Riki Rachtman knows what music history feels, looks and sounds like because he’s been in it.
In 1980s Hollywood, California, he and roommate Taime Downe, frontman of now-iconic glam-rockers Faster Pussycat, cofounded the club Cathouse.
The Cathouse was both a decadent playground for rock stars (and those in their orbit or wanting to be), and a music venue. Cathouse hosted shows by quintessential Los Angeles rock groups like Guns N’ Roses and L.A. Guns, as well as up-and-coming out-of-town rockers like Black Crowes and Pearl Jam…