I had the biggest crush on Robin. We hung out at the Rainbow chatting. He was always so sweet to everyone who approached him, a true gentleman, not some conceited Rock Gods of the 80s. I had no idea he was struggling with a heroin addiction nor his HIV status. He was rather wholesome...a really good looking surfer dude, a virtuoso on guitar, a kind and gentle soul. I met my fiance at the Rainbow and moved to Florida for about 5 years. By the time I got back to L.A. it was the early 90s (I never married my hair farmer/stand up comic/fair weather fiance). Music had taken a turn for the worse, as far as I was concerned. The many little Hollywood live music venues I had managed throughout the early and mid 80s were all gone. The Whiskey a GoGo, The Roxy, The Troubador, Gazzaris were catering to the grunge scene by then. I became a Karaoke Hostess and stuck to singing my favorite Metal and Rockabilly songs (isn't that a polar opposites of musical taste?), while my "customers were singing grunge and Emo songs or tipsy Elvis renditions. I was a teen and a young adult in two of the greatest music eras, the 70s and 80s. The stuff that is blasting out of youngsters open car windows isn't music at all,its noise pollution. I did end up marrying a Master Sergent in the Army (again, my husband is the polar opposite of the kind of guys I dated as a teen and throughout my 20s. We had fertility problems but after 5 years of fertility treatments and 5 years in the adoption system our baby boy was born at the same hospital I was born just as I was turning 50. I am the mother of a long haired, 80s music loving 14 year old son, while his peers (and their parents) sport shaved heads, tattooed necks and face (in the jail house black ink) and listen to that noise, while our son has been exposed to my loves in music and his father's love of 60s rock (the British Invasion), classical, Country Western and New Wave. He sometimes hitches rides home with a school mate's mom or dad. He comes in the house and tells me how much he despises "the loud noise and heavy bass pounding in his ears and the smell of cigarettes or blue raspberry vaping that seems to be the trend with current teens AND their parents. Our son wants to be a professional baseball or football player...he plays both for his high school. We can afford to have him coached by a former L.A. Dodger. He wears two crosses every day around his neck to show others he is a "man of God". I'm so happy we were able to give this boy the love and guidance to become a confident young man that doesnt need liquid courage or drugs of any kind. I truly believe that if Robin's parents got to him sooner and he never had his heart broken by Tawny Kitane, when she chose O.J. Simpson over him, that he would be hear today. But my heart tells me I will be seeing him again in Paradise named Heaven. He's one of the musicians now in the Lord's biggest Rock and Roll band...doing what he loved most...no pain...no heartbreak. R.I.P. Robin, rock on!
Wow, I typically do not read long comments, but you had me there. Very familiar with the rainbow the whiskey and the troubadour. I played the bass for a band in 85 at the troubadour and got to meet Don Dokken and see other superstars going to those bars in Hollywood. I didn’t get to meet any of the guys RATT, but they were pretty close to the Dokken band I believe some of the members even played for Dokken
@@Lordhumongus ha! No never! We were just friends as at the time I was dating a drummer for the band Action and also as a fill in drummer for Quiet Riot. If I had known that Robbin had been going through such a bad time (I listened to a telephonic interview he had...I believe his last), I would have helped him in any way I could, $, food, a roof over his head, etc. He stated that very few to none of his band mates and so called friend's never helped him financial or emotionally when he was near homelessness, dying from AIDS and basically forgotten. I would have helped. Poor guy. He was 400 lbs when he died because his pancreas gave out on him. And to think, he was the true driving force behind RATT, but never took the full credit like a couple of the others. Robbin wrote the most successful songs they had. He was the one who pulled himself together after a night of hard "partying" to fly out and give interviews because the others either wouldn't get out of bed or had nothing to say. Robbin was very eloquent, he was a great spokesman for the band and they never appreciated that.
@@AliFromSoCali that's awesome! Ty so much for replying!! That shows how cool you are and that you have a great sense of humor. Robbin was an awesome player and one of my favorites of the Era. God bless ya!
Watching the iive performances, Warren's sound was out there and clear to the ear, while Robben cloaked his sound with heavy chorus. It's very noticable if you know what I'm talking about.
As the rhythm guitarrist, that makes sense. He wanted a big dense wall of sound for the riffs and Warren wanted the bright clear "break on through" sound for solos.
