Stephen Pearcy -- Los Angeles, CA -- March 17th, 2012

[ijwthstd]

@ The Escondite (in the parking lot under a tent outside a bar just off San Pedro Street between 3rd and 4th in Downtown LA)

$5

He went on about 6, I got there a little after 3, it was an all day thing that kicked off around 11:00am)

KING COTTON - no setlist
GHETTO BLASTER - no setlist, they were great, there were 2 pit bulls chasing each other all over the place and jumping onstage, sometimes their antics resembled a mosh pit.

LIGHTNIN' WOODCOCK AND THE BAD MOTHERFUCKERS
(check him out sometime, this was how I heard about it)

01. Voodoo Queen
02. Ride My Face To Chicago
03. Brains And Personality
04. Stop Breaking My Balls
05. Have A Drink On Me
06. Smoochie Coochie Man
07. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
08. Dark Fantasy
09. In The Butt

STEPHEN PEARCY

01. You're In Love
02. Lay It Down
03. Lack Of Communication
04. Wanted Man
05. Slip Of The Lip
06. You Think You're Tough
07. Way Cool Junior
08. Body Talk
09. Back For More
10. Heading Out To The Highway
11. Round And Round

then it was off to Silver Lake for Symbol Six, RF7, Civil Disgust and Standard And Poor. Long day.

[The Ghost at Number One]

I've never understood artists that have solo material, yet only play songs from their respective bands when doing solo shows. It just doesn't make any sense to me, as it seems to show that they have absolutely no faith in their solo work. Vince Neil is the prime example here.

[tenchimyo]

$5 for Pearcy? amazing! How did he sound?

[Nick_to_the_face]

What's the point of seeing him play nothing but Ratt songs? It wouldn't even be the same, especially with no Warren there for those sweet solos

[ijwthstd]

Originally Posted by tenchimyo

$5 for Pearcy? amazing! How did he sound?

He sounded the same as he's always sounded

Originally Posted by Nick_to_the_face

What's the point of seeing him play nothing but Ratt songs?

What's the point of seeing him play anything else?

[Dogman]

Originally Posted by The Ghost at Number One

I've never understood artists that have solo material, yet only play songs from their respective bands when doing solo shows. It just doesn't make any sense to me, as it seems to show that they have absolutely no faith in their solo work. Vince Neil is the prime example here.

I saw Stephen in concert last October and I felt the same way. While it's cool hearing all the hits, I gotta admit I was expecting at least some solo tunes or Arcade tunes. But no, it was all Ratt songs. And it was all the same ones in this set list plus another 4 tunes, I think. It's got to be boring as hell to do the same songs night after night, year after year. You would think that since Ratt has a new record coming out soon and will most likely be touring this summer that on his solo stops he'd want to do anything but the same 12 to 15 songs. But no.

[ijwthstd]

My only disappointment was not hearing Lightnin' Woodcock's brilliant masterpiece "Fuck Your Job." I asked him if he still plays it and he said yes we did it last night and wanted to change it up today.

[Nick_to_the_face]

Originally Posted by ijwthstd

What's the point of seeing him play anything else?

Eh, I guess 5 bucks is pretty sweet, but if it was the price you would pay to see Ratt, then fuck that

[ijwthstd]

Originally Posted by Nick_to_the_face

Eh, I guess 5 bucks is pretty sweet, but if it was the price you would pay to see Ratt, then fuck that

The one time I saw Ratt opening for Poison I paid $0

[Nick_to_the_face]

Originally Posted by ijwthstd

The one time I saw Ratt opening for Poison I paid $0

Well fuck.
I paid about 30$ to see them and Extreme.