Stephen Pearcy's attitude toward Robin Crosby and his immenent demise, his addiction and downfall, are despicable. what a cold, mean, harsh thing to smugly talk about like that. no respect at all "Percy". just lame. a guy who was there at the beginning, your lifelong friend, bandmate, and who helped create the success you bathed in, and you off-handedly quip, "guy had it coming". nice. you suck dude.
Why does everybody have to be so militant about one genre or the other,you can prefer one band or type of music without disparaging another.Taste is subjective,saying,"they suck" about any band is narrow minded and childish.How many people just have one type of music in there collection?It is like arguing over a color preference.
People don't understand why people took drugs and got a habit out of it. What I say to them is it was the thing to do back then. It was glammerised and if you wanted to be apart of hair/glam/hard rock crowd thats what you did. No one takes it to get a habit it's just the way it ends for some. Once your apart of it, it's extremely hard to let go.
@steelwizard Dude that is the most stupid comment I have ever read on youtube. So you are saying those drugs are better than heroin? So you can't get addicted to those drugs? If you think that you are the biggest dick on the planet!
@steelwizard 10yrs ago I was addicted to heroin & coke. I felt bad about the things i did to people to get the $ for heroin but i didn't give a fuck when i shot up coke. I would do extremely bad things to people when i needed more. I still feel bad about what i did to people 10yrs later but if you ask me coke is the worst. Now im helping others trying to get off and live a good life. Its my way of giving back to the community and saying sorry for what ive done. There is no future in any drug!
@steelwizard 10yrs ago i was addicted to heroin & coke. On heroin i knew what i was doing to people to get money was wrong & i felt sorry for what i did. It still affects me now but coke i wouldn't give a fuck. I had done a lot of bad things to get money but i needed the money so it didn't bother me what i had to do to get it. If you ask me i think coke is way worse. There is NO future in any drug.
@steelwizard coke is the only drug out of that list that has a chemically addictive quality, meaning there is a chemical component of the drug that actively tells your brain to get more. The others can be pathologically addictive, like a sex addiction, which by comparison, should present a much weaker desire to do more.
@MidnightRambler73 By the time they recorded this, grunge was dead, too. Around the same time as grunge, gangsta rap got big. (Dr. Dre, Cypress Hill and so on.) Which of these has had the most attention in 20 years? ... :(
The main thing I take away from this behind the music is that Juan Croucier is a pretty cool dude, but that Pearcy and to a lesser extent, Blotzer are not so cool. I'd rather just listen to Out of the Cellar and not know how much I wouldn't be able to stand being around the actual band members.
I can't stand how people say Kurt Cobain and Grunge 'saved rock'. Saved it from what? Hair Metal? Glam was already on its death-bed when Nevermind came out...it would have died out on its own at the end of 1991 regardless. Secondly, the Grunge movement put alternative rock at the forefront for the next twenty years, and what followed it? Post-grunge, rap rock, and emo. Ugh. I like Nirvana's material, but in the long run Cobain damaged rock n' roll far more than the hair bands did.
@TheDaemonPrince maybe because it started with all 80s band blamed the grunge bands for killing metal. ever listened to soundgarden or alice in chains? thats metal
@jeeriva ironically, Alice In Chains were a foofy Poison - Faster Pussycat type band for years before they dumped the glam image. Same with Pantera, Rivers Cuomo played in Avant Garde (totally gay hairband) even Tori Amos had a hair band (Y Kan't Tori Read)
@MrBizzmarky76 actually they were way more into guns n roses and that straight edge-look than glam. Sure pantera were glam ,but they were also more hard edge, and they actually sounded good musically. Ratt is probably the only glam band i can stand because they are heavy and original
When grunge and alternative rock of the 90's surfaced, I stopped listening to new music. The music turned from stadium bands producing full sounding harmonious rock...to the sound of unrefined garbage garage bands that couldn't put together a melodic guitar solo if their life depended on it. To this day, (other than a handful of 80's players that are still producing) the rock music industry has never recovered. Sold-out stadiums, elaborate stages, and world tours ended with the birth of grunge.
Yea, grunge was such shit...thats the reason it because so popular huh...GMAFB
People got sick of being fed the same hair band shit....plus the song writing blew away the 80s fossils...more melodic and soulful...90s rule end of story.
Gotta love Juan? at 1:22 repping old school Detroit slop-house Harpo's! Recognize that shirt anywhere. Anybody heavy that's gone through Detroit went through Harpo's. The neighborhood was as tough a test as the actual gig.
grunge will burn in the deepest layer of hell, metal forever, carry on the flame, i love him, but fuck u nikki sixx its becasue of him that robbin got addicted he introduced heroin to robbing in the first place
Grunge did not kill the real musicians, only ushered in a new sound. Nirvana was great until real techinical, precision, lyrical, and vocal prowess came out soon after with AIC, Soundgarden, etc. Priest made it through and still play packed arenas. Iron Maiden is so huge now it's unfathomable, travelling to sold out shows worldwide in a 757 with Bruce piloting. Metal never left. A few of our hero's and favorites didn't hold it together that's all. Motley Crue will NEVER be the same.
The best part of these behind the music episodes is when these glam rock bands sell out glam rock and try to become alternative once grunge became big.
i love ratt probely my favorite band but pearcy and blotzer like to brag about how much drinking and drugs they use to do i dont think that something to brag about
@JosephKuby, Another inaccurate thing about this documentary is that GNR didn't overwhelm all the pop metal bands. Def Leppard's Hysteria was a phenomenal success.
@Mottahead, to be honest the only real flaw with Detonator was the guitar sound and the mixing.
Ste's vocals slightly grate on that album because Desmond Child favors singing over guitars. As such, the vocals should have been slightly lower in the mix so as to allow breathing room for Rob's yin (to Warren's yang).
While the album doesn't employ as much effects as Reach for the Sky, the guitars are almost too clean sounding. The tunings sound like E and drop E, when it should have D and drop D.
@4JayeP, When Rob hooked up with Warren & Bob before he died, they all came to the same realization (after getting along so well together) that the band should have taken some time off.
