“He’s not gonna silence me. He’s not gonna stop me from playing music.”
— Mike Tramp on Vito Bratta
THE HAIR METAL GURU — In a brand new interview on The Hair Metal Guru, the guest is Mike Tramp.
Tramp talks in depth and at length about his near 50 year career after first starting his journey as a young teenager joining Mabel in 1976.
Tramp, now 64, is as active as ever after just touring the globe in support of his Mike Tramp’s White Lion band.
The following was transcribed and shared on Blabbermouth: “In a new interview with Anthony Bryant of The Hair Metal Guru, ex-WHITE LION singer Mike Tramp was asked if he thinks fans will ever hear from his former bandmate, guitarist Vito Bratta, musically again. Tramp responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “No. Did you see how quick [of a response] that was? And I am probably about the most frustrated person because I feel that I constantly have to be on the defense. Because he has chosen to go into his cave. There’s no pictures existing. There’s none of anything.”
He doesn’t even wanna come out and just make a quote or something like that. So he’s chosen that it’s better to keep the mystery and stay silent, but that mystery and staying silent can only last for so long because as days go by, I am pushed to having to reveal more than I really wanted to, because the truth of the matter is I do know the facts, I do know the truth about everything about Vito Bratta. I just wish that he’d just come out and just say something. He can put me down, he can do whatever [he wants]. But he’s not gonna silence me. He’s not gonna stop me from playing music.”
Tramp continued: “I’ve invited him many ways. I’ve even asked him, I says, ‘If you wanted to do a project that wasn’t called WHITE LION‘, sort of like — not comparing ourselves, but when [Jimmy] Page and [Robert] Plant got together the first time [after LED ZEPPELIN‘s split]. They didn’t call it LED ZEPPELIN. They did the ‘Walking Into Clarksdale’ project, just to see where their songwriting would go.”
Asked what Bratta‘s response is when Tramp approaches him about making music together again, Mike said: “[He tells me] ‘Oh, I don’t wanna talk about it.’ That’s how quickly that’s getting shut down.”
Tramp with Bratta and White Lion released 4 albums starting with their 1985 debut “Fight To Survive” (Asylum Records), along with 3 albums on Atlantic Records including; “Pride” (1987), “Big Game” (1989) and “Mane Attraction” in 1991.
The first release on Atlantic Records “Pride” went Double-Platinum along with the band’s 1989 release “Big Game” which was certified Gold by the RIAA.
There was also a 5th release on Atlantic Records in the way of a “The Best of…” record released in 1992.
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