Author: Janky Le Rat
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Janky the Little Rat
From this day forward I will answer only to the name, “Janky The Little Rat”! I dispatched my proctologist out to Tomorrow Bookstore on Mass Ave. in Indy this past Sunday (8/11) to procure an autograph from cartoonist/author/former lawyer/friend of Bill Watterson, Stephan Pastis, whose comic strip, Pearls Before Swine, has a character named, Rat,…
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Janky auditions for X men 1999
With the smart-ass in red and the clawed curmudgeon making their theatrical team up in the coming days, it’s only fitting that we pull this sweet beauty from the Dead City Rats archives and desperately squeeze as many likes as we can out of it. Enjoy! – Management Janky Le Rat from the Dead City…
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Dead City Rats VH T-Shirt
For their tour to support the album, “1984” Van Halen would hijack a logo created for Western Exterminator Pesticide Company in 1931 by artist, Vaughn Kaufman. Van Halen’s version of, “Little Man” that made it on their merchandise was only slightly altered from the original and was without the smaller image of a rodent being…
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Scabby The Rat
We give the late, great Steve Albini and the band, Shellac, a long overdue Dead City Rats version of, “Scabby The Rat” a song written by Albini, Bob Weston, and Todd Trainer as a tribute to Chicago musician/sound engineer and Pro-Labor supporter, Rob Warmowski, whose twitter account @scabbytherat inspired the title of the song.
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The Rat
For the last release off “Rat Songs Vol. 3” we present our version of “The Rat” by the Walkmen.
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Mothman
Our fellow rat bastards at Relevantirreverence.com have released a downloadable 3D print of The Mothman for your cryptid collecting pleasure. Designed by Stepbastard, you can find all you need to know about purchasing and downloading this little cryptid bastard at Relevant Irreverence. This reminded me of the time I went to Point Pleasant to visit…
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Sammy Terry Tribute
If you’re up there in age and from central Indiana, chances are likely you stayed up late on Friday nights, tuned into Channel 4, and got the crap scared out of you by Indiana’s own late night horror host, Sammy Terry. If you don’t know who Sammy Terry is then this video is for you.…
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Chicago Rat Hole Blues
Listen here Ode to the Chicago Rat Hole Whenever we would roll into Chicago to play a gig, it was tradition to make our way to Roscoe Village to pay our respects to a fallen comrade, forever enshrined in concrete along a sidewalk off West Roscoe Street. We would leave tokens of our love and…
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Rat Songs vol 1
We still have a few limited edition CDs of “Rat Songs Vol. 1” available for purchase through the website! Each one comes with an autographed photo of Janky, Cranky, and Todd, stickers, and other goodies (while supplies last). Contact us at: deadcityrats@gmail.com and we’ll get you on the fast track to owning what will surely…
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- Janky the Little Rat
- Janky auditions for X men 1999
- Dead City Ratts- Round and Round
- Dead City Rats VH T-Shirt
- Scabby The Rat