Rob and Warren had noted in separate interviews that it seemed like Ratt & Roll was an annual thing. I think, after the Dancing Undercover tour, Ratt should have got another kind of R&R. ;-)
According to Rob, what kept Ratt going was the need for the next big single (especially when they were in a lot of debt).
American bands are spoil brats. And they never really cared about the music. Its was about how many groupies you can fuck, boozes and drugs. the music was maybe, fifth on the list?
I don't know why some people are down on grunge as if it killed metal -- it didn't. There was a lot of great rock/metal in the 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's but it all kept changing because people get tired of watered down copycat bands and they want something new!
Those who feel so threatened by grunge that they have to denigrate it should open their minds. There's a reason why the Nevermind album has been voted one of the best albums ever! Let's face it, the 80's had some pretty bad songs.
you know we all have addiction's but who are other's to pass judgement judge your self rock on robin and stephen how do you tell the lead what to do if follow all that matter's is fame friend's and sale's rock on
@WomackPhotoKCMO, I relate to you completely. After all the hundreds of bands I've heard, Ratt are my favorite and it pains me (from time to time) to think that they missed out on being as big as Jovi or, at least, Crue.
They missed out on having a song on the Top Gun soundtrack because Warren thought they'd sell out, Juan wasn't allowed to fly around in concert because Warren thought it was stupid (Jovi would rip him off) and Robbin's idea to make Detonator dark like the EP was dismissed.
i know there is Ratt Unplugged show or something, i found one song on youtube from it, any idea where i can find more songs. Percy sounded great believe it or not on the one song I heard, I would like to hear more
@ultimatemegadeath I think Juan made Ratt what they were. Hes funny but I can see him as someone who is very serious when it comes to putting out some ass kicking material!
@thepaddywagonishere , yeah. I would say that he really had more of a steady head and knew what he wanted ratt to be, but i wouldn't blame him for getting upset with all the shenanigans, but to have to deal hill again?
@mikek Thank God Kurt Cobain stuck a shotgun in his mouth and splattered his brains all over his rec room.Do you seriously hold a guy like that in high regard.He killed himself leaving behind a daughter and his music wasn't exactly music that you party to.Nirvana were for losers who wanted to feel sorry for themselves, their fans are pathetic.You can claim Nirvana buried the 80's, but Nirvana really killed Rock music in general.They opened the door for Hip Hop by bringing Rock music down, fact.
@fukinblowme Agreed. Kurt gets way too much credit for the death of 80s Hair Metal--for lack of a better term. I, for one, believe hair metal kinda killed itself in terms of watering itself down to the point it was pretty void of what it had been in the earlier stages of the so-called "hair metal" era.
@asankagurusinghe Well I think groups like Ratt and Cinderella were more technical. They had women from here to Christmas I will say that. I wish I could have lived the life they did! The 80's ruled! But yes Mr Asankgursinghe to each his own!
@asankagurusinghe Respected by whom ? Not musicians who can play. Everyone in the 80's could play and play well. Kurt Cobain couldn't play or sing...sorry but that's a fact not an opinion.
@fukinblowme Regardless, Ratt took a break for awhile while the crunge fad came and went, and are now back. Ratt have been around, what, thirty years now? Even if Kurt didn't blow his head off, I doubt he would still be around thirty years after the fact. So, I agree completely with you.
@fukinblowme Cobain didnt kill metal. Nevermind was just the first album of grunge to get that big. phrydoom is right, there were SO many hair bands that dilluted the metal scene to nothin more than fags in makeup tryin to score chicks with no musical talent like Trixter, andd Enuffznuff. Fuckin Posers. Grunge was just the next progression then on to nu-metal after that. there will always be a next big thing.
@EdBraski0977, also in between grunge and nu-metal there was groove metal. Then after nu-metal there was metalcore.
I'm thinking reggae metal and industrial metal will be the next sub-genres to become big. I think this because the amount of pop punk and metalcore bands out there right now is similar to what happened in the '80s with the overload of bands who either did pop metal or thrash metal.
The last pre-91 wave of pop metal bands made Ratt, Crue and W.A.S.P. look bad.
@fukinblowme That's not really a fact that's an opinion, rock still existed, and so did Metal. An the second album was actually considered quite the party album, the 3rd album is there best in my opinion. Kurt was an amazing musician, and if you don't think so then that's up to you.
@chloewalker8089 Yeah. Hair metal went from the late 70s to 1990/1991, somewhere around there. All in all, it was the better era of the two, much more relevant. Grunge, being so short lived, isn't even a era to me, it was more of a fad, IMO. I mean like all fads, they come and go pretty quickly. I'm glad I didn't waste my time with it.
well, the most popular grunge band remained popular and STABLE during 91-93 but grunge lasted 'til maybe 95-96, there were other bands such as Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam etc. But after 96 somewhere, most major record labels decided to fire most of the rock producers and start focusing on something brand new instead: hip-hop. Slash described this in his book, the latter part of what i wrote that is.
@phrydoom yea grunge went the same way as punk rock and gangsta rap,into the grave.Now we gotta hear crapola like U2 and other bland,MusaK like, rock with no guitar solos `cos the musicianship is not there,just unremarkable instrumental breaks.
@fukinblowme, if you go to the website 'Justice for Kurt' you will find information which suggests that Kurt's death was a homicide dressed up to look like suicide.
@fukinblowme Kurt didn't shoot himself, that's impossible. You can't point a shotgun at your head. You'd have to use ur toes to pull the trigger and Kurt was wearing shoes when he was lying dead, so he couldn't of shot himself.
@fukinblowme damn man do you have like no life i see you on alot of videos starting keyboard wars haha..what does nirvana have to do with anything about ratt seeing how you like to talk about him so much you seem absessed why dont you go watch a nirvana vid and stop wasting the comment space
@447 My life centers around music and learning,does yours ? Apparently not.What does Nirvana have to do with Ratt ? Ask a music marketer that question and you might just learn a thing or two.As far as Kurt Cobain,his success was a cancer for Rock music overall.Obsessed ? Sure I hate the guy for the blueprint his Diamond Album created.20 years later music still hasn't evolved into something better.Rock is a funless,talentless subculture for freaks and geeks.Post Grunge? Emo ?Thanx Kurt,you rock..
