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Ratcity In Blue
''Ratcity in Blue'' is a 1976 album by the Good Rats and was released on the Platinum Records label. Track listing Words and music by Peppi Marchello—arranged by the Good Rats The Good Rats are an American rock band from Long Island, New York. Their music mixes elements of rock with blues and pop. They are best known on their native Long Island, although they had some success nationally and internationally. History ... # "Does It Make You Feel Good" 3:29 # "Boardwalk Slasher" 3:53 # "Ratcity In Blue" 4:53 # "Reason To Kill" 5:05 # "Writing The Pages" 3:03 # "The Room" 4:07 # "Almost Anything Goes" 2:41 # ″Advertisement In The Voice" 3:19 # "Yellow Flower" 2:39 # "Tough Guys" 2:33 # "Hour Glass" 3:21 # "Mean Mother" 2:37 † Bonus track on Jem / Ratcity Records re-issue Personnel *Peppi Marchello – lead vocals *Mickey Marchello – guitar, vocals *Lenny Kotke - bass, vocals *John "The Cat" Gatto - guitar * Joe "Brasciola" Franco - drums Sources *Good Rats' ''Ratcity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Good Rats
The Good Rats are an American rock band from Long Island, New York. Their music mixes elements of rock with blues and pop. They are best known on their native Long Island, although they had some success nationally and internationally. History Formed in 1964, the original group consisted of five students from St. John's University in Queens, New York: Ted Haenlein, Frank Stapleton (Frank never plugged in his bass as he did not play it, but it looked good on stage), 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) and Long Island (The Attic, Tiger's Tail etc.) In 1966, 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 musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom.W. E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan, ''The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from its Beginnings to the mid-1970s'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 1999), p.xi It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the blues and rhythm and blues genres of African-American music and from country music. Rock also drew strongly from a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical, and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a time signature using a verse–chorus form, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephan Galfas
Stephan Galfas is an American record producer, currently CEO of International Talent Organization, Inc. and Miss Molly Records. Biography Galfas is a producer, composer, manager, musician, mixer and recording engineer who has worked with many acts including Cher, The Allman Brothers Band, Meat Loaf, Stryper, Saxon, Dr. Sin, Kool and the Gang, Savatage, Intergalactic Touring Band, China, EZO, Palace, ELO Part II, Pezband, Good Rats and GRAMMY nominee and 9 time Native American Music Award (NAMMY) winner Jana Mashonee. Albums he has worked on have sold over one hundred million copies. He currently resides in Greenwich, Connecticut. Awards *Producer of Jana Mashonee a GRAMMY nominee and nine-time winner of the Native American Music Awards (NAMMYS). Also nominated for 2006 GRAMMY for Best Native American Music Album *2008 Best Producer: "American Indian Story" by Jana Mashonee (NAMMYS) *2007 Best Domestic Music Video: "The Enlightened Time" Queens International Film Fes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tasty (Good Rats Album)
''Tasty'' is a 1974 album by Good Rats and was released on the Warner Brothers Records label. Track listings Words and music by Peppi Marchello – arranged by Good Rats # "Back To My Music" 2:34 # "Injun Joe" 5:28 # "Tasty" 3:22 # "Papa Poppa" 5:08 # "Klash-Ka-Bob" 3:34 # "Fireball Express" 3:16 # "Fred Upstairs & Ginger Snappers" 3:11 # "300 Boys" 3:49 # "Phil Fleish" 4:00 # "Songwriter" 3:50 A 2018 Record Store Day vinyl album had a different track ordering and added a bonus track: :11. "Melting Pot Cookbook (Bonus Demo)" 3:35 Personnel *Peppi Marchello – lead vocals, harmonica, and bats *Mickey Marchello – guitar, vocals *John "The Cat" Gatto – guitar *Lenny Kotke – bass, vocals * Joe Franco – drums Production *Stephan Galfas – Producer *George Marino George Marino (April 15, 1947 – June 4, 2012) was an American mastering engineer known for working on albums by rock bands starting in the late 1960s. Biography Marino was born on April 15, 1947, in the Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
From Rats To Riches
''From Rats to Riches'' is an album by the American rock band Good Rats, released in 1978. It was produced by Flo & Eddie. Joe Franco's drumming was influenced primarily by Tony Williams and Carmine Appice. Critical reception The ''Poughkeepsie Journal'' deemed ''From Rats to Riches'' "East Coast urban rock," writing that "underlying all of these darkly decadent circumstances is a determination to get out from under the crowd." '' The Morning News'' labeled it "solid, blues-based hard rock from a Zappa-like group." AllMusic called the album "strong but overlooked." Chuck Eddy, in ''Terminated for Reasons of Taste'', wrote: "Heavier than I would have guessed, and more lyrically and structurally eccentric ... than I figured from supposed bar-band hacks, with sonic influences running the gamut from doo-wop to prog to maybe even punk." Noting a 1993 reissue, ''Newsday'' deemed Good Rats "the tri-state area's greatest bar band." ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music ''The Encyclo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Good Rats
The Good Rats are an American rock band from Long Island, New York. Their music mixes elements of rock with blues and pop. They are best known on their native Long Island, although they had some success nationally and internationally. History Formed in 1964, the original group consisted of five students from St. John's University in Queens, New York: Ted Haenlein, Frank Stapleton (Frank never plugged in his bass as he did not play it, but it looked good on stage), 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) and Long Island (The Attic, Tiger's Tail etc.) In 1966, 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 musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joey Franco
Joe "Seven" Franco (born 1951) is an American drummer best known for his work with the band The Good Rats in the late 1970s and later as a replacement member of Twisted Sister. Biography Joe Franco, a 1969 graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School, became a member of the band The Good Rats in 1972. He also produced and played in the horror rock band Van Helsing's Curse, which also featured Twisted Sister lead vocalist Dee Snider, and on the Magellan album ''Hundred Year Flood''. Franco replaced A. J. Pero in Twisted Sister in 1986, and stayed in the band for about a year until its break-up in 1987. He also played in Snider's group Widowmaker; and with guitarists Vinnie Moore and Blues Saraceno. and also former Kansas vocalist Steve Walsh on his solo album ''Shadowman''. Franco is the author of the book ''Double Bass Drumming'' (1984; Alfred, 1993) and is featured in the accompanying video (1988; Warner Bros., 2005). He has also lectured and written articles about drumming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1976 Albums
Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Philadelphia Flyers–Red Army game results in a 4–1 victory for the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers over HC CSKA Moscow of the Soviet Union. * January 16 – The trial against jailed members of the Red Army Faction (the West German extreme-left militant Baader–Meinhof Group) begins in Stuttgart. * January 18 ** Full diplomatic relations are established between Bangladesh and Pakistan 5 years after the Bangladesh Liberation War. ** The Scottish Labour Party (1976), Scottish Labour Party is formed as a breakaway from the UK-wide party. ** Super Bowl X in American football: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Dallas Cowboys, 21–17, in Miami. * January 21 – First commercial Concorde flight, from London to Bahrain. * January 27 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
