Me And My Guitar interview: Warren DeMartini from Ratt / Charvel Frenchie 

Really wish he and Jake E. Lee would put together a band and tour. How epic would that be?!

Lay it down unreal riff timeless

For Metal guitarists , Warren is in my top 10!! His first 3 albums with Ratt were sick!!

Ratt is NoT Ratt without warren.Nice interview 👌🏻

Warren is a huge piece of what made the music awesome in the 80's. Love your work bro!

very underrated player

Wow.. He's kind of grown up to look like Alice Cooper's younger brother !

That neck pickup is called "The Royale With Cheese" in France.

Very unique style , very underrated , one of the best to ever do it in the 80...

Warrens playing on the first 3 albums was fire! Im more disappointed in his playing after he tried to turn into a blues player. He needs to SHRED again!!

Possibly the 80's best guitar player Warren is just monstrous on the guitar. Ive been listening to his playing more and more lately and he blows me away on EVERY RATT ALBUM HE IS ON. just a sidenote the Robbin Crosby rhythm playing is fat and monstrous also. Robbin and Warren had a fat incredible guitar sound together💜🎸🎸🎼🎼⚡⚡💪💪🔥🔥👍👍👍👍

Warren is a rock guitarist not a professor of modern language execution.

Wow, Warren is slowly morphing into Alice Cooper. The voice even.

I was kid when I met Ratt at the UCLA Mardi Gras show back in '82 and Warren was by far and away the coolest of the bunch. Pearcy put on his poses while Warren actually took the time to talk and give me some picks. great dude. nice guy.

super underrated...he has some of the tastiest solos I've ever heard.

Jake is the reason i play guitar. I juet learned round and round yesterday and Warren is so damn good lol

Truly gifted player!!!!

One of the west coast’s finest players.

Actually Warren's had the original Frenchie since Invasion of your privacy era (1985). He's actually playing it in the "your in love video" released late fall that same year.

He's right, that's bad french. Should say something more like : "Trop vite POUR vivre, trop jeune POUR mourir". But, you weren't far off, Warren !

Yes!!! Love Warren. He's got killer riffs but also awesome bluesy solos which I totally dig. Awesome interview.

86 was Dancing Undercover my man! Also u used it in the Your In Love video so it was most likely 1985 when Invasion was released. Reach for the Sky was 1988 brother.

He starting to look so much like Alice Cooper,

Met you at NAMM 2019, my brother recognized you and your beautiful wife Kathy. She joked with us and introduced you to us. We will never forget meeting our idol, you both treat your fans great!

The 3 Metal Musketeers = Warren DeMartini George Lynch Jake E Lee

Man I miss Ratt and the guys. Miss the 80s badly.

I own a house with a RATT problem

Warren messed up The album RATT released in 1986 was Dancing Under Cover not Reach For The Sky

Warren is definitely having trouble speaking ,seems to have some memory problems or he's really shy...

Warren was a Monster in the 80$ This guy just poured with excitement, Melodic Shred..just listen to Invasion of Your Privacy:..Never Use Love, Lay It Down,,just incredible playing Awesome...Album after Album...Out of the cellar was just the beginning of Chaos

Warren stay safe Keep making music You are a very special musician Been inspiring me for years now Ratt n roll for life baby

Always loved the look of the guitar... but I remember first seeing it in the "Your in Love" video. Reach for the Sky didn't come out until 89

"was made in 1986 around the release of Reach for the Sky" - "Frenchie" however, is first seen in the You're in Love video which was filmed after Invasion of Your Privacy. I'm guessing the 80's are a bit fuzzy for Warren perhaps?

I love Warren's playing, but I'm not a fan of the Frenchie's look. It's as if someone scribbled on a guitar and added a few unrelated decals. The Snakeskin model, on the other hand, is sexy and smooth.

Warren, Lynch and Skolnick together, now that would be some melodic fire. Could you imagine?!!

Is this really warren? Extremely cool guitar but every ratt fan knows the "frenchy" was on invasion in the " you're in love" video... that was 1985.. reach for the sky was way after, in 1988.

The only reason to even listen to Ratt is this guy here.

I still love all your guitars. And your playing. You have always been underrated .

dammm there are some seriously DUMB comments here...how about showing my boy here some gawdamm respect ....

