Ep 40: Ratt’s Out of the Cellar

This week CFX takes on Out of the Cellar, the 1984 debut of hair metal icons Ratt. We do our usual dive into band history, influences, our personal histories, but then we take on this would be classic track by track and decide whether you should come “back for more” or flee the “scene of the crime”. Does the album stand the test of time or the band as a whole or neither or both? And, of course, as usual, along the way, we learn…

• Why… well, we’ll tell you why… DIG.
• How Stephen Pearcy went from Prince-like “new wave pirate” to washed up piece of beef jerky
• Whether Warren DeMartini is a underappreciated guitar god or a faceless Eddie Van Halen clone
• How many adverbs you can shove into a single line of a song
• What sort of trees Ratt spent a lot of time shaking
• Why Robin Crosby should not give lessons on making PSAs
• What the Bobby Blotzer’s Ratt Experience is about, and how it’s one of the worst things ever

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