Pat Travers

For someone who's made his reputation as one of heavy-metal's more creative axemen,
Canadian Pat Travers doesn't play a hell of a lot of raveup guitar on Crash and Burn, his sixth
LP with his Anglo-American group. In the past, Travers has often employed keyboards and
synthesizers to fatten his sound, but in four of the eight songs here, he smothers his chops
and those of second guitarist Pat Thrall with a rich yet generally pointless layer... More >