Great guitarist!!! thanx for the memories Warren.

Big fan of the torch martini, he's a shredder at heart, but went bluesy style, that's cool too, he mentions how he likes bluesy church gospel music and Bobby brown in one of his other videos, probably that's where his melodic blues style, still love it I can listen to his solos over and over again

Hey Warren, just in case you read these posts, I got one of your old Marshall 4x12 lower cabinets many many years ago and wondered if you did any kind of hot-rodding to it.The jack and ohm switch box on the back is round and has 16 ohm Celestion Vintage 30 G12's. I have pics but not sure if you can send pics to publishers on here or not. Still in same awesome road worn condition. Still has the chalk marks where you placed the mics and of course your stencils on the back. Would love to know more about it. I loved the 70's and 80's.......Best generation EVER. Warren-Amazing hands and such great stage presence!!!!!

Love Warren. Love Charvel. But wow, took all I had to stay awake to watch this. He has never been a good interviewee.

I love Warren, but wow is he confused. He says the guitar came out in 1986 for the Reach For The Sky album... which came out in 88. Meanwhile, he's playing this guitar in the You're In Love video, that came out in 85. I guess it all really does just blur together.

Hi guys! As much as I do LOVE Charvel & Warren but... Even if the translation's approximative (which like Warren says IS kinda cool seen in an artistic way...), 1 thing's totally wrong: I'm sorry but there's NO "E" at the end of "Mourir"... Cheers from FRANCE. ;-)

One of the BEST EVER. UP HERE WITH RANDY RHOADS GLEN TIPTON. RAT WAS ONE OF THE ONLY HAIR BANDS I REALLY LIKE.

Look up: Shred, in the dictionary. It has a picture of him..

Warren & Crosby ~ Rock & Roll ~ Forever & Eternal ~

Starting to look a lot like Alice

I liked the crossed swords guitar better.

I remember you playing that guitar on the Invasion Tour Warren.

One of my favorite guitarists since I was 12 years old...now 45 and still loving the man

Ok,here's a question for all Ratt Fans! List your Top 5 favorite songs by Ratt and List 1 song that is your least favorite..here's mine *FAVORITES* (1)Back For More (2)Round And Round (3)Lack Of Communication (4)Lay It Down (5)Wanted Man *LEAST FAVORITE* (1)Lovin' You's a Dirty Job Well there it is,that's mine and remember there really are no wrong or right answers..only honest from the heart ones

He's still a major hottie

I like seein the Lynch tiger stripe guitar picture behind him lol

Yeahhh, pretty sure Reach for the Sky was released in 1988 or 1989. Dancing Undercover was released in 1986.

I was 18 when your music came out, best times best music. Thank you for your work.

I thought he was gonna play something....wtf

His sound is mostly diminished7 very unique for 80s cool

The one and the only god of guitar! My idol warren Demartini. Huge fan of your phrases and style .

The death of an iconic brand. $1000 for an Indonesian Charvel guitar. WTF! Not for me. $3000 for a USA no way! Not made in So-Cal anymore.

War and the Martini.

I only seen ratt in concert one time back in the late 80s I think it was 87, with posion at the Palmer auditorium in Davenport Iowa, thats the only time i Saw them play they were really great back than Im remember that posion opening for them, love both bands I do at ment he has really nice selection of guitars, but my top favorite guitars of his that l really love his cross shord guitar, the white guitar the one he just show and the snake guitar , because I really love snakes ever since I was 5 or 6 years old never been afraid of slimy creepy things I just wish Robin was still around he was really great back than as a guitar player just like Warren they both were great, but Im 54 years old going on 55 in the Dec 9th, should do miss the old ratt, rip King Robin favorite songs round and round you're in love , lay it down, never ues love, shame, shame, shame, whated Man, body talk,way cool Jr, you think you're tough, sweet cheater and lack of communication, but really like all their songs, I just wish I could have seen them more in concert be back than, because than I was really shy myself back than, and not really pretty either back then as well, ratt will always be ratt and roll back then and forever,

I thought Ratt's 1986 album was Dancing Undercover...

