Given the question: What type of details about the rats -lrb- american band -rrb- can be gathered from the following bio? Bio: the rats were an american garage punk band from portland , oregon , formed by fred cole previously of the garage rock band , the lollipop shoppe . cole played guitar and sang , his wife , '' toody '' played bass and sang , and initially rod rat played drums . their sound was a raw mix of punk rock with occasional country touches . their self-titled debut album appeared on cole 's whizeagle label in 1980 . soon after , rod rat left the band , though he guested on the 1981 follow-up '' intermittent signals '' before his death by suicide . -lrb- prior to his suicide rod rat -lrb- aka rod hibbert -rrb- also played drums in 1980-81 for portland power pop band domino theory -rrb- . sam henry , formerly of the wipers , played drums on this lp but left to join another portland band , napalm beach . louis samora was on the drum throne for the 1983 album '' in a desperate red '' , still on whizeagle . samora left in 1984 to concentrate on his rockabilly band , the jackals . the band broke up , but bill barker of profile studios in vancouver , british columbia convinced the band to reunite for a single . it appeared under the band name the desperate edge later in 1984 . soon after , cole assembled a country band , western front , and he and toody later reunited in dead moon . the rats ' records have long been out of print and sell for high prices on ebay . in 2008 , portland 's mississippi records reissued the first album on vinyl . the two-part song '' the rat 's revenge '' - which appeared on the first volume of back from the grave - was performed -lrb- some 15 years prior -rrb- by a different band under the same name .
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