Jas, thank you for sharing this interview with Warren. Awesome stuff. Back in 2003, I gave Warren a ride from the venue that RATT played in Pittsburgh ( Mr Smalls Theater) to his hotel. To be able to speak with him, one on one in this same "context" just blew my mind. It was one of the greatest 30 minutes of my life. Warren was the absolute coolest HERO of mine that, I ever had the opportunity to meet. Also, I had the opportunity to play his "Lay It Down" Charvel ( although it had different snakeskin on it at that stage.) I cant understate just how unbelievably cool & humble he was towards me. 1 of the greatest moments of my life. Warren is truly one of the greatest players of all time.
Him,george lynch and vitto bratta glam metal virtuozos,thanks man for these rare interviews I didn’t expect a recorded phone call 40 years ago existed from these interviews for magazines
Amazing!! i read this interview when i was a kid! I was so excited because he was (is!) my BIG HERO!!!! So cool to hear the actual conversation! Amazing! Thank you!
I remember the 80's well. He was "the man" back around this time. He's amazing in the fact that he went from just playing a few years to being one of the top guns in the rock/hair metal world.
@2216sammy "the man" in regard to a player all guitar players knew, and all the guitar magazines covered. There were many "the mans" in the gunslinger era and Demartini was definitely in the club.
Hi Jas! Wow this was the first guitar Magazine I ever read. A friend gave it to me when I was beginning learning to play the guitar. i Still have it in my collection!
Thank you. Going all the way back to EVH's first interview, I always hoped that the audio of my conversations could one day be made available for fans and music historians. I am delighted to have lived long enough to oversee this myself. So you're right, I do still care.
I have this issue of Guitar Player, and although the interview is great, hearing him with all the in between talk really made my day. One of my first memories of Ratt was being on an Air France flight to the Soviet Union in 1984 when I was fourteen and they were playing Round and Round on the headphones the whole flight (along with 10 other song popular at the time). I must have heard that song 20 times on the way there. I still listen to it!
I met Warren in the late 70’s. Jake too. After awhile they split to LA and actually made it. Good on them. I’m proud to have known them for a short time, as it was. He was always a great player and a great guy.
Awesome Interview ! Warren is very underrated Great player all around . I love your EDDIE VAN HALEN & YNGWIE MALMSTEEN interviews , thanks for sharing these interviews with us all !
I remember an interview back in where Warren and Jake E. Lee were interviewed together. I forget what mag it was but it was right before Jake was fired from Ozzy.
@@1000poundsguitar That's the last interview Jake did when he was in Ozzy, as far as I know. I just remember Jake was fired right about the time Tribute was released, around April of '87. I remember I found out listening to KNAC in L.A. in the morning before heading off to school. It put me in a very bad mood that day. Jake was my favorite guitarist on earth then. Just a year before I saw him with Ozzy two nights in a row at Long Beach Arena with Metallica opening. Great shows. Jake was awesome. This was the first concert I remember seeing a jumbotron screen above the stage. You see that all the time now but in '86 it as new. Jake's firing was rather undignified. It was a huge mistake on Ozzy's part just as Dio screwed up by firing Vivian Campbell.
Ozzy likely didn’t make that decision. Rather, it was likely Sharon’s. Ozzy often expressed opinions about such things and found himself over-ridden by Sharon. A perfect example: In the wake of Randy’s death Rudy Sarzo turned Ozzy on to his brother Richard, who was a professional guitarist. Richard spent the time waiting for the audition to learn Randy’s catalogue but further, He worked towards mastering Randy’s nuances. Ozzy was impressed enough to state that Richard was far and away the best candidate to replace Randy. Ozzy hired him on the spot, only to have Sharon disnlmiss him and replace him with another guitarist that didn’t really want the job and didn’t work out.
