The Power Of 3
“Seeing live music never goes away. You can post files, download, do damage to the music industry through piracy, but you cannot replace a concert.”
“This is the most eclectic album we have done by far.” Marco Minnemann is speaking about You Know What…?, the fourth album from The Aristocrats. On it, the band – Minnemann (drums), Guthrie Govan (guitar) and Bryan Beller (bass) – continue to display their extraordinary virtuosity, irrepressible humour and a disregard for the niceties of genre. You Know What…? features everything from fusion to blues riffs, Spanish flamenco influences and a demented jig.
The band hadn’t released new music since in 2015, as they’d all been busy with sideman gigs – that’s one of the challenges for a band composed of three of the hottest guns-for-hire in the business. Between them, The Aristocrats have played with the likes of Joe Satriani, Steve Hackett, Asia, Steven
