Melodic Rock Festival Day: At the Roadhouse, Elgin, IL, April 30, 2010 |
Next up (for me anyway) was the true highlight of the evening… ALIAS! While minus original members drummer Mike Derosier, guitarist Roger Fisher and bassist Steve Fossen, guitarist Steve DeMarchi and keyboardist Dennis DeMarchi joined their old friend and the “voice” of ALIAS, lead vocalist Freddy Curci for this very rare and special performance. I always absolutely LOVED the original ALIAS album and even did an interview with Roger Fisher shortly after its release for one of the first publications I ever worked for but I never did get to see them perform live back in the day. So this was a real treat for me and although it was only a 5 song acoustic set,Curci can still sing his fucking ass off!
Their set opened up with one of my favorite tracks off the first album “Waiting For Love.” This was just perfect in every way… the vocals, the sound, the performance… really an absolute feast for the ears. As the show continued,Curci interacted with the crowd by telling stories in between songs like another track off of their self-titled debut called “Haunted Heart” and “Into the Fire” off their second album “Never Say Never” which was never really TOTALLY completed and only released just last year. But the real show stoppers were, of course, the band’s truly beautiful presentation of everyone’s favorite wedding song “When I’m With You” from Curci’s days with SHERIFF and the ALIAS mega-hit “More Than Words Can Say” which was equally as impressive. What an incredible night from an incredible artist… we really need to hear more of these guys!
Set List
- Waiting For Love
- Haunted Heart
- When I'm With You
- Into The Fire
- More Than Words Can Say
Courtesy of RockEyez.com
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For several weeks, Freddy & Alias had 3 records on the Bestsellers list at EMI records. |
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After 18 years in the vault, the second Alias record, "Never Say Never" is now available. Check the shop page for the link. |
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Freddy is currently recording his next CD.
A few of those songs are featured on the new Lifetime show Army Wives.
Army Wives stormed the Sunday night ratings, becoming the most-watched series premiere in the 23 year history of the Lifetime network.
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Episode 2 songs:
"Whatcha Tryin' To Do"
"Echoes in the Darkness"
Episode 5 song:
"Home"
Episode 8 songs:
"Crazy Day"
"Carrie"
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Bringing Down the House
May 3rd, 2007. Freddy Curci performed a most intimate concert at the private party area of the Baldoria restaurant in Manhattan, New York. The one song concert moved the crowd of 200 on the Stock Exchange trading floor to sing along and give a raucous ovation. They all knew the words to "When I'm With You," because they play it every Friday on the floor. Passersby could hear the infectious "Baaaaby" across the street. The party was thrown for the Managing Director of Lehman Brothers who used "When I'm with You" for his wedding song. When Freddy met the MD he asked "So, this was your wedding song? Cool." Cool indeed.
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Zion was released in December of 2006; it took almost four years to complete. "I got really sick for a long time and I couldn't sing for over a year," Freddy said, "but I'm glad to say things are much better now and I am very excited to come back after such a long time! I could not believe so much time passed. I guess in my mind I never left. It was the journey I took that brought me here now. To quote Paul McCartney, 'It was a long and winding road.'"
Featured on Zion are professional musicians Jason Hook (ex-Bulletboys) and Joey Scoleri on guitars; Paul Marangoni (Kim Mitchell, The Works, Coney Hatch) and Joey Greco on drums; Ken Malandrino on bass, and Ross Greene on keyboards with the collaboration of Fabrizio Grossi on bass as well.
Freddy gathered the best songs from his repertoire written with Steve DeMarchi, Jeff Paris, Marc Ribler, Bob Marlette, and others. The resulting record is everything the Alias fans would have wanted. |
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