Riki Rachtman Is Ballin At The Cathouse

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Riki Rachtman co-founded the infamous Cathouse in Hollywood with his friend Taime Downe from the band Faster Pussycat. Guns N Roses was the house band, Alice Cooper asked to play there on Halloween, Motley Crue were club fixtures, and a drunk David Bowie nearly got beat up one night by Axl Rose. The Cathouse was THE place to be in Hollywood in the late 80s and early 90s, and people lined up around the block hoping to get in! Riki shares some of those legendary stories about the club, how and why he started it, and how that success turned into a hosting gig for MTV’s Headbanger’s Ball. Riki also tells tales about visiting a water park with Alice In Chains, Nirvana’s uncomfortably weird appearance on the Ball, and why Riki had to publicly apologize to Stone Temple Pilots! Plus, Riki just brought The Ball back, and you can see its 4-episode limited run starting this Saturday night (April 17th) at 9pm Eastern on the FREE Gimme Metal app!

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0:00.0	All right, welcome to Talk is Jericho. It is the pot of thunder and rock and roll and
0:16.6	we're returning to the rock today. Starting, of course, with Duff MacAgan and the patented
0:21.9	and highly entertaining Duff MacAgan joke of the week.
0:25.0	Chris Jericho, Duff MacAgan song, yeah. Hope you're doing good. Hope.
0:29.7	Everybody listening, doing great. You know, survey just in. Forty eight percent of women
0:36.4	have used vibrators. Yeah. And the other 52 percent have new ones.
0:41.3	Thank you very much, Goodbye.
0:43.8	That's good. Duff has been killing it lately. He sent in about six jokes all at once and
0:48.2	they're all good. So it's the perfect joke for the stories as well that we're going to
0:51.6	be telling and hearing from my guests today. Of course, Ricky Rackman, the legendary Ricky
0:56.6	Rackman, you guys know him as the host of MTV's headbangers ball. He also started the infamous
1:03.6	cat house in Hollywood with his friend, Timie Down from Faster Pussycat, one of the most
1:07.8	deconent clubs in Hollywood history. Definitely one of the hottest clubs in rock history as
1:13.4	well as the stuff of legend. And wait to hear the stories that Ricky's about to share.
1:18.0	Let me set the scene for you. Guns and roses was the house band at the cat house and Axel
1:22.5	were as a cat house t-shirt. The video for Paradise City. Motley crew hung out there. Alice
1:28.7	Cooper asked the player in Halloween, Robert Plant, Stephen Tyler, even David Bowie
1:34.0	parted at the cat house and waited to the story about a drunk David Bowie getting to a
1:37.8	fight with probably a drunk Axel Rose. And no cameras were allowed in the club. So celebrities
1:43.2	and rock stars could cut loose inside and they absolutely did sex drugs, rock and roll,
1:48.8	total debauchery in the 80s on the sunset strip. It was actually Axel Rose who then got
1:54.0	Ricky the gig at MTV as the host of the headbangers ball. Ricky's got some pretty crazy
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