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RATT AND ROLL OVER?: After a very successful 12 months, are the wheels of the Ratt bus about to run off the road again? Here's some extractions from a brand new Stephen Pearcy interview with BraveWords' Mitch Lafon:

Bravewords.com: What's next for Ratt? Stephen Pearcy: “First, we have to finish the few dates we have left on the table and we did some filming a couple of nights back for our next single, 'Eat Me Up Alive'. It'll be a live montage kind of video and then I have to take care of some unfinished business with the band and me. After, that I'm off and running doing some solo stuff and a new project. I'm also going to get the label (Top Fuel Records) in gear and get the Riot Brides (www.stephen-pearcy.com/item_19/Riot-Brides.htm) back in the studio. Their EP is out and the girls are selling some records.”

Bravewords.com: Now, that you are back in Ratt is Stephen Pearcy solo finished or on hiatus? Stephen Pearcy: “No, I'm just starting. Like I said, I have some unfinished business with the band because as usual it's complicated and dysfunctional. Things just didn't fall into place and I've left my options open. So, I'll continue to pursue my solo stuff and do another solo record, but first and foremost I'm a guitar player and I'm going to be putting together a band/ project tentatively called 'Battering Ramm'. The stuff that I'm writing for this project along with Rat Bastard guitarist Erik Ferentinos is way heavy and ass-kicking, but I won't be singing (which will probably make some people happy {laughs}). I'll only play guitar. I'll get a singer, some established players and we'll put out some songs.”

Bravewords.com: I'm sure that will make a lot of people unhappy actually. Stephen Pearcy: “I'll still go out and shake it up with the Rat Bastards and sing. That's not going to stop. In fact, I already have a few dates posted. I plan on spending months and months with these things (projects). I'm real excited about getting the Top Fuel Records projects going. I've been writing Ratt songs since day one and the EP was my early Mickey Ratt music. So, I've got a new Mickey Ratt compilation coming out later this year which will lead, hopefully, into a new solo record and then there will be the Battering Ramm record. The music for that is insane – it's Vicious Delite meets my solo stuff meets hard core Ratt meets new music all into one. Like I said, it'll be ass-kicking.”

Bravewords.com: How does this work in with the Ratt schedule? There's obviously going to be another album and tour in 2011, right? Stephen Pearcy: “We'll see what happens. I'm not looking at that right now. I just want to finish up and take a break. I want to get my health together. I'm still not 100%. I'm not jumping off the risers just yet and to sing after a hernia surgery is a whole painstaking thing.”

Bravewords.com: Still you managed to get the Scorpions dates done. Stephen Pearcy: “We had a great tour with them. We jammed with them the last night and it was very very cool. They are just the utmost professionals and hopefully they won't retire. There is chatter of doing more stuff, but I just want to finish up the Ratt stuff for now. There seems to be different agendas. I came back into the fold to take care of business first and foremost. I'm very happy with the new record (Infestation) and it's still selling very well. Carlos and I unleashed the first two singles ('Best Of Me' and 'Eat Me Up Alive').”

Bravewords.com: Let me ask you about the down side of Ratt. I don't want to get too negative, but your drummer, Bobby Blotzer, just released a book… Stephen Pearcy: “Is that what you call it {laughs}?”

Bravewords.com: It's a 'collection of words' and some of things that were said in it… well, it might have been a good idea to wait until the band had broken up for good or maybe make sure you've out lived your band mates… Stephen Pearcy: “I'll keep a lot of things to myself 'cause I don't need to give that book any more attention than it deserves. I've been working on something called 'Rat Tales' (which is still on the table) and lo and behold 'Tales of Rat by Bobby Blotzer' comes out. It's not too original, but anyways. There are some things that I find very misleading and he speaks for us on some things that are so far from the truth. He spent a lot of time out there devoted to his agenda and should have taken care of the Ratt agenda instead.”

To find out what's happening with Stephen visit: www.stephen-pearcy.com and www.topfuelrecords.com. Read the full interview at: www.bravewords.com/news/144664.

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