SPV proudly signs two of the biggest legends in blues and rock on ONE album!

Whenever rock icons like guitarist/vocalist Pat Travers and drummer Carmine Appice work together, enlisting the support of the ingenious all-round bassist, T.M. Stevens, into the bargain, the result is bound to be a technically accomplished masterpiece oozing sheer energy and power. The current album by Travers & Appice, It Takes A Lot Of Balls (Release Date: Oct. 04, 2004), certainly lives up to its promising title: real men playing rock music for people with guts.

Pat Travers has been one of America’s most renowned blues rock guitarists for over thirty years. His 1977 album, Makin’ Magic, is considered a milestone of the genre, his early shows (frequently performed barefoot and marked by wild gesticulations) were indications of a great career in the making. Towards the end of the Seventies, Travers had his most successful era in commercial terms, releasing the top sellers Pat Travers Band Live! Go For What You Know and Radio Active, featuring the singles ‘Boom, Boom’ and ‘Is It Love’, before moving to Orlando, Florida, where he concentrated increasingly on the American market. Metal Hammer praised his tracks: "Music that lives off a perceptible live character, and songs that Travers seems to produce off the top of his hat."

Drummer Carmine Appice has garnered countless awards and prizes during the course of his long career, having formed the legendary Vanilla Fudge in the Sixties, followed by the all-star troupe, Cactus, a few years later. He went on to play with guitar legend Jeff Beck and bassist Tim Bogert in the trio, Beck, Bogert & Appice, worked for jazz rock bassist Stanley Clarke and played with Rolling Stone Ron Wood. Appice also toured with Rod Stewart and co-wrote world hits like ‘Do You Think I’m Sexy’ or ‘Young Turks’. In the mid-Eighties, he founded the heavy metal band, King Kobra, and later joined Ozzy Osbourne and Ted Nugent, Pink Floyd also being among the bands on Appice’s résumé. He published the textbook, ‘Realistic Rock’, which has sold over 300,000 copies, and his workshops and drum clinics have been breaking attendance records all over the world.