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Good Rats: From Rats To Riches (Passport)

Richard Riegel, Creem, July 1978

ACCORDING TO the liner notes, the Good Rats recorded this new set in just two weeks last fall. Never mind that this was their first album since 1976, or their best chance at a national breakout in an even longer time; why should the Rats fuck around in the studio (even with Flo & Eddie producing) when their regular gig at My Father's Place (Roslyn, NY) was waiting for them?

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