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HEAD BANG THIS … Riki Rachtman gets ready for another round of his ‘One Foot In The Gutter’ Spoken Word / Story Teller shows in the Midwest

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ON THE ROAD AGAIN — Who needs a guitar, a bass or a whole damn drum set when all you really need is a microphone!

Riki Rachtman is a 1-man show and that’s exactly what he will need when he does his first shows of 2026!

Rachtman is getting ready to hit the road once again with his ‘One Foot In The Gutter‘ tour which he started doing in late 2022 which was followed up by an extensive run of shows in 2023.

Now, whether it’s Spoken Word, or a Story Teller type setting is irrelevant, because what you’re really going to get is a whole lot of cool old skool stories from one of the best decades ever!

Rachtman grew up in Southern California and was attending shows and promoting shows by the time he was a teenager and while he wasn’t always a band guy, he was always part of the scene.

It may be safe to say, that Riki was a scenester… someone who always seemed to be in the middle of it, hanging out with the bands, the girls, and we’re going to go out on a limb and say he wasn’t always doing things that your parents would approve of.

With that… that sounds exactly like what a bunch of rock n’ roll metal heads want to hear about. An if so… then here is your chance… because the former MTV Headbanger’s Ball Veejay is hitting the road for a string of shows starting in late February into March that will see him hitting clubs around the midwest.

Rachtman, who is also the co-founder of one of Hollywood’s most infamous clubs, Cathouse.

Cathouse launched in 1986 an

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