You kind of know what you are going to get when you put on a Pat Travers CD. I mean, the guy has a way of taking pretty standard fare, riff based rock and roll and turning it into something special. He may have never gotten quite the same level of fame for his guitar pyrotechnics as Ted Nugent or Eddie Van Halen, but I’d say he’s every bit as good. The man can rock. There’s not a weak song here, but not everything stands quite as tall as the rest. That really says a lot about the quality of Travers’ music. This is reissue is highly recommended in my opinion.

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This powers out as a hard rocker on the intro, but that fades away. Then mellower sounds come in and the piece works out gradually in almost atmospheric ways. Before the one minute mark, though, the hard rocking, bluesy riff based jam emerges and we’re on our way. This is a killer tune that’s very classy. Cool shifts and changes emerge and the guitar solo is great. There are some sections of this that land close to fusion.