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Saw Ratt and Slaughter last night. Quiet Riot was supposed to be on the bill but supposedly broke up last week.
Slaughter: Great band. Original members w/ an excellent guitarist who replaced the original lead guitarist that died a few years back. Mark Slaughter still has the vocal range and was really cool, walking out in the audience and standing right next to us. Dana Strum still plays that goofy shaped bass and the guys really looked like they were having a good time. Great sound, great guitarwork, thoroughly entertaining.
Ratt: Good god, in 20 years of going to see these guys live I don't think even once they've had good sound. Warren's guitar sounded thin and way too weak, lost in the rest of the noise. Warren played 2 Performance bolt-on strats, one black and one brown/copper snakeskin. Warren can still shred like a pro, just wish we could have heard it better.
Ratt's lead singer still sucks. His voice is shrieky and he has the stage presence of a skinny punker trying to act tough by pumping his fist all night long. I saw him 2 years ago and thought he sucked, saw him last night and he still sucks.
Blotzer is still on drums, the Bassist looked familiar but I couldn't quite place him. You gotta respect John Corabi on the other guitar, replacing Robbin Crosby. John was the guy who replaced Vince Neil as the singer in Motley Crue for a few years. After reading the Motley Crue book, you gotta feel for the guy.
We couldn't even make out the first 2 songs. The sound was so bad and the singer was so far off from Steven Pearcy. The sound got marginally better thru the show but was never that great. It's obvious that Ratt is now just Warren DiMartini and a bunch of other guys. The whole band just kinda hung around up there watching Warren and taking clues from him. It was basically the Warren DiMartini show with a crappy singer.
Slaughter: Great band. Original members w/ an excellent guitarist who replaced the original lead guitarist that died a few years back. Mark Slaughter still has the vocal range and was really cool, walking out in the audience and standing right next to us. Dana Strum still plays that goofy shaped bass and the guys really looked like they were having a good time. Great sound, great guitarwork, thoroughly entertaining.
Ratt: Good god, in 20 years of going to see these guys live I don't think even once they've had good sound. Warren's guitar sounded thin and way too weak, lost in the rest of the noise. Warren played 2 Performance bolt-on strats, one black and one brown/copper snakeskin. Warren can still shred like a pro, just wish we could have heard it better.
Ratt's lead singer still sucks. His voice is shrieky and he has the stage presence of a skinny punker trying to act tough by pumping his fist all night long. I saw him 2 years ago and thought he sucked, saw him last night and he still sucks.
Blotzer is still on drums, the Bassist looked familiar but I couldn't quite place him. You gotta respect John Corabi on the other guitar, replacing Robbin Crosby. John was the guy who replaced Vince Neil as the singer in Motley Crue for a few years. After reading the Motley Crue book, you gotta feel for the guy.
We couldn't even make out the first 2 songs. The sound was so bad and the singer was so far off from Steven Pearcy. The sound got marginally better thru the show but was never that great. It's obvious that Ratt is now just Warren DiMartini and a bunch of other guys. The whole band just kinda hung around up there watching Warren and taking clues from him. It was basically the Warren DiMartini show with a crappy singer.
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