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RATT Is Touring In 2018
Wednesday, December 27, 2017 at 12:01AM
No other details are available but RATT is touring in 2018. Will it be winter, spring, summer of fall? Festival dates? Will Bobby Blotzer come back? Let the speculation and rumors begin!
Reader Comments (22)
The tour? When they are touring? With whom they will be touring?
No. The miracle will be posts from Blotz. Say what you will about everyone's favorite steam cleaning entrepreneur, but Blotz is a hoot when the liquid flows and the computer screen glows.
And, in a bid to get ready for a new year and a clean slate, let me be the first to say: I hope Pearcy stays sober and does as much justice as he can to the catalog. The fans deserve a good show.
Heck, they deserve a suitable follow-up to _Infestation_. Bring it, Ratt. Bring it.
Still, it would be great if he could bend the knee and work his way back in, no matter how crappy a drummer he is in real life, haha!!
I read two things about what give us a lot to look forward to in 2018 — The new album will sound a lot different than “Infestation” (let’s hope they don’t f*ck that up!) and this will be the first time Croucier will lend his writing talents to a RATT album since 1991’s “Detonator”!
I was lucky enough to see RATT (point blank, naturally) when they headlined M3 a few years back, the first time they played with Croucier in 19 years! And, I also feel fortunate Blotzer was still drumming for them that night.
That’s because of precisely what Bob is referring to ... The groove ... and also, in the case of Blotzer (even though I just blasted him for being a half-as*ed drummer), it’s the fact he was a founding member and his “groove” or “sound”, especially when he’s on a roll (no pun intended), even if it’s not overly impressive technically, supplies a key ingredient to the overall sound of the band that simply can’t be captured with any other drummer, no matter how great they are.
Of course, it also helped that Pearcy was in rare form (well, as good as he seems capable of since his “heyday”) despite missing a few notes, etc. after all it’s his voice which also can’t be replicated, even when he’s just phoning it in. Let’s just hope Pearcy keeps it together as Stu recognizes, since he could ruin everything if he starts “partying”.
In the end, no matter how great it would be to have Blotto back, Kenny O (Hey, Bro, great to see you back in Comments these days!) probably has it right — Pearcy and DiMartini will NEVER let him back, let alone forgive him, after all the embarrassing stunts he pulled such as drunkenly blabbing out his Sebastian Bach level of vitriol and toxicity toward the band, as well as abusing the RATT brand when he toured with his knock-off act.
And, finally, BK, as much as I agree with you on a lot of stuff you say, seriously, a drummer is just a drummer? Bonham? Moon? Baker? Rich? Morello? Appice? Even some of the 80’s drummers ... Rarebell? Kottak? Brown? Surely, you may wish to retract that comment.
On a different note, Bob, what is your opinion of Bill Ward? I am no musician. But I always felt he was something special in the Sab Sauce, a bit overlooked due to the giants who surrounded him (and also his own foibles).
BTW, BK, I want to thank you for opening the topic of drummers here. Funny how one of you salvos can lead to a whole subtopic to contemplate.
Since you created it, could you clue us in on the many cases, aside from YOUR OPINION about RATT, where “a drummer is just a drummer”?
Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick? Steve Riley formerly of W.A.S.P., L.A.Guns, The B’zz? Steven Adler of Guns N‘ Roses? Matt Sorum of Guns N‘ Roses and The Cult?
Note these drummers were all replaced, yet somehow some of the magic from those bands left with them, though I must say, the current drummer of the “reunited” Guns N‘ Roses, Frank Ferrer, is quite the powerhouse and has the cred.