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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