Artist: The Rats
Title: Stop And Get A Hold Of Myself Treacle / Morning Dew The Rats b/w Guitar Boogie Arthur Smith, instrumental
Date: 1968
Record label: Pitts Management
Catalogue no: N/A
Condition of disc: Very good plays perfectly, excellent sound quality and no jumps
Condition of sleeve: Very good plain white sleeve, stamped Pitts Management , Station Forecourt, Scarborough.West Ayton 3105 with hand-written The Rats on sleeve. Same info on middle of disc on stickers.
Notes: Mega rare and probably unique 3-track acetate 7 single. Both tracks on side 1 are slightly different to released versions.
Band background from wikipedia : In 1966, he Mick Ronson, David Bowie s future guitarist joined Hull s top local band, The Rats, joining singer Benny Marshall, bassist Geoff Appleby, and drummer Jim Simpson who was subsequently replaced by Clive Taylor and then John Cambridge . The group played the local circuit, and made a few unsuccessful trips to London and Paris.
In 1967 The Rats recorded the one-off psychedelic track, The Rise and Fall of Bernie Gripplestone at Fairview Studios in Willerby, East Riding of Yorkshire and can be heard on the 2008 release, Front Room Masters Fairview Studios 1966 1973. 1968 saw the band change their name briefly to Treacle and book another recording session at Fairview Studios in 1969, before reverting to their original name. Around this time, Ronson was recommended by Rick Kemp to play guitar on Michael Chapman s Fully Qualified Survivor album.
In 1968 Keith Ched Cheesman joined The Rats replacing Geoff Appleby on bass and the line up of Ronson, Marshall, Cheesman and Cambridge entered Fairview studio to record Guitar Boogie , Stop and Get A Hold of Myself and Morning Dew .
Additional notes: All records are shipped in a sturdy mailer with cardboard stiffeners and plastic sleeve. Discounted postage costs available up to 3 records.
Guide to record condition.
MINT: No scuffs, scratches, blotches, stains, labels, writing, tears or splits. Simply perfect.
NEAR MINT: A Record that may have one or two tiny, minor flaws such as light paper scuffs from sliding in and out of the sleeves that do not affect play.
EXCELLENT: A Record has been handled and played either very little or very carefully. The vinyl may have lost some but not all of it s original lustre or have a slight scratch that doesn t affect play.
VERY GOOD: A Record that displays visible signs of handling and playing such as loss of vinyl lustre, light surface scratches, groove wear and spindle trails. A VG record may look like it will have some audible surface noise when it is played, although any noise should not overwhelm the music or ruin the listening experience.
GOOD: The Record is well played, with any number of defects such as complete loss of surface sheen, obvious surface noise, etc.
