I bought a ticket to see Rick Derringer and the Pat Travers Band at The Space at Westbury primarily go see Rick Derringer who had a pretty good solo career after Edgar Winter’s White Trash. 

Rick Derringer apparently bailed on the tour for upcoming advertised gigs with   Vanilla Fudge but I attended anyway to at least catch Boom Boom (Out Go the Lights).

I skipped the two opening acts when I was told Travers would not hit the stage until 10 PM but when Florida based Pat Travers started playing at the sparsely attended concert,  he absolutely tore the Space up.

The “band” consisted of Mr. Travers and young duo playing bass and drums and they were a great old school hard rock trio. Because the crowd was so light, even though I arrived late I walked right to the front of the stage and I was thoroughly impressed by how talented this group is. Pat Travers may be one of the best hard rock guitarists I’ve ever seen in person and ranks up there with Robin Trower from the 1970’s and 1980’s group of rock and roll guitar led road warrior bands.

An interesting sidebar is that Travers’ super talented bass player is the  nephew of the late Jaco Pastorius. 

Boom Boom

Rock on!

GQ