This is a Re-Post from another RC page that I posted on over a year ago. th-cam.com/video/oUgcJLUoUlo/w-d-xo.html I played drums for Robbin after he was out of RATT in 90 or 91. The name of the band was Secret Service. I was the second drummer. Robbin was a great down to Earth guy that was very smart and had a lot of courage in ways people really wouldn't understand. Yes he had an addiction. So what, so do many people. However, I am absolutely grateful that after I auditioned that Robbin liked my playing and he ushered me into his band and I learned a lot!! When I auditioned, he turned around and said to me "Round and Round, count it off!!!" Great times and because of my stint with Crosby I was able to get many other gigs with high profile players. I thank him for that. From a horses mouth I can testify that Robbin was not only a great guitar player, he was also a great person and human being with flaws, like we all have. God bless and RIP.......................If anyone wants to reach out to me about my experience and many adventures with Robbin you reach me at robertk6868@yahoo.com
Why does everyone want to be a friend when you're on top? But once the lights go out they forget about you! Maybe we as people need to take a look at ourselves and not the person in need of the help! So much love for Robbin Crosby not anymore like him! Rip king❤❤❤❤❤❤
It is said in one article of 2022 that Robbin was high on vodka & drugs during his very last "Ratt" perfomance in Osaka'91 and the other guyz got to know by that moment that he is intravenous addict. The narcotics already cripple his abilities of virtuously guitar playing. He left the band shortly thereafter, after a couple of months. Still the Michael Schenker on guitar couldn't improve the sutiation, and the Ratt disbanded in 1992, a year after Robbin left. He was diagnosed HIV-postitive in 1994. Lead singer Steven Pearcy blamed this, in his 2000's interview, with almost certainity on "dirty needles''. When the band decided to reunite after 1995 in the original line-up, Crosby tried vigorously to be accepted back. He reportedly became fully sober and sold all of his memorabilia and old possessions. But bandmates has been seeing nobody in him now, but a weary, disease-bloated parody on his former energetic self, barely capable of producing his trademark solos and overall technique. They just say, he didnt meet the standarts. Ratt then reunite, but without Robbin Crosby, who, compelled to step back felt himself betrayed by his former friends and colleagues. And what even worse - almost totally abandoned. Then went another coil of his downward spiral, and then another, and another. Sometime in 1999 doctors reported him that his HIV developed into full-blown AIDS. In 1999-2002 he also underwent numerous surgical interventions in need for removal inflammatory fluid from his spine and abdomen. At 6 june of 2002 Crosby died, two monthes short of his 43 birthday from heroin overdose & AIDS-induced pneumonia, having gained, reportedly, over 150 kilos of weight. At the last year of his life he complained to his old childhood friend, that members of Ratt rarely visit him, despite that all of them lived only 30-minutes away.... It's sarcastic, sad irony...but Robbin Crosby has been "The King" for them only when they needed him.
Even though they traded off lead, Warren was considered more of the lead and Robbin more rhythm. Also, even though they presented themselves as a "glam" band, I think their sound and music was more traditional Hard Rock in disguise. We "true" rockers dug Ratt while despising Poison... at least publicly lol!
Dude. Speak into a microphone. Seriously. It's not that hard. I couldn't get through more than half before all of the AI mispronunciations had me tap out. Speaking of tapping, Robbin was known for a lot of things, but a guitar tapping virtuoso ain't one of them. Finally, it was never called 'Hair Metal'. That's a pejorative that was coined decades later. It would be like if we started calling Grunge 'Junkie Metal' or Nu-Metal 'Wigger Metal'. It's an insult. Why would you use an insult in your tribute?
LOl Crosby blended "classical" and metal? lmao. Where are you getting this?? Crosby was not ever a classical player and could hardly hang with his bandmate Warren. And no he was not addicted to heroin in high school. "Neo-Classical Baroque style" good lord you have me literally laughing out loud. Yngwie isn't even close to that.
Many people really don't realize the greatness of Rob and Ratt. They shaped the 80s hair metal genre.
