Stephen Pearcy had a conversation with Full Metal Jackie, where he talked about Ratt’s classic lineup and how the lack of new music from Ratt affects his songwriting approach when working on material for his solo albums:
“I’m in the studio right now mastering and mixing a record of mine called ‘Legacy’ which is a montage of (my pre-Ratt band) Mickey Ratt, the day I started writing my first song, to the last song I wrote with Warren DeMartini and Robbin Crosby. It’s taken a while.
“It’s better that things go down this way, as far as I’m concerned. Because I tend to put my eggs in the Ratt basket, so to speak, and it just flounders; it’s not developed. It’s not the same guys 40 years later. I get it, some wanna do it, some don’t want to, and some just don’t care. I don’t know. But me, I always care.
“Anything I do, anything I write, it’s gonna sound like me, which sounds like Ratt. I can’t get away from that, and that’s a blessing too, kind of. But I enjoy doing what I do. Because I tend to take a step back, and it’s not good for the brand Ratt.
”I get moving doing my thing and then, okay, there’s something that has to do with Ratt. Well, I don’t make that left and right turn anymore. I mean, we’ve done what we did.
”I’m happy with it. Maybe we were only supposed to be around 10 years, you know, when that’s the timeline. It was an important decade, so I can deal with it. I think it’s great.”