@fukinblowme one think is kurt ended the end of the 80s metal marketing, Which is all about money. 80s metal still went on and still is going on who cares if kurt ended it the popularity of it if he didnt someone else would of came along and did the same, the music didnt go nowhere and never will..music is not all about popularity and money my friend..if you dont like some genres of music than dont listen to it plain and simple theres always going to be something out there you aint gonna like
You're a fucking idot, man. Kurt and Nirvana's success was as accidental as anything, they put the songs first and the whores second, at a time when the general population was (thank God) getting fed up with hair metal fucks like Ratt, lol. If you were really so obsessed with "learning" as you say, you'd know that Kurt hated half the bands that got popular following a bandwagon that his band trailblazed against their will. They were the world's most popular punk band, that's it
@mussman717word Grunge is music for socially arkward losers... Hair metal is just one big party ...and its way more complex then any grunge shit you hear
Let's talk about complexity, as in all the various time signatures Soundgarden used; as compared to the 4/4 time, cliched 2-minute guitar solos of Ratt... I'm not a huge fan of either band, but at least I can respect Soundgarden. As far as Nirvana goes, of course they're songs were easy, but so were the Ramones, the Beatles' early stuff, AC/DC and even Black Sabbath. So, think before you talk next time, partyboy.
Juan is awesome, I love the way he tells the story regarding Mike Stone and how they had to bring back Beau Hill, and the "Reach for the Sky" album sounded just like a "Ratt Record". Sad to see Robbin Crosby fade away. R.I.P. King!!!
@dplanefilms, Juan once said that the full story concerning the making of Reach was so vulgar that he didn't want to tell people too many details for the sake of not wanting to portray Ratt as being equally as vile as Motley Crue.
Juan also said that if he had any idea what was going to happen with Mike Stone, he would have been okay with working with Beau Hill right from the beginning.
Look at Stephan Pearcy's face at 6:39 it's like he's saying "Jesus Christ man this sucks! It's no wonder Robbin wasn't back to the band in 96 the stuff he was doing really affected his ability to play.
Has anyone noticed but Tawny Kitain has been had by many famous guys.Robin Crosby,David Coverdale,Tommy Lee and Chuck Finley.She has been around the block.
@BobReidy But Stephen Percy has been around the block more times than Tawny ;) He is a male slut. God knows why... the guy is butt fuckin ugly and nasty. Women had to have been desperate to sleep with him or just star struck. Ick.
@cjs33139, he was cuter in his younger days. The one thing you have to remember about the glam metal scene is that the reason why guys had such a feminine appearance was so they could appeal to bisexual women and score with lesbians.
I watched all the parts recently. I think the most striking part in Part 4 is the band being onstage in Japan. They play "Round & Round" & Robbin grabs a Gibson Thunderbird that was NOT tuned to play "Round And Round". Now, any self respecting roadie would have NEVER allowed him to take the wrong guitar for a particular song. However, Robbin was so screwed up at that point, maybe it was inevitable. Even so, why the hell his guitar tech didn't step in and give him the right guitar is a mystery.
This is actually one of the few Behind The Music's that got it (semi) correct about what happened to the whole 80's hair metal scene. The other docs all say grunge brought it [all the sudden] crashing to an end....in actuality you could kind of feel that tastes were changing (on their own) by the late 80's. GN'R was the first indicator of this.....and Tesla's growing popularity hinted at it too.
exactly....& jane's addiction, ministry, & a bunch of VERY different bands were completely happening from 1987 (& before) everywhere, clubs, word of mouth etc.......it's just that people with bad taste ARE the norm so it takes a long time to line those sheep up for slaughter....haha (but not)
@09rja True... GNR took things in a grittier direction, and then thrash became big thankfully, and R.E.M. and Jane's Addiction and RHCP had hits before Nirvana or Pearl Jam were around. Anyway the whole scene had become oversaturated and watered down by ballads, so "One" and "Mountain Song" were probably a relief to many people. I like pop-metal, thrash and alternative actually.
@09rja You pretty much hit the nail on the head right there. It could be argued that hair metal was still going strong in 89, but I think you're right, the writing was on the wall by. By 1990, though, I think it was clear that the hair bands were well on the way out. I firmly believe that the emergence of grunge was moreso the result, and not the cause as many claim, of hair metal's decline.
@TheDaemonPrince Yeah, and the thing about Guns [and some of the other bands that emerged during the late 80's] is: they had more of a raw, stripped down sound (as opposed to the overproduced feel of many of the hair metal bands). And the "unplugged" trend began before grunge bands capitalized on it (witness GnR & Tesla's albums with acoustic sets).
@09rja ratt definitely needed a different producer after "DU", so they could get a more "raw" feel or less processed.....especially to get rid of the shit drum sound.
it was really surprising seeing the great mike stone succumbing to alchohol. he was an awesome ass producer. he was the brains behind queen in the studio during the mid 70's.the guy was a genius.
@salamonetalton, talk about bad timing but I can understand why they hired Stone. He had just come off working with Whitesnake.
I wonder how they would have fared if they worked with G'N'R' producer Mike Clink. Coincidentally, Metallica attempted to work with Clink for their '88 album '...and Justice for All' but things didn't work out as planned.
I sometimes wonder how Metallica would have fared working with Stone.
Stephen Pearcy's attitude toward Robin Crosby and his immenent demise, his addiction and downfall, are despicable. what a cold, mean, harsh thing to smugly talk about like that. no respect at all "Percy". just lame. a guy who was there at the beginning, your lifelong friend, bandmate, and who helped create the success you bathed in, and you off-handedly quip, "guy had it coming". nice. you suck dude.
drumdude46 1 week ago
robbin and nikki sixx hung together in the 80s doing junk read motley crues the dirt they partied the sun set strip properly
willweagraff 1 month ago
yea its like grundge was the last resort of rock.. Yea rap needs to be punished capitaly
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chadlawson80 1 month ago 2
arguing over the merit of guitar riffs is like arguing over which color is the best...
