From your profile page............
My hobbies:
Music. I play bluegrass guitar and I also play in a Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute band.
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A "hobby"?.......are you sure you're aren't the end all authority on the subject?
No, that would be Nena's '99 Luft Balloons'.
Just one thing, how was the public unwitting? Did they pay for their records before hearing them and then were denied a refund? Did they buy their concert tickets before knowing it was a hard rock band? Were they tricked into a room and then kept there by force to listen to the music?
Ratt had some good songs, but I bought none of the albums nor went to a concert. I just thought in our society if you are doing something legal and someone else will pay you for it that is called capitalism. Isn't that good? I mean, isn't making money the legal way, even if you in particular don't like it, good?
Since the public laid out the cash they were hardly unwitting and it is sad that someone else died because of drug use.
And I would like to add to that list: Cyndi Lauper, Yoko Ono, all rap artists, and all latin artists (Enrique Iglesias excepted).
RATT was great music for people who didn't take music too seriously. Which it really shouldn't, IMO.