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Airdate: 05/03/2023
Guest: Bobby Blotzer (RATT DRUMMER)

00:00  STATION ID/SHOW INTRO
01:22  TTTO SHOW + GUEST PREVIEW
02:46  RATT “THE ATLANTIC YEARS” INFO
03:38  SPECULATION ON A POSSIBLE RATT TOUR, PEARCY QUOTES FROM RECENT INTERVIEWS, ETC
07:17  “THE ATLANTIC YEARS” DETAILS RECAPPED IN FURTHER DETAIL
09:30  BOBBY BLOTZER OF RATT ON THE PHONE

10:30  WILL THIS RELEASE PUT RATT BACK ON STAGE IN THE NEAR FUTURE?
 BLOTZER STATES THAT LITIGATION IS OVER AND “EVERYBODY SHOULD JUST BRUSH IT OFF”  RATT SHOULD “SHAKE THEIR BUTTS, MAKE SOME MONEY, MAKE THE PEOPLE HAPPY”

12:00  BLOTZER AND STEVE (STEPHEN PEARCY) “TALK ABOUT IT (A REUNION) ALL OF THE TIME, TRYING TO GET AHOLD OF WARREN (DEMARTINI)”. 
HE MENTIONS A POTENTIAL MANAGER/ADVERSARY THAT HAS REACHED WARREN BY PHONE. 

BLOTZER STATES THAT PEACY AND JUAN (CROUCIER) “HAVE SOME SLOPPY ENDS TO TIE UP” BEFORE MORE HAPPENS
“IT HAS TO HAPPEN THOUGH”

13:00  IF IT DOESN’T HAPPEN WITH THIS RELEASE, IT COULD HAPPEN IN 2024 AS IT’S TOO LATE IN THE YEAR TO MOUNT A TOUR.  “NEXT YEAR IS 40 YEARS SINCE (OUT OF THE) CELLAR CAME OUT”

“I FEEL LIKE IT’S INEVITABLE, THE FANS WANT TO SEE THIS OUTFIT ONE MORE TIME OUT THERE”

13:50  ON MOTLEY CRUE: “RATT’S ALWAYS CRUSHED MOTLEY MUSICALLY”
“THEY GOT MORE PRESS, MOVIE STARS, EXPLICIT SEX, MURDERS AND SHIT, ALWAYS IN THE MAGAZINES”. 
“I DON’T THINK THEY WANT TO GO TOE TO TOE WITH US”
14:20  WE DISCUSS HOW MOTLEY CRUE USED “DRAMA” TO THEIR ADVANTAGE, HOW JOURNEY IS TOURING WHILE 2 MEMBERS ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF DUELING LAWSUITS, THE SINGER “IS WAITING TO GET FIRED” YET RATT CAN’T “GET IT TOGETHER”. 
I ASK: IS IT LACK OF PROPER MANAGEMENT THAT ALLOWED THIS STATE OF “RATT” TO EXIST?

BLOTZER COMMENTS ON REGRETS OF “AIRING DIRTY LAUNDRY” ON THE INTERNET WHILE STILL FEELING THE NEED TO EXPRESS THAT IT ISN’T REASONABLE TO THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE BAND (IE; WHEN PEARCY QUIT THE BAND).  “IN HINDSIGHT, I WISHED I’D NOT SPOKEN UP”.

HE ALSO TALKS ABOUT NOTABLE LAWSUITS WITH BANDS LIKE THE RASCALS, MARK FARNER/GRAND FUNK RAILROAD AND JOURNEY.

“IT’S A JOKE”
SOME OF THESE GUYS (THE RASCALS) ARE ON THEIR DEATH BED (IN THEIR 80’S WITH PENDING LITIGATION)”

17:00  THE ISSUES/LAWSUITS/DRAMA HAS “TAKEN THE LIFE OUT OF ME AS FAR AS THE LOVE OF THE GAME” ON IF HE COULD PUT TOGETHER AN ALTERNATE PROJECT WITH OTHER PLAYERS.

WHAT IT (THE LAWSUITS) COSTS IN YOUR SPIRIT, IN YOUR HEART, AND IN YOUR SOUL.

17:38  “RIGHT NOW, I’M KIND OF RETIRED, I KNOW I CAN GO OUT AND ROCK AND TOUR AND IT WOULD HAVE TO BE WITH RATT”.

WE HAD A 1.25 MILLION DOLLAR OFFER TO OPEN A NEW ARENA, EVERYBODY TURNED IT DOWN.  THESE ARE THE DECISIONS THAT CHIP AWAY AT THE INFRASTUCTURE OF DOING BUSINESS.

“I DON’T HAVE ANY MORE GRUDGES, IT’S NOT HEALTHY,
I DO LOVE RATT, I DO LOVE THE GUYS”.