Metamorphosis33 2 months ago
drugs and alcohol suck
cbarrett34 2 months ago
@MidnightRambler73 I don't think "revolutionary" implies that it was either good or bad. Just that it changed things.
atl236136 2 months ago
Why does everybody have to be so militant about one genre or the other,you can prefer one band or type of music without disparaging another.Taste is subjective,saying,"they suck" about any band is narrow minded and childish.How many people just have one type of music in there collection?It is like arguing over a color preference.
teedzy1 3 months ago
hair bands sucked there in teh same category as justin bieber
dsfsdfsdfsdf80 3 months ago
fucking tragic.
6robyc 4 months ago
People don't understand why people took drugs and got a habit out of it. What I say to them is it was the thing to do back then. It was glammerised and if you wanted to be apart of hair/glam/hard rock crowd thats what you did. No one takes it to get a habit it's just the way it ends for some. Once your apart of it, it's extremely hard to let go.
Oldskool01Hakken 5 months ago
Fuck heroin! Better stick with coke, speed, weed, alcohol and acid.
steelwizard 5 months ago
@steelwizard Dude that is the most stupid comment I have ever read on youtube. So you are saying those drugs are better than heroin? So you can't get addicted to those drugs? If you think that you are the biggest dick on the planet!
Oldskool01Hakken 5 months ago
@Oldskool01Hakken
Of course you can get addicted to those drugs. Maybe not Acid, but I'm not sure about that. No, I just like those drugs much more.
steelwizard 5 months ago
@steelwizard 10yrs ago I was addicted to heroin & coke. I felt bad about the things i did to people to get the $ for heroin but i didn't give a fuck when i shot up coke. I would do extremely bad things to people when i needed more. I still feel bad about what i did to people 10yrs later but if you ask me coke is the worst. Now im helping others trying to get off and live a good life. Its my way of giving back to the community and saying sorry for what ive done. There is no future in any drug!
Oldskool01Hakken 5 months ago
@steelwizard 10yrs ago i was addicted to heroin & coke. On heroin i knew what i was doing to people to get money was wrong & i felt sorry for what i did. It still affects me now but coke i wouldn't give a fuck. I had done a lot of bad things to get money but i needed the money so it didn't bother me what i had to do to get it. If you ask me i think coke is way worse. There is NO future in any drug.
Oldskool01Hakken 4 months ago
@steelwizard coke is the only drug out of that list that has a chemically addictive quality, meaning there is a chemical component of the drug that actively tells your brain to get more. The others can be pathologically addictive, like a sex addiction, which by comparison, should present a much weaker desire to do more.
sebastionbach 4 months ago
@sebastionbach
No. Alcohol is.
steelwizard 3 months ago
@MidnightRambler73 By the time they recorded this, grunge was dead, too. Around the same time as grunge, gangsta rap got big. (Dr. Dre, Cypress Hill and so on.) Which of these has had the most attention in 20 years? ... :(
billandandy 5 months ago
Grunge just proved technq wasn't everything, I guess?
RoxxHoffner 5 months ago
The main thing I take away from this behind the music is that Juan Croucier is a pretty cool dude, but that Pearcy and to a lesser extent, Blotzer are not so cool. I'd rather just listen to Out of the Cellar and not know how much I wouldn't be able to stand being around the actual band members.
nodicenate84 6 months ago
Watching Robbin go down hill, brings tears to ones eyes.
rattmamma 6 months ago 3
As much as Ratt hated Beau Hill, things got done right and the records went platinum.
DefLeppardVanHalen 7 months ago
I can't stand how people say Kurt Cobain and Grunge 'saved rock'. Saved it from what? Hair Metal? Glam was already on its death-bed when Nevermind came out...it would have died out on its own at the end of 1991 regardless. Secondly, the Grunge movement put alternative rock at the forefront for the next twenty years, and what followed it? Post-grunge, rap rock, and emo. Ugh. I like Nirvana's material, but in the long run Cobain damaged rock n' roll far more than the hair bands did.
TheDaemonPrince 7 months ago 12
@TheDaemonPrince maybe because it started with all 80s band blamed the grunge bands for killing metal. ever listened to soundgarden or alice in chains? thats metal
jeeriva 1 month ago
@jeeriva ironically, Alice In Chains were a foofy Poison - Faster Pussycat type band for years before they dumped the glam image. Same with Pantera, Rivers Cuomo played in Avant Garde (totally gay hairband) even Tori Amos had a hair band (Y Kan't Tori Read)
MrBizzmarky76 1 week ago
@MrBizzmarky76 actually they were way more into guns n roses and that straight edge-look than glam. Sure pantera were glam ,but they were also more hard edge, and they actually sounded good musically. Ratt is probably the only glam band i can stand because they are heavy and original
jeeriva 1 week ago
@TheDaemonPrince every 20 years or so rock needs another kick in the ass. It happened in '91 and its due once again right about now.
REDmarksONtheWALL 5 days ago
5:16 oh SHIT! what song?
Phaellos 7 months ago
The other band members should have done more to help Robbin, instead of squabbling like school kids.
rattmamma 7 months ago 19
@rattmamma Even if they tried, it likely wouldn't work since Robin, a junkie, would only quit when he decided to.
blucu01 1 month ago
When grunge and alternative rock of the 90's surfaced, I stopped listening to new music. The music turned from stadium bands producing full sounding harmonious rock...to the sound of unrefined garbage garage bands that couldn't put together a melodic guitar solo if their life depended on it. To this day, (other than a handful of 80's players that are still producing) the rock music industry has never recovered. Sold-out stadiums, elaborate stages, and world tours ended with the birth of grunge.
ipsofacto297 8 months ago
juan seems like a nice guy
cbarrett34 8 months ago 3
@MidnightRambler73
because he is a idiot :-)...the 90s fuckin sucked...
