MR

Posted: **Thu Aug 18, 2005 1:06 am**

Killer riffs, great look, videos with hot chicks. They had it all. Wish Pearcy would pull his head out of his ass and Juan would give it one more try. Maybe a reunion next year and a tour with a reunited Dokken.

Posted: **Thu Aug 18, 2005 2:59 am**

RattnRoy wrote:Killer riffs, great look, videos with hot chicks. They had it all. Wish Pearcy would pull his head out of his ass and Juan would give it one more try. Maybe a reunion next year and a tour with a reunited Dokken.

That would be great!! I miss Stephen. Saw the Rock Never Stops Tour last month and while the music sounded great, Jizzy just isn't it. That boy needs somebody to deflate his head. He ain't all that. Two guys behind me SAT during Ratt's set in protest! lol

Posted: **Fri Aug 19, 2005 12:02 pm**

Ratt was great but my vote goes for Dokken. They had the best harmonies, solos and the most underated voice in rock.

Posted: **Thu Nov 10, 2005 8:13 am**

Ratt is all about their one great classic rock album Out Of The Celler while their other ones are just filler & calling them a great rock & roll band like Zeppelin or Aerosmith is about as ludicrous as you can get. 80's rock will always be the garbage dump in rock history because the impact of bands like Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, Poison & Ratt are zero 20 years later unlike the important & influential rock groups of the 60's & the 70's.

Posted: **Thu Nov 10, 2005 11:00 pm**

Wayne wrote:Ratt is all about their one great classic rock album Out Of The Celler while their other ones are just filler & calling them a great rock & roll band like Zeppelin or Aerosmith is about as ludicrous as you can get. 80's rock will always be the garbage dump in rock history because the impact of bands like Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, Poison & Ratt are zero 20 years later unlike the important & influential rock groups of the 60's & the 70's.

What about “Invasion of your privacy”? It´s maybe not as good as Cellar but classic in my book anyway. And let´s remember that hard rock scene was in 80´s much bigger than in 70´s so there was more crap but also more good stuff. And it´s matter of taste, for example Aerosmith doesnt mean shit for me and accusing Ratt to be Aerosmith clones is ridiculous. I think early Ratt has more Van Halen influence than Aerosmith influence. It maybe changed in later Ratt stuff but I listen only those two first Ratt albums (+ first mini album)

Posted: **Fri Nov 11, 2005 12:48 am**

There were only a few gems in the 80's like OOTC from Ratt but more crap when it comes to rock groups & rock albums so you can't say it was a better decade for rock than the 70's AOR rules. Putting them in the same sentence with great rock & roll bands like Van Halen & Aerosmith is about as pathetic as you can get.

Posted: **Fri Nov 11, 2005 7:09 pm**

I dont deny 70´s rock giants significance but when you think about the first half of 70´s what you have there. Zeppelin,Sabbath, Heep and Purple and nothing else that means anything to me. AOR scene started to rise on latter half of 70´s and there was few more hard rock bands coming up but I think the amount of good bands is pretty sparse. 80´s brought vast quantities of good hard rock and AOR bands and I admit that many of them did only couple of classic albums like Ratt but on the whole there was much more to listen to than in 70´s.

Posted: **Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:22 am**

Try Motley Crue!!!

MR

Ratt was the BEST LA band from the 80's!

Ratt was the BEST LA band from the 80's!

Re: Ratt was the BEST LA band from the 80's!

LA Band

I don't think so