JAMES KOTTAK IS A ‘LIFER.’

HIS ENTIRE LIFE HAS BEEN DEVOTED TO ONE SOLITARY DREAM…

 “TO ROCK & ROLL FOREVER” JAMES SCREAMS!

AND…ROCK & ROLL HE HAS!

HAVING PERFORMED ON OVER 130 CDS, DVDS AND COUNTLESS WORLD TOURS , JAMES HAS SPENT THE LAST 12 YEARS AS A MEMBER OF THE LEGENDARY GERMAN ROCK SUPER-GROUP ‘THE SCORPIONS’.

HE IS ALSO VERY PROUD OF HIS ROLL AS JIMMY RATCHITT, VOCALIST & GUITARIST OF HIS GROUP ‘KOTTAK’.

SINCE HIS FIRST TOUR OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1978 TO CURRENT WORLD TOUR, JAMES’ 30 YEAR STAR SPANGLED CAREER HAS HAD ALL THE TYPICAL UPS & DOWNS.

“I THANK GOD IT’S BEEN MOSTLY UPS!”, JAMES LAUGHS, “BUT REALLY, I SHOULD THANK ALL THE FANS WHO BOUGHT ALL THE CDS, T-SHIRTS & CONCERT TICKETS. I LITERALLY HAVE EATEN ROCK & ROLL!…HA!”

JAMES’ EARLY YEARS WERE SPENT POUNDING IT OUT IN CLUBS DOING FOUR SETS A NIGHT, SIX NIGHTS A WEEK.

“WHEN I WAS A KID, IF I WASN’T PLAYING DRUMS, I WAS PLAYING SPORTS OR I WAS IN A ROCK BAND…I LOVE TO SWEAT!”

ALL THIS STAMINA LED JAMES TO HIS FIRST ‘BIG BREAK’ IN 1985 WHEN HE WAS ASKED TO PLAY WITH RONNIE MONTROSE ON THE ‘MEAN’ ALBUM. “THAT WAS THE ULTIMATE DREAM COME TRUE, HAVING BEEN RAISED ON THE FIRST MONTROSE RECORD”.

AFTER HIS MOVE TO LOS ANGELES IN 1987 FROM HOMETOWN LOUISVILLE , KENTUCKY , IT WAS NON-STOP PLATINUM STATUS. KINGDOM COME, THE CULT, WARRANT, MSG…THE LIST GOES ON & ON. 

JAMES HAS NOW RECORDED 6 CDS & 5 DVDS WITH THE SCORPIONS.

“I FEEL THE BEST IS YET TO COME. I GOT ON THIS CRAZY TRAIN AND PLAN TO LITERALLY ROCK & ROLL FOREVER!”