In response to singer Stephen Pearcy’s announcement that he has quit Ratt, drummer Bobby Blotzer has released his own statement.
“To our/my Ratt fans and friends… I will say to you guys, I am sorry that I brought you guys into our personal world and turbulation. I’ve been so personally driven to a breaking point with our band being held hostage every year, that I’ve kind of been snapping. I wish we were still all four together and doing business as great as we have been doing. Especially last year. This is why its so nonsensical to me to have this disruption in a business we’ve built for the last 33 years.”
“Reality sits at, Stephen and I have gotten along since his return in ’07,” continued Blotzer. “Aside from the fact that he basically quits every year. It’s been hard to deal with. I feel bad that I might have put a dividing line out here, and for that I’m feeling bad about and I to a certain level feel the need to apologize to YOU Guys. My words were true, but the words should have stayed in my mind. And again I state that, I was only kidding about this picture thing with Steve, dumb joke. You ever done that? Exactly. When this news popped today, my phone was blowing up all day while I was trying to enjoy an afternoon with friends and I just lost it. I was going to come home and tear into that release line by line. I read your thoughts and realized that it’s time to shut the f**k up. As hard as that feels because we, the 4 other guys in this band did nothing to merit this whole behavior from Stephen.”
Ratt’s last album was 2010′s Infestation.
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Long time fan of all our bands…I’ve seen Ratt with Stephen and with Jizzy (Corabi wasting his talents as the 2nd guitarist)…even though their prime is long gone – Infestation was pretty good and proved that the band is only Ratt w/ Stephen (and by all accounts he suffers LSD perhaps worse than any of our guys). All of our bands are holding onto what little they have left so I don’t blame them for “carrying on” but I agree with a previous post that suggested Warren create his own “Winery Dogs” type thing. Nobody is going to buy the CD’s anyway – so work with people you like and go create so “new” cool music and hopefully some of us will enjoy it.
It is a shame. I know they are not as big as they were but I thought Infestation was a strong release. The songs were good. With that being said to keep it together for 30 year (even if it is off and on) has got to be hard.
KISS took RATT out on their first tour. As a matter of fact, I discovered RATT (the animal version rat too). I introduced Stephen Pearcy to his first groupie. Paul Stanley taught Stephen how to effectively utile the karma sutra (yes the rumors about Paul are true). This is what inspired the song “Bang Bang You” which appeared on our Crazy Nights record.
Hey cut the crust off your pbj.
Who cares?!!!
They can all quit & go be with Uncle Milty.
Uncle Milty, I love that guy.
Boy do I feel stupid. Now I spelled it right.
Yeah yours so immature now stop it!!! I’ve got nothing better to do with my life then to critique other peoples jokes. Hey lytel are you single?
Interesting trick how you impersonate other’s personas to make jokes. Didn’t know we were going there on this site. But if gloves must come off, I guess they’re coming off.
This is like 2 Captain Kirk’s.
Like bizarro superman…