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Harbour Rats - Demo

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1.	It's Cool To Rock 03:18		buy track
2.	Baby That's Alright 01:56		buy track
3.	Electric Eyes 02:19		buy track
4.	Night Cap 02:16	info	buy track
5.	Teenage Letter 02:50		buy track
6.	I'm a Bastard 01:38		buy track
7.	This is Rock 'n' Roll 02:11		buy track
8.	I Get On 02:16		buy track
9.	Flooded Ditch 02:04		buy track
10.	In Time 02:40		buy track
11.	You Don't Believe Me 02:46		buy track
12.	Walking The Dog 02:38		buy track
13.	Talking In Tounges 03:12		buy track
14.	Beautifil Delialah 02:19		buy track
15.	Drunken Blur 02:33		buy track
16.	Night Crawler 01:55		buy track
17.	No Time To Waste 02:29		buy track
18.	Cant Stand the Thought 02:38		buy track
19.	City Is Dead 01:54		buy track
20.	I Dont Care 01:38		buy track
21.	Electric Eyes (Reprise) 02:12		buy track

about

Around 2007 Before moving to Hamilton I had given Jimmy and Scotty Vapid a Rocket Reducers CDR demo at a show. I bumped into them again in Toronto at a Vapids show and Jim asks me if I want to join a band. I start driving to Hamilton a few times a month on Fridays after work to drink beer and work on songs. By Then The Vapids had slowly dissolved with ROBO quitting and Eric temporarily exiting.
I play bass and we rehearse a set of mainly covers playing Garage and Punk songs, a couple originals, a few Kids tunes, CCR, Count Bishops Ect. We dub our good time, sloppy rock, beer drinking band "The Harbour Rats."

We record a lot of our rehearsals and I remember think it was fucking amazing we could just hang out and drink beer and record a few songs every night. Sometimes it would be just me and Jim and we would record an original or a cover but that smoke filled basement was a ton of fun! I Had many nights spent on the couch and driving back to Welland the next morning.

The Harbour Rats ended up playing a handful of shows to little fame around town and one opening for Teenage Head. Jim made a small number of CDR's and gave them away to friends. For some Reason Jim always though redlining the recordings was a good idea but you be the judge!

One night when I though I was showing up for Harbour Rats practice Jim asked me if I wanted to play on a Vapids 7". Scotty laid down the drums and Jim the bass and then my guitar. One time Vapids wonder child 'Johnny No Frills' showed up at some point to lay down another guitar track. We photoshopped him into the Harbour Rats band photo. I've still never met him in person even thou we both play on the 'Point Remains The Same' 7".

Eric eventually reappeared and joined Flesh Rag and then we picked up the Vapids again. We still get together every couple years for a Vapids record or a show or two. The Harbour Rats however remain a Drunken, blurry blip on the Hamilton underground Rock 'n' Roll Radar.

credits

released July 16, 2020

Tracks 1-4 is the original Harbour Rats demo
For the rest of the tracks, some were recorded live off the floor, Some recorded in a drunken blur, but all recorded in the basement around 2007-2008.

Jimmy Vapid - Vocals and guitars
Scotty Vapid - Drums
Matt Ellis - Bass

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