SSD have announced the reissue and remaster of their debut LP, The Kids Will Have Their Say, for its 40th anniversary through Trust Records -- available November 17th. This is the first time the album has been pressed on vinyl in over 40 years, and the remastered record will be hitting digital platforms as well. Guitarist, Al Barile comments on the reissue and working with Trust:
We only did one pressing of 1,900 copies and then I shut it down after the first pressing. Even back then within a couple of years if people wanted it they couldn’t get it, but I guess what surprises me is that people still want it. People on YouTube copy it all the time and put it up there and I never once complained to them about copyright violations or stuff like that.
When I heard about the kind of business model [Trust] were trying to do and how it had an archival twist to it, that really matched what I was trying to do because I was trying to find a permanent home [for it], so it wasn’t being bootlegged again or something I wouldn’t want to happen if I’m not around. They had the most compelling story when it came to matching what I was trying to do, so it seemed like a good fit.
In the meantime, check out the new video with previously unseen footage and photos, for the remastered version of "How Much Art?"
Barile comments on the track:
Our first performances began in art galleries and that combined with an overabundance of post-punk art rock at every turn made ripe for a song which is about the avant-gardcore movement at the Gallery East in Boston in 1980
