Rat Patrol 2LP acetate

[Marky Dread]

If you want to stump your drummer friends, give them a pair of headphones and ask them to play along with Topper on Red Angel Dragnet. No where does he earn the "human drum machine" title more than on that.

I sat with the drummer in my band on Friday night listening to this song and discussed that very thing. It is insanely good.

I still can't figure that damn hi-hat out.

Is it possible that the hi-hat was a separate track to the main drum track to get that feel?

[Heston]

If you want to stump your drummer friends, give them a pair of headphones and ask them to play along with Topper on Red Angel Dragnet. No where does he earn the "human drum machine" title more than on that.

I sat with the drummer in my band on Friday night listening to this song and discussed that very thing. It is insanely good.

I still can't figure that damn hi-hat out.

Is it possible that the hi-hat was a separate track to the main drum track to get that feel?

The whole pattern is just damn weird. I've air-drummed along with it a few times trying to catch all the accents and it is mighty tricky.

[Marky Dread]

If you want to stump your drummer friends, give them a pair of headphones and ask them to play along with Topper on Red Angel Dragnet. No where does he earn the "human drum machine" title more than on that.

I sat with the drummer in my band on Friday night listening to this song and discussed that very thing. It is insanely good.

I still can't figure that damn hi-hat out.

Is it possible that the hi-hat was a separate track to the main drum track to get that feel?

The whole pattern is just damn weird. I've air-drummed along with it a few times trying to catch all the accents and it is mighty tricky.

I'm sure Tops was more than clever enough to play those accentuated hi-hats but it may just be different track. Mick may have got Tops to play them separately.

[Heston]

I sat with the drummer in my band on Friday night listening to this song and discussed that very thing. It is insanely good.

I still can't figure that damn hi-hat out.

Is it possible that the hi-hat was a separate track to the main drum track to get that feel?

The whole pattern is just damn weird. I've air-drummed along with it a few times trying to catch all the accents and it is mighty tricky.

I'm sure Tops was more than clever enough to play those accentuated hi-hats but it may just be different track. Mick may have got Tops to play them separately.

Quite possible but Topper was very skilled as we know. We need the stems.

[Marky Dread]

I still can't figure that damn hi-hat out.

Is it possible that the hi-hat was a separate track to the main drum track to get that feel?

The whole pattern is just damn weird. I've air-drummed along with it a few times trying to catch all the accents and it is mighty tricky.

I'm sure Tops was more than clever enough to play those accentuated hi-hats but it may just be different track. Mick may have got Tops to play them separately.

Quite possible but Topper was very skilled as we know. We need the stems.

I'll upload them in 2082.

[Heston]

Is it possible that the hi-hat was a separate track to the main drum track to get that feel?

The whole pattern is just damn weird. I've air-drummed along with it a few times trying to catch all the accents and it is mighty tricky.

I'm sure Tops was more than clever enough to play those accentuated hi-hats but it may just be different track. Mick may have got Tops to play them separately.

Quite possible but Topper was very skilled as we know. We need the stems.

I'll upload them in 2082.

Centenary Rock

[Marky Dread]

The whole pattern is just damn weird. I've air-drummed along with it a few times trying to catch all the accents and it is mighty tricky.

I'm sure Tops was more than clever enough to play those accentuated hi-hats but it may just be different track. Mick may have got Tops to play them separately.

Quite possible but Topper was very skilled as we know. We need the stems.

I'll upload them in 2082.

Centenary Rock

100 years war.

[matedog]

I still can't figure that damn hi-hat out.

Is it possible that the hi-hat was a separate track to the main drum track to get that feel?

The whole pattern is just damn weird. I've air-drummed along with it a few times trying to catch all the accents and it is mighty tricky.

I'm sure Tops was more than clever enough to play those accentuated hi-hats but it may just be different track. Mick may have got Tops to play them separately.

Quite possible but Topper was very skilled as we know. We need the stems.

It sounds to me like a single track/take. He does this interesting kinda double drag (I think that's the drum rudiment term, i'm rusty on those). It's very unorthodox and would require a bit of practice, but it's not otherworldly.

Straight to Hell is the one I think has to be more than one drum track.

[matedog]

This is pretty much it:

[matedog]

Also, I think Red Angel Dragnet is on par with Dictator as one of the worst things they ever did. Nothing on the first five albums comes close to being as shockingly bad as RAD. Yeah the drums are great, but the choices made throughout are just bafflingly awful. Paul sounds ridiculous basically doing a spoken word rant about New York or something and Kosmo doing a stupid Taxi Driver impression when they probably could have gotten their buddy Scorcese to buy off on the actual sample. And when listening to this great new Rat Patrol, I forgot how long the Taxi Driver bit goes on for. There's a Joe/Mick part that is kind of a chorus but does not remotely redeem the track. It's barely there. At least Dictator has Joe singing.

[Inder]

I quite like RAD... It fits better on Rat Patrol than on CR, anyway. I think

The Ranking Roger version is also pretty boss.

[Inder]

Having obviously not visited New York City in the early 80s, Rat Patrol really sounds a bit like aural psychotourism of that time and place.

You can feel the sticky August heat hanging off your skin with this blasting in your ears. To me, anyways.

[KCportland]

Also, I think Red Angel Dragnet is on par with Dictator as one of the worst things they ever did. Nothing on the first five albums comes close to being as shockingly bad as RAD. Yeah the drums are great, but the choices made throughout are just bafflingly awful. Paul sounds ridiculous basically doing a spoken word rant about New York or something and Kosmo doing a stupid Taxi Driver impression when they probably could have gotten their buddy Scorcese to buy off on the actual sample. And when listening to this great new Rat Patrol, I forgot how long the Taxi Driver bit goes on for. There's a Joe/Mick part that is kind of a chorus but does not remotely redeem the track. It's barely there. At least Dictator has Joe singing.

I always assumed the vocals were more of a joke, a sort of gonzo, beat-poet parody thing that was intended to be strange. For me it works, but I am somewhat relieved when it gets to the "who shot the shot" part. Micks guitar on it is pretty strange too, maybe one of the only times he used tremolo?

[Kory]

"Better make Inoculated City shorter and worse! There needs to be room for Red Angel Dragnet! I'm very successful!"

In fairness, he did take over a minute off of Red Angel Dragnet. We lost more of the sound collage portion of Inoculated sure.

What's a producer's job, if not to say: don't let your publicist do a shit impersonation of a film from six years ago for this album that we want to see go top ten? Or, why don't we replace these Paul vocals with something from a singer, any singer?

For real. Not sure why RAD was always in every iteration of this album.

Your answer is in the acronym.

[BR16ADE_R055E]

Does he mention why it's only one "G" ?

He doesn't. His exact line is " It's title, provisional, is the Rat Patrol from Fort Brag, with one G." I'll upload the part of the interview in a second.

Thanks River appreciated. Also "The" Rat Patrol.

I've always assumed the title came from the 1960's TV show The Rat Patrol. Interesting that it would be Fort Brag. I also always assumed it was named after the North Carolina military base.

Probably a play on words?

Yeah, it must just be a pun.