Such a great host and rad guy!!! His voice takes me back to childhood, literally nine years old waiting for Headbangers Ball!!!!! I just love when his wife is on as well!!! What a great couple!!! Keep it coming Riki…… will support anything and everything you do!!!!!

Thank you for the refreshed Cathouse podcasts! The additional content was great! So happy that you can share these great stories with us. I look forward to every new episode!

Riki does an amazing job of bringing stories of the Sunset Strip to life with this fun and entertaining series. Don’t forget to get your Cathouse Coffee!

I hope this is the beginning. I find his voice and his mind to be great Radio.

Riki serves it up hot . Essential pod for rock fans . Thanks Riki !! 🙏🙏

I do not listen to many of these Podcasts. They bore me. To stop and take a step back to a time when I lived in the culture, toured and played, was simply amazing. Rikki you did a good job outlining how the Cathoise,, MTV, Headbangers Ball and 80’s Metal came together. You added the ingredients of stories that only you know about and it all came together nice. Question, are you working on a Bio Book as well? For anyone that wants to hear about what it was really like, take the time to listen. If w as a great time to live .

Excellent five star review! I’m 54, and grew up in a small town in Ohio. You’re stories place me right there! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

So glad you brought it back,I love the stories! Thanks for sharing, Riki and friends.

Ricky is great to listen to even if it’s him doing his own thing or being interviewed by others . This guy is a National Treasure and way overdue for someone to give him his flowers ! 🤘🏻 I look forward to all the kickass interviews and hopefully seeing his show out here in Oregon someday 😉👍 - Jason Eugene Oregon

So excited that Riki has brought back his podcast! The very first episode had me on the edge of my seat and wanting more. I will be looking forward to hearing more great stories from Riki. Riki has a lot of great stories and he is an amazing great story teller. So energized hearing these stories! Keep up the great work and keep them coming!!

So fun to go back in time with Rikki’s stories. I used to go to the Cathouse with my fake ID because I was going only a teenager 🤫🤣 it WAS THE BEST BAR/CLUB EVER!

He was there, the 80’s LA scene, please tell us about your Cabo Wabo Van Halen special. Every little details would be awesome. Tell us more 80’s stories. 🤘🏻 Big fan from Iran , welcome back, and please don’t go away soon 🫡🙇🏻‍♂️

You need to listen to this show

reliving the late 80s / early 90s is better than anything you’ll find today! Love the Cathouse, Headbangers Ball and everything associated with it! This podcast is the ONLY way to re-live the best era in life musically and to hear it straight from the source …Riki Rachtman! 🤘🏻

It never gets old!! Metal stories back again!! Listen 🤘🖤🤘

Very excited to hear more of this good stuff

Ricki slow down!!! Man the episodes are flying off the press!!!

I listened to almost all of the episodes and then fell off for a bit. When I went to dive back in all were gone. What happened? Great show with crazy stories and fun guests. Bring it back Riki!

Unfortunately I was only 5 or 6 years old when the Cathouse was popular. I live vicariously through these podcasts, and really enjoy each episode 😊Great job Ricki and crew! Please do more episodes

Just recently found this podcast which brought back all the memories of a rocking era. I was fortunate enough to be a part of that scene back in the 80s when my band played the strip. Was such a blast just hanging out down there. It made for some great memories that I’ll never forget. If you were a rocker back then or just a kid who enjoys that music era, then you’ll love this podcast!

As an 80s kid who was into rock and roll, this show is a blast. It’s fun hearing about many of the places that were referenced in songs, album liner notes, interviews in Hit Parader, etc, etc. Not being in LA or even California, it was always fun to wonder what all those places were like. This show sheds light on it all. Thanks for doing such a fun show, and for bringing back lots of memories of the coolest era in rock.

This podcast gives you a glimpse behind the metal curtain with great stories, guests, and the perfect host...Riki Rachtman!!! Subscribe now! 🤘🤘🤘

The Joe Rogan Podcast is good, but this one is way better. Can’t wait for RRR radio

Kick ass show Riki!! Brings back a lot of memories and definitely makes me miss the L.A. scene! ( I was out there from 7/85-6/93) Thank you for doing what you do!!

The talk about headbangers ball was where I got all of my heavy metal music from because living in Tennessee is full of country music so after seeing the videos I knew what album to get! Thanks for this podcast!

Never got to go to the club but I was & still am a huge fan of the era & music.It is good to hear from & about all of the guests. I still attend shows in St Louis & Nashville and just love when it’s a band from this time.Keep up all you do Riki .There’s a lot of us still out here!

This is so fun listening and then reminiscing... You’re doing a great job I wish there were more. You’re just as fun now as you were back in the day. I met you several times back when I was clubbing and your stories are right on. thank goodness you have others to help you remember some of the drug hazed times. I’m with you on that memory thing. Going to see Dirty Honey valentines evening finally there’s a good rock band I’m looking forward to this show.

