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Old 06-07-02, 10:16 AM
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Robbin Crosby RIP

Well, KNAC reports that former RATT guitarist Robin Crosby
finally passed away from his batlle with HIV.
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So that's why I heard Round and Round on the radio
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This is really a sad day. 2 different musicians dying in one day.
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Damn! I remember when i had heard he was HIV pos

He was always my favorite RATT member. Wasn't he Milton Berle's nephew or something like that?
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Ratt's Robbin Crosby Loses Battle With AIDS
June 7, 2002, 10:30 am PT

Former Ratt guitarist Robbin Crosby lost a long battle with AIDS just before noon Thursday (June 6) at his home in Hollywood. He was 42.

Crosby's health status was a badly kept secret until the guitarist went public with the news last summer, saying he had been fighting the virus for seven years following a period of needle-based drug abuse. He had spent most of the past two years in area hospitals.

Ratt formed in Los Angeles as Mickey Ratt in the late '70s with Crosby, drummer Bobby Blotzer, bassist Juan Croucier, vocalist Stephen Pearcy, and guitarist Warren DeMartini, evolving into Ratt for their major label debut, Out of the Cellar, in 1984.

"The man was put thru hell and never ever bitched about it," wrote Blotzer on the official Ratt Web site. "The only peace I'm feeling right now is that he's out of the nightmare that has attacked him."

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Founding Ratt Guitarist Dead Of AIDS

Founding Ratt guitarist Robbin Crosby succumbed to AIDS yesterday (June 6) after an eight-year battle with the disease. Crosby, who co-wrote many of the pop-metal band's best-known songs, was 42.

Crosby first announced his illness during a July 2001 radio interview with Internet station KNAC, confessing that he had full-blown AIDS and that he'd been in the hospital for eight straight months after complications from back surgery. At the time, the guitarist acknowledged that he had contracted the disease through heroin use and after numerous hospitalizations over a seven-year span, felt he didn't have long to live.

"Robbin was a sweet soul, great talent and he will be missed. Rest in peace," wrote former Ratt vocalist and co-founder Stephen Pearcy in a post on his official Web site. On Ratt's official Web site, the surviving members wrote, "Our dear friend Robbin Crosby passed away this morning. His family and close friends are asking for your respect, prayers, and appreciation."

Crosby and Pearcy founded Ratt in 1983, eventually adding guitarist Warren DeMartini, bassist Juan Croucier, and drummer Bobby Blotzer. The band's self-titled, independent debut was released the same year, and yielded Ratt a recording deal with Atlantic. The 1984 album, "Out of the Cellar," broke through commercially, reaching No. 7 on The Billboard 200 on the strength of the No. 12 Hot 100 hit "Round and Round."

By 1985's "Invasion of Your Privacy," the group had become an arena headliner and sustained that success through 1986's "Dancin' Undercover" and 1988's "Reach for the Sky," all of which were platinum-sellers. After 1990's "Detonator" album failed to achieve the success of its predecessors amid the ascent of alternative rock, the band decided to split in 1992.

Ratt reunited without Crosby in 1997 to release "Collage" and followed it in 1999 with a second self-titled record, but Pearcy exited shortly thereafter. In 2001, Blotzer and DeMartini hit the road with new members Jizzy Pearl (ex-Love/Hate) on vocals, John Corabi (ex-Motley Crue) on guitar, and bassist Robbie Crane. That same line-up will play this summer's Rock Fest tour with '80s glam-metal giants Warrant, L.A. Guns, Firehouse, and Dokken, beginning June 20 in Fargo, N.D.


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