In recent times, Travers has stuck with the trio format, teaming up with drummer Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge/Cactus/Jeff Beck), with whom Travers has revisited old hits and assorted vintage gems. The co-leaders have put out three discs, including 2005 Bazooka. In addition, Travers released his own PT=MC2 summer 2005 with bassist Rick Navarro and drummer Eric Frates. Word from the road is that the man still rocks as hard as his fans remember from back in the day.
Carmine Appice (rocknrolluniverse.com, February 2006): "Cleopatra came up to us and said: 'We'd like you to do a new record. Do your hits, with a modern flavor, maybe a couple of covers, and some new ones, have a few guests on it, and we'll put it out.' That happended about a year ago, so Pat and I put our heads together, with Chuck Wright, Lanny Cordola and Tony Franklin. We went into the studio and put together Bazooka. Again, it took about nine days. What we waited on was to get Bobby Kimball & Steve Lukather, both from Toto, and Rick Derringer. That took time, so by the time we got them we were actually running late. Basicly Pat Regan was busy mixing Ritchie Blackmore's album, so it took awhile to get him to mix it. As a matter of fact, pat and I were on tour with Vanilla Fudge/Pat Travers in Canada when he was mixing it. It was kind of a drag, because we couldn't be there. But we did like a really high tech mixing session. When he got the album done, he uploaded it to a website, we downloaded it, made a cd and listened to it in different cars on the road. The we called him up by cell phone, and told him 'The drums need this, the vocals need that, the guitars need this.' Then he'd fix it, and send it again. It was a bit of a nightmare. But, all in all it came out pretty good. (...) I'll tell you what, I hadn't heard it in about a month, I put it on in my car, and it sounded damm good. Pat Regan is a great producer/mixer."
