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Reach for the Sky (Ratt album)

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Released
  
November 3, 1988

Length
  
39:25

Artist
  
Ratt

Label
  
Atlantic Records

Recorded
  
1988

Reach for the Sky (1988)
  
Detonator (1990)

Release date
  
3 November 1988

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Studio
  
A&M Studios and The Record Plant, Los Angeles, The Enterprise, Burbank, California

Genres
  
Heavy metal, Hard rock, Glam metal

Producers
  
Beau Hill, Mike "Clay" Stone

Similar
  
Ratt albums, Glam metal albums

Ratt reach for the sky full album 1988


Reach for the Sky is the fourth full-length album by the American glam metal band Ratt.

Contents

Background

Though it sold well enough to achieve platinum status and spawned the popular songs "Way Cool Jr." and "I Want a Woman", the record's performance was not enough to keep the group on the road for longer than seven months. As a result, "What's It Gonna Be", a track not released as a single, was used as a B-Side to "Lovin' You's a Dirty Job", the first single from the band's next release Detonator. In doing so, it was hoped that listeners would go back and give Reach for the Sky a second listen.

Reach for the Sky marked the last Ratt album to be produced by Beau Hill. The band originally intended for the record to be produced entirely by Mike "Clay" Stone. However, substandard DAT tape recordings of Stone's production efforts prompted Atlantic Records to bring in Hill to assist Stone and salvage the album.

Opening acts on the promotional record tour included Great White, Warrant and Kix.

Pro-wrestler Brian Pillman used "Don't Bite the Hand That Feeds" as his theme music, when WCW talent went on tour with New Japan Pro Wrestling. Another pro wrestler, Larry Zbyszko, used "City To City" as his theme music in New Japan.

Ratt

  • Stephen Pearcy - lead vocals
  • Warren DeMartini - lead guitar, backing vocals
  • Robbin Crosby - guitars, backing vocals
  • Juan Croucier - bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Bobby Blotzer - drums, percussion, harmonica, washboard
  • Additional musicians

  • New West Horns arranged by Chris Botti and Kent Smith
  • Production

  • Beau Hill - producer, mixing
  • Mike Stone - producer
  • Stephen Benben - engineer, mixing
  • Al Wright - engineer
  • Marty Hornburg, Tom Banghart, Jim Mitchell - assistant engineers
  • Songs

    1City to City3:31
    2I Want a Woman
    3Way Cool Jr4:29

    References

    Reach for the Sky (Ratt album) Wikipedia