Watch Ratt Tear Via 4-Music Set in 1984: YouTube Treasures

No between track banter, band intros or thank-you’s, simply quarter-hour of scorching, prime Ratt & Roll.

The Sundown Strip rockers completely crush their quick set within the clip beneath, mentioned to be from a March 18, 1984 present supporting Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in Salt Lake Metropolis. The video is one among many classic Ratt performances that may be discovered on Rattmaster86’s YouTube channel.

Within the clip, Ratt opens with “You Assume You’re Robust,” the street-life banger off the band’s self-titled 1983 EP. This reside model has additional fur on it, with frontman Stephen Pearcy’s lusty bay in wonderful type. Robbin Crosby is in guitar Adonis mode, peeling off a chemtrail-hued solo on his Flying V. Through the pre-choruses, Ratt bassist Juan Croucier steps to the mic to ship a melodic vocal.

Subsequent, the band slashes by way of “You’re In Hassle,” off Ratt’s debut LP Out of the Cellar, punctuated by quicksilver stuff by guitarist Warren DeMartini. All through the four-song efficiency, Bobby Blotzer’s drum grooves prowl and jab. On the set’s penultimate track “The Morning After,” Crosby and DeMartini do intertwining solos that evoke a snake consuming its personal tail.

Ratt then crashes straight into set nearer “Spherical and Spherical.” On the sound of that hit’s sugar-metal crunch, the gang on the Salt Palace — then-home of the NBA’s Utah Jazz and lots of ’80s enviornment rock exhibits — immediately goes wild. Ratt rocks each face there for an additional 4 minutes, a blaze of hooks, hedonism and man-skank bangs.

Reportedly, the band had been added to this cease of the snorting-ants-infamous Ozzy/Motley tour later chronicled in Crue memoir The Filth and Netflix movie adaptation (video of Osbourne’s set has lengthy been on-line too). Tickets for the live performance had been round $12. Laborious to think about anybody left the sector that evening not feeling they bought their cash’s price.