Ryan Sparks at Classic Rock Revisited recently caught up with guitarist Pat Travers, following up their previous interview in August. An excerpt appears below.

Ryan: So where you’re at today vocally, you’re saying you’re more comfortable with your voice?

Pat: "Yeah and I have a lot more power. It took some getting used to, to be able to do that because I’m so used to having to get really pumped up to sing stuff, and with this it was the exact opposite. I had to get very relaxed and kind of mellow to get the stuff to sound good."

Ryan: It’s funny because we touched on this last time. I’ve always been a big fan of your vocals, but I was surprised to learn that you were never really comfortable with your voice.

Pat: "No. Singing for me is sometimes super easy but even when it’s easy it something I really have to keep my eye on. I think now I’m really starting to know my own voice and I can hear it objectively, because that’s always the hard part. I’m sure you’ve been in a situation where you heard your voice back for the first time, nobody sounds like what they think they do, and people are generally disappointed with what they hear. When you’re singing a vocal in the recording studio and you’re in there isolated, singing through a $1700 microphone, through a half million dollar console and they’re playing it back, you can hear the hairs whistling in your nose, every grunt and every groan. It’s so revealing and x-rated that it can freak some people out. Now I feel a lot more confident and I’m able to utilize my voice a lot better. I just feel that selling the song is the most important thing for me to do."

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