I'm doing a deep dive on Ratt...
- BostonBeaneater
- Autonomous Insect Cyborg Sentinel
- Posts: 11943
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 7:24pm
- Location: Between the moon and New York City
I'm doing a deep dive on Ratt...
Who knew that before Whitesnake fame Tawny Kitaen appeared on the Round and Round single cover?
- BostonBeaneater
- Autonomous Insect Cyborg Sentinel
- Posts: 11943
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 7:24pm
- Location: Between the moon and New York City
Re: I'm doing a deep dive on Ratt...
Di you know that Ratt's classic line up drummer Bobby Blotzer was in Dokken before he joined Ratt? Don Dokken looks like this now:
Re: I'm doing a deep dive on Ratt...
I laughed. I maybe didn't look as good as he did 30 years ago but I definitely look way better now.BostonBeaneater wrote: ↑02 May 2020, 12:04amDi you know that Ratt's classic line up drummer Bobby Blotzer was in Dokken before he joined Ratt? Don Dokken looks like this now:
Edit I also haven't had as much drugs and meaningless sex so I guess he still comes out on top.
Tell me more about Ratt.
- BostonBeaneater
- Autonomous Insect Cyborg Sentinel
- Posts: 11943
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 7:24pm
- Location: Between the moon and New York City
Re: I'm doing a deep dive on Ratt...
I am researching Ratt tonight after seeing this advertisement:revbob wrote: ↑02 May 2020, 12:08amI laughed. I maybe didn't look as good as he did 30 years ago but I definitely look way better now.BostonBeaneater wrote: ↑02 May 2020, 12:04amDi you know that Ratt's classic line up drummer Bobby Blotzer was in Dokken before he joined Ratt? Don Dokken looks like this now:
Edit I also haven't had as much drugs and meaningless sex so I guess he still comes out on top.
Tell me more about Ratt.
- BostonBeaneater
- Autonomous Insect Cyborg Sentinel
- Posts: 11943
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 7:24pm
- Location: Between the moon and New York City
Re: I'm doing a deep dive on Ratt...
By the early 90s Ratt was fracturing. Their last classic line up single, Nobody Rides for Free, appeared on the Point Break soundtrack.
- BostonBeaneater
- Autonomous Insect Cyborg Sentinel
- Posts: 11943
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 7:24pm
- Location: Between the moon and New York City
Re: I'm doing a deep dive on Ratt...
Stephen Pearcy is the founder and, I guess, owner of Ratt. As of today's wikipedia standing her is, "Pearcy is divorced, and lives with his girlfriend Kristi Adair. He has a daughter from his first marriage."
Re: I'm doing a deep dive on Ratt...
That’s a great one though I take exception to the notion that this is the “classic lineup” as Robin Crosby was out of the band at this point.BostonBeaneater wrote: ↑02 May 2020, 12:31amBy the early 90s Ratt was fracturing. Their last classic line up single, Nobody Rides for Free, appeared on the Point Break soundtrack.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
Re: I'm doing a deep dive on Ratt...
Also let me know when you get to the Detonator album.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
- Dr. Medulla
- Atheistic Epileptic
- Posts: 115780
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 2:00pm
- Location: Straight Banana, Idaho
Re: I'm doing a deep dive on Ratt...
One of my favourite hair metal stories involves (pretty sure) Don Dokken. At a show, he was doing all the standard metal guitar god moves while soloing and he felt his spandex pants rip from ass to crotch. One of the roadies came on stage while he's still playing and gaffer taped his pants back together. He finished the show that way but lost all the hair on his ass when he took off the pants backstage. Tres Spinal Tap.
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
- BostonBeaneater
- Autonomous Insect Cyborg Sentinel
- Posts: 11943
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 7:24pm
- Location: Between the moon and New York City
Re: I'm doing a deep dive on Ratt...
I really don’t know much about Ratt.matedog wrote: ↑02 May 2020, 1:32amThat’s a great one though I take exception to the notion that this is the “classic lineup” as Robin Crosby was out of the band at this point.BostonBeaneater wrote: ↑02 May 2020, 12:31amBy the early 90s Ratt was fracturing. Their last classic line up single, Nobody Rides for Free, appeared on the Point Break soundtrack.
- BostonBeaneater
- Autonomous Insect Cyborg Sentinel
- Posts: 11943
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 7:24pm
- Location: Between the moon and New York City
Re: I'm doing a deep dive on Ratt...
Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑02 May 2020, 6:24amOne of my favourite hair metal stories involves (pretty sure) Don Dokken. At a show, he was doing all the standard metal guitar god moves while soloing and he felt his spandex pants rip from ass to crotch. One of the roadies came on stage while he's still playing and gaffer taped his pants back together. He finished the show that way but lost all the hair on his ass when he took off the pants backstage. Tres Spinal Tap.
If only there was video.
Re: I'm doing a deep dive on Ratt...
But I have so many questions...BostonBeaneater wrote: ↑02 May 2020, 8:30amI really don’t know much about Ratt.matedog wrote: ↑02 May 2020, 1:32amThat’s a great one though I take exception to the notion that this is the “classic lineup” as Robin Crosby was out of the band at this point.BostonBeaneater wrote: ↑02 May 2020, 12:31amBy the early 90s Ratt was fracturing. Their last classic line up single, Nobody Rides for Free, appeared on the Point Break soundtrack.
- Heston
- God of Thunder...and Rock 'n Roll
- Posts: 38353
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 4:07pm
- Location: North of Watford Junction
Re: I'm doing a deep dive on Ratt...
I thought this was gonna be about a mission to find Mr. Patrol.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
- Dr. Medulla
- Atheistic Epileptic
- Posts: 115780
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 2:00pm
- Location: Straight Banana, Idaho
Re: I'm doing a deep dive on Ratt...
Me too. Hoped that Beaneater had donned trench coat and fedora and begun sleuthing our serial killer's whereabouts.
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
- Dr. Medulla
- Atheistic Epileptic
- Posts: 115780
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 2:00pm
- Location: Straight Banana, Idaho
Re: I'm doing a deep dive on Ratt...
I figured I had shared that story before. A got a bit of the details wrong, plus extra dumb hair metal stories at the link: viewtopic.php?p=261749#p261749BostonBeaneater wrote: ↑02 May 2020, 8:31amDr. Medulla wrote: ↑02 May 2020, 6:24amOne of my favourite hair metal stories involves (pretty sure) Don Dokken. At a show, he was doing all the standard metal guitar god moves while soloing and he felt his spandex pants rip from ass to crotch. One of the roadies came on stage while he's still playing and gaffer taped his pants back together. He finished the show that way but lost all the hair on his ass when he took off the pants backstage. Tres Spinal Tap.
If only there was video.
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft