what we're going to do. We need to submit a 'best of'. You need to get it out and you need to get it out fast'
So we came up with Party Favorites and we just basically took songs off all four albums with an EP, a couple of rare cuts of just to hear how raw it was and then we put songs off the other three albums.
We did a fouteen song release and it's doing really, really well. Our album 'Oxymoron' made it to the number one hottest selling adult alternative album in Amazon. Six of the songs were in the top ten hot singles. It stayed in the top twenty for weeks and weeks. So when Party Favorites came out there was a little mix up but ended up somehow of getting on the jazz charts and we got to number three on the iTunes hottest jazz release. I don't know what happens with that. I'm just grateful people are downloading the music and streaming it or whatever they can do.
Just getting the music out there because it is 29 years of history. I think there's songs that, people, will hold their test of time. And they are holding their test of time because they are getting spins all over the world today.
Stacy, I understand you played guitar on a few of the songs?
Stacy: Conrad Bauer and myself just basically embellished what the great Scott Carlisle was doing and that moreso of being on opposite coasts. Scotty obviously couldn't come back and forth to California. He lived in North Carolina somewhere. Yeah, I did strum a few chords on there. I still got a memory of how to play a couple of chords but I just wanted to add one thing to what Al just said. Let Al's history with Left Wing Fascists be proof positive that if you say you can, you will. If you say you can't, you never will.
Here's a guy who had a number one selling album on Amazon.com for several weeks with no record company help, no promotional dollars, no big corporate push. This is proof positive that in this day and age of no record sales and no one helping anyone that it can be done. I want the young listeners, your viewership or whoever is listening to this to believe that if you say you can, you probably will. And you just gotta stay at it. Take everything that comes at you, don't complain and upward and onward. Al Staggs is the perfect example of that. He's my hero for that. That's fantastic stuff when you think about it.
Are there any plans in the works for aother collaberation between you two?
Stacy: Al's actually told me he's already at it again. How many songs have you got now, Al, that you're considering for the next recording. Half a dozen or so at least?
Big Al: We've got a couple that were an EP that needs to be redone because they're getting spins. There's a couple there that are out there and then there's some new ones that Scotty and I are are working on. I'm still in contact with the other guitar player that did the first record. We had one of his songs come out called 'Like I Do' that's on this release and you know, there's still some love there. Actually, we talked the other day.
If we can throw something together then I'm hoping to bounce this stuff to Stacy if he'll have me again. I want to get it done because it's the highlite of my life. And like Stacy said, you will never get what you want unless you work for it. And If I want to get back at it again I gotta keep going and work for it. That's what I'm willing to do.
There you have it. Unlike Metallica's 'Making Of a Monster' , the producer in this 'story' was asked to come back again and again. It may never hit the big screen but I as you can see, this story has the same drama and pizzazz that Metallica's 'rockumentary' had, if not more.
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