Warren Demartini

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Warren Demartini Biography

Lead guitarist for the glam rock group Ratt who also worked with Dokken. His nickname is Torch.

He got a guitar from his mother when he was seven, but found it frustratingly hard to play it, so he smashed it.

He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and on the Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

His two older brothers had their own band and rehearsed in the basement, which drew the interest of young Warren.

He replaced Ratt’s guitarist Jake E. Lee, who went to play with Ozzy Osbourne.

DeMartini was born on April 10, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois, the youngest of five children, all of them boys. He spent his early years in the suburb of River Forest, Illinois. The family later relocated to San Diego. DeMartini became interested in rock music due to the influence of his older brothers Bernard and James, whose band rehearsed in the family basement. His grandmother was also a musician of note, playing piano accompaniment to silent movies in Preston, Minnesota.

Warren Justin DeMartini (born April 10, 1963), nicknamed Torch, is the former lead guitarist for Ratt, a popular American band during the 1980s Los Angeles glam metal scene.

DeMartini’s lead guitar became one of Ratt’s most recognizable aspects, and he would co-write several of the band’s best known songs, including “Round and Round”, “Lay It Down”, “Dance”, and “Way Cool Jr.”. Ratt would ultimately become one of the top-selling and most popular metal acts of the decade, issuing four consecutive platinum albums and one EP in the 1980s before disbanding in February 1992.

Warren played his first concert with his band the Plague in front of a small crowd at San Diego’s La Jolla High School at the age of 15. By this time he was emerging as one of the San Diego area’s most talented and sought-after young guitar players. The first year he signed up, he won “Best New Guitar Player in San Diego” at Guitar Trader on Clairemont Mesa Blvd. He graduated from high school in 1981. DeMartini began taking classes at a local college, but in the first semester was invited up to Los Angeles to join Mickey Ratt; the band that would eventually become the highly successful 1980s metal band, Ratt.

DeMartini replaced Jake E. Lee, who would be hired by Ozzy Osbourne in December 1982. DeMartini was at one point the roommate of Lee, and each greatly influenced the other’s styles.

After Ratt broke up, DeMartini had a short stint with the band Dokken before briefly becoming a touring guitarist for hard rock band Whitesnake in 1994. After that, he released two solo projects; the EP, Surf’s Up! in 1995, and his only full-length album to date, Crazy Enough To Sing To You in 1996. Ratt re-united in 1996 and released two albums, Collage in July 1997, and a self-titled album in July 1999, which was a critical and commercial failure. In 2003, DeMartini was hired to replace guitarist Doug Aldrich in the band Dio but after several rehearsals he decided to leave the band due to musical differences with band leader Ronnie James Dio. Ratt reformed again in 2007 and began a tour in the summer of that year. In March 2018, it was widely rumored that DeMartini had lost interest with continuing forward with Ratt due to ongoing problems within the band. In July 2018, Ratt stated that DeMartini would no longer be involved with the current touring line-up as “he didn’t want to go out there anymore.”

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