Elwappo1234 8 months ago
0:38 ...and then fuckin grunge took over .-)
fortheloveoftunes 9 months ago
Robin, is high in that interview. Look how small his pupils are.
scumgod13 9 months ago
@MidnightRambler73
Yea, grunge was such shit...thats the reason it because so popular huh...GMAFB
People got sick of being fed the same hair band shit....plus the song writing blew away the 80s fossils...more melodic and soulful...90s rule end of story.
mesabog2 9 months ago
juan feels he's perfect, huh?
THERANDIES1 9 months ago
What's the song playing at 1:40?
It got a nice guitar riff.
Never really heard it before and I'm a big Ratt fan.
MrDunkJunk 9 months ago
@MidnightRambler73,,,,, Thanks
ibha1981 9 months ago 2
Whats the song in 5:16? Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease
ibha1981 10 months ago
It seems to me like Juan and Warren were the most sensible out of all of them, and Reach for the Sky fucking rocks.
TallonIV776V 10 months ago 2
Guns N Roses imploded faster than RATT!
IMurderdTheDevil 11 months ago
god bless you ROB !
i fuckin miss you so fu.... much !
cheeerrrzzz to the KING
oldgunsgoodguns 11 months ago 3
"filling arenas around the globe", you must be joking.
RATT didn't mean sh-t outside the US.
foreverrandyrhoads 11 months ago
@foreverrandyrhoads They were Huge in Japan though.
TCBrobban 11 months ago
OMG, that's Juan?I didn't recognize until someone commented! I thought he was some producer.
shawnspeed3 11 months ago
R.I.P Robbin Crosby
effectswithrants 11 months ago
Gotta love Juan? at 1:22 repping old school Detroit slop-house Harpo's! Recognize that shirt anywhere. Anybody heavy that's gone through Detroit went through Harpo's. The neighborhood was as tough a test as the actual gig.
flugplatz21 1 year ago
Actually Robbins solo in this clip was cool.
danewson 1 year ago
grunge will burn in the deepest layer of hell, metal forever, carry on the flame, i love him, but fuck u nikki sixx its becasue of him that robbin got addicted he introduced heroin to robbing in the first place
lion3p0 1 year ago
@lion3p0 You are dumb as fuck. Please do us the favor of keeping your opinions to yourself. You are not the fucking god of music.
itsnicksharpbro 1 year ago
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lion3p0 1 year ago
tawny, whats up with your lips??!!! hahahaha!!! one too many hard dicks in your mouth?
prosteelheader 1 year ago
Grunge did not kill the real musicians, only ushered in a new sound. Nirvana was great until real techinical, precision, lyrical, and vocal prowess came out soon after with AIC, Soundgarden, etc. Priest made it through and still play packed arenas. Iron Maiden is so huge now it's unfathomable, travelling to sold out shows worldwide in a 757 with Bruce piloting. Metal never left. A few of our hero's and favorites didn't hold it together that's all. Motley Crue will NEVER be the same.
abloom1970 1 year ago
which song is the one that came on 1:14?
theMetalNerd91 1 year ago
@theMetalNerd91 It's called "What's it gonna be?" from their "Reach for the sky" album
hair89 1 year ago
YOU ALL FELL to the way side once GNR came to life!
ultimatemegadeath 1 year ago
What's the name of the song at 6:57?
MxrGtr 1 year ago
@MxrGtr its not a song dude its just somethin that was made for the video
dokken447 1 year ago
@dokken447 You and Freedo have much in common. Neither one of you are like dumb, um y'know.
fukinblowme 1 year ago
being chased by all these hot girls in bikinis, looks like fun but also seems to XXXX people up.
asankagurusinghe 1 year ago
The best part of these behind the music episodes is when these glam rock bands sell out glam rock and try to become alternative once grunge became big.
Freshhhhh1982 1 year ago
i love ratt probely my favorite band but pearcy and blotzer like to brag about how much drinking and drugs they use to do i dont think that something to brag about
motleycrue24 1 year ago
This documentary is wrong. Dancing Undercover was released in August.
The doc' fails to cover that the album went Gold within one week.
JosephKuby 1 year ago
@JosephKuby, Another inaccurate thing about this documentary is that GNR didn't overwhelm all the pop metal bands. Def Leppard's Hysteria was a phenomenal success.
JosephKuby 1 year ago
Ratt's music was cool (even though I didn't like the Detonator album).
Mottahead 1 year ago
@Mottahead, to be honest the only real flaw with Detonator was the guitar sound and the mixing.
Ste's vocals slightly grate on that album because Desmond Child favors singing over guitars. As such, the vocals should have been slightly lower in the mix so as to allow breathing room for Rob's yin (to Warren's yang).
While the album doesn't employ as much effects as Reach for the Sky, the guitars are almost too clean sounding. The tunings sound like E and drop E, when it should have D and drop D.
JosephKuby 1 year ago
5:25, talk about falls from glory
Dialmformonkeys 1 year ago
@Dialmformonkeys, I see what you mean. It's almost like he's reluctantly passing along the torch to the person who's usurped his "king" status.
JosephKuby 1 year ago
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Dialmformonkeys 1 year ago
THis band is so ordinary..
freefalling20 1 year ago
Stephen got it right....'everyone was F-R-I-E-D" those guys needed to take a serious break, but Atlantic records drove them into the ground.
4JayeP 1 year ago 2
@4JayeP, When Rob hooked up with Warren & Bob before he died, they all came to the same realization (after getting along so well together) that the band should have taken some time off.
Rob and Warren had noted in separate interviews that it seemed like Ratt & Roll was an annual thing. I think, after the Dancing Undercover tour, Ratt should have got another kind of R&R. ;-)
According to Rob, what kept Ratt going was the need for the next big single (especially when they were in a lot of debt).
JosephKuby 1 year ago
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American bands are spoil brats. And they never really cared about the music. Its was about how many groupies you can fuck, boozes and drugs. the music was maybe, fifth on the list?
