Komplettes MP3 Album von AZ IZ
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Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2006-07-18
Kurz-Beschreibung von CDbaby: 80’s Big rock. Heavy guitar and suburban angst. The real deal from a real 80’s band.... So 80’s that it was digitally transferred from a cassette.

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Az Iz
1981- Four guys from local suburban high schools get together over summer vacation to form a band,10 days later itâs their first âgigâ. They spend the next few years chasing the rock-n-roll dream. From house partyâs, roller rinks, condemned buildings and VFW halls they play anywhere and everywhere. Playing mostly originals keeps them out of any of the big city bars, this is the early 80âs and top 40 is the norm on the local scene. Az Iz becomes a big fish in a little pond and local heroes that never figure out that ânext stepâ to take. The band never had the business sense to take a legitimate shot at getting out of the âburbs. After selling all 50 cassette copies of their first studio release in a week, the band used the money they made to buy beer figuring everyone that would buy a tape did. It never occurred to them that more then 50 people would want a tape, though they played packed shows virtually every weekend. Marketing was a foreign language to Az Iz.
The next trip to the studio resulted in their first big time radio play, a major accomplishment for a band outside of the big city spot light. Of course the band did nothing to capitalize on this new found promotion, they were preoccupied with trying to line up a gig at the next kegger.
The third trip to the studio cemented their âlegendâ status in the suburbs. The band scored a bona fide radio hit with the original recording of âSay It to Me- Talk Dirtyâ. Spending 5 weeks at number 1 on college radio was a feat in and of itself, the fact that the college had never played a local band before made it even more amazing. Once again the band proved their ineptness to capitalize on this silver spoon opportunity, though they did get a feature article in the local paper, it was just more fuel for local myths but nothing more.
Soon, responsibilities out weighed the dream of rock-n-roll and the band was no more. Families, jobs and new cities brought an end to Az Iz but not after a life time of memories were created in those short few years.

Like most legends, the facts grow with time and the truth lies somewhere between the lines. How good was the original band? Well thatâs subjective, and needs to be separated from how âfunâ the band was live, but the Az Iz reunion â91 disc gives you a taste of what the band was doing in the early 80âs. A high school reunion brought together three of the four original members for a weekend in 1991. Spending a weekend in a garage with some amateur recording gear and a beat up borrowed drum set, original members Duayne Zeigler, Charlie Robinson and Darin Di Pietro were joined by fill-in Aaron Uhrich (original member Aj Schulte was long out of touch by this time) to lay down the basic tracks for 5 of their, by now, oldies but goodies, plus one new original- âBe Here For Meâ.
After finishing the recording they gave out low budget cassette copies for kicks and never gave it much more thought.

2006- A long lost reunion cassette shows up in a bag of old tapes that was discovered while cleaning out a closet. The tape still had the original cover and, all things considered, wasnât in bad shape. It gets dumped on a hard drive and made into a CD. Word spread to a few friends and they wanted copies to âbring back those memoriesâ just for laughs. Well if you can make a copy for a few friends, in 2006 you can make copies for the whole world. For nothing more glamorous then âarchivingâ purposes, this digitized version of the lonely reunion cassette that was stuffed away in a brown plastic grocery bag is now available online, and CD, for anyone who cares to have a listen. Who knows, maybe one of the old Az Iz fans will stumble upon this and the memories will coming rushing back. Maybe theyâll dig up their old âCanât Stop Rockinââ t-shirt, open a beer and be taken back to a Friday night at the local VFW hall where all we had to worry about in life was collecting enough money for the next keg........


Az Iz reunion â91:
Duayne Zeigler- Vocals
Charlie Robinson- Drums
Aaron Uhrich- Bass
Darin Di Pietro- Guitar