Warren was always one of my favorites of the mid to later 80s. But I never really knew anything about him. I was excited to see this interview pop up. I’m only 10 minutes in, and I don’t know if I could take much more, ha ha. I think I saw someone mention above that he is only 23 years old here. I would’ve guessed a little older. But that might explain how he is talking. Maybe he just woke up, as he seems to be having a lot of trouble speaking. He’s not making whole lot of sense. I’m sure I’ll come back to it. I’d like to hear more stories. 😝🤘🏻🇺🇸🎸
I got a front row shot of that snakeskin guitar from a show in Jackson ,MS then got it blown up into a 8x10 or whatever. I was huge into Ratt from 85-90, and had this magazine
The one interview people still talk about like it happened yesterday, jas interview of zeddie when went bag in Randy Rhoads after he died. Didn't know Jas was from San Jose....I grew up near there
Great interview and guitar player. I like a few of Ratt`s songs but the sound is thin or trebly sounding. It`s missing the beefy bassy low end like you hear on say Van Halen`s first record. Listening to them side by side you really notice it. Maybe that can be fixed in remastered albums if they do that.
I think the first two records were on the thinner side... the tone got really good on this dancing undercover record.. you can tell its a cranked up marshall without a lot of effects and outboard overdrives.
That's not RATT, that's due to Beau Hill. Find some of their shows that are from the same era 83-84, one being titled 'Rock Palace Pro-Shoot' and you'll hear a much fuller sound. To you point on cassette or cd it is thin and narrow.
I am a HUGE Van Halen fan, but I’m sorry… Ratt’s production quality was VASTLY superior to that of Van Halen’s early recordings. Ted Templeman and DLR typically crashed Van Halen’s albums thru the studio within a short 24 hour period. Ed HATED the manner in which they did this. Nothing was double tracked and as a result, each member of the band only carried on a single channel in the recordings…. Coming out on either the right, or the left channel. Ted and DLR also loved to take Rd’s raw recordings and turn them into cover songs, which Ed also hated. It’s why He built 5150, his studio. He stole the rough tapes Ted and DLR had made for Diver Down and locked himself in 5150… threatening to burn said tapes. Beau Hill produced all of Ratt’s earlier albums and IMHO, He gave Ratt a more polished sound. I’m not talking about guitar tone…. I have always LOvED Ed’s Brown sound tone, but the production quality on his early records just sucked.
Great interview. Warren is well spoken and articulate. One of my favorite players from the era. Thank you for sharing, Jas, and for your wonderful channel. It is a guitar goldmine.
Hi, Jas. Without reading too much of your bio I had no idea you were an instructor. I’m assuming University of Michigan? He got me thinking about it because you mentioned to Warren that you were from Michigan. I assumed maybe you had worked for Creem magazine also? I love your interviewing style as you let the person being interviewed just relax and say whatever they want to say.
Hey Jas, I have listened to a lot of your interviews. You sound like you are a musician yourself. Have you ever put out some music and if so where can we hear it please? Lastly, did you ever learn some cool techniques from EVH or Warren?
He is a very Private person and understand ,I saw Ratt in 1987 At Monsters of Rock in Nuenburg Germany and there was alot of issues with the PA system it kept dropping out someone threw a bottle or something that hit him,it wasnt a good show for the band because of that, alot of bands were there but when Metallica came on I tried to make get away from the Stage , there was a huge inrush of fans trying to get closer to the stage and I remember having to give myself a huge stance so not to get run over and im a big guy ,crazy stuff and lucky no body got hurt ,the headliner was Deep purple (Perfect Strangers album with Richie ) I will never forget that Concert but I felt really bad for Ratt and band members for losing the sound especially to Warren that had no control over the situtation
Yeah I think so thought that was funny when he said , yeah that marshall didn't have the gold metal thing but it was plastic....either Warren knew less about than I thought he did about gear or he was playing stupid
When George Lynch says Warren's the man, its powerful. I saw Warren a couple months after this interview at MSG, Poison opened and i never saw so many girls under one roof at a time.
He says everything on his guitar is stainless steel..... I'm not aware of a Stainless Steel Original Floyd ever been made, except for the upgrade parts that have recently come out. I think he didn't really know what he was talking about. Also...stainless steel strings??? I don't think so...
I agree. For me, Robert Johnson and Jimi Hendrix fall into that category too. They burned incandescently for two or three years, and then were gone. But the thrill they created endures!
Metallica and the Bay Area Thrashers loved to call glam band fans posers but you’d have to search real hard to find a reason not to respect artists like Mick Mars, Robbin, Warren and all the others.
