Putting It Straight [Original recording remastered] [Import]

Product Description
2004 remastered reissue of 1977 album features eight tracks & includes original artwork with updated sleeve notes. Majestic Rock.

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Putting It Straight [Original recording remastered] [Import]

Average customer rating: Putting it in the wrong order? great album, lousy cd Quintessential Pat Travers The Ultimate Pat Travers Album Pedal To The Metal

Putting It Straight Pat Travers Manufacturer: Majestic Rock ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Heat in the Street Makin' Magic Crash and Burn Live! Go for What You Know Pat Travers ASIN: B0000TO4G2 Release Date: 2007-01-26

Tracks:

1. Life in London
2. Gettin' Betta
3. Runnin' from the Future
4. Off Beat Ride [Instrumental]
5. It Ain't What It Seems
6. Lovin' You
7. Dedication
8. Speakeasy

Album Description

2004 remastered reissue of 1977 album features eight tracks & includes original artwork with updated sleeve notes. Majestic Rock.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Edition of Travers' Third Album that was Originally Released in 1977 Picks Up Perfectly from Where "Makin' Magic" Left Off. Having Found the Hard Rockin' Formula that Worked, Travers Continued to Gig Hard with his Trusty Three Piece, 'mars' Cowling and Nicko Mcbrain Making Up the Numbers Admirably. Guests on the Album Include Thin Lizzy's Scott Gorham on "Speakeasy" and Rainbow's Tony Carey on the Instrumental "Off Beat Ride". "Speakeasy" and "Life in London" Are Affectionate Odes to his New Home and Show an International Side to Pat Travers and his Work.

Customer Reviews:

Putting it in the wrong order?.......2007-07-12

I agree with others here that this is probably Pat Traver's best effort. Just wanted to mention that on my copy of this disc the songs are in a completely different order than they are coded on the disc. The disc is coded in the order the songs appear on the cover, but this is not the actual song order on the disc. Be aware that if you rip this disc to your computer you will have to manually rename the files to..ahem..."Put them straight".

Actual song order on the disc = How the disc is coded:
01 Life in London = Life in London
02 It Ain't What It Seems = Gettin' Betta
03 Speakeasy = Runnin' from the Future
04 Runnin' from the Future = It Ain't what it Seems
05 Lovin' You = Off Beat Ride
06 Off Beat Ride = Lovin' You
07 Gettin' Betta = Dedication
08 Dedication = Speakeasy

Kind of sloppy execution, if you ask me. Oh well, still a great disc. Buy it!

great album, lousy cd.......2007-05-13

this was one of my favorite albums about 30 years ago. it had a sonic impact that was kind of fresh. i've been looking for it on cd ever since cd's were invented, and could never find it. so i was really excited to find it on amazon. and really disappointed when i listened to it. sound quality is the worst i've heard on digital.

pat travers appeal was his musicianship, this isn't punk rock. this is like trying to enjoy "kind of blue" on a tinny sounding AM radio.

i still give it 3 stars, just for the music. you can't find these songs anywhere else, and the album is a masterpiece. somebody, please, do a state of the art digital remaster of this recording. it deserves it!

Quintessential Pat Travers.......2005-11-18

I recently bought this CD after listening to cassette copies that I made off the original LP for many years. After wearing out both the record and the Cassette(s) I was thrilled to see it re-released on CD. I have seen PT several times live and have always thought this was his best stuff. I played guitar in a rock band during the late seventies and Pat's tunes were a refreshing addition to our set lists. We just loved jamming on "Gettin' Betta", "Life in London", and other Pat Travers songs. He is truly one of the great all-time rockers and IMHO this is his best. Every track is great!

As an aside, I have great seats to see him at our local venue here in Annapolis, MD (Ram's Head Tavern) on November 28, 2005. I will be about 20 feet from the stage and can't wait!

The Ultimate Pat Travers Album.......2004-05-12

27 years, have I've been spinning this album. I've went through three vinyl copies & have a Japanese import CD, now I also have a double album CD which "Heat in the Street" is also included. It maybe redundant at this point to say that "Putting it Straight" is not just my favorite PT album, but my favorite album of all time! It still sounds as everybit fresh today as the day I popped it on my record player, so many years ago.

"Putting it Straight" starts off with the speeding mammoth, shiny metallic freight train that is "Life in London." PT's last word on the punk scene that was consuming London at the time. Fast, hard, & metallic, "Life in London" is a juggernaut stomping on the lifeless corpse that punk would be in a couple of years. The second & third songs, "It Aint What it Seems" & "Speakeasy," are rollicking guitar riff driven tunes that speak of goodtimes & bad. "Running from the Future" (my favorite song off the album) is a monster of Jazzy metal heaviness with guitar breaks that bring tears to my eyes. The sound he gets out of his guitar is just incredible on this song & the album as a whole, truely unique. "Running from the Future's" subject is also as forboding as it is heavy. PT speaking of his drug use, knowing it will lead to nowhere. "Lovin' You" is a keyboard driven song of love & regret. The funky instrumental "Off Beat Ride" demonstrates PT's fusion side not unlike Jeff Beck's "Wired," it also shows PT's considerable keyboard talents. The giant funky metallic riffery & time changes of "Gettin' Betta" is a immortal PT classic. It draws you in like a set of white water rapids, full of bumps & grinds, you have to hang on! The last song, "Dedication" is gorgeous. It's melody takes you away. It's lryics about friendship & kindness are truly heart-felt & warm. There is no doubt that PT knows how to write important personal songs of life & how to live it, a masterpiece.

This is the last album to feature the tremendous drumming of future Iron Maiden drummer Niko McBrain. Next would be Tommy Aldridge!

5/5

Pedal To The Metal.......2004-02-14

I bought this album upon it's release in 1977. This is undoubtly his best effort. I saw Pat Travers in 1977 at Will Rogers auditorium in Fort Worth Texas. This is a small venue that holds about 4000 people and he blew the roof off this place. So glad to see it finally released on CD. This album is unlike Radio Active or Heat In The Street and has not aged one bit. It is more funked up with a touch of jazz to it. There is not one bad track on it. If you don't have this cd GET IT! You will not be sorry.

Average customer rating:

Putting It Straight/Heat in the Street Pat Travers Manufacturer: One Way Records Inc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock Guitarists | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Classic Rock | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Rock Guitarists | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Rock Solid: Essential Collection Makin' Magic ASIN: B000062TB6 Release Date: 2003-01-28

Tracks:

1. Life in London
2. Gettin' Betta
3. Runnin' from the Future
4. Off Beat Ride
5. It Ain't What It Seems
6. Lovin' You
7. Dedication
8. Speakeasy
9. Heat in the Street
10. Killer's Instinct
11. I Tried to Believe
12. Hammerhead
13. Go All Night
14. Evie
15. Prelude
16. One for Me and One for You

Album Description

Full Title - Puttin' It Straight/Heat In The Street. Limited edition signature series. These classic albums from 1977 and 1978 are remastered and contain an eight page booklet that contains lyrics, exclusive photos and liner notes from PT. Slipcase. One Way. 2003.

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Putting It Straight Pat Travers Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000BRAUMK Release Date: 2004-12-28

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