2/29/2024 0 Comments Aldo nova albumMikeladano on Savatage Albums Ranked: A Coll… Very stupid of him as SRF is a big festival and many bands had gotten a new start with that festival, as strange as it might sound when you think about what a small country Sweden is. Let’s just guess that Aldo Nova won’t ever play SRF after that. Which means he pretty much just stole the money. He was booked to play Sweden Rock Festival this summer, but after he got his booking fee, he cancelled due to, as he said, illness, but promised to play 2014 instead, but since then he has gone underground and he refuses to communicate with SRF. I can also tell you that Aldo Nova seems to be somewhat of a douche. I know that Aldo’s Canadian and maybe that has something to do with it, but in Sweden, Twitch and Subject are Aldo Nova’s biggest efforts. It’s really weird how different we see things in different countries. But I agree, it’s sad that it has to be there. Aldo Nova album which kinda makes the new edition with the “Featuring Jon Bon Jovi” all over the cover correct. I like this too, but as you wrote, it’s overproduced and even though I like the songs, this is not an Aldo Nova album, this is a Jon Bon Jovi feat. And so were Subject and his self titled debut. This edition has an annoying “FEATURING JON BON JOVI” scrawled all over it, as large as the album title. I do like the original cover, it was cool if a bit bland. Phil X, known to his friends as Phil Xenedis, is currently on the road with Bon Jovi, filling in for Richie Sambora. Phil X is pictured in the CD booklet as he was in Aldo’s touring band, but he does not play on Blood on the Bricks. Two more Bon Jovi connections to mention: the great Kenny Aranoff, whom Jon likes to use on his solo projects such as Blaze of Glory, plays drums. For example, “Veronica’s Song” boils down to a rewrite of Bon Jovi’s “Silent Night”, and that makes me sad. However aside from the guitar playing everything here is terribly generic there’s nothing here that you haven’t heard before. Song highlights for me incluced the burning title track, “Bright Lights”, and nostalgic moments like “Touch Of Madness”, “Young Love” or “Medicine Man”. “His boom-box blastin’ some Metallica track”? Did Aldo really sing that? Aldo’s album is recorded and mixed even worse than the afforementioned. Play Prisoners in Paradise by Europe, or Hey Stoopid by Alice Cooper for an idea of this sonic quality. This type of production value was way too common in 1991. The production has spoiled this batch of pleasant if ordinary rock toons. However it stumbles under the weight of layers of backing vocals and overdubs. Every song collapses under its own weight of gang “whoa whoa” backing vocals, shrill instruments, and thudding shapeless drums with all the characteristic telltale signs of samples.Ī song like “Medicine Man”, for example, is a decent if generic song on its own. The problem here is that this album is choked to death in overproduction, and I have to blame JBJ for that. Indeed, Aldo proves on several tracks that he is a burnin’ axeman, and he even takes a brief keyboard solo on “Bright Lights”. The problem with Blood On The Bricks is not lack of decent material, or lack of chops. Considering that Aldo played on several Jon Bon Jovi releases, this album will appeal mostly to fans of the Well-Coifed One. JBJ, who co-produces and co-writes pretty much every song here, has a heavy stamp on this album. ALDO NOVA – Blood on the Bricks (1991 Polygram)Īfter Aldo’s career had been declared clinically dead and Aldo himself a “one hit wonder” (“Fantasy”), it took the mighty Jon Bon Jovi to resurrect him.
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