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Great interview. I saw RATT live many times in the 80s. Always great.
Him and Robin came up with Riffs that still give me goosebumps when I hear them. Thats 40 yrs of happiness ❤
Jas, thank you for sharing this interview with Warren. Awesome stuff. Back in 2003, I gave Warren a ride from the venue that RATT played in Pittsburgh ( Mr Smalls Theater) to his hotel. To be able to speak with him, one on one in this same "context" just blew my mind. It was one of the greatest 30 minutes of my life. Warren was the absolute coolest HERO of mine that, I ever had the opportunity to meet. Also, I had the opportunity to play his "Lay It Down" Charvel ( although it had different snakeskin on it at that stage.) I cant understate just how unbelievably cool & humble he was towards me. 1 of the greatest moments of my life. Warren is truly one of the greatest players of all time.
Warren has always had such an identifiable sound. And he always came across as a very humble person.
Love this interview! I have this magazine framed on my wall signed by Warren himself
Him,george lynch and vitto bratta glam metal virtuozos,thanks man for these rare interviews I didn’t expect a recorded phone call 40 years ago existed from these interviews for magazines
I have the recording of every interview I've done -- more than 500 of 'em.
Always loved Warren's playing. And what a kind and mature guy. Great interview!
Amazing!! i read this interview when i was a kid! I was so excited because he was (is!) my BIG HERO!!!! So cool to hear the actual conversation! Amazing! Thank you!
This is brilliant, thank you, Jas for sharing these gems.
I remember the 80's well. He was "the man" back around this time. He's amazing in the fact that he went from just playing a few years to being one of the top guns in the rock/hair metal world.
@2216sammy "the man" in regard to a player all guitar players knew, and all the guitar magazines covered. There were many "the mans" in the gunslinger era and Demartini was definitely in the club.
Oh heck yes!!!! I overlooked that this was you, Jas!! I still remember reading this in the mall where I got it. Coolbeans
Wait, did you read the magazines in the store and then choose to buy them. 😂. I use to read all of them on the stand while my mom would shop. 😂😂
I’m still trying to picture a grown adult writing “Cool beans” in The Year of Our Lord 2024.
@@stuartewoldt1513 I was 20 when this came out...and yes, it's COOLBEANS😉
@@killereverb3928 a troll you are, dude. Getta life and listen to Jas' interview with Warren
Another great interview - thanks Jas!
Fantastic interview Jas, always liked Warren.
Warren will always be another gun slinger from the 80s we all loved and admired. He's a badass
Awesome cousin Jas!
Thanks, cousin Johnny! Give my love to the rest of the family.
That was awesome Jas! I had this issue as Warren was one of my favorites at the time. Great guy as well as a player Thanks!.
Hi Jas! Wow this was the first guitar Magazine I ever read. A friend gave it to me when I was beginning learning to play the guitar. i Still have it in my collection!
Thank you fer doing this, Jas. You've meant a whole lot to a whole lot of us back when everything mattered and it's good to see that you still care.
Thank you. Going all the way back to EVH's first interview, I always hoped that the audio of my conversations could one day be made available for fans and music historians. I am delighted to have lived long enough to oversee this myself. So you're right, I do still care.
I have this issue of Guitar Player, and although the interview is great, hearing him with all the in between talk really made my day. One of my first memories of Ratt was being on an Air France flight to the Soviet Union in 1984 when I was fourteen and they were playing Round and Round on the headphones the whole flight (along with 10 other song popular at the time). I must have heard that song 20 times on the way there. I still listen to it!
Great listen. Thank you for sharing, Jas 👍 👍
Yes!! This is gonna be great!! Thank you Jas!
I met Warren in the late 70’s. Jake too. After awhile they split to LA and actually made it. Good on them. I’m proud to have known them for a short time, as it was. He was always a great player and a great guy.
Now we really need to hear your 1984 interview with the guys! Hoping for the publication.
Stay tuned! My producer Nik Hunt and I are working on getting these ready.
Very reflective, serious and thoughtful. Very mature for his age. I can see why he made it.
Awesome, thanks much!
Really great interview and such a humble and nice person to talk to. Ratt was always my favorite of the bunch.
