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The band’s new, seventh album ‘Pressure Machine’ is their second in as many years – following hot off the heels of the acclaimed ‘Imploding The Mirage’ – and one born of urgency. When The Killers graced the digital cover of NME last year, Flowers told us of how recently leaving Vegas for his home state of Utah had reminded him of “the power that [music] used to hold over me”, as well as revealing that the band had more new songs and were already back in the studio with the hope to release another record in 10 months.
That muse they were chasing came after the isolation of lockdown took Flowers back to how adrift he felt as a kid in his old hometown of Nephi, a small, sleepy, Mormon-founded city just over an hour’s drive from his current home. That would also become the spiritual birthplace of the album.
These big questions lead the frontman to reminisce on a pretty surreal row he had with evolutionary biologist and author Richard Dawkins on Swedish TV back in 2012. The writer called the Book Of Mormon (the religious text, not the blockbusting satirical musical) “an obvious fake”, prompting Flowers to take offence and implore him to “do your research”. Ulrika Johnson and Björn off of ABBA looked on. It was nuts. here
Today on Rock N’ Roll True Stories they take a look at Ratt guitarist Robbin Crosby who was a huge rockstar in the 80’s but slowly burnt out in the 90’s and 2000’s until his death. It’s a truly tragic story in every sense. Check out the story below!
“Everything that’s happened to us has been like something out of a fairy tale.” Those were the words of Ratt guitarist Robbin Crosby who was talking about the success of the band’s first album, 1984’s Out of the Cellar. Ratt would go on to dominate the rock scene in the 80’s with hit album after hit album. But soon enough Crosby’s fairy tale would turn into a nightmare. Stay tuned for the full story. Becoming a rockstar was the dream of guitarist Robbin Crosby who grew up in San Diego. In the 1970s he played in a local band named Mac Media where he came up with early versions of the songs “Scene of the Crime” and “I’m Insane” both of which would show up on Ratt’s debut album. Eventually Crosby left the group and joined a different San Diego outfit named Phenomenon. It was around this time Crosby would meet a Singer named Stephen Pearcy who was fronting a group named Mickey Ratt. By 1981 both musicians hadn’t yet played in the same band, but they moved to LA with their respective groups hoping to land a major record deal. Also joining Crosby on his journey from San Diego to LA would be his girlfriend andfuture model and actress Tawny Kitaene We’ll talk more about her in a bit. Pearcy would recall to the San Diego Tribune during a 1984 interview why he moved to LA saying “The only bands that were getting signed (to record contracts) in San Diego at that time were new wave-type bands, so I decided to take my band, Mickey Ratt, to Los Angeles,” Los Angeles proved to be a much more fertile ground for the type of rock n’ roll that the two musicians were playing given the success of LA based bands like Van Halen and Quiet Riot. And it wasn’t too long after the pair moved out to LA that their own bands fell apart and Pearcy and Crosby soon started playing together under the moniker Ratt. Pearcy would discuss the important of Crosby joining the band and how he was instrumental to the band’s sound during a 2011 interview with Noisecreep saying I brought Robbin into the lineup. Together we laid down the foundation for what everyone knows as the Ratt sound. In those early years, Robbin was pretty much the main guy. And the band would undergo several lineup changes before finally settling on the musicians that got them a record deal with lead guitarist Warren DeMartini drummer Bobby Blotzer and bassist Juan Croucier . Percy would recall the twin guitar attack of De Martini and Crosby telling Noisecreep “Robbin had his own style, but he was definitely influenced by Billy Gibbons and Jimi Hendrix. He played with great feel. Warren was more of a noodler, a guitar hero type of player. They complimented each other so well,” Warren was progressing so phenomenally that it was hard to ignore he’d say. Shortly after their formation, Ratt would play at the Whisky A Go Go and soon earned the status of house band. It was during this time that they caught the attention of Marshall Berle, who was the nephew of comedian and actor Milton Berle who would appear in the band’s future music videos. Berle would sign the band to his time communications record label releasing a self titled EP that sold so incredibly well that it caught the attention of several labels. They band would eventually sign a major recording contract with Atlantic Records and release their major label debut Out of the Cellar. Appearing on the front cover of the band’s first EP and LP would be Crosby’s girlfriend Tawny Kitaen. Out of the Cellar would be the biggest album of their career going triple platinum and the album was spurred by the single Round and Round, which got heavy airplay on MTV and was a top 10 hit on the music charts in America. Guitarist Robbin Crosby would tell the San Diego Tribune in 1984 how Ratt separated themselves from other rock bands at the time saying “We definitely try to be melodic so that we don’t get caught up in the heavy metal shuffle, but I think our music is aimed more at a female audience than a lot of contemporary hard rock bands. Part of our plan was to attract a female audience. We try to come off with a lot of sex appeal in our lyrics and our look, rather than having a violent or rebellious image.”
“I heard of the owners of a gun store in L.A., Western Surplus, phoning the police during the violence, telling them that they needed help, and the police just saying forget it, they’d have to deal with it themselves. What happened then was that gangs handed out the weapons military-style, with each member calling out his unit number. They stole over a thousand guns, which are going to be circulating for years. The owners didn’t defend their property, and so they lost everything. The same thing was clearly demonstrated in Koreatown. Time magazine said the Koreans were vigilantes defending their stores, but that’s not what a vigilante is. A vigilante works outside the law, and the Koreans were not working outside the law. You have the right to defend your property with arms; the Second Amendment clearly says so. The Koreans were lawful and right to do what they did. here
“Professor Gary Kleck at Florida State University, one of the nation’s top criminologists, has shown that there are a staggering 600,000 successful acts of handgun self-defense every year in the U.S. Prevention of crime with weapons occurs about one million times year. Thousands of people defend themselves and their families with guns every year, and we almost never hear about it. We hear about Patrick Purdy and Joseph Wesbecker and their attacks on the school in Stockton and the Standard Gravure Corporation with assault rifles, but rarely about an incident like at Shoney’s restaurant in Anniston, Alabama, where a customer shot dead two robbers who were threatening to kill innocent people. In that case, the customer, Thomas Glenn Terry, was legally armed with a .45 semi-automatic pistol, and that saved not only his own life but that of other people in that restaurant too. No hostages, no victims, and therefore no media coverage either. But these kinds of things happen all the time.
The owners of Krasne’s, however, debunk the notion that aficionados of Soldier of Fortune account for anything but a tiny part of their regular clientele. The typical customer is far more likely to be a La Jolla housewife frightened by a rape-crime mini-series or a shopkeeper alarmed by television coverage of the L.A. riots than a mercenary soldier. more
“Now,” Roy goes on relentlessly, “you’re going to be wondering why we’re using a .38 revolver and not something else. Well, in the first place, a .38 is much, much better than those small toys, .22s and so forth. It’s safer, more effective. A Smith 8c Wesson is your best bet. Extremely well made, good steel, and with a high resale value. And a long barrel is probably better than a snub, because when the sights are aligned over a greater space, the gun is easier to aim. As for it being a revolver, a semi-automatic might be the best handgun there is, but a revolver is much simpler to load and operate. If you don’t treat a semi-auto properly, it’ll desert you when you need it most. So we say to most people — if you’re interested in self-defense and are not a trained shooter, learn to shoot and buy a .38 revolver and leave it at that. It’ll save your life in virtually any conceivable circumstance and will cost you less than most other options. It’s far and away the most useful gun available for the ordinary person.”