Toast of the Town! Red Hot and Dirty Ratt Rock the Tuscany Copa Room!

Red Hot (Motley Crue tribute) and Dirty Ratt (Ratt tribute) played the Copa Room at the Tuscany Hotel and Casino Saturday, June 27, 2026.

Las Vegas is a town regularly recapturing what once happened on the Sunset Strip in LA back in the 1980s, with many regulars of the genre relocating out here, and many locally based musicians wanting to pay tribute. It’s no surprise that tributes to these bands continue to surface on a regular basis. Ratt and Motley Crue are among those bands who now have tributes in Sin City, in the form of Dirty Ratt and Red Hot.

When Count’s Vamp’d closed down (which has been a whole year ago!), I was pleasantly surprised to see that the Tuscany Hotel and Casino’s Copa Room (not to be confused with the similarly named venue at the Bootlegger restaurant) picked up a lot of the shows that would’ve happened there otherwise. While primarily local bands, they have attracted larger out-of-town talent as well, with Anvil and Robby Krieger (guitarist of the Doors) having played the venue in the past few months. The biggest shocker about this night of rock is just how big of a crowd the two bands attracted… it was packed wall to wall!

Dirty Ratt brings together several veterans of the Vegas scene, including guitarist Chris Miggiani and drummer Mike Mitlyng, who’ve played together in the Aces High Iron Maiden tribute, as well as bassist Keith Trombino from the Children of the Grave Black Sabbath/Ozzy tribute, as well as second guitarist Alan Woratschek and frontman Tate Thibodeaux, taking on the role of Stephen Pearcy. Appearance-wise, you aren’t likely to mistake any of these guys for any real members of Ratt, past or present (although Tate’s Stephen Pearcy look isn’t half bad), but they’ve got it where it counts – the music and the stage chemistry.

This setlist consisted of tracks that Ratt released from 1984-1988, spanning the albums OUT OF THE CELLAR, INVASION OF YOUR PRIVACY, DANCING UNDERCOVER, and REACH FOR THE SKY. Tracks like “Round and Round,” “Wanted Man,” “Lay It Down,” “You’re in Love,” and “Way Cool Jr.” are certainly a given, but I give Dirty Ratt credit for digging a bit deeper with their setlists, breaking out gems like “I’m Insane” and “The Morning After.” Probably my only complaint is this setlist ignored anything from 1990s swan song of an album, DETONATOR, and didn’t include “Nobody Rides for Free” from the classic early 90s thriller POINT BREAK (although a lot of people in the audience were shouting for it). This was a well-crafted setlist with its brevity being the only weakness (I’d love to see these guys doing an entire full-length set with no other bands someday), but I’d love to see tunes like “Dangerous But Worth the Risk,” “You Think You’re Tough,” “Shame Shame Shame,” and “Hard Time” make it into the band’s next set. Still, they rocked the house, and no one present would disagree.

Robert Hussey may be the hardest working man in Vegas rock and roll. He’s the frontman of Cyanide, which is his band of original 80s glam-style music, but also fronts Iron Maiden, Poison, and Motley Crue tributes. His Crue tribute, Red Hot, took the stage for the second set of the evening. And in that time, the crowd never dissipated or lost their enthusiasm.

I truly believe that if Motley Crue (the real band) ever loses Vince Neil, Robert Hussey is the man who should replace him. He’s got the look, and as amazing as it may sound, is actually a better vocalist, recapturing the lightning in a bottle from Mr. Neil’s past like no one else. I love every band Mr. Hussey sings for, but this guy was born to sing Crue tunes. As he beautifully demonstrated on the Copa Room state this evening. Many of Hussey’s band have shared members, with Red Hot also featuring his Cyanide drummer Ryan Gillan.

Red Hot blasted through the Crue standards, but like Dirty Ratt before them, they weren’t afraid to dig into the vault and crank out a few additional deeper cuts along the way. That made this a fine balanced setlist that pleased the casual 80s rock fans and the die-hard Crue heads alike. Hussey even grabbed an acoustic guitar for a fine rendition of the band’s classic 1989 ballad, “Without You.”

I love the world of 80s glam and sleaze and the music that comes along with it. This evening brought fans the best of both worlds, with plenty of Ratt and Motley Crue music performed admirably by several of Sin City’s finest musicians. No one who’s a fan of 80s hard rock and heavy metal should pass up a performance by these guys.

PHOTO CREDIT: Live photos by Stephanie Muzio and Dave Childers for ZRockR Magazine – @2026 – All Rights Reserved.