Awesome Interview ! Warren is very underrated
Great player all around . I love your EDDIE VAN HALEN & YNGWIE MALMSTEEN interviews , thanks for sharing these interviews with us all !
Glad you like 'em!
I remember an interview back in where Warren and Jake E. Lee were interviewed together. I forget what mag it was but it was right before Jake was fired from Ozzy.
That was Guitar For the Practicing Musician
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It's wild that Jake played in Ratt and got Warren to be his replacement when he left for Ozzy
@@1000poundsguitar That's the last interview Jake did when he was in Ozzy, as far as I know. I just remember Jake was fired right about the time Tribute was released, around April of '87. I remember I found out listening to KNAC in L.A. in the morning before heading off to school. It put me in a very bad mood that day. Jake was my favorite guitarist on earth then. Just a year before I saw him with Ozzy two nights in a row at Long Beach Arena with Metallica opening. Great shows. Jake was awesome. This was the first concert I remember seeing a jumbotron screen above the stage. You see that all the time now but in '86 it as new. Jake's firing was rather undignified. It was a huge mistake on Ozzy's part just as Dio screwed up by firing Vivian Campbell.
Ozzy likely didn’t make that decision. Rather, it was likely Sharon’s. Ozzy often expressed opinions about such things and found himself over-ridden by Sharon. A perfect example: In the wake of Randy’s death Rudy Sarzo turned Ozzy on to his brother Richard, who was a professional guitarist. Richard spent the time waiting for the audition to learn Randy’s catalogue but further, He worked towards mastering Randy’s nuances. Ozzy was impressed enough to state that Richard was far and away the best candidate to replace Randy. Ozzy hired him on the spot, only to have Sharon disnlmiss him and replace him with another guitarist that didn’t really want the job and didn’t work out.
Awesome post. Thank you for posting.. If you have anymore interviews with Warren, plz post them!
Warren was always one of my favorites of the mid to later 80s. But I never really knew anything about him.
I was excited to see this interview pop up. I’m only 10 minutes in, and I don’t know if I could take much more, ha ha.
I think I saw someone mention above that he is only 23 years old here. I would’ve guessed a little older. But that might explain how he is talking.
Maybe he just woke up, as he seems to be having a lot of trouble speaking. He’s not making whole lot of sense.
I’m sure I’ll come back to it. I’d like to hear more stories. 😝🤘🏻🇺🇸🎸
I bet this interview took place at 10am. 😂
You'd win that bet. As I recall, he'd just awakened.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Robbin Crosby was also interviewed in the same issue. Will you be posting the audio from his interview?
Yes! It's coming soon.
RATT by far had the best tunes and catchy riffs and melody 🎶
Always well thought out questions Jas.
Thank you very much!
Warren is super interesting to listen to. Always! 👌🏻
Excellent as always 👌
Thanks for posting this. RATT n roll baby
I got a front row shot of that snakeskin guitar from a show in Jackson ,MS then got it blown up into a 8x10 or whatever. I was huge into Ratt from 85-90, and had this magazine
One of my favorite guitarist of all time.
The one interview people still talk about like it happened yesterday, jas interview of zeddie when went bag in Randy Rhoads after he died.
Didn't know Jas was from San Jose....I grew up near there
Great interview and guitar player. I like a few of Ratt`s songs but the sound is thin or trebly sounding. It`s missing the beefy bassy low end like you hear on say Van Halen`s first record. Listening to them side by side you really notice it. Maybe that can be fixed in remastered albums if they do that.
I think the first two records were on the thinner side... the tone got really good on this dancing undercover record.. you can tell its a cranked up marshall without a lot of effects and outboard overdrives.
That's not RATT, that's due to Beau Hill. Find some of their shows that are from the same era 83-84, one being titled 'Rock Palace Pro-Shoot' and you'll hear a much fuller sound. To you point on cassette or cd it is thin and narrow.
I am a HUGE Van Halen fan, but I’m sorry… Ratt’s production quality was VASTLY superior to that of Van Halen’s early recordings.
Ted Templeman and DLR typically crashed Van Halen’s albums thru the studio within a short 24 hour period. Ed HATED the manner in which they did this. Nothing was double tracked and as a result, each member of the band only carried on a single channel in the recordings…. Coming out on either the right, or the left channel.
