Saturday
Jan072017
Stephen Pearcy Releases New Track 'Rain'
Saturday, January 7, 2017 at 07:56AM New year, more new music.
Stephen Pearcy has just released the track "Rain" which is off his upcoming album Smash, due out January 27. This comes just before we get news that Pearcy and Warren DeMartini are working together on demoing new tracks for a new RATT record.
It's unbelievable to me that Infestation is already about seven years old, so RATT is definitely overdue for a new record. We'll see what the guys come up with, but it does seem like there is real interest to create new work.
Reader Comments (9)
Let me use this space to ask a question though: what changed between DeMartini and Pearcy? Yes, I understand it must have been somewhat easy to turn again Blotto Blotzer, what with his booze-soaked fingers launching early morning salvos at both of them. But, beside that, what changed? I find it hard to believe that hating Blotz was enough to mend the bridge. Who knows? I have been wrong often enough.
HIM, Pearcy's voice isn't as shot as you think, at least not on the level of Coverdale or even worse, Dokken. I saw the RATT reunion with Croucier and you can watch their performance on The 2016 Monsters of Rock Cruise or their old shows from the 80's, all on YouTube where Pearcy's voice may have some occasional inconsistencies (nothing clean living, practice and traveling with a vocal coach a la Axl couldn't cure), but it's hardly strictly a "studio voice". So don't let that deter you from going to M3!
Metalboy!, I know he isn't a spent shell on the level of Coverdale or Dokken (I could make a counter-argument on the last one . . . but I have done that before). If anything, he is a mid-level version of DLR (and a better version at that level nowadays). He is a performer on stage that, try as you might, you can't look away from when he is performing. And, yes, he has sounded better in recent years. But I think he is one of those singers who fans have developed two sets of ears for: one in the studio and one live. They aren't the same.
One of the troubling things, early on (he seems to struggle more these days), for me, when listening to Blotz's version of the band: his singer (boring and repetitive as hell on stage) was jarring. Why? It was the studio voice live. Does that make sense?
More to your point, though, I would still pay to see Ratt. I have no problem with them, and have enjoyed them even when he wasn't in fine form (live version).
That and Junkyard, Dangerous Toys, Danger Danger, KIX, Vain, Baton Rouge and, I suppose, Dokken, though I really wish they could have cut the excess fat (Loverboy, Winger, Keifer, Lita Ford, Loudness, et al) and paid more to get Lynch and Pilson.
Pilson could have worked something out with Mick Jones to have a someone substitute for him for a couple of gigs if there's any conflicts (hmmm... maybe not, as I heard Jones can be kind of a d*ck).
Imagine if they could have squeezed L.A. Guns (with Tracii, of course) into the mix.
This is what would really set M3 apart from any of the other festivals and cruises. Imagine pulling together a gig with the likes of DiMartini, Lynch, Guns and that dude from Dangerous Toys on the same bill. Perhaps if promoters approached the genre that way, they would draw a larger crowds and, in the case of M3, actually sell out.