He later said one last album might be on the cards - but ruled that out in January, meaning 2010's Infestation is likely to mark his studio swan-song with the band. Now he says original bassist Croucier, who was also a member of his outfit Dirty Rats, is also more or less finished with Ratt.

Pearcy tells Eddie Trunk: "I can probably speak for Juan. We're very dismayed and disturbed by quite a lot of things. What we thought was going to be a good thing ended up being even worse than we thought. When it took this long to get the four original members together, then it just falls to even bigger sh*t, you've got problems."