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RATT 2007
RATT 2007 -
Stephen Pearcy, Warren DeMartini, Bobby Blotzer, Robbie Crane, John Corabi
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RATT 2000 - 2006
RATT 2000 - 2006
(L. to R.) Warren DeMartini, John Corabi, Jizzy Pearl, Robbie Crane, Bobby Blotzer
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RATT - 1996
RATT 1996 - 2000
(L. to R.) Robbie Crane, Warren DeMartini, Stephen Pearcy, Bobby Blotzer
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RATT - 1988
RATT 1982 - 1991
(L. to R.) Stephen Pearcy, Warren DeMartini, Robbin "King" Crosby, Bobby Blotzer, Juan Croucier
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Warren DeMartini (g.)

Warren Demartini (g.)

  • Full Name: Warren Justin DeMartini
  • Birthday / Place: Apr. 10, 1963 / Chicago, IL
  • Height: 5' 11"
  • High school you went to?: La Jolla High
  • First concert experience: The Who at Chicago Theater
  • When did you start playing the guitar?: age 15 - 1978, January
  • Former occupation?: Junior Collage Student -> A Broke Musician!
  • Would you like to make your son a guitarist?: Up to him
  • Your hobby except music?: Surfing
  • Your most impressive memory of Japan?: Neon lights
  • Guitarists you admire?: Jimi Hendrix, Pete Tounsent, Gary Moore, Jeff Beck, Edward Van Halen, Jake E. Lee, Steve Stevens...There's so many different players for different reasons.
  • Please choose your theme song from among of RATT'N'ROLL!: Round And Round

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  • Bands he's been in (or helped) other than RATT: Plague, Enforcer, Aircraft, Dokken (He helped Dokken while George Lynch was touring with Ozzy Osbourne Band. ), and some more maybe...
  • While Warren was playing with Dokken, Marq Torien (ex. King Kobra, Bullet Boys) had briefly joined RATT.
  • He helped Whitesnake's world tour '94.
  • He was offered to tour with Dio back in 2003, but, after several rehearsals, they decided not to tour together due to musical differences.

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Bobby Blotzer (ds.)

Bobby Blotzer (ds.)

  • Full Name: Robert John Blotzer
  • Birthday / Place: Oct. 22, 1958 / Pittsburgh, PA
  • Height: 5' 10" 1/2
  • First concert experience: Humple Pie
  • When did you begin playing drums?: At age 15
  • When did you drink at the first time?: When I was born.
  • Your hobby except music?: Golf!
  • What did amaze you the most in Japan?: Throughness at everything they do
  • Drummers you admire?: John Bonham, Mitch Mitchell, Ian Paice, Steve Smith, Cozy Powell, Tony Williams, Terry Bozzio, Smion Phillips, Tommy Aldridge
  • Please choose your theme song from among of RATT'N'ROLL!: U Got It

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  • Bands he's been in (or helped) other than RATT: Vic Vergat, Dokken, Contraband, Firefoxx (with Juan), Airborne, Angel City Outlaws (with Robbie and John), twenty4seven (with John), and some more maybe...
  • Bobby experienced recording w/ Vic Vergat, on the album "Down to the bone". And, he also experienced a big tour with them, as a support act for Nazareth.
  • Vic Vergat band had Tom Croucier (ex-Life By Night, Air Pavilion) - Juan's elder brother, either.

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Stephen Pearcy (ex- vo.)

Stephen Pearcy (ex- vo.)

  • Full Name: Stephen Eric Pearcy
  • Birthday / Place: Jul. 3, 1959 / Long Beach, CA
  • Height: 5' 10"
  • High school you went to?: want to forget
  • First concert experience: Alice Cooper, 1970
  • siblings?: 1 brother and 2 sisters
  • Your most favorite RATT's promotional vid(s)?:
    Slip of the lip, Wanted Man
  • Your most impressive memory of Japan?: beauty
  • Vocalists you admire?: Robert Plant, Rob Halford

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  • Bands he's been in (or helped) other than RATT: Mickey Ratt (of course!), Arcade, Vertex, Vicious Delite, Nitronic, Rat Bastards featuring Stephen Pearcy, and some more maybe...
  • He appeared in the movie "Camp Utopia" as Timothy Bach, a self-proclaimed guru.
  • He left RATT back in January, 2000.
  • And now he's back for more!!

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Robbie Crane (b.)

Robbie Crane (b.)

  • Full Name: Robert Anthony Crane
  • Birthday / Place: Jan. 5, 1969 / Orange County, CA
  • The 1st concert experience: Motley Crue at the Starwood in 1981
  • The 1st CD (vinyl) you bought: AC/DC "Back in Black" and Sex Pisols "Never Mind the Bullocks"
  • The 1st instrument you played: Les Paul Copy (guitar) / P-Bass copy
  • The 1st professional band you joined: Vince Neil's Band in 1992
  • You have a powerful voice, have you ever sung as a lead vocalist?: No. I like singing background vocals.
  • When you first started to play RATT songs, did you listen to Juan's play carefully?: Yes, but when I was 15, I was really into RATT. So as a bass player, I learned every RATT song at the time. So I was ready.
  • Bassists you admire?: Steve Harris, John Paul Jones, Cliff Williams, Gizzer Butler

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  • Bands he's been in (or helped) other than RATT: Vince Neil Band, Vertex, Adler's Appetite, Angel City Outlaws (with Bobby and John), Hot Wheelz, New Haven, Lancia, Wildside and some more maybe...
  • He helped Love/Hate's tour 2002 as well.

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John Corabi (g.)

John Corabi (g.)

