The Rods - The Rods

This edition comes in a standard jewel case with a black tray. It includes a 24-page booklet, a slipcase and a 2-sided poster.

The Rods was actually almost a remastered re-release of the album master release with a different title, different album artwork and different tracklist. All the tracks of The Rods, that can also be found on Rock Hard, are actually the same recordings with Stephen Starmer on bass guitar. Only the two new tracks "Nothing Going On In The City" and "Ace In The Hole" feature Garry Bordonaro on bass guitar.

Compared to the tracklist of Rock Hard, the ELF (3) cover "Sit Down Honey", "In Your Panties", "Gettin' Higher", and the The Young Rascals cover "You Better Run" were omitted and instead two other cover versions, "Nothing Going On In The City" and "Ace In The Hole", were added.

Additional track information:
The version of "Power Lover" here is edited a bit and about 10 seconds shorter than the one on master release. The alternate mix of the track, that is also included here, is also the shorter version.
"Gettin' Higher" is taken from the master release, that was released in 1981.
The live version of "Nothing Going On In The City" was earlier released on the High Vaultage and Rock Candy CD-re-releases of master release. But it seems that both versions are not from the same source. The version included on the The Rods re-releases fades in later and fades out later and the sound quality is a bit poorer.

"Nothing Going on In The City" was orginally released by White Honey on the album master release in 1979.
"Ace In The Hole" was originally released by Robert Fleischman on the album master release in 1979.