Stephen Pearcy "I’m looking forward to a break from Ratt."

[Seshmeister]

I don't think they have been pals for a long time, I'm talking in business terms they don't need him going off diluting it with his solo nonsense.

[sonrisa salvaje]

I don't think they have been pals for a long time, I'm talking in business terms they don't need him going off diluting it with his solo nonsense.

He can't dilute it anymore than he already has. He has done 4 or 5 solo records in the past 10 years not to mention Mickey Ratt compilations. I would imagine that if he does another solo record or this Battering Ramm project they will go widely unnoticed like the aforementioned stuff did. As a die hard Ratt fan, it kind of pisses me off that they don't just go right back in the studio and do the follow up to Infestation. I bought enough of the Pearcy solo stuff to know that it is alright but is not going to be worthwhile. By the way, Blotzer always was and still is a dickface.

[GAR]

I was really surprised to read recently that Eddie Murphy is a big Ratt fan.

Oh yeah! He digs metal but proselytizes R&B: one intermission I was hanging outside the Whiskey loading out gear for a friend, and these two black guys get out of an Aston Martin convertible which even in West Hollywood aren't too common.. Eddie goes inside and the buddy sits by watching the car, and the next thing you know James Brown Live at the Apollo comes on throughout the break between bands.

1991 or '92. It was unusual because that really broke a mood in the air between sucky metal bands.

[hambon4lif]

By the way, Blotzer always was and still is a dickface.

True dat!
I remember meeting him backstage at Daves Skyscraper show in LA. He would walk up to people with a drink in his hand and act like he accidently bumped into 'em. "Oops!" and spill his drink all over them. He did that shit 3 or 4 times.
I have to admit, it was funny the first time, after that it got old and he was just being a total dick!

[Terry]

RATT have been out there for so long, in various configurations for the last 13-odd years...so what if Pearcy wants to take a break? Or do a solo album? So what if Blotzer wrote a book? It's not the mid-1980s anymore. Not too much of a stretch to say that most people at RATT shows noware there to hear the better-known songs from the 1980s. They don't give a shit if Croucier is there or not, or if Pearcy is doing solo albums...there's really no contemporary recording career to "dilute" with outside projects. Probably most people going to RATT shows these days don't even know if the band has a new record out or not. They wanna hear Round and Round, Lay It Down, Wanted Man, Back For More, You're In Love, Body Talk and the like. Nothing wrong with that at all, but outside of the band members and whatever amount of diehard fans are left, I can't imagine anything else the band does beyond playing those aforementioned tunes really matters much to the vast majority of people seeing them live (usually as an opening act these days anyway).

[Seshmeister]

Blotzer write a book?

I'd be stunned if he read a book.

[GAR]

Met this dude sitting in a restaurant/bar who's chick used to be a whore, we were talking metal years stuff - they told me this story how she went to Stephen's hotel room and he welcomes her and her girlfriend at the door.. he's standing with an open robe and his shriveled junk was hanging out. She said they told him unfortunately they had to go which got him upset.

I was disturbed by that. If my chick was formerly a prostitute, I wouldn't enjoy her telling strangers her epic starfucker tales but I guess it was mutually humorous enough to be shared publicly - so I wouldn't doubt it.

[sonrisa salvaje]

RATT have been out there for so long, in various configurations for the last 13-odd years...so what if Pearcy wants to take a break? Or do a solo album? So what if Blotzer wrote a book? It's not the mid-1980s anymore. Not too much of a stretch to say that most people at RATT shows noware there to hear the better-known songs from the 1980s. They don't give a shit if Croucier is there or not, or if Pearcy is doing solo albums...there's really no contemporary recording career to "dilute" with outside projects. Probably most people going to RATT shows these days don't even know if the band has a new record out or not. They wanna hear Round and Round, Lay It Down, Wanted Man, Back For More, You're In Love, Body Talk and the like. Nothing wrong with that at all, but outside of the band members and whatever amount of diehard fans are left, I can't imagine anything else the band does beyond playing those aforementioned tunes really matters much to the vast majority of people seeing them live (usually as an opening act these days anyway).

You are right.

[GreenBayLA]

Stephen Pearcy "I’m looking forward to a break from Ratt."
Wow, I feel the same way!