If you are a metal fan you have to listen! The best stories from the best club!

If you liked him before, on HBB, you’ll love his tales of days gone by.

Just found this podcast, I’m five episodes in and it’s so rad! I grew up on Headbangers Ball and Riki changed my life in so many ways. I’ve always loved Riki’s interviewing and story telling style. Hearing these stories and the truth about so many of these legends makes it one the coolest podcasts going right now. It’s honest, real and raw. It’s exactly what I’ve always expected from Riki and he’s not letting us down! Please keep it up!

Thanks for the podcast!

I just grew up in the wrong place that’s all. Lol. I knew the place to be was the strip but I was just a 15 year old kid living on the complete opposite of the country. These stories are awesome . Great story telling . Better than a book .

Good stories but rikki s delivery is bad I’m not sure what he’s trying to sound like it maybe he’s trying to hard

I came to the Cathouse Hollywood Podcast due to Riki’s appearance on Turned Out a Punk. A few episodes in, I subscribed. His raw enthusiasm and honest depiction of the 1980s rock scene is always captivating and fun. Riki was a close personal friends of members of Guns n’ Roses, Mötley Crüe, Motorhead, and many other bands. He cares about the people and the music. If you’re a fan of this era of rock, or rock/metal music in general, give this podcast a listen.

I could listen to your stories forever!

Very entertaining, very few commercials breaks, good guests, and Rikki does a good job of describing and setting the scene.

This podcast is essential for fans of the 80-90s rock scene. Rikki shares his own stories & invites others to discuss theirs. I grew up watching Headbangers Ball...Who knew all this was going on behind the scenes?!??

You have got to make it longer or just do more shows I could listen to it all day long

I’ve always loved Riki since I was an 8th grader in a small Ohio town just getting MTV. I wanted to go to the Cathouse so bad but I was a minor & a million miles away. Nobody paints a verbal picture like Riki Rachtman. Even with 13 episodes down; I have so many questions!! Thx for helping me regress to a 21 ur old in 1986 - which I never was. 🥰😎

Full disclosure, I subscribed to hear exciting stories of rock stars doing lines off of strippers butts etc. I’m 8 episodes in and I’m trying not to fall asleep. We get it bro, you dj’d Tommy Lees wedding and you are friends with Taime Downe, I can’t wait to here the episode where c.c.Seville’s book club reads ‘Pride and Prejudice ................at the Cathouse

1986-1992 I lived in nyc but I always wanted to live in the west coast in that era. Thanks to Riki I can live it thru his stories. Some which I knew even thou I never been there. You love metal/rock headbangers ball the sex drugs and rock n roll era. This podcast is for you. Listen to the first one then you’ll binge till you have no more to listen to. Thanks Riki 🤘🏼👍🏼🔥🎸

If you were a fan of Riki’s tenure at Headbanger’s Ball, you’ll thoroughly enjoy his storytelling on the podcast, the additional content by the guests reminiscing about said stories makes it even more enjoyable. Listen to it, you won’t be disappointed.

I'm on Episode 7 and still waiting for one episode where he doesn't talk about him DJ'ing Tommy Lee and Heather Locklear's wedding. I don't know if he has to withhold the majority of stories, because I'm sure there's plenty, but I think every episode basically retells how he started the Cathouse, all the people he's friends with, and the wedding. This should be a gold mine of stories. And yes, very scripted, read poorly. Hoping it picks up steam with some new stories.

love the podcast🤟🏼 so cool to hear all these stories from back in the day with all the classic bands and venues

I was disappointed in the scripted dialogue, much like I bought an audio book. I would rather hear Riki talk like we were sharing stories in his living room, not reading a story. Sounds to commercial for my taste, not my cup of Mushroom tea.

First person stories about the rock and roll scene in the days of the World Famous Cathouse. Some are fun to re remember and some are fun to hear about for the first time. Great call in guests. So far I can't wait for the next one.

The guy reminds me of those d-bags from high school/frats with “stories”.

Nice to hear the the stories that changed hard rock history/origins. If you’re a metal head or just like to hear how some bands got their start, subscribe. Only con would be that Rikki doesn’t need the “radio voice”. It’s not necessary. Unless that’s just your natural way of talking. If that’s the case, all apologies!! Thanks and keep it coming. Like the harder stuff so don’t just focus on the ‘strip bands.

I LOVE this podcast. It’s awesome! I enjoy hearing raw, unfiltered talk especially about rock. I grew up watching Riki on MTV, and listening to all these bands. The stories are great and funny. I binged listened to all these . Can’t wait for more!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

Seriously - I can’t get enough of this podcast. As someone who was a bit too young to partake in the debauchery but grew up on the concerts, magazines and videos of the time - this podcast is everything!! Thank you, Riki, for sharing all these stories!! I don’t know if I’m sad or if I’m grateful to have been too young to join the party, LOL