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| From | "Jeff" <jeff.teez@comcast.net> |
| Subject | The A's (1979 to 1982) |
| Date | Mon, 3 Mar 2008 19:19:31 -0500 |
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Hey All,
Back in '03, I ripped my 2 vinyl albums and one 45rpm EP from Philly
power/punk/pop group The A's to CD-R and sent them off to a handful of
Auditeers (Bill Holmes, Billy Spradlin, Mark Hershberger and others). It
was my first attempt at digitizing vinyl. Now that I look back on the
effort, and I've been listening to the disc regularly since then, I give
myself a grade of, eh, B-. In other words, I've learned a lot, the
software's better, and I'd do a much better job if I had to do it over.
I should have spent the money on better source vinyl, for one thing,
instead of relying on my own well-played albums.
Anyway, I just fairly recently learned that The A's themselves have
released a "The Best of the A's" CD and it contains 17 of what they deem
to be their best songs plus a bonus cut that I'm not familiar with, all
remastered and stuff. Right now it's sold out, but you can get on the
list for the next pressing. I'm sure there'll be one because the first
one sold out quickly. They did a Thanksgiving Reunion show with The
Hooters last November and the first pressing is gone. I didn't find out
about it until late December. Here it is March and I'm just letting you
all know. Sorry about that. Here's the link below. It's guitarist Rick
DiFonzo's site. I already ordered a poster and some pins and the service
was excellent, he was very generous. If I were to compile my Top Twenty
list, The A's would be near the top. A bit of a stretch, but I'd have to
include them. If anyone on the list would like a 128kbps mp3 of their
biggest hit "A Woman's Got the Power", I'll be glad to send it along.
Or, I'll post it to The Pop Underground google site once we're up and
running. I'm keeping it low bit-rate to keep the file size low. I don't
think the band would mind at all. It may even encourage a few new album
sales. The first single from their debut s/t album was called "After
Last Night".
Trivia: Clarence Clemons covered "A Woman's Got the Power" and the video
they made in support of the single included one of Bruce's first video
cameo's ever. I also just recently learned that the song's been remade
into a drag queen disco anthem, played by drag queens on the
catwalk/stage as they do that drag queen strut. Can you dig it?
jeff teez
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