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domingo, 7 de febrero de 2010

Dia G 07.02.10 (1) - Good Rats - Tasty (1974 US)

By Eric







Good Rats
Tasty

From wikipedia


Formed in 1964, the original group consisted of 5 students from St. John's University...Ted Haenlein, Frank Stapleton, Eric Crane, Denny Ryan and Peppi Marchello. The group was originally called the U-Men and played most of their gigs in the Rockaways (Peyton Place & McNultys) & Long Island (The Attic, Tiger's Tail etc.). In 1966, Frank Stapleton's brother, John, arranged for the group to play at a club in Queens, New York (The John Doe Room) where a record company executive heard them and eventually signed the band, but suggested a name change was in order. The band continued to play top 40 covers while working on their own original music. During the latter part of the sixties, the composition of the band changed...by 1968, Eric, Frank and Ted (drafted and went to Viet Nam, but did rejoin the group from 1970-72) were gone, replaced by Peppi's brother, Mickey, and Crazy Artie (bass).

In 1969, the band released their first album, the self-titled The Good Rats. In 1972, the lineup changed, with guitarist John “The Cat” Gatto, bass player Lenny Kotke and drummer Joe Franco joining the Marchello brothers. The Good Rats continued to build a following, playing Long Island’s thriving club scene, along with other notable names such as Twisted Sister, Zebra, and Rat Race Choir.

In 1974, the Good Rats released their best-known and most popular album, Tasty. It featured a blend of hard and progressive rock with subtle jazz influences, highlighted by Marchello’s powerful and raspy vocals. Various songs from this record, including “Injun Joe”, “Papa Poppa”, a rock ode about cults, the autobiographical numbers “Back to My Music” and “The Songwriter”, and the jazzy title track, received airplay around the country on FM radio.

During the following years, the Rats performed at venues such as Madison Square Garden, The Philadelphia Spectrum, The Nassau Coliseum, The Hammersmith Odeon in England, and New York’s Central Park, as well as showcase rooms such as The Bottom Line in Manhattan, My Father’s Place in Roslyn, NY, Whiskey a Go Go in Los Angeles and The Paradise Room in Boston. They headlined or opened for bands such as Rush, Journey, Kiss, Meat Loaf, Aerosmith, Ozzy Osbourne, The Grateful Dead, Bruce Springsteen, and Styx. Live shows were famous for the band’s stage antics, as Peppi would play air guitar on his baseball bat, throw rubber rats into the crowd, and beat the daylights out of a battered garbage can as he sang.

On a nationally syndicated radio interview, a member of the band Journey called them "the greatest rock band in the world."

Between 1976 and 1980, The Good Rats released a series of albums, including Ratcity in Blue, From Rats to Riches, Birth Comes to Us All, and Live At Last, all of which were well received by the band’s fan base, and received some airplay on FM radio, without actually putting the band over the top. In 1981, Gatto and Kotke left the band, and were replaced by future Kiss guitarist Bruce Kulick and bass player Schuyler Deale, (who later played with Billy Joel and Michael Bolton), for the album Great American Music. Shortly thereafter, the band broke up.

Throughout the 1980s, Peppi Marchello continued to write and produce recordings with his son Gene. They toured locally for a while under the name "Popzarocca" until the song "First Love" became a minor hit for the band (now renamed "Marchello"), with the music video receiving minor airplay on MTV's Headbanger's Ball. This band featured Gene on guitar and lead vocals and also included drummer John Miceli (Meatloaf, Rainbow, "We Will Rock You"). The band recorded two albums (only one which was released).

In the mid-1990s, Marchello and sons Gene Marchello and Stefan Marchello began playing out locally under “The Good Rats” name. They released three new studio CDs with this lineup, Tasty Seconds (1996), Let's Have Another Beer (2000), and Play Dum (2002). Marchello also released a live recording of a 1979 appearance on a Rochester radio show, Rats, The Way You Like ’Em.

In 1998, Marchello wrote "A Tale of Two Balls," the introduction to the book Conflicts of Disinterest (Aardwolf Publishing) by sometimes controversial author Clifford Meth.[1]

In the 2000s, the band continues to play in local venues throughout New York, Long Island, New Jersey and Connecticut, as well as playing annually in their own summer weekend outdoor festival aptly named "Ratstock". At one point, the "new" Good Rats (Peppi and his sons) performed as the opening act for a reunion performance by the "old" Good Rats. Billed as "The Original Good Rats" Peppi was joined by Mickey, Kotke, Franco, and Gatto on October 4, 2008 in a small venue on Long Island, and for a pair of sold-out shows at B.B. King's in Manhattan.

In 2008, Gene Marchello left the band to go out on his own. Nevertheless, The Good Rats, featuring Peppi and Stefan Marchello continued playing weekend club dates around Long Island into 2009. Meanwhile, the "original" lineup of Peppi and Mickey Marchello plus Gatto, Kotke and Franco are scheduled to play at least two more shows at B.B. King's in April 2009.

They were inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame (www.limusichalloffame.org) in 2008.

