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In the song's music video, Milton Berle (uncle of Ratt manager Marshall Berle) plays both the staid head-of-household as well as the family matron (echoing his famous cross-dressing stunts of the 1950s). Both characters seem perturbed by the loud volume of Ratt's playing, and quickly leave the table.
In July 1983, Ratt signed with the production company Time Coast Music. The company was run by the band's then-manager, Marshall Berle. [citation needed] Time Coast had previously issued records by Spirit [9] and The Alley Cats. [10] Released in 1983, the band's self-titled EP sold over 100,000 records. The band grew in popularity on the ...
In 1984, Berle appeared in drag in the video for "Round and Round" by the 1980s metal band Ratt (his nephew Marshall Berle was then their manager). [51] He also made a brief appearance in the band's "Back For More" video as a motorcyclist. [52] In 1985, he appeared on NBC's Amazing Stories (created by Steven Spielberg) in the episode "Fine Tunin'".
There's no record that Milton Berle was lurking around SNL on premiere night, nor that he flashed Chevy Chase after hitting on the comedian's fiancé. However, Uncle Miltie was widely rumored to ...
After recording a large amount of material at the studio, manager Marshall Berle (the nephew of Milton Berle) offered the cache of tapes to Mercury Records. On the basis of the material, the group was offered a contract, and a double album entitled Spirit of '76 was culled from the material and released in May 1975.
For the next four years, Lillian Axe toured extensively opening for bands such as Ratt, Poison and Queensryche. In 1987 at a show in Dallas, the band caught the eye of MCA Records and Marshall Berle (nephew of Milton Berle) who at the time was managing the band Ratt. MCA wanted to sign Steve, since he wrote the songs and owned the name.
At this concert, Marshall Berle was in attendance, who later became Van Halen's manager. [9] Stormer guitarist Donny Simmons and former bassist Tim Gaines together at 2012 The NAMM Convention in Anaheim, California. In 2008, when asked if the demos will be remastered and made public, Gaines replied, "I doubt if anyone can find the Masters.
Chai formed The Alley Cats with then-husband Randy Stodola [3] and drummer John McCarthy. [4]Chris Morris (former senior writer at Billboard, music editor at The Hollywood Reporter and critic at The Los Angeles Reader [5]), writing in John Doe's book Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk said, "They made some of the toughest, most nihilistic music on the scene."