PipemanRadio Interviews Pat Travers About Cactus

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This is the pipe Man here on the

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Radio. And I'm very excited about our

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next guest because not only is he
a killer musician, but there's a great

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project that we've already talked about.
We talked about the new Cactus album and

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he is on it. And so
let's welcome to the show. Pat Travers,

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how are you, hey, brother, how's it going today? Oh

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man, it's going great. And
uh, you know, I'm really pumped

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to talk to you about you know, what you're doing. But most importantly,

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like I already talked to Carmine about
Cactus Temple Blues, and you happen

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to be on that album. And
I know you've known Carmine for a long

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time, So tell me what was
like, you know, for after all

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these years, you play on a
Cactus album today in twenty twenty four,

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it felt excuse me, it felt
just fine. It felt totally normal,

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Like you say, I've known Carmine
for wow forty plus years now, and

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we've worked on a number of projects
together. So you know, for me

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working with Carmine, it's always easy. And in this case, you know,

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they sent me a pretty stripped down
MP three of the track and then

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I just played some guitar over it, and it sounded great when I heard

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everything on there, because, as
I said, the version I had was

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pretty I'm not even sure if there
was a bass guitar on it at that

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point. Well, you're a pro, so I'm sure that was second nature

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to you. And I love hearing
artists can work together, because sometimes that's

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not the case. So after over
forty years, to still be able to

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work with somebody, to me,
that's amazing. I think so too.

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I still remember when I first met
Carmine, which was back in nineteen eighty

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one, and he was playing with
Ted Nugent at the time, and we

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did a string of shows in Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma all around there.

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And I was a huge Vanilla Foage
fan. When I was thirteen or fourteen,

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I wanted to play keyboards, you
know, I wanted to be Mark

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Stein. But so I always felt
a strong connection musically to Carmine, and

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then he's just like the he's like
my big brother. He's like just the

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greatest guy. So yes, it's
always fun to do anything with Carmine,

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you know. See I love hearing
stuff like that, and you know,

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you are an amazing musician. So
it definitely, you know, it makes

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for this song and the album to
be just that much better with this all

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star cast as I would put it, you know. But oh yeah,

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the song, the album is great, and the list of characters is you

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know, amazing, And I've seen
one videos that they did with Ted Nugent

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and Doug from The King's X and
Carmine and it just looks awesome and it

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sounds awesome. So I'm very policed
that Carmine put this together. You know,

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he's amazing. And you know,
it's amazing that you said about Vanilla

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Fudge because they basically, you know, he said in the interview. He

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was talking in the interview how surprised
he was how many of his friends that

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were musicians were all fans of Cactus, fans of Vanilla Fudge, Like it

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kind of blew his mind that he
didn't know everybody. All these people that

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he's worked with and knew that were
just big fans. Isn't that something,

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right? Yeah? I don't know, Yeah, I mean, well,

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yeah, I mean I guess I
get that. I some times I don't

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sort of think of myself as the
way other people, you know, fans

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or whatever do, and so I
get that. But no, I was

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a huge fan still at and you
know, I get to play the Sea

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Mark Stein every now and then and
he's just so still incredible, you know,

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both of those guys, it's amazing. Well, and you know,

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to me, that's the difference between
somebody playing an instrument and somebody be a

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musician, because to me, most
musicians they don't really, like we were

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talking about, they don't really know
that all these people are fans because they

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don't think that way. Their head
isn't that big. They just want to

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play music and that's all they think
about and perfect their creation. You know,

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you're absolutely right in my case for
sure, And I'll usually in carmines

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too. Yeah, I don't really. You know, I'm happy and proud

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when I create something musically and it
comes together and all that, but you

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know, I'm not It's what I'm
supposed to do. So you know that

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it's you kind of look at it
a different way. You know, of

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course you want to impress everybody,
but you know you want to craft something

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too, yes, you know.
So what do you think it is that

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was that moment in time, way
back when when you first started music,

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that that made you realize that this
was what you were meant to do.

