RATT Guitarist Answers Fan-Submitted Questions

[Jagermeister]

Hair metal is not Ozzy, Dio or Priest...

It's a long list that includes Ratt, Cinderella and Winger. I would say Warrant and Poison but they're not even music...

Hey !!Reb Beach is a great guitar player.

[Seshmeister]

Hair metal is not Ozzy, Dio or Priest...

It's a long list that includes Ratt, Cinderella and Winger. I would say Warrant and Poison but they're not even music...

Although I would argue that if Joe Perry had come up with the riff to Unskinny Bop everyone including him would have been quite happy with it and the main differences between AC/DC and Cinderella are not musical they are about hair and shoes.

[Seshmeister]

Even I can't think of anything nice to say about Warrant though.

Emm the girl in the Cherry Pie video was hot...

[chefcraig]

Although I would argue that if Joe Perry had come up with the riff to Unskinny Bop everyone including him would have been quite happy with it and the main differences between AC/DC and Cinderella are not musical they are about hair and shoes.

The riff to "Unskinny Bop" was lifted from Lynyrd Skynyrd's "I Know A Little" (heard below at about :40). Who knows where Skynyrd stole it from.

[Seshmeister]

I've just read that CC Deville did the solo on Cherry Pie!!!???

I never knew that.

Under what possible circumstances do you get to the point where someone says 'What this song really needs is a solo by CC Deville'...?

[Seshmeister]

The riff to "Unskinny Bop" was lifted from Lynyrd Skynyrd's "I Know A Little" (heard below at about :40). Who knows where Skynyrd stole it from.

Ah well there goes CC's one shot at adequacy, I should have been suspicious.

I've never been an LS fan but that song sounded fun.

[Seshmeister]

Stolen from somewhere. This is kick ass. Obviously from blabbermouth.
Guitarist Warren DeMartini of Californian rockers RATT recently answered fan-submitted questions for Fret 12. The entire question-and-answer session can be viewed in six parts below



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Watching this you can't help but feel that rock music robbed shoe retailers of a great salesman...

[ELVIS]

Ah well there goes CC's one shot at adequacy, I should have been suspicious.

I've never been an LS fan but that song sounded fun.

That is a great song with a killer bass line and the worlds best rock piano solo...

[ELVIS]

Under what possible circumstances do you get to the point where someone says 'What this song really needs is a solo by CC Deville'...?

LMAO!

Hey, I know... Call CC!!!

[chefcraig]

Watching this you can't help but feel that rock music robbed shoe retailers of a great salesman...

Yep, life indeed is un-fucking fair.

[binnie]

GODDAMNIT!!

Now I've got 'Unskinny Bop' in my head!

[Diamondjimi]

The only good Ratt song...

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Warren should be sharing his royalty cheques with George Lynch. At one time they were roommates and George used to "borrow" Warrens Marshall's, and Warren,in return would steal Lynch's licks...

That is a great song with a killer bass line and the worlds best rock piano solo...

Can't say I disagree on that one. Leon And Billy were one bad ass rhythm section... (R.I.P.)

[sonrisa salvaje]

Hair metal is not Ozzy, Dio or Priest...

It's a long list that includes Ratt, Cinderella and Winger. I would say Warrant and Poison but they're not even music...

So i guess you would put Motley Crue into the hair metal category as well? To me, hair metal started with Poison and went to Warrant, Winger, White Lion, etc. The L.A. big three of Motley, Ratt and Dokken were before all that shit and shouldn't be included in that bullshit. They got thrown in after the fact by a bunch of stereotyping peckerheads.

[Seshmeister]

This thread got me wandering about the interweb and I came across this show back before we had to put up with backing tapes and children at rock shows(off and onstage).

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I have to say he may be a dick but Bach was a hell of a singer.

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I'm kicking myself as I could have went to this show but didn't, turned out it was GNR's last gig before they disappeared up their own assholes.

[ELVIS]

So i guess you would put Motley Crue into the hair metal category as well?

Not the first two albums...

After that, they caught the Hair bus...

You can't be serious about Dokken ??