Peppi Marchello is quoted prominently in the IDW Publishing graphic novel Snaked by Clifford Meth and has been the subject of other stories by the author.[2]

In July, 2009, Peppi Marchello cut a series of three commercials for the car donation organization Kars4Kids. [3]
[edit] Discography

* The Good Rats (1969)
* Tasty (1974)
* Ratcity in Blue (1976)
* From Rats to Riches (1978)
* Rats, The Way You Like 'Em (1979)
* Birth Comes to Us All (1979)
* Live at Last (1980)

* Great American Music (1981)
* Tasty Seconds (1996)
* Lets Have Another Beer (2000)
* Play Dum (2002)

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16 comentarios:

Ana Mariaaa dijo...

Pss: Resaca

NK666 dijo...

¡Gracias! Gran variedad pero la misma calidad de otras veces. Nos estais acostumbrando mal :)
Me pongo a bajarlos poco a poco.

josechu modforever dijo...

Grateful '72. Según me indica mi espesa memoria este es el primer disco que escuché de GD y puede que sea el que más sonó en el tocadiscos. No soy un gran seguidor de toda su obra (inmensa) pero este sí que es un disco para volver a ellos de vez en cuando.
Gracias Julio!!!

Dr. Funkenstein dijo...

Gran dia G el de hoy!!! Menudo material, gracias a todos!!!

fredericio8 dijo...

vaya con las galletas este me pica enormemente la curiosidad , este tipo de portadas siempre depara algo bueno en su interior, aunque no los conoci en su dia .

sanmonar dijo...

Los Booker T, como gran amante del Hammond 5 jotas ya mismo están de bajada y como no el inefable Dr. John. Veremos que tal lo de los Firebirds.

saludos

sanmonar dijo...

Perdón, me olvidé del disco de Eric, parece que se puede convertir en un gran galletero del otro lado del charco.

Por supuesto perdón por olvidarme de dar las gracias ...

Sergio Carratalá Lillo - La Nueva Curtidora Alicante dijo...

Eric, thanks for your deliveries, all are excellent. Highly recommended The Good Rats album, a great surprise for me, fantastic fuzzy guitars, and without forgetting the Steve Hunter's album, other wonder for our ears, sincerely i'm very happy to have you known. Hope we share a lot of days of good and interesting music and your company along this nice place.
Best wishes from South-East of Spain, your friend Januca or aqualungbiscuit, as you wish.

Igualmente gracias de nuevo a Julio con sus tres grandes envios, me quedo con el de Brooker T & The MG's, es por el blues, estilo que me atrapa,

a Psicodelia por su buena elección con este album de muy buen soul y

al Llargo con sus gratas sorpresas semanales con este de Dr. John y su guapa portada o el de los The Firebirds y su sonido psico sesentero total.

katetoscopio dijo...

La verdad es que es uno de los día-G más impresionantes que recuerdo. Muchas gracias a todos.

kk

Dr. Funkenstein dijo...

joder con los Firebirds, menudo discazo. Muchas gracias!!!!

y lo mismo digo con el de The Good Rats y el de Steve Hunter, pero en ingles.
Thanks a lot Eric, both of the discs you've submitted are great stuff!!!

Jose Ignacio Eguizábal dijo...

Yo agradezco a Julio, como fan que soy de García, que nos regale este directo de los Dead. Creo que es de los mejores directos de la banda...lo que no es decir cualquier cosa como sabreis. Si alguien tiene prisa y solo puede escuchar un temazo...en el segundo cd (el tercer vinilo en origen) "Llévame al rocio del amanecer", con un García en estado de gracia...

Jose Ignacio Eguizábal dijo...

Por cierto, lo olvidaba...no tengo noticia de que los Dead intentaran tocar en España ni en el 72 ni en ninguna otra fecha y no se qué sentido tendría entonces eso de que tuvieron problemas en la aduana...¿alguien nos puede informar?

Anónimo dijo...

Los GD tocaron allá por el año 1979,80? en el palacio de deportes de Montjuic de Barcelona. Seguro, que yo estuve allí.

Dr. Bell Otus dijo...

Thanks by this fantastic day.

New contributor, Eric, you're welcome to this crazy las galletas world.

Booker T, pal saco ... The Firebirds, igual ... Good Rats, amazing group with excellent musicians ... y que decir del hombre del Shaft?! ... sencillamente acojonante.

Gracias a todos los que enviais, y que haceis posible este dia G.

Muito obrigado

PS : @Eric, what about to do a Peter Kaukonen post, including my vinyl photos?!
Let me know if you give me your permission, buddy

Napi and Lisa Murphy dijo...

Thanks for the Swept Away, Steve Hunter is a great guitarist who does not know too much and this is an album that I really enjoyed it.

I have left you this message in the chat:
Sorry the audacity to ask you a couple of records that a good friend of mine is looking for long time. You've posted to Steve Hunter and is the last of him who did not find.
We seek: Hymns for Guitar and Short Stories, you know something about them, how to get them? Thanks in advance.
Napi

katetoscopio dijo...

nuevo pass (refresco): katetoskopio/goodrats