Frontman Stephen Pearcy recently talked with TotalRock, who revealed how he realized Ratt members tried to take over the band. Here’s what Pearcy said:
“I’m starting to now assess that this box set’s a big signal, you know, leave it alone. You know, I don’t want to go. But the reason I took a right off the road with just our bass player guy is because it’s just two of us. […]
“People didn’t even recognize him when we were out, and then we have these three guys which people really don’t know who they were. A couple of people might go ‘Oh yeah I know that drummer, he played with so and so.
“But it kind of bothered me, and then everybody had their own little stand trying to take over the band and put out their own Ratt. There was a Ratt without me. […]
“And that was Juan (Croucier) trying to be the cheap there, and then you have Bobby (Blotzer)’s who tried it, but I can’t see watering down such a great- the legacy, I can’t water down the legacy of the group anymore and this box set, it is very appropriate, you know, even that, later, that record is appropriately titled and we didn’t even know it.”