Ted and DLR also loved to take Rd’s raw recordings and turn them into cover songs, which Ed also hated. It’s why He built 5150, his studio. He stole the rough tapes Ted and DLR had made for Diver Down and locked himself in 5150… threatening to burn said tapes.
Beau Hill produced all of Ratt’s earlier albums and IMHO, He gave Ratt a more polished sound. I’m not talking about guitar tone…. I have always LOvED Ed’s Brown sound tone, but the production quality on his early records just sucked.
The greatest of youth sometimes is so awesome.
Great interview. Warren is well spoken and articulate. One of my favorite players from the era. Thank you for sharing, Jas, and for your wonderful channel. It is a guitar goldmine.
Thanks for listening
I wouldn't say a great communicator....but he can play that guitar
Hi, Jas. Without reading too much of your bio I had no idea you were an instructor. I’m assuming University of Michigan? He got me thinking about it because you mentioned to Warren that you were from Michigan. I assumed maybe you had worked for Creem magazine also? I love your interviewing style as you let the person being interviewed just relax and say whatever they want to say.
great interview
I always feel that Warren has some jazzy fusion vibe in his playing
Thank you !!!
Warren is the best!!!!!
4 or 5 years of practicing before first album. astonishing.
Hey Jas, I have listened to a lot of your interviews. You sound like you are a musician yourself. Have you ever put out some music and if so where can we hear it please? Lastly, did you ever learn some cool techniques from EVH or Warren?
I still have that issue.
Sweet!
Awesome!
He is a very Private person and understand ,I saw Ratt in 1987 At Monsters of Rock in Nuenburg Germany and there was alot of issues with the PA system it kept dropping out someone threw a bottle or something that hit him,it wasnt a good show for the band because of that, alot of bands were there but when Metallica came on I tried to make get away from the Stage , there was a huge inrush of fans trying to get closer to the stage and I remember having to give myself a huge stance so not to get run over and im a big guy ,crazy stuff and lucky no body got hurt ,the headliner was Deep purple (Perfect Strangers album with Richie ) I will never forget that Concert but I felt really bad for Ratt and band members for losing the sound especially to Warren that had no control over the situtation
I've got that magazine
This guy played some of the baddest riffs of the time. Seemed like the coolest of the guitarist of that era. Had a stage presence of Joe Perry.
As Robin suffered in silence from Jealousy 😢.
I bought a Python guitar strap for my Heritage H140 gold top.
Dude was only like 23 in this interview. Already had 3.5 RATT albums under his belt
and millions of dollars
He is stuttering so much omg but I love him
Was he talking about a plexi???
Yeah I think so thought that was funny when he said , yeah that marshall didn't have the gold metal thing but it was plastic....either Warren knew less about than I thought he did about gear or he was playing stupid
Love Warren's story pf how he got the Ratt job by debuting a Randy Rhoads song in burbank from the unyet released Diary of a madman album.
HAVE YOU EVER HAD A DREAM LIKE THIS😅
When George Lynch says Warren's the man, its powerful. I saw Warren a couple months after this interview at MSG, Poison opened and i never saw so many girls under one roof at a time.
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He says everything on his guitar is stainless steel.....
I'm not aware of a Stainless Steel Original Floyd ever been made, except for the upgrade parts that have recently come out. I think he didn't really know what he was talking about.
Also...stainless steel strings??? I don't think so...
La Bella sold stainless strings I’ve got a set on my Steinberger
smokers cough?
Nah - he’s battling something. Winter in Michigan.
Sounds like he has a cold.
I agree. For me, Robert Johnson and Jimi Hendrix fall into that category too. They burned incandescently for two or three years, and then were gone. But the thrill they created endures!
Metallica and the Bay Area Thrashers loved to call glam band fans posers but you’d have to search real hard to find a reason not to respect artists like Mick Mars, Robbin, Warren and all the others.
Warren sounds more buzzed than Eddie did.
He was cooked
Great stuff. Thanks
I HAVE THIS MAGAZINE!! KILLER INTERVIEW JAS! KICK ASS JAS!!
excellent interview... thank you for posting this.
Thanks for listening