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Friday
Feb232024

Wait! There's A New RATT Book!

I didn't know about this but I am excited! Greg Prato has written a book about RATT called World Infestation. The book came out the first of this month and is getting good reviews. You better believe I added this bad boy to my Kindle as soon as I learned of its existence. Expect a review soon! (But I have to finish my current Stephen King first).


Tuesday
Oct172023

Rat Attack Incoming?

For the past week and a half, I’ve been in Greece. Eric and I got home late last night and I am still trying to navigate re-entry into regular life today. You know, working and stuff. I have no idea what happened in the music world while I was on vacation. The major world news was the Hamas terror attack on Israel so I’ve been able to keep up with that – but not much else was making global headlines nonstop during my trip.


Eric and I had a wonderful trip which is great since it was postponed so many times over a three-year period. That said, I feel all traveled out at this point.


Scanning Blabbermouth, it seems to me the biggest Glam news of the past few days is Bobby Blotzer’s Rat Attack being a thing. Or is about to be a thing. Retirement is boring for Blotzer and he wants to perform again, so good for him. It will be interesting to see who ends up in this band. Stephen Pearcy is also touring of course – the voice of RATT, performing classic RATT tunes. Just like Blotzer – presumably.


Monday
Apr102023

'RATT: The Atlantic Years' Coming To Vinyl

RATT will released a limited edition set of The Atlantic Years boxset to vinyl on June 9. The set came out on CD a couple years ago. This means five albums remastered to 180 gram vinyl.

The albums in the set are Out of The Cellar (1984), Invasion of Your Privacy (1985), Dancing Undercover (1986), Reach For The Sky (1988) and Detonator (1990). You can pre-order the set by clicking the picture - it's $200.

 

 

Monday
Jul252022

Stephen Pearcy Shills For Dollar Loan Center

It's time for another hair metal icon to shill for Dollar Loan Center. This time, RATT's Stephen Pearcy gets the star treatment while he applies for a loan. Shocker, he's approved and the bankers are all really attractive women! Sebastian Bach and Vince Neil have also appeared in such commercials. This just makes me shake my head. Still, a job is a job and I'm sure these commercials paid well... or at least I hope they did.


Sunday
Mar132022

Sunday's Best: Week 10, 2022

The time change happened overnight and we made it! It's one of my favorite days of the year: a time of renewed hope for longer and warmer days full of sunshine. Spring officially starts next Sunday and we've got St. Patrick's Day this week, too!


To me, it's time for happy or inspiring metal songs - and that's our Sunday's Best for this week. Some of my choices are below:


Ozzy Osbourne - Flying High Again
Saxon - Denim and Leather
Poison - Nothin' But A Good Time
Steel Panther - Party All Day
Judas Priest - Living After Midnight
I See Stars - Electric Forest
RATT - Best Of Me
Dio - Stand Up And Shout

Also I suppose we could just listen to any power metal and call it a day. (I kid, sort of). What are some of your go-to uplifting tracks?


Thursday
Feb102022

There's Another Heaviest Riff Video!

The video I posted yesterday was very popular for the creator and he made a new video with 13 more songs.


This time, we've got riffs from Every Mother's Nightmare, RATT, Firehouse, Loudness, KISS, Savatage and more. Probably the best inclusion on this list is "Unchained" by Van Halen. I've always thought that was an absolutely face-melter of a track.


Sunday
Jan092022

Sunday's Best: Week 1, 2022

Welcome to Sunday's Best, where we talk about the best of... something! There will be a new topic or list each week. This week, the best commercials featuring hair metal and rock bands!


Metallica - AOL - 2003



Geico - featuring RATT - 2020



Warrant - Rockline - late 80s probably



Aerosmith - The Gap - 1999



Alice Cooper - Marriott - 2002



KISS and Little Kiss - Dr. Pepper - 2010



... and the best memory of them all... when CDs and cassettes were advertised on television! Monster Ballads Hit Collection. - Circa 1999