Frasi di Rikki Rockett

Rikki Rockett, vero nome Richard Allan Ream , è un batterista statunitense noto per far parte della hair metal band dei Poison.

Rockett era il più giovane dei due figli di Norman e Margaret Ream. Prima di fondare i Poison con Bret Michaels, Rockett ha lavorato come parrucchiere, guarda spiaggia, lavapiatti, infermiere e affittacamere.

Nel 1983 fonda i Poison con Bret Michaels, Bobby Dall e Matt Smith. Nel 1994, dopo l'abbandono di C.C. DeVille, subentrò Richie Kotzen. Rockett ebbe dei contrasti col chitarrista poiché lo sorprese ad avere una relazione con la sua fidanzata, Deanna Eve. Kotzen venne di conseguenza cacciato dalla band.

Nel 1991 partecipa all'album dei Britny Fox Bite Down Hard.

Dopo quasi 20 anni di carriera con i Poison, Rockett realizza il suo primo album solista, Glitter 4 Your Soul il 7 gennaio 2003 che venne venduto online. Si tratta di un cover album tributo al glam rock anni settanta.

✵ 8. Agosto 1961

“When I was in eighth grade there was a movie called Willard, about a rat, and I fell in love with rats. I wanted one … so one guy suggested that I call Hershey Medical Center … So I called and they said … "What experiment is it for?" I said, "I don't wanna experiment on it, I just want it for a pet!" And they said, "Well, we can't do that." … About two weeks later, I go out to the mailbox, and there's this thing from the [American Anti-Vivisection Society]. Lo and behold, I'm looking through all these different experiments and I see a rat there, spread wide open, and it said some of the experiments [were] done at Hershey med center. So boom! I put two and two together, and I decided to do a report in school about it. I took advanced bio and you had to dissect cats, and I started [asking] questions, "Where'd the cat come from?", and that really ruffled some feathers. "I'm not gonna do this, you know." So basically I got thrown out of advanced bio. From that point on I became an antivivisectionist. … [Things] are changing. When I went vegetarian it was really hard on the road, and that was just eight years ago. And I see people doing it twenty, twenty-five years, traveling, and it's like, wow! … I think on a very basic level people wanna do the right thing. And if we continue to focus on that part of them that wants to do the right thing, we can win maybe at the next generation or the one after that.”

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Rikki Rockett

"Something To Believe In" https://books.google.it/books?id=NWxF_V4r3PAC&pg=PA107, interview by Kirsten Rosenberg (July 1999), in Speaking Out for Animals, edited by Kim W. Stallwood, Lantern Books, 2001, pp. 107-112.