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Jake E. Lee calls current version of Ratt “Sad”, throws shade at Bobby Blotzer
Blabbermouth — Jake E. Lee has shot down a rumor that he was approached to play with RATT earlier this year as the replacement for Warren DeMartini. “No, that never came up,” the former OZZY OSBOURNE and BADLANDS guitarist told the “Talking Metal” podcast (hear audio below). “That was never gonna happen. That all came from [RATT drummer] Bobby Blotzer, from a specific interview.
“Nobody really cares what Bob has to say,” Jake continued. “Oh, here I am badmouthing another musician again… But nobody does. He went out with a version of RATT that was not RATT. And through people in the industry I know, he was paid a lot of money and club owners were very unhappy with him because they thought they were hiring RATT to play, and then it would just be a band Bobby Blotzer put together doing cover songs, really.
“I think Bobby just made that up so that it would be a talking point, so it would be a headline — and it did; it became that,” Jake added.
“I get along with Stephen [Pearcy, RATT singer] all right — mainly because I’m not in a band with him. ‘Cause I was in RATT before, and the reason I quit was Stephen. But I get along with him fine. But he knows that I wouldn’t rejoin RATT, and he knows that Warren and I have been best friends forever, and I would never take his place in the band. And nobody should, really. It’s not RATT without Warren.”
Lee actually began his career as a member of Pearcy‘s MICKEY RATT, which became better known as RATT after a name change in the early ’80s.
This past March, Blotzer took to his RATT Facebook page to slam his former bandmates and to reveal that “someone” in their camp told him that “Juan [Croucier, bass] and Stephen are hiring, or trying to hire, Jake E. Lee” as Warren‘s replacement in RATT. He added: “Jake trying to play RATT solos, I don’t see it.”
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