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Well, I think it goes back
all the way to when I was about

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nine years old and seeing the Beatles
on the Ed's Elevant show. I mean,

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it was just there was nothing like
that, you know, it was

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it appealed to me on so many
different levels. And I didn't know,

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you know, I wasn't sophisticated enough
to know anything about the mechanics of how

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the Beatles, you know, were
the Beatles and recorded and played, But

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I instinctively knew that that was something
I wanted to do. Yeah, And

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that's usually how it happens. There's
that moment that just really like touches you

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and that's it, you know,
And yeah, true. And then as

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you know, as time passed a
bit, and uh, you know,

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we had guys like Jimi Hendrix and
Eric Clapton and Johnny Winner and d V

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King and Jeff Beck just these incredible
unique Carlos Santana, every one of these

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guys you could identify if you just
heard them play two notes. You know.

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It is so true cool because people
freak out, like friends of mine

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when we're in the car and I
just hear a note of a song and

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I know who it is. Yeah, that just proves the point of what

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you're saying, you know, yep, Yeah, What would you say is

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your favorite story of something with you
and Carmine? Ah well, I used

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to when we first met and he
was playing with Nugent and and you know,

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we do show and then we were
all staying at the same holiday in

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or Marriott or whatever. And in
those days they usually had a band,

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you know that played in the bar, so we would get up on jam

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and stuff. That was just the
best because Carman was so funny. I

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mean, it was just great playing
with him. I just I really had

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a ball. You know. That's
key right there. You know, if

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you're going to be in this business, you gotta be having fun. That's

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why I always say all the time, because if you're not having fun,

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what you know, why be in
this business? And people can tell too.

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The listeners. Yeah, yeah,
you know, yes, So you

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guys also had a show this month
in the beginning of month in clear Water

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where I'm in South Florida at Ruth
Eckert Hall. It was pre iconic show.

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Can you tell us a little bit
about that show for the people that

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missed it. Well, first of
all, Ruth Eckert Hall is probably one

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of the best venues in the world. It's so comfortable to perform and play

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in, the people that run it, and the way the building is and

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it's just it's so comfortable. I
wish I could play there every night.

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Well, and it was us and
Cactus and fog Cat and we had a

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great crowd from beginning to end.
It was a ton of fun. Yeah,

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see again, fun the most important
thing. And what a lineup between

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the three of you. That's uh
yeah, that's an epic show right there.

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Yeah. Tony Franklin was playing bass
with Cactus, so that was cool.

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I love Tony, very cool.
Is there anything else you want to

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share about what you have going on
that the listeners need to know to check

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out or because you're still really really
busy and I think that's amazing. Yeah,

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Well, we just started to work
on a new album as well.

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I mean we have it's pretty much
starting in August. I got a couple

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next months, but I'm going to
spend the next six weeks or so trying

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to get this album together for Cleopatra
Records. And so I'm excited about that

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because I've got some cool ideas musically. It's going to be some added instrumentation

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here and there, and it's going
to be cool, nice. And then

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we're like I said, then starting
in August, we have you know,

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about ten shows a month till the
end of the year, so yeah,

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we'll be busy. Well. And
so I always ask ours, like yourself,

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I've been doing this so long,
you know, how is it to

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create new music after you've been doing
it for so long? To me,

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it's like, wow, how much
more creativity can come out? Yeah,

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that's interesting after the you know,
we put on an album three years ago,

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two years ago, and I worked
really hard on that record and it

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was great. The material was really
strong, playing the production. But you

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know, after I was done with
that album finished, because it took me

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about a year to make it,
I just wasn't really interested in trying to

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be creative too much, you know, but inevitably stuff just shows up.

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And so I have, you know, about four or five sketches for songs,

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so that's enough to get started.
And yeah, it wasn't like I

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was going, hey, I got
to get to work. It was just

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this music just came up as I
was, you know, warming up or

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tuning up or something. So yeah, it's kind of it's kind of like

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secondhand at this point, right,
like you know, which you don't even

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think about. It just happens.
Yeah, that really seems it comes unbidden.

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Well, you are still epic and
glad you're still playing live shows.

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And man, it's really great having
you on that Cactus album. And I

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hope we see it still keep seeing
a lot. We'll talk again when I

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have my new album. Absolutely I'll
be glad to promote it for sure.

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All right, my brother, Well, thanks a lot for being on The

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Adventures pipe Man. Pat you got
it. Cheers, cheers, Thank you

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