ABERRATIONS

Happy to be back on the old horse again, working on a brand new tune!

Yeah yeah yeah! Wow, did we have a good time playing live again! The hum of the amplifiers, the power of the drums and guitars, and then the sound of that awesome crowd! We were truly honored to be there! Thank you from the band to everyone who was there!

Chris Sabucco, Gustavo Muller Algayer, Geronimo Artz, Ian Tetrahedron LeBlanc

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Aberrations live ZAKK Düsseldorf Get Back 2022 After releasing their 2nd album Studio Graffiti, aberrations are back, live on stage!ZAKK Düsseldorf March 26th, 2022The band:Chris Sabucco - guitar, vocalsI...

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A tribute to the Beatles live at ZAKK in Düsseldorf!
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I Want To Hold Your Hand - Bollywood Beatles

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SPOTLIGHT ON: Everybody’s Gotta Live - Arthur Lee 1970

We wanted to end our album with a stripped down number, reminiscent perhaps in some ways of a track like Salt of the Earth which ends the Beggar’s Banquet album by the Rolling Stones. Arthur Lee and his band Love are highly underrated and so we thought this was a good choice.

Arthur Lee was an American singer-songwriter who rose to fame as the leader of the Los Angeles rock band Love. Despite a catalogue of spectacular albums containing a mixture of folk-rock, psychedelic rock, baroque pop, Spanish-tinged pop, R&B, garage rock, and even protopunk, Love never achieved the mainstream international success as many of their 60’s peers. Even Jimi Hendrix himself guested on 1970’s False Start. A troubled figure, Lee struggled in the 80’s and did jail time in the 90’s. In 2006 he succumbed to leukemia just as he was belatedly garnering widespread recognition and critical acclaim for his work.

Hear our rendition of this song and more on aberrations’ new album STUDIO GRAFFITI:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1h0XOSr2iDcL85y0D2NFbS

SPOTLIGHT ON: This Time Tomorrow - The Kinks 1970

Three of us in the band are expats, we are living away from family and friends, away from the countries we grew up in. Some songs evoke an emotional response and this has a wistful, longing feel to it.

This Time Tomorrow by The Kinks is a melancholy song featured on “Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One”.
Discussing the song, writer/singer Ray Davies said of the song's inspiration:
“I felt that I'd lost contact with my family. Because I'd been in a pop music bubble for five years, and I didn't know the people around me anymore. 'This Time Tomorrow' was about transience, and an ephemeral world.”

Hear our rendition of this song and more on aberrations’ new album STUDIO GRAFFITI:

https://open.spotify.com/album/4sPVgAWbSJohA1T9RH3rqq?si=Xk2tiOSFQfGV7rDGAM4gCg

SPOTLIGHT ON: Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire 1965

Years ago, long before the internet, as a young lad I heard this song once and in order to track it down, I had to call a radio station and ask them to play that 60s song about destruction, which they did, and thus I was able to learn who performed it when the DJ announced it! Different times!

"Eve of Destruction" is a protest song written by P. F. Sloan and best-known by the version sung by Barry McGuire. The song references social issues of its period, including the Vietnam War, the draft, the threat of nuclear war, the Civil Rights Movement, turmoil in the Middle East, and the American space program. The American media helped popularize the song by using it as an example of everything that was wrong with the youth of that time.

Hear our rendition of this song and more on aberrations’ new album STUDIO GRAFFITI:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1h0XOSr2iDcL85y0D2NFbS

SPOTLIGHT ON: Teenage Kicks - The Undertones 1978

Aberrations played this song a long time ago in a club called Pretty Vacant in Düsseldorf, which led to us meeting esteemed author and music aficionado Michael Wenzel who gave us our first reviews, giving us our first taste of legitimacy! We included this song on the album as a thank you to Michael.

One of the most successful bands to have emerged from Northern Ireland, The Undertones were a band whose material drew from punk and new wave. Their debut single Teenage Kicks was heavily promoted by influential British DJ John Peel, which was then heard by Sire Records executive Seymour Stein who’d signed The Ramones, Talking Heads and Madonna, which led him to signing the young band, thereby launching their career.

Hear our rendition of this song and more on aberrations’ new album Studio Graffiti:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1h0XOSr2iDcL85y0D2NFbS

SPOTLIGHT ON: I Don’t Want To Talk About It - Crazy Horse 1971

This was a good track to feature Chris’s slide guitar and indeed it turned into one of our favorites on the album.

This is a song written by Danny Whitten, and recorded by Crazy Horse, known by then as Neil Young’s backing band. Only, a year later in 1972, struggling with addiction, he was dead.
Neil Young recalled, "We were rehearsing with him and he just couldn't cut it. He couldn't remember anything. He was too out of it. Too far gone. I had to tell him to go back to L.A. 'It's not happening, man. You're not together enough.' He just said, 'I've got nowhere else to go, man. How am I gonna tell my friends?' And he split. That night the coroner called me and told me he'd died. That blew my mind. I loved Danny. I felt responsible.”

Hear our rendition of this song and more on aberrations’ new album Studio Graffiti:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1h0XOSr2iDcL85y0D2NFbS

Covid canceled our rehearsal so two of us channeled that frustration into a studio session!

SPOTLIGHT ON: Lawyers, Guns & Money - Warren Zevon - 1978

We considered the song Excitable Boy, and played the album to hear it again, but as soon as the track Lawyers, Guns & Money came on, it was obvious that one would be perfect for the band and indeed, it came out very effortlessly.

Warren Zevon was a struggling 60’s session musician, jingle composer, songwriter, touring musician, musical coordinator and bandleader. Success finally arrived for Zevon with Excitable Boy, his 1978 album boosted by the smash single "Werewolves of London". A best friend of Hunter S. Thompson and a regular guest on David Letterman, Warren Zevon became known for his dry wit and acerbic lyrics.

Hear our rendition of this song and more on aberrations’ new album Studio Graffiti:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1h0XOSr2iDcL85y0D2NFbS