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DEKMAN99 1 year ago
Bless your heart, King. You were a good man and a fine musician.
bartolemeo 1 year ago
I don't know why some people are down on grunge as if it killed metal -- it didn't. There was a lot of great rock/metal in the 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's but it all kept changing because people get tired of watered down copycat bands and they want something new!
Those who feel so threatened by grunge that they have to denigrate it should open their minds. There's a reason why the Nevermind album has been voted one of the best albums ever! Let's face it, the 80's had some pretty bad songs.
smacknig 1 year ago
you know we all have addiction's but who are other's to pass judgement judge your self rock on robin and stephen how do you tell the lead what to do if follow all that matter's is fame friend's and sale's rock on
rockhard6737 1 year ago
is there any muso's tawny kitaen has shagged?
russoct 1 year ago
Ratt, Guns and Roses, Motley Crue, Warrant, etc have stood the test of time. My 21 year old son loves this kinda music!
thepaddywagonishere 1 year ago
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Ratt's new album kicks ass :)
ChatPranks 1 year ago
I HATE HATE HATE what happened to this band. They just always seemed on the verge of taking over, but...there was always something in their way.
WomackPhotoKCMO 1 year ago
@WomackPhotoKCMO, I relate to you completely. After all the hundreds of bands I've heard, Ratt are my favorite and it pains me (from time to time) to think that they missed out on being as big as Jovi or, at least, Crue.
They missed out on having a song on the Top Gun soundtrack because Warren thought they'd sell out, Juan wasn't allowed to fly around in concert because Warren thought it was stupid (Jovi would rip him off) and Robbin's idea to make Detonator dark like the EP was dismissed.
JosephKuby 1 year ago
This show ia bad ass !!!!
Schimmoller 1 year ago
i know there is Ratt Unplugged show or something, i found one song on youtube from it, any idea where i can find more songs. Percy sounded great believe it or not on the one song I heard, I would like to hear more
chadheroman 1 year ago
@chadheroman, Ratt once did an acoustic version of Givin' yourself Away on MTV Unplugged. I've been wanting to check that out for years.
JosephKuby 1 year ago
thanks to the upload.
buddyberkman 1 year ago
I love the way Juan puts things like: It sounded like all the other Ratt records!
thepaddywagonishere 1 year ago 10
@thepaddywagonishere
Except for the fact that it didn't.
CymaticSand 1 year ago
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@CymaticSand It didn't what?
thepaddywagonishere 1 year ago
@thepaddywagonishere Yeah, but it always went Platinum.
DefLeppardVanHalen 1 year ago
@thepaddywagonishere , I think Juan was the most sensible of the whole group, next to Warren.
ultimatemegadeath 1 year ago
@ultimatemegadeath I think Juan made Ratt what they were. Hes funny but I can see him as someone who is very serious when it comes to putting out some ass kicking material!
thepaddywagonishere 1 year ago
@thepaddywagonishere , yeah. I would say that he really had more of a steady head and knew what he wanted ratt to be, but i wouldn't blame him for getting upset with all the shenanigans, but to have to deal hill again?
ultimatemegadeath 1 year ago
@thepaddywagonishere
Is it just me or does Juan sould really self important throughout this whole thing?
tokyosmash 1 year ago
@tokyosmash No I just think he tells it as it is, It seems like he was the only one who even cared about Robbin,
thepaddywagonishere 1 year ago
I would rather hear Ratt then Nirvana any day!
thepaddywagonishere 1 year ago
Thanks god Nirvana buried these fucking hair bands. Ciao!
mikekinney288 1 year ago
@mikekinney288 nirvana and grunge in general sucked. It was just punk music with less engery and talent, worse lyrics and style too.
whitetrashoutlaw 1 year ago
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fukinblowme 1 year ago
@mikek Thank God Kurt Cobain stuck a shotgun in his mouth and splattered his brains all over his rec room.Do you seriously hold a guy like that in high regard.He killed himself leaving behind a daughter and his music wasn't exactly music that you party to.Nirvana were for losers who wanted to feel sorry for themselves, their fans are pathetic.You can claim Nirvana buried the 80's, but Nirvana really killed Rock music in general.They opened the door for Hip Hop by bringing Rock music down, fact.
fukinblowme 1 year ago
@fukinblowme Agreed. Kurt gets way too much credit for the death of 80s Hair Metal--for lack of a better term. I, for one, believe hair metal kinda killed itself in terms of watering itself down to the point it was pretty void of what it had been in the earlier stages of the so-called "hair metal" era.
phrydoom 1 year ago
@phrydoom, I agree. It just became pop rock towards the end.
Hair metal really ended when Skid Row released Slave to the Grind and when Metallica released the black album.
JosephKuby 1 year ago
@phrydoom Kurt Cobain is way more respected than most hair metallers. True his songs are downbeat, but also beautiful
asankagurusinghe 1 year ago
@asankagurusinghe Fair at best compared to ANY hair metal band.
thepaddywagonishere 1 year ago
@thepaddywagonishere You seriously think theincomparable Nirvana are "fair at best" compared to hair metal? Each to their own Mr Paddywagon.
asankagurusinghe 1 year ago
@asankagurusinghe Well I think groups like Ratt and Cinderella were more technical. They had women from here to Christmas I will say that. I wish I could have lived the life they did! The 80's ruled! But yes Mr Asankgursinghe to each his own!
thepaddywagonishere 1 year ago
@asankagurusinghe Respected by whom ? Not musicians who can play. Everyone in the 80's could play and play well. Kurt Cobain couldn't play or sing...sorry but that's a fact not an opinion.
fukinblowme 1 year ago 3
@fukinblowme Regardless, Ratt took a break for awhile while the crunge fad came and went, and are now back. Ratt have been around, what, thirty years now? Even if Kurt didn't blow his head off, I doubt he would still be around thirty years after the fact. So, I agree completely with you.
phrydoom 1 year ago
@fukinblowme Cobain didnt kill metal. Nevermind was just the first album of grunge to get that big. phrydoom is right, there were SO many hair bands that dilluted the metal scene to nothin more than fags in makeup tryin to score chicks with no musical talent like Trixter, andd Enuffznuff. Fuckin Posers. Grunge was just the next progression then on to nu-metal after that. there will always be a next big thing.