Other than George Lynch .. he was a badass

I watched Ratt Unplugged on MTV and was totally blown away by the phenomenal acoustic interplay between Warren and the other guitarist. A really excellent set Warren... mad kudos Bro.

I always loved warren's guitars... glad they put a second pick-up on there too.

Surely he had that in 1985 on the Invasion of your privacy tour, or Dancing undercover

I swore he used that guitar with invasion album

Not epic at all every time time you start putting iconic players together you get to much off a good thing every time it happens it’s kinda disappointing but in theory I dig it . Warren was the only shredder in the 80s who did his own thing and stayed away from walking on eddy territory and Jake was the only player that made sense with Ozzie. And please I’m not arguing Randy’s greatness just Jake just nailed it.

Looks like alot of stupid Ozzy icon crosses. Kick Ozzy to the curb. Way overrated. Now that Bark at the Moon solo was great.

I didn't know Alice Cooper played guitar..hmm weird

This is what year ?! I can't hear the word: bluetooth ! Bluetooth - Lutheran ! ✝️📜⚡💥🔥

Warren and Jake should make an Og new age cacophony type band, Warrens melodic playing with Jakes crazy playing would be so cool

Actually thought Warren was well respected at his Peak.

"The Rattus Tonius Maximas" lool

I love charvels because they're Sleek , rock and roll machines you can do anything with them.. And Warren is right about Eddie Van Halen...Eddie did start mentioning Charvel as far as I can remember in a 1980-ish GFTPM magazine... but I would have never picked up a Charvel or Jackson and appreciated them until all the West Coast guitar players started playing them and then became more available. ...Now Jackson Guitars USED to be in San Dimas in the early 80's.. I know because I have a1985 Randy Rhoads V, cobalt blue, hardtail, black hardware made in San Dimas USA. I paid handsomely for it... Unbelievable not worth much these days.....San Dimas USA made !! Home of Bill and Ted ??? ..hello?? Ha ha ha ha...Dang..hope I can play guitar when Im dead.

the way he talks is weird.. I am pretty sure he is drunk. he is hesitant, struggles to find elementary words, does not finishes his sentences... unfortunately Jake and Warren who are best buddies suffer from the same problem: alcohol addiction. That's a shame that alcohol and drugs destroyed some many great musicians

I love playing these types of guitars for kicks, but man that artwork is bloody awful. Looks like a bad biker gang tattoo on a guitar. Yeesh.

Warren D. The one and only...

I remember playing a Snakeskin model at a sam ash before and it was freaking AMAZING!!! loved it alot. Couldn't afford it but it was such a quality guitar.

They Didn’t release reach for the sky in 1986 they released it in 1988 he had this guitar on dancing undercover

Maple looks so much better than rosewood. Both my guitars have rosewood necks

The wording is wrong though , "de" (from) should be "pour" (to or for) and "mourir" doesn't need an "e" .

I have no idea wtf he’s talking about.

So hair metal. An erroneous French translation of a rock and roll culture idiom.

I wanted to hear him play, the older I get the more boring guitar talk gets, I've heard it all

Sorry to tell you this but Justin Johnson is the best guitarist ever sorry Warren guess you will have to go practice some more

That is an awsome guitar right there.. The first white one. Its simple but mean looking

this is lke: and this is what time I woke up yesterday aint that important lolololol

He resembles a cross between Vince Furnier and Mick Ronson.

Why he has a hard time getting the words out

i uh maybe someday? and will have the real snake on my leg , and the skulls getar.

I made this guitar by a luthier because i am a left handed? The only thing i have changed is the Floyd Rise Original with a Schaller one.

I’m happy to hear Warren say that it is not correct French as it is wayyyy wrong lol :-)

Invasion was my intro to metal. Awesome work on that album.

Alice Coopers younger bra❤🎉

Pretty sure 86’ was dancing undercover not reach for the sky

Search here for (Sucker For a Pretty Face) by Rockcandy. It's a great 80s rock album! Also the singer (Jose Anes) had a band B4 this called Sinful, with Nuno Bettencourt on guitar B4 Extreme! Search for (Sinful Demo Album 1984). Enjoy!!!!

I love Warren but seems like he's kinda out of it in this video. Maybe he's tired I don't know for sure.