WARREN DeMARTINI
The Ratt man came out of the cellar and rose to the top of the post-EVH shredder heap.
Onstage at the Rosemont Horizon, Rosemont, Illinois, December 30, 1986
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WARREN DeMARTINI WAS just 19 when he joined Ratt, and it didn’t take him long to achieve rock immortality.
One of the first things he brought to the band was the partial-chord–specked, insanely catchy, EVH-like main riff to what would become the band’s breakthrough hit, “Round and Round.”