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Bourbon Street books one shrill guy
By BARBARA L. FREDRICKSEN, Times Staff Writer
Its success was in large part because of lead singer Stephen Pearcy, whose screaming vocals (one reviewer called them "seering, dentist-drill vocals") and flamboyant get-ups caught the attention of both record producers and fans. Pearcy will be at Bourbon Street Concert Club tonight with his new band, Rat Bastards. They're about halfway through a 34-city tour that goes from New York to Texas to Florida and points in between, with a swing through Manitoba, Canada, in May. The tour is backing Pearcy's album, Social Intercourse, issued by the label Pearcy himself founded, Top Fuel Records. (Pearcy once raced motorcycles, but after breaking both legs in a cycle accident, went into music.) When Pearcy was with Ratt, the band's Round and Round -- with a cameo appearance by Milton Berle in drag -- was an MTV favorite. The band stayed popular until Pearcy departed "for artistic reasons" in 1992, but when "hair metal" became a nostalgia act in the late 1990s, it reassembled for a while, then broke up again. Pearcy's current group captures the Ratt sound that one fan called "hard rocking and just plain fun to listen to." At a glance WHO: Stephen Pearcy WHERE: Bourbon Street Concert Club, 4331 U.S. 19, New Port Richey WHEN: Today. Doors open at 8 p.m., music at 9 p.m. TICKETS: $12 in advance, $15 at the door
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