EdBraski0977 1 year ago
@EdBraski0977, also in between grunge and nu-metal there was groove metal. Then after nu-metal there was metalcore.
I'm thinking reggae metal and industrial metal will be the next sub-genres to become big. I think this because the amount of pop punk and metalcore bands out there right now is similar to what happened in the '80s with the overload of bands who either did pop metal or thrash metal.
The last pre-91 wave of pop metal bands made Ratt, Crue and W.A.S.P. look bad.
JosephKuby 1 year ago
@fukinblowme That's not really a fact that's an opinion, rock still existed, and so did Metal. An the second album was actually considered quite the party album, the 3rd album is there best in my opinion. Kurt was an amazing musician, and if you don't think so then that's up to you.
SpicyDragoon 1 year ago
@fukinblowme yeah grunge was very short lived. it went on from '91 to some of '93ish, whereas 80s glam metal in general was somewhat of a decade long
chloewalker8089 1 year ago 3
@chloewalker8089 Yeah. Hair metal went from the late 70s to 1990/1991, somewhere around there. All in all, it was the better era of the two, much more relevant. Grunge, being so short lived, isn't even a era to me, it was more of a fad, IMO. I mean like all fads, they come and go pretty quickly. I'm glad I didn't waste my time with it.
phrydoom 1 year ago
@phrydoom
well, the most popular grunge band remained popular and STABLE during 91-93 but grunge lasted 'til maybe 95-96, there were other bands such as Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam etc. But after 96 somewhere, most major record labels decided to fire most of the rock producers and start focusing on something brand new instead: hip-hop. Slash described this in his book, the latter part of what i wrote that is.
ErikBlondie 1 year ago
@phrydoom yea grunge went the same way as punk rock and gangsta rap,into the grave.Now we gotta hear crapola like U2 and other bland,MusaK like, rock with no guitar solos `cos the musicianship is not there,just unremarkable instrumental breaks.
PAULOcbi 1 year ago
@phrydoom Alternative rock isnt the laughing stock that glam rock is. Doubt very highly that many new bands would cite ratt as an influence.
Freshhhhh1982 1 year ago
@fukinblowme Well said!!!!!!
price1701a 1 year ago
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@fukinblowme Well said!!!!!!!!!
price1701a 1 year ago
@fukinblowme, if you go to the website 'Justice for Kurt' you will find information which suggests that Kurt's death was a homicide dressed up to look like suicide.
JosephKuby 1 year ago
@fukinblowme Also Bon Jovi sold more records then ALL of the Alternative Rock bands combined!
thepaddywagonishere 1 year ago
@fukinblowme Kurt didn't shoot himself, that's impossible. You can't point a shotgun at your head. You'd have to use ur toes to pull the trigger and Kurt was wearing shoes when he was lying dead, so he couldn't of shot himself.
ThePoison27 1 year ago
@fukinblowme damn man do you have like no life i see you on alot of videos starting keyboard wars haha..what does nirvana have to do with anything about ratt seeing how you like to talk about him so much you seem absessed why dont you go watch a nirvana vid and stop wasting the comment space
dokken447 1 year ago
@447 My life centers around music and learning,does yours ? Apparently not.What does Nirvana have to do with Ratt ? Ask a music marketer that question and you might just learn a thing or two.As far as Kurt Cobain,his success was a cancer for Rock music overall.Obsessed ? Sure I hate the guy for the blueprint his Diamond Album created.20 years later music still hasn't evolved into something better.Rock is a funless,talentless subculture for freaks and geeks.Post Grunge? Emo ?Thanx Kurt,you rock..
fukinblowme 1 year ago 5
@fukinblowme one think is kurt ended the end of the 80s metal marketing, Which is all about money. 80s metal still went on and still is going on who cares if kurt ended it the popularity of it if he didnt someone else would of came along and did the same, the music didnt go nowhere and never will..music is not all about popularity and money my friend..if you dont like some genres of music than dont listen to it plain and simple theres always going to be something out there you aint gonna like
dokken447 1 year ago
@fukinblowme
You're a fucking idot, man. Kurt and Nirvana's success was as accidental as anything, they put the songs first and the whores second, at a time when the general population was (thank God) getting fed up with hair metal fucks like Ratt, lol. If you were really so obsessed with "learning" as you say, you'd know that Kurt hated half the bands that got popular following a bandwagon that his band trailblazed against their will. They were the world's most popular punk band, that's it
mussman717word 9 months ago
@mussman717word Grunge is music for socially arkward losers... Hair metal is just one big party ...and its way more complex then any grunge shit you hear
cliffthelightning 8 months ago 4
@cliffthelightning
Let's talk about complexity, as in all the various time signatures Soundgarden used; as compared to the 4/4 time, cliched 2-minute guitar solos of Ratt... I'm not a huge fan of either band, but at least I can respect Soundgarden. As far as Nirvana goes, of course they're songs were easy, but so were the Ramones, the Beatles' early stuff, AC/DC and even Black Sabbath. So, think before you talk next time, partyboy.
mussman717word 8 months ago
@mussman717word
*their*
mussman717word 8 months ago
Juan said it best. When Robbin died that was the demise of Ratt.
thepaddywagonishere 1 year ago
Juan said it best. It was the demise of Ratt when Robbin Crosby died.
thepaddywagonishere 1 year ago
Thank you so much for posting the vh1 ratt doc ! love it. :-)
...ratt n roll
rattelle 1 year ago
What song is playing from1:18 to 2:08?It sounds cool.
BobReidy 1 year ago
Percy is a tard haha
Jasent76 1 year ago
Juan is awesome, I love the way he tells the story regarding Mike Stone and how they had to bring back Beau Hill, and the "Reach for the Sky" album sounded just like a "Ratt Record". Sad to see Robbin Crosby fade away. R.I.P. King!!!
dplanefilms 1 year ago
@dplanefilms, Juan once said that the full story concerning the making of Reach was so vulgar that he didn't want to tell people too many details for the sake of not wanting to portray Ratt as being equally as vile as Motley Crue.