My favorite band 80s
I had the biggest crush on Robin. We hung out at the Rainbow chatting. He was always so sweet to everyone who approached him, a true gentleman, not some conceited Rock Gods of the 80s. I had no idea he was struggling with a heroin addiction nor his HIV status. He was rather wholesome...a really good looking surfer dude, a virtuoso on guitar, a kind and gentle soul. I met my fiance at the Rainbow and moved to Florida for about 5 years. By the time I got back to L.A. it was the early 90s (I never married my hair farmer/stand up comic/fair weather fiance). Music had taken a turn for the worse, as far as I was concerned. The many little Hollywood live music venues I had managed throughout the early and mid 80s were all gone. The Whiskey a GoGo, The Roxy, The Troubador, Gazzaris were catering to the grunge scene by then. I became a Karaoke Hostess and stuck to singing my favorite Metal and Rockabilly songs (isn't that a polar opposites of musical taste?), while my "customers were singing grunge and Emo songs or tipsy Elvis renditions. I was a teen and a young adult in two of the greatest music eras, the 70s and 80s. The stuff that is blasting out of youngsters open car windows isn't music at all,its noise pollution. I did end up marrying a Master Sergent in the Army (again, my husband is the polar opposite of the kind of guys I dated as a teen and throughout my 20s. We had fertility problems but after 5 years of fertility treatments and 5 years in the adoption system our baby boy was born at the same hospital I was born just as I was turning 50. I am the mother of a long haired, 80s music loving 14 year old son, while his peers (and their parents) sport shaved heads, tattooed necks and face (in the jail house black ink) and listen to that noise, while our son has been exposed to my loves in music and his father's love of 60s rock (the British Invasion), classical, Country Western and New Wave. He sometimes hitches rides home with a school mate's mom or dad. He comes in the house and tells me how much he despises "the loud noise and heavy bass pounding in his ears and the smell of cigarettes or blue raspberry vaping that seems to be the trend with current teens AND their parents. Our son wants to be a professional baseball or football player...he plays both for his high school. We can afford to have him coached by a former L.A. Dodger. He wears two crosses every day around his neck to show others he is a "man of God". I'm so happy we were able to give this boy the love and guidance to become a confident young man that doesnt need liquid courage or drugs of any kind. I truly believe that if Robin's parents got to him sooner and he never had his heart broken by Tawny Kitane, when she chose O.J. Simpson over him, that he would be hear today. But my heart tells me I will be seeing him again in Paradise named Heaven. He's one of the musicians now in the Lord's biggest Rock and Roll band...doing what he loved most...no pain...no heartbreak. R.I.P. Robin, rock on!
Did you guys..ya know...bang?
@@Lordhumongus obviously, but may not remember..
Wow, I typically do not read long comments, but you had me there. Very familiar with the rainbow the whiskey and the troubadour. I played the bass for a band in 85 at the troubadour and got to meet Don Dokken and see other superstars going to those bars in Hollywood. I didn’t get to meet any of the guys RATT, but they were pretty close to the Dokken band I believe some of the members even played for Dokken
@@Lordhumongus ha! No never! We were just friends as at the time I was dating a drummer for the band Action and also as a fill in drummer for Quiet Riot. If I had known that Robbin had been going through such a bad time (I listened to a telephonic interview he had...I believe his last), I would have helped him in any way I could, $, food, a roof over his head, etc. He stated that very few to none of his band mates and so called friend's never helped him financial or emotionally when he was near homelessness, dying from AIDS and basically forgotten. I would have helped. Poor guy. He was 400 lbs when he died because his pancreas gave out on him. And to think, he was the true driving force behind RATT, but never took the full credit like a couple of the others. Robbin wrote the most successful songs they had. He was the one who pulled himself together after a night of hard "partying" to fly out and give interviews because the others either wouldn't get out of bed or had nothing to say. Robbin was very eloquent, he was a great spokesman for the band and they never appreciated that.
@@AliFromSoCali that's awesome! Ty so much for replying!! That shows how cool you are and that you have a great sense of humor. Robbin was an awesome player and one of my favorites of the Era. God bless ya!
Watching the iive performances, Warren's sound was out there and clear to the ear, while Robben cloaked his sound with heavy chorus. It's very noticable if you know what I'm talking about.
As the rhythm guitarrist, that makes sense. He wanted a big dense wall of sound for the riffs and Warren wanted the bright clear "break on through" sound for solos.
Ah yes, nothing says 80 's and the Viper Club quite like the classic "Crosby Squeal". Thanks for memories!
Are band was signed to RCA/JIVE and played shows with Ratt in Big Venues of 10K~30K people! Had a blast playing with them!
Are??? Really Are???
@@thedadyouneverhadchannel3544Oh come on!!! Maybe he has a goofy auto correct and didnt notice. Lighten up and rock on!
What is the name of your band?
This is a Re-Post from another RC page that I posted on over a year ago.
th-cam.com/video/oUgcJLUoUlo/w-d-xo.html
I played drums for Robbin after he was out of RATT in 90 or 91. The name of the band was Secret Service. I was the second drummer. Robbin was a great down to Earth guy that was very smart and had a lot of courage in ways people really wouldn't understand. Yes he had an addiction. So what, so do many people. However, I am absolutely grateful that after I auditioned that Robbin liked my playing and he ushered me into his band and I learned a lot!! When I auditioned, he turned around and said to me "Round and Round, count it off!!!" Great times and because of my stint with Crosby I was able to get many other gigs with high profile players. I thank him for that. From a horses mouth I can testify that Robbin was not only a great guitar player, he was also a great person and human being with flaws, like we all have. God bless and RIP.......................If anyone wants to reach out to me about my experience and many adventures with Robbin you reach me at robertk6868@yahoo.com
Saw them in Austin, late 80's I think. Somewhere on sixth Street. Closed with Round and Round.
