05032023 TTTO BOBBY BLOTZER OF RATT TALKS BOXSET RELEASE (THE ATLANTIC YEARS)

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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