Riki Rachtman's Cathouse Hollywood Podcast
A Music History podcast by Riki Rachtman
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Create a free account From 1986-1992 The Cathouse was at the epicenter of the Hollywood Rock scene. Some of the biggest bands in rock would play unannounced shows at the Cathouse but it wasn't the performances by bands like Guns n Roses, Motorhead, Alice Cooper, Pearl Jam, Faster Pussycat, Black Crows (the list goes on) that put Cathouse on the map. It was the sleaze and debauchery, the raunch and roll. Riki Rachtman former host of MTV's Headbangers Ball owned the Cathouse. He opened it with his roommate Taime Downe from the band Faster Pussycat with the premise of getting free drinks and meeting girls.
Riki enforced a no camera rule at the Cathouse so anything could and did happen. These stories have never been told......Until now
Each episode of Cathouse Hollywood Riki recaps 1 night at the Cathouse and he recounts the night with a participant or witness to what took place that evening. His guest could be a a musician that sold 5 million records or the girl that worked the coat check. It doesn't matter at Riki Rachtman's World Famous Cathouse we were all Rock Stars
Recent Episodes
Dancing at Cathouse w/ CULT's Billy Duffy
Published: May 15, 2024EP 5 MOTORHEAD's MIKKEY DEE 8th of May Special
Published: May 8, 2024EP.4 The True story on the birth of HEADBANGERS BALL on MTV
Published: April 24, 2024Ep.3 Going way back w Gilby Clarke (Guns n Roses / Solo artist
Published: April 9, 2024Ep.2 Inside look at LA Punk in 1979 & how it lead to CATHOUSE
Published: April 2, 2024Ep 1 Go back to Hollywood before Cathouse. When Riki met Taime Downe
Published: March 25, 2024