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Guitarist for Rock Band Ratt Dead From AIDS (posted 6/10/2002)
Reuters via NYTimes.com ^ | 6/10/02

Posted on 06/10/2002 1:59:16 PM PDT by GeneD

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I was going to say "WHO?", but then I realized his band's fans never heard of Sarah Vaughan, they never heard of Lee Wiley -- heck, they never heard of Satchmo....

I think I will say "WHO?"

1 posted on 06/10/2002 1:59:17 PM PDT by GeneD
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bottom-of-the-barrel 80s fru-fru metal band.
2 posted on 06/10/2002 2:03:35 PM PDT by Britton J Wingfield
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WELL,"PLAY WITH FIRE"!
3 posted on 06/10/2002 2:07:28 PM PDT by INSENSITIVE GUY
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How Funny.

When I think about all the children with incurable diseases in all the childrens hospitals in the World and contrast that to some dirt ball rock star who has everything he could possibly need and a healthy body with which to enjoy it all, then kills himself with excess.

I have to laugh at the dope. In this case, I'm pity free.

ROTFLMAO Eddie01 "Ratt Sucks"

4 posted on 06/10/2002 2:08:17 PM PDT by The Real Eddie01
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"Round and Round" is one of the coolest tunes ever!!! YEAAAA!!! WHOOOOOOO!!!

</'80's mode>

Sorry....got kinda carried away.

5 posted on 06/10/2002 2:09:33 PM PDT by bigjoesaddle
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Rats.
6 posted on 06/10/2002 2:11:53 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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7 posted on 06/10/2002 2:12:08 PM PDT by WIMom
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fru-fru metal band

LOL!

8 posted on 06/10/2002 2:12:46 PM PDT by StriperSniper
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I'm with you there!
9 posted on 06/10/2002 2:13:10 PM PDT by kever
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Horrible hair band.

Sorry the guy died though. That sucks.

10 posted on 06/10/2002 2:15:57 PM PDT by dead
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The rectum is a sewer pipe, not a fresh-water canal...
11 posted on 06/10/2002 2:20:26 PM PDT by donozark
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Guitarist for Rock Band Ratt Dead From AIDS

Yeah, I heard the whole band was getting behind him.

12 posted on 06/10/2002 2:21:04 PM PDT by Clemenza
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"Lay it down, Lay it down".

One of the ugliest lead singers in Rock N Roll, Stephen Pearcy (NO pictures please). Still a shame that Crosby had to throw his life away like that.

13 posted on 06/10/2002 2:22:46 PM PDT by Clemenza
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Robbin Crosby
14 posted on 06/10/2002 2:26:56 PM PDT by SMEDLEYBUTLER
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Funny, My first concert was ratt and poison. RattPoison, now thats funny.
15 posted on 06/10/2002 2:27:21 PM PDT by FortheFuture
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Yeah, I remember that tour ("Invasion of Your Privacy"). Poison started as the opening act, but it got to the point that more people were showing up for Poison than for Ratt!
16 posted on 06/10/2002 2:29:43 PM PDT by Clemenza
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When Sabbath toured with BOC in the early eighties, it was hyped as the "Black and Blue Tour". Very witty.
17 posted on 06/10/2002 2:30:20 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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Thats true. At the show where I saw them, in Dothan AL, Rikki Rocket (lol) the drummer got arrested for rape and had to stand trial in a little town. I think they paid her off though (minor).
18 posted on 06/10/2002 2:32:37 PM PDT by FortheFuture
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Poison started as the opening act, but it got to the point that more people were showing up for Poison than for Ratt!

I saw Bon Jovi open up for Ratt in '85 or '86. Bon Jovi was supporting his second album (7800 Farenheit, I believe). It was right before Bon Jovi really broke open big.

Anyways, McNichol's Arena here in Denver was sold out for the show (17,000+ seats). Bon Jovi played for about 30-40 minutes before Ratt came on. When Ratt hit the stage, half the arena had cleared out.

19 posted on 06/10/2002 2:45:07 PM PDT by Drew68
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Crosby, who went public with his illness in a radio interview last July, saying he had contracted the disease through heroin use, died on Thursday.

While this is sad, for some time Crosby was blaming his disease on massive amounts of unprotected sex while touring. He never mentioned heroin until recently.

20 posted on 06/10/2002 2:47:16 PM PDT by Drew68
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