  • Name: John Corabi
  • Birthday / place: Apr. 26, 1959 / Philadelphia, PA
  • The biggest influence: Steven Tyler
  • Favorite guitar player: Paul Kossoff
  • How did you get started into music?: "My parents bought me a guitar for Christmas, and I locked myself away in my room with Beatles, Deep Purple, and Jimi Hendrix records."
  • Favorite place to play: Japan (YAY!)

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  • Bands he's been in (or helped) other than RATT: Angora, The Scream, Motley Crue, Union, Twenty4Seven (with Bobby), Brides of Destruction, Angel City Outlaws (with Bobby and Robbie), ESP (Eric Singer Project), Zen Lunatic, Cardboard Vampyres and some more maybe...
  • John's manager was working for RATT either when Stephen left the band. John met Bobby at Sofaking's show and heard what happened to the band from him and the manager. After then, he got a call from Bobby and was asked for touring with RATT as the 2nd guitarist officialy. He's liked RATT's members and music, so he accepted the offer...It was the start. (However, he also said he wouldn't join any bands as an official member other than UNION.)

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Juan Croucier (ex- b.)

Juan Croucier (ex- b.)

  • Full Name: Juan Calros Croucier
  • Birthday / Place: Aug. 22, 1959 / Santiago de Cuba
  • Height: 5' 6"
  • High school you went to?: Torrence High
  • First concert experience: "My brother Tom's band when I was 9? They were playing a place called, THE GRAND in Torrance, California. I may have been 7..."
  • When did you start playing the bass?: 13 years old
  • Your hobby except music?: Fishing
  • Your most impressive memory of Japan?: The people!
  • Would you like to make your sons bassists?: NO
  • Bassists you admire?: Tom Croucier, Chris Squier, Percy Jones, Stanley Clarke, Jaco Pastorius, Chuck Raney...

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  • Bands he's been in (or helped) other than RATT: Liquid Sunday, Dokken, Firefoxx (with Bobby), Spike, Jewel, Quiet Riot (did some rehearsals, but never did any shows with them. Juan is the person who brought Frankie Banelli into the band), and some more maybe...
  • Juan toured Germany with Dokken, and of course, did co-writing and singing for the band as well.
    "I did not play bass on the Breaking The Chains record. I was not in the band at the time the basic tracks were recorded. Actually, Peter Baltes from Accept played on about 6 or 7 tracks and my brother Tom played on 3 or 4 tracks. The basic tracks were recorded in Germany at Dieter Derek's studio. I think Bobby played drums on 3 or 4 songs too. I co-wrote a few of the songs (and was never paid a penny) and also sang on it. The making of that record was quite the clusterfuck."

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Robbin 'KING' Crosby (ex- g. / R.I.P...)

Robbin 'KING' Crosby (ex- g. / R.I.P...)

  • Full Name: Robbinson Lantz Crosby
  • Birthday / Place: Aug. 4, 1959 / La Jolla, CA
  • Height: 6' 5"
  • High school you went to?: La Jolla High
  • First concert experience: Humble Pie
  • Your hobby except music?: Baseball, Cars
  • Your most impressive memory of Japan?: The beauty of the country, culture and people. And the big egg (<- Tokyo Dome, a baseball stadium in Tokyo) shows
  • Guitarists you admire?: Warren DeMartini, Jake E. Lee, Billy Gibbons, Steve Stevens, Edward Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Johnny Winter
  • Give us the details your most favorite guitar?:
    The red Jackson Flying 'KING' V. Saymour Duncan pickups, Floyd Rose tremolo

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  • Bands he's been in (or helped) other than RATT: MacMeda, Phenomenon, Metropolis, Secret Service (Robbin was in before RATT), Secret Service (formed in 1992), and some more maybe...
  • He left RATT in 1991 after getting back from Detonator Japan tour.
  • 11:15AM, on June 6, 2002, Robbin, who is remembered as 'gentle giant' 'true sweet heart' 'our beloved KING', passed away at his apartment in Hollywood where he moved right after getting out of the hospital (He'd been hospitalized for about a year by then)... He'd been struggled for years with his health condition. He will be truly missed but never be forgotten...

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Jizzy Pearl (vo.)

Jizzy Pearl (vo.)

  • Name: Jim Wilkinson
  • Birthday / Place: Mar. 17 / Chicago, IL
  • Books Jizzy has written on: "I Got More Crickets Than Friends" "Angst for the Memories" (OOP both)

I Gog More Crickets Than Friends*Angst For The Memories

**You can read Jizzy's rants at jizzypearl.com

  • Favorite author: Charles Bukowski, Tom Clancey, Clive Cussler
  • Has your life style or way of feeling or thinking changed since you joined RATT?:
    "OK... my drinking escalated. No, I'm just kidding. (Laughs)
    I came into this band filling pretty big shoes, so, it's important for me to sing the songs as well as I can. There're a lot of people that, of course, are judging. So, I'm just trying to do my best, you know. I'm just trying to sing the songs. If they like what I'm doing, great. If they don't like it, there's nothing I can do. That's about it."

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  • Bands he's been in (or helped) other than RATT: Love/Hate, L.A. Guns, Adler's Appetite, The Sin-Eaters, and some more maybe...
  • He left the band in the end of 2006. Thank you so much for the tours & these 7 years, and lots of great memories, Jizzy...!

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ex- Mickey Ratt / ex- RATT list (the list may contain 'help' musicians.)

Chris Hager (g)

Jake E. Lee (g)

Matt Thorne (b)

John Turner (d)

David Alford (d)

Khurt Maier (d)

Joey Cristofanilli (b)

Marq Torien (g)

Tim Garcia (b)

Dave Thum

Dave Jellison (b)

Bob Eisenberg (d)

Bob De Ellis (g)

Michael Schenker (g)

Keri Kelli (g)

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