18:45  “I DON’T KNOW WHY WE CAN’T DO IT (REUNITE) WHEN OTHER BANDS MORE DISFUCTIONAL LIKE A MOTLEY CRUE”, (CAN REUNITE AND CONTINUE)

19:04  “YOU CAN’T BE A DEMOCRACY IN A BAND, YOU NEED A LEADER”
(AND REFERS TO NIKKI SIXX LEADING THE CHARGE W/ ALAN KOVAC. 
“THOSE TWO LEAD THE CHARGE”.

20:12  I FOLLOW UP ON THE 1.25 MILLION DOLLAR OFFER AND ASK THAT IF THAT ISN’T MOTIVATION, WHAT COULD BE GETTING IN THE WAY OF REUNITING IN SOME WAY SHAPE OR FORM (WHETHER A ONE OFF, FESTIVAL OR TOUR)?

BLOTZER STATES THAT WARREN HAS RECENTLY BEEN “WILLING TO GET IN AND LISTEN” BUT HE HEARS FROM OTHER’S THAT “HE’S DONE”

22:11  “WE MAKE GOOD MONEY SITTING ON OUR ASSES AT HOME”
“IT MIGHT BE THE FEAR FACTOR” (THE PREVENTS A REUNION)

23:40  I ASK IF BOBBY HAS ANY REGRETS GOING OUT AS “RATT” IN 2016/2017 WHICH FOLLOWED WITH VARIOUS LAWSUITS.

HE ACKNOWLEDGES IT WAS A FACTOR AND ALSO NOTES A “CHANGE IN POWER” WHEN WARREN DEMARTINI WAS ALSO VOTED OUT. 

REGARDING REUNION POSSIBILITIES:
“IT’S GONNA HAPPEN I THINK, NEXT WOULD BE THE YEAR”

26:00  ON DOING OTHER PROJECTS OR GIGS.  “NO, I HAVEN’T WANTED TO, I’VE BEEN COMING OUT OF PTSD WORLD”

27:05  BOBBY STATES HE WOULD PARTNER WITH PEARCY IF WARREN WOULDN’T EVER COME BACK AND THEY WOULD PARTNER UP TO DELIVER “RATT”

28:15  BLOTZER COMMENDS PEARCY’S WIFE FOR BRINGING HIM INTO A DIFFERENT REALM, “HE’S CLEANED UP, EVERYTHING”!

28:45  WE DISCUSS IF THERE IS SOMEONE (IN A MANAGERIAL POSITION) THAT COULD “GET THIS TOGETHER”.  BLOTZER STATES HE THINKS SO, HOWEVER “THERE’S NEVER BEEN ANYONE OUT THERE BEFORE”

BLOTZER STATES THERE IS A BEHIND THE SCENES MANAGER RIGHT NOW THAT IS PULLING HARD (FOR A REUNION).

32:00  DID THE BAND PUT FORTH A COLLECTIVE EFFORT IN DESIGNING THE BOX SET RELEASE?
BOBBY STATES THAT WHILE HE HAD THE CONCEPT OF THE COVER AND PACKAGE, THE INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS ALSO CONTRIBUTED NEVER BEFORE SEEN PHOTOS.

“I SPENT A LOT OF TIME ON THIS AND I APPRECIATE THAT EVERYBODY ELSE GOT THEIR HEAD IN THE GAME ON THIS TOO”.


33:25  BLOTZER DISCUSSES THE POSSIBILITY OF NEW MUSIC AND I ASK HIS THOUGHTS ON PEARCY’S OPINION THAT ESSENTIALLY ANYTHING POST ROBBIN’S PASSING “ISN’T REALLY RATT” (LOOSELY QUOTED)

I DON’T AGREE WITH STEPHEN’S POSITION ON THAT IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM” 
HE GOES ON TO SAY “LET ME REPHRASE THAT, IT CHANGED WHEN ROBBIN WAS OUT, THE CHEMISTRY CHANGED FOR SURE, IT WASN’T FOR THE BETTER, BUT WE STILL HAD GREAT SONGS”.

37:00  IF YOU COULD CALL ROBBIN CROSBY RIGHT NOW, WHAT DO YOU THINK HE’D SAY ABOUT NOT REUNITING?
ROBBIN WOULD SAY, “WHY CAN’T WE JUST DO IT, WHY DO WE GOTTA FIGHT AND TALK”?

HE GOES ON TO SAY THAT HE AND ROBBIN WERE THE ONES THAT ALWAYS STRIVED TO KEEP THINGS MOVING (FORWARD).

