Fred & Toody Forever

The Rats - Can't Stand Back

I first confirmed I was hearing Dead Moon around 2012, during a DJ night at a Vancouver pub that would become my weekly routine for three years, and would be the incubator of some life changing friendships.

So although I had never heard Dead Moon, I somehow knew the chorus to 54/40 or Fight, and had no idea where from. It was puzzling how familiar it was. Where had I heard it before?

Fred & Toody weren’t local heroes in Texas. It seemed to take me coming to the Pacific Northwest to fall in love with them. But nearly ten years later, I’m ready to permanently etch Fred & Toody Forever onto my blood pumping heart.

They’re everything you’d want rock n roll to be. All the scruffy romance of the outsider, the do it yourself-er, the lifer. I use the singular, because although earlier Fred had The Lords, The Weeds and The Lollipop Shoppe, Zipper and King Bee, once he formed The Rats with Toody, they were a package deal and it’s so hard to imagine them any other way. The Rats, Dead Moon, Pierced Arrows…

They’re the real deal of Northwest rock n roll. Ride it ‘til the wheels fall off rock n roll.

Fred & Toody forever.

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