Mars cowling biography

Pat Travers, bassist (electric) by Tom Semioli 

 

Seminal Sides: Putting It Straight (1977) Live, Go For What You Know (1979), Crash & Burn (1980), Radio Active (1981) – all with The Pat Travers Band 

 

Artists / Bands: The Pat Travers Band 

 

“What for!” bellowed the late, great Mars Cowling when he heard about Know Your Bass Player!

 

Ask any hard rock, blues bassist with a reverence for history whom they consider to be the true virtuosos of their chosen genre, and they’ll  respond Peter “Mars” Cowling!

 

A self-taught player, the enigmatic, tight trouser-ed (even in his later years!), well-coiffed (always) Grimbsy, England born bassist was a nimble fingered ace.

Mars punctuats Pat Travers’ riffage and Tommy Aldridge’s frenetic rhythms with a blinding array of double-stops, slaps, chords, and harmonies galore – all (fashionably) rendered from his sterling white Fender Precision, and often filtered through flange / chorus /