Eddie wrote: >the rationals, hey colin, whats good rationals stuff? i picked up onelp, forgot the name of it off the top of my head, it didnt excite memuch...< Unfortunately the Rationals' LP came very late and was a little tired. There are some knockout tracks though, "Guitar Army," the Knights Brothers' "Temptation 'Bout To Get Me" and of course the groovy Faces style instro breaks... The best stuff,IMHO, remains their singles tracks and the unreleased (officially) "Fan Club" LP. A couple of years back the zine HERE TIS did what is probably the definitive article on the band. It's well worth hunting down or lemme know and I'll do a copy for you. I personally have always considered the Rationals to be "the" American band that should be considered "for MODS." I asked Scott Morgan recently about MOD and his feelings about that. His reply was that it was basically a non-starter. They liked what they liked, didn't consider themselves "mod", though the term was all over in the media but generally considered "swinging like a pendulum do..", and there wasn't a movement really. The Rationals like hundreds of other bands at the time, whether in the US, UK, Canada, France or India(!), were digging the original rockers, blues people and whatever else came their way. To the Rationals benefit, like Townshend and the Who, had a friend/manager with an outstanding collection of R&B/Soul records. Of course, as everyone on this list knows, that once you get exposed to the motherlode - THERE IS NO TURNING BACK! Detroit/Ann Arbor at the time also benefitted by being the home of Motown, Thelma, and a host of other labels, and artists. Scott and the other Rationals went to high school with singing sensation Deon Jackson! And some other guy named Jim Osterburg but that's another story... So, I guess my point is: it was in the water, and therefore, in the blood. A couple of years back (7-8!!!) the Rationals reformed, mutated slightly, and played all over the Metro area. They kicked large! With a 3 piece horn section, a host of their great original tracks and a slew of knockout soul covers including "Function At The Junction," "Leaving Here" (still the worlds best version), "Something's Got A Hold On Me," "I Feel So Bad"... Can ya Dig IT? Rationals have a version of "I Need You" on the NUGETTS BOX set by the way. Eddie man, you should consider yerself lucky to be livin' in a town like Detroit. I know it has it's problems but there are still loads of great people livin there, and still lots of great music bein made. Seamus you are a devious man. Them poor stupid canucks... I hope you have a place for them to park their dog team? Man that must've been quite a mush down to CA... seriously though, they must be doin alright. we love to get out of country, suddenly we're all patriotic and full of ourselves ie: how tough we are, how we're not yanks etc... Yep dumb canucks... all the best, COLIN ===== COLIN http://www.mohairsweets.mb.ca ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie
