good rats

speaking of italo-american rockers from lawn guyland, here are the good rats, a band founded in the '60s by singer peppi marchello (the guy with the aluminum baseball bat) and his brother, gtrist mickey marchello (who usedta sport a big beard back in the day but now looks kinda like carlos saenz) and still, incredibly, active today (with peppi's sons on gtr and bass). we usedta make fun of these guys back when they were playing the same circuit as twisted sister and rat race choir (some of whose mbrs wound up backing john entwistle around the same time as these clips -- '97 and '99 -- of rats "original lineup" reunion shows), but in the fullness of time, they sound like a good old jazz-infused '70s hard rock band. what's not to like? (answer: peppi's ballads, which i'll not force you to endure.)