Balloon Juice (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
A lot of you know how little attention I like to pay to the polls, because they fluctuate, are just a snapshot, and anything can happen. However, the way things are currently trending, with Obama close to opening a double digit lead in several national polls, several state polls are pretty shocking: Obama +10 in [...]
LORD CELERY (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
There was a big event at lunchtime today. I had the very first in-person meeting with a blogger friend! Now I was supposed to meet Kathy - What Do I Know? - for lunch in Oxford quite some time ago. But something came up for me at the last minute, and I had to cancel. I was really disappointed...but hopefully there will be another chance. But today, I had the chance to meet Kris - A Quick
JacoBlog - Jacobs Media's Blog (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
With apologies to Pat Travers, a new TV Land study - "Generation BUY: A Close Look at the Boomer Consumer" - makes the case for why marketers should be chasing consumers in their forties and fifties. In radio, an interesting resurrection has occurred, thanks to PPM. It was just over...
The Hits Just Keep On Comin' (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Yesterday at Taste of Madison we hung out with the Rock and Pop Masters again—Jimi Jamison from Survivor, Joe Bouchard from Blue Oyster Cult, and Pat Travers. Since I wasn’t officially introduced to any of them, I was left trying to figure out who they were among the people milling around backstage. You’d never pick [...]
Music News (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
423 - Custard Pie - Led Zeppelin # 422 - Ice Cream Man - Van Halen # 421 - Chest Fever - The Band # 420 - After Midnight - Eric Clapton # 419 - No One Like You - Scorpions # 418 - Boom Boom Out Go The Lights - Pat Travers … Original [...]
The Hits Just Keep On Comin' (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
I’ve been contributing since April at WNEW.com, the website of New York’s legendary album-rock radio station. (Yeah, I can hardly believe it myself.) One of my regular features is Rock 101, designed to shed light on famous events and personalities in rock history that are well-known to geezers such as I, but perhaps not so [...]
Strat-O-Blogster Guitar Blog (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Here's a tune I probably haven't heard in #% years! In 1976, "My Pearl" was a one hit wonder for Automatic Man, a band featuring guitarist Pat Thrall, who later went on to help boost a guy named Pat Travers. Thrall was the monster player on such Travers hits as Boom Boom- Out Go the Lights and Snortin' Whisky- Drinkin' Cocaine. '76 also showcased similar wildness from Rundgren's Utopia, Mahogany Rush...
Seriously? OMG! WTF? (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
MGM is remaking the 1983 movie Valley Girl in to a musical movie according to Variety. The original ’80s music from the movie will play a part in the new adaptation. 1. A Million Miles Away - The Plimsouls 2. Johnny, Are You Queer? - Josie Cotton 3. Eyes Of A Stranger - Payolas 4. Angst In My Pants [...]
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Travers & Appice are still looking to be big-time players in the rock world & are doing a pretty good job. "Balls" was a very solid effort & their live CD rocked REAL hard. The only downside (FOR ME) is that they need to do more original material. The new songs on this album were great. Save the covers for when you're playing live & need to fill-out a complete set list. If you wanted to, give yourselves...
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
Next week's 12th Annual Leesburg BikeFest will boast concerts with the blues-driven rock of the Pat Travers Band and the heavy-metal sound of Skid Row.
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
Your birthday today: You are naturally very cautious and act only after due consideration. Your decision made, you will not retract any part of it and carry all responsibility. You love your home and continually try to make it more pleasant and attractive. That won't come with companionship from the book, though, as there is no name written in, for today. Instead, you might throw caution to the wind...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 03/27/2008
JOEL Reynolds is just 23, but has experienced a lot of footy in that time.
nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 03/14/2008
Long-time sideman Steve Fister (Lita Ford, Pat Travers, Steppenwolf) stepped out on his own with this 1996 solo release. For Shadow King, he enlisted noted players Greg Bissonette on drums and Stu Hamm on bass which results in an album that is not short on musicianship. Derek St. Holmes adds vocals to three cuts, but the rest of the album consists of instrumentals. Self-produced, Fister reveals himself...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 01/24/2008
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Jan. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Dmytro Development, LLC, Arizona's #1 Green Developer, is reissuing a confirmed list of artists for "The Super Jam," Saturday, February 2nd, 2008, at the Hotel Scottsdale. (Logo: ) Confirmed artists include: Joe Nichols, Pat Travers, Eric Martin (Mr. Big), and Paul Rodgers (Bad Company and Queen). Retired NFL star and Gridiron Great Kyle Turley will also...
darkblack (Free subscription) | 12/14/2007
Well now, if you were 'twixt teen and twenty in the latter part of the bellbottoms and pukka shells era, you may have heard these fellows leaking out of a car stereo or two...Ottawa's own Pat Travers , who caught a break early on in the guitar chair of Rompin' Ronnie Hawkins , one of the godfathers of Canadian Rock and Roll. Here he is around '76 or so, ably backed by Nicko McBrain (who now mans the...