Juan also said that if he had any idea what was going to happen with Mike Stone, he would have been okay with working with Beau Hill right from the beginning.
JosephKuby 1 year ago
whats it gonna be is my favorite :)
coheedisamassacre 1 year ago
7:57 LMAO JUAN
bcancun123 1 year ago
Look at Stephan Pearcy's face at 6:39 it's like he's saying "Jesus Christ man this sucks! It's no wonder Robbin wasn't back to the band in 96 the stuff he was doing really affected his ability to play.
RockerDude899 1 year ago
Has anyone noticed but Tawny Kitain has been had by many famous guys.Robin Crosby,David Coverdale,Tommy Lee and Chuck Finley.She has been around the block.
BobReidy 2 years ago 2
@BobReidy But Stephen Percy has been around the block more times than Tawny ;) He is a male slut. God knows why... the guy is butt fuckin ugly and nasty. Women had to have been desperate to sleep with him or just star struck. Ick.
cjs33139 1 year ago
Your probably right.
BobReidy 1 year ago
@cjs33139, he was cuter in his younger days. The one thing you have to remember about the glam metal scene is that the reason why guys had such a feminine appearance was so they could appeal to bisexual women and score with lesbians.
JosephKuby 1 year ago
@BobReidy, Tawn was the quintessential glam metal slut. I wonder how long she would have lasted if W.A.S.P. and Motley Crue had their way with her.
JosephKuby 1 year ago
Tommy Lee actually had her.If the guys in W.A.S.P. had her,she never would have slept with a rockstar again.
BobReidy 1 year ago
AND that doesn't mean i didn't love crue, ratt, & rest of the ones that were cool
CarellaRoss 2 years ago
thank you never saw this one.
ohytr11 2 years ago
No problem. It has only aired a few times, I believe. I think it's pretty good.
phrydoom 2 years ago
I watched all the parts recently. I think the most striking part in Part 4 is the band being onstage in Japan. They play "Round & Round" & Robbin grabs a Gibson Thunderbird that was NOT tuned to play "Round And Round". Now, any self respecting roadie would have NEVER allowed him to take the wrong guitar for a particular song. However, Robbin was so screwed up at that point, maybe it was inevitable. Even so, why the hell his guitar tech didn't step in and give him the right guitar is a mystery.
Lynchfan88 1 year ago 2
@Lynchfan88 Its a firebird.... a thunderbird is a bass version
cliffthelightning 1 year ago
This is actually one of the few Behind The Music's that got it (semi) correct about what happened to the whole 80's hair metal scene. The other docs all say grunge brought it [all the sudden] crashing to an end....in actuality you could kind of feel that tastes were changing (on their own) by the late 80's. GN'R was the first indicator of this.....and Tesla's growing popularity hinted at it too.
09rja 2 years ago 27
exactly....& jane's addiction, ministry, & a bunch of VERY different bands were completely happening from 1987 (& before) everywhere, clubs, word of mouth etc.......it's just that people with bad taste ARE the norm so it takes a long time to line those sheep up for slaughter....haha (but not)
CarellaRoss 2 years ago 2
@09rja True... GNR took things in a grittier direction, and then thrash became big thankfully, and R.E.M. and Jane's Addiction and RHCP had hits before Nirvana or Pearl Jam were around. Anyway the whole scene had become oversaturated and watered down by ballads, so "One" and "Mountain Song" were probably a relief to many people. I like pop-metal, thrash and alternative actually.
fuckclearchannel 1 year ago 2
@09rja You pretty much hit the nail on the head right there. It could be argued that hair metal was still going strong in 89, but I think you're right, the writing was on the wall by. By 1990, though, I think it was clear that the hair bands were well on the way out. I firmly believe that the emergence of grunge was moreso the result, and not the cause as many claim, of hair metal's decline.
TheDaemonPrince 1 year ago 2
@TheDaemonPrince Yeah, and the thing about Guns [and some of the other bands that emerged during the late 80's] is: they had more of a raw, stripped down sound (as opposed to the overproduced feel of many of the hair metal bands). And the "unplugged" trend began before grunge bands capitalized on it (witness GnR & Tesla's albums with acoustic sets).
09rja 1 year ago 21
@09rja amen to that brother
motleycrue24 1 year ago
@09rja ratt definitely needed a different producer after "DU", so they could get a more "raw" feel or less processed.....especially to get rid of the shit drum sound.
Sirscorps 7 months ago 2
it was really surprising seeing the great mike stone succumbing to alchohol. he was an awesome ass producer. he was the brains behind queen in the studio during the mid 70's.the guy was a genius.
salamonetalton 2 years ago
Yeah, I assume he died due to alcohol. Am I right?
phrydoom 2 years ago
@salamonetalton, talk about bad timing but I can understand why they hired Stone. He had just come off working with Whitesnake.
I wonder how they would have fared if they worked with G'N'R' producer Mike Clink. Coincidentally, Metallica attempted to work with Clink for their '88 album '...and Justice for All' but things didn't work out as planned.
I sometimes wonder how Metallica would have fared working with Stone.
JosephKuby 1 year ago
OK I have learned from my DAD and from being in bands,never do more than two recordings with the same producer EVER.
brucekirk89 2 years ago
@brucekirk89, did he say why you shouldn't do more than two recordings with the same producer? Metallica had done that with Flemming Rasmussen.
JosephKuby 1 year ago
@JosephKuby not sure what i said was to long ago,,what did i say??? lol
brucekirk89 1 year ago
@brucekirk89, your dad said that you should never do more than two albums with one producer? ;)
JosephKuby 1 year ago
0:36 what show's that GN'R are at?
rockerdrake 2 years ago
@rockerdrake
Headbanger's Ball!!!!
I think you can find it on youtube.....
SpikeMichaels 2 years ago
what song starts this video?
1kydde2 2 years ago
"Slip of the Lip" from the album "Dancing Undercover"
dregen77 2 years ago