Ontario. My exposure to music was much different from most Canadians. (Although I see Travers was a Canadian.) ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-remember-pat-travers/717388/4 "2015-04-11T01:25:39Z")
I remember loving that song as a kid. But I went back a few years ago to read the lyrics, yikes. Not very politically correct. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-remember-pat-travers/717388/5 "2015-04-11T01:36:48Z")
I think there’s a small glimmer of double entendre in there, as in what does “boom, boom” really mean. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-remember-pat-travers/717388/6 "2015-04-11T12:19:37Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > I remember loving that song as a kid. But I went back a few years ago to read the lyrics, yikes. Not very politically correct. Yeah, I try not to dwell on the lyrics of that particular song which I think is a much older blues song from the days before political correctness. I have some old cassette tapes of blues guys, recorded in the 60s and 70s, that have some very cringe inducing references to domestic violence. I’m glad things have changed since then. ---
**Author:** ![alted315](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@alted315](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alted315)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-remember-pat-travers/717388/7 "2015-04-11T12:28:40Z")
go for what you know is one of my top 5 live albums ever, ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-remember-pat-travers/717388/8 "2015-04-11T12:37:01Z")
Yep, “Boom Boom Out Go The Lights” got pretty regular airplay when I was growing up in St Louis in the late 70s. That’s about the only song I know though… ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-remember-pat-travers/717388/9 "2015-04-11T13:00:59Z")
Wasn’t he the guy who was drinking whisky and snorting cocaine? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-remember-pat-travers/717388/10 "2015-04-11T13:40:14Z")
I thought Pat Thrall played lead on his big songs and was the better player. Have I been wrong all these years? ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-remember-pat-travers/717388/11 "2015-04-11T13:58:15Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I thought Pat Thrall played lead on his big songs and was the better player. Have I been wrong all these years? No. I think he always has a second guitar player. He has one in his current band. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-remember-pat-travers/717388/12 "2015-04-11T15:34:54Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > Yeah, I try not to dwell on the lyrics of that particular song which I think is a much older blues song from the days before political correctness. > I have some old cassette tapes of blues guys, recorded in the 60s and 70s, that have some very cringe inducing references to domestic violence. I’m glad things have changed since then. Not to pile on or anything, but Pat had another song with cringe-worthy lyrics called \*“I’d Rather See You Dead”" \* ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-remember-pat-travers/717388/13 "2015-04-11T17:43:06Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Wasn’t he the guy who was drinking whisky and snorting cocaine? [Not exactly.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myztXvIvigk) ---
**Author:** ![alted315](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@alted315](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alted315)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-remember-pat-travers/717388/14 "2015-04-11T18:14:37Z")
yeah he definitely had anger issues with the ladies, but he was the originator of funky hard rock along with Tommy Bolin