Why does everyone want to be a friend when you're on top? But once the lights go out they forget about you! Maybe we as people need to take a look at ourselves and not the person in need of the help! So much love for Robbin Crosby not anymore like him! Rip king❤❤❤❤❤❤
We all miss #KingRLC
It is said in one article of 2022 that Robbin was high on vodka & drugs during his very last "Ratt" perfomance in Osaka'91 and the other guyz got to know by that moment that he is intravenous addict. The narcotics already cripple his abilities of virtuously guitar playing. He left the band shortly thereafter, after a couple of months. Still the Michael Schenker on guitar couldn't improve the sutiation, and the Ratt disbanded in 1992, a year after Robbin left.
He was diagnosed HIV-postitive in 1994. Lead singer Steven Pearcy blamed this, in his 2000's interview, with almost certainity on "dirty needles''.
When the band decided to reunite after 1995 in the original line-up, Crosby tried vigorously to be accepted back. He reportedly became fully sober and sold all of his memorabilia and old possessions. But bandmates has been seeing nobody in him now, but a weary, disease-bloated parody on his former energetic self, barely capable of producing his trademark solos and overall technique.
They just say, he didnt meet the standarts.
Ratt then reunite, but without Robbin Crosby, who, compelled to step back felt himself betrayed by his former friends and colleagues. And what even worse - almost totally abandoned. Then went another coil of his downward spiral, and then another, and another.
Sometime in 1999 doctors reported him that his HIV developed into full-blown AIDS. In 1999-2002 he also underwent numerous surgical interventions in need for removal inflammatory fluid from his spine and abdomen.
At 6 june of 2002 Crosby died, two monthes short of his 43 birthday from heroin overdose & AIDS-induced pneumonia, having gained, reportedly, over 150 kilos of weight. At the last year of his life he complained to his old childhood friend, that members of Ratt rarely visit him, despite that all of them lived only 30-minutes away....
It's sarcastic, sad irony...but Robbin Crosby has been "The King" for them only when they needed him.
Много тъжно.Той не цаслужава това.
Гадни са хората Робин но Тони те посещаваше.Тя те обичаше Защо се разделихте.Робин обичам те ти вече си звездичка.
Много тъжно.Робин ти си звездичка която ще свети до безкрай и ще замъгли тия нещастници които не те погледнаха в края ти.
RIP King
Still the best hair metal bands....ratt, motley, cinderella and poison
The best glam bands were Ratt and Dokken imo.
Nitro!
No Vinnie Vincent invasion?
RIP 🤘🏻
Love my KIng!!!!
Even though they traded off lead, Warren was considered more of the lead and Robbin more rhythm. Also, even though they presented themselves as a "glam" band, I think their sound and music was more traditional Hard Rock in disguise. We "true" rockers dug Ratt while despising Poison... at least publicly lol!
Man was Robin was lucky O.J. didn't stab him to death
Nikki S Introduced Hero to RC.
Stay in school, don't do drugs....moral of the story.
It was a different era then
Ratt was just rollling.Dude dated Tawney Kittaen
I wouldn’t put him in the same category as king Edward but I did kick it with him a few times at a bar in El Paso tx.
Wtf classical training .elite shredder
Wtf classical influence are u talking about Randy Rhoads .Crosby was a basic rythym player with blues style .he never finger tapped
Dude. Speak into a microphone. Seriously. It's not that hard.
I couldn't get through more than half before all of the AI mispronunciations had me tap out. Speaking of tapping, Robbin was known for a lot of things, but a guitar tapping virtuoso ain't one of them.
Finally, it was never called 'Hair Metal'. That's a pejorative that was coined decades later. It would be like if we started calling Grunge 'Junkie Metal' or Nu-Metal 'Wigger Metal'. It's an insult. Why would you use an insult in your tribute?
LOl Crosby blended "classical" and metal? lmao. Where are you getting this?? Crosby was not ever a classical player and could hardly hang with his bandmate Warren. And no he was not addicted to heroin in high school. "Neo-Classical Baroque style" good lord you have me literally laughing out loud. Yngwie isn't even close to that.
Robin was an ok player, he was NOT a virtuoso equal to EVH. Are you NUTS?