HE FEELS ULTIMATELY WHAT ROBBIN WOULD SAY: “I MEAN DUDE, YOU’RE SITTING ON YOUR ASS, YOU WANNA MAKE SOME MONEY AND MAKE THE FANS HAPPY? WE OWE IT TO THE FANS, WE OWE IT TO OURSELVES”

                          “I LOVE ROBBIN, I MISS HIM”

38:38  WE TALK REMASTERING OF “THE ATLANTIC YEARS” AND WE ADDRESS BEAU HILL (PRODUCER) AND HIS RECENT COMMENTS ABOUT HOW BLOTZER WAS BEAU HILL’S LEAST FAVORITE GUY.

“IT’S REAL EASY, ‘BLOW HILL’ IS DISLIKED BY EVERYBODY IN RATT, EVERYBODY IN ALL OF THE BIG BANDS, ALL OF THESE BANDS, THEY COULDN’T STAND HIM,
HE’S A DICTATOR”

BLOTZER FEELS THAT AN EXCERPT IN HIS BOOK (BOBBY BLOTZER; TAILS OF A RATT) CRITICIZING BEAU’S USE OF THE “RATT” STUDIO FOR HIS OWN USES (ARTIST/GIRLFRIEND FIONA) PROMPTED THAT COMMENT.   “I APPRECIATE HIS INPUT; I REGRET SOME OF THE THINGS WE HAD TO PUT UP WITH HIM”.

“HE WAS GOOD WITH STEPHEN AND DRIVING THE MELODIES AND LYRICS INTO A BETTER POSITION FOR THE SONG, MUSICALLY HE DIDN’T DO ANYTHING, HE RESTRICTED ME, RESTRICTED JUAN”
43:00  HAD RATT EVER PLAYED TO TRACKS?  HE DISCUSSES THE HORNS IN “WAY COOL JUNIOR” BEING THE ONLY ATTEMPT AND DIVES INTO MORE ABOUT IT.

“ONE NIGHT, I WENT TO THE THING (TAPE MACHINE) IN SUCH DISGUST, I BROKE IT, WE WILL NEVER USE THIS THING AGAIN”

45:15  HE WEIGHS IN ON HIS THOUGHTS OF WHAT MOTLEY CRUE IS GOING THROUGH WITH THE LAWSUIT AND MICK MARS AND HOW HIS RELATIONSHIPS HAVE CHANGED WITH THEM OVER THE YEARS. 

“THEY’RE NOT THE SAME GUYS I WAS SO TIGHT WITH, THEY’RE DIFFERENT CATS NOW, WE ALL ARE”
“I KNOW HOW NIKKI IS, HE’S A LITTLE TOO COCKY, HE’S GOT A RIGHT TO BE TO SOME DEGREE, BUT NOT AGAINST SOME PEOPLE HE’S KNOWN FOREVER”.

I’M NOT A FAN OF MOTLEY, IF I HEAR A RIFF START OF MOTLEY, MY HAND IS SO FAST ON THE KNOB (OF THE RADIO)”.

47:22  I START OFF BY SAYING THAT THE GUYS IN RATT HAVE MORE IN COMMON THAN NOT AND LEAD INTO THAT IF THEY CAN COME TOGETHER SOMEWAY; WHO FILLS THE SHOES OF ROBBIN CROSBY SHOULD RATT GET BACK TOGETHER IN A LIVE SETTING?

HE STARTS OFF BY DISCUSSING HOW THE NEGATIVITY HAS FILLED TOO MUCH OF THE AIR IN THE ROOM. 
“WE HAD WAY MORE FUN THAN DISFUNCTION” “WE GET OBSCURED EVEN IN OUR OWN MOUTHS, MIND, HEARTS”.

                   “ONCE WE GET TOGETHER, IT’S SO FUN”


49:00  ON WHO MIGHT REPLACE ROBBIN: “I WOULD THINK CARLOS WOULD BE INVITED BACK, I WOULD RATHER HAVE MICHAEL SCHENKER ON THAT SIDE OF THE STAGE, THAT WAS FIERY WITH HIM AND WARREN UP THERE, THEY WERE BATTLING EVERY NIGHT”.

52:25  “FOR RATT NOT TO BE ON THAT TOP SHELF, TO BE ON THAT STADIUM TOUR, IT’S RIDICULOUS”


“OUR ARGUING AND OUR WOES HAVE CLICKED US DOWN (A FEW NOTCHES).  I WANT RATT, THE ENTITY, TO GET IT’S DUE, A BIG SHOW LIKE WE USED TO AND TO KILL AND CONQUER”.

54:45  WE BRIEFLY DISCUSS THE ROCK N ROLL HALL OF FAME.

“I DON’T GIVE A SHIT”, MISSY ELLIOT, WILLIE NELSON, THEY’RE NOT ROCK N ROLL”

57:15  END OF SHOW CREDITS AND INFORMATION