Canadian rocker Aldo Nova kicked off his first run of reveals in 32 years this previous Sunday (July 23) on the Okay-Days competition in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. His backing band on the gig consisted of Jack Frost on guitar, Dario Seixas on bass, Ange E. Curcio on drums, and Michael T. Ross on keyboards.

Aldo shared some video of the efficiency on his social media, and he wrote in an accompanying message: “My first present is below my belt, and it went extremely effectively. I used to be actually nervous in the course of the first two songs as a result of I hadn’t been on a stage in 32 years, however after that, I felt proper at dwelling and simply let the music circulation. The gang was nice in Edmonton, and the followers have been actually welcoming and actually into it. Me, Jack Frost, Dario Seixas, Ange E. Curcio and Michael T. Ross rocked, and we had lots of enjoyable. This Rocks with a capital R!!”

Born Aldo Caporuscio, Aldo opened this channel forty years in the past together with his 1982 double-platinum prime ten self-titled debut, “Aldo Nova”, and its definitive Scorching 100 smash single “Fantasy”. On the heels of the platinum-selling “Topic…Aldo Nova” and “Twitch”, he emerged as a trusted collaborator for among the greatest stars on this planet. He co-wrote the track “Mr. Massive Time” for the soundtrack of the film “Armageddon” and labored carefully withJon Bon Jovi on his soundtrack album for the movie “Younger Weapons 2”, writing the signature riff from Jon Bon Jovi‘s “Blaze Of Glory”. Bon Jovi returned the favor by collaborating on Aldo‘s 1991 “Blood On The Bricks”. Working carefully with Céline Dion, he penned “A New Day Has Come”, “Your Mild”, “I Cannot Battle The Feeling” and “You And I”, even garnered a Grammy Award within the class of “Album Of The Yr” for co-writing and producing three songs from her diamond-selling album “Falling Into You”. To not point out, his discography additionally contains writing songs for everybody from Religion Hill, Carole King and Clay Aiken to Garou and BLUE ÖYSTER CULT.

In 2008 Nova launched into a 14-year journey to create his rock opera “The Life And Instances Of Eddie Gage”, which was lastly completed in March final yr.

In a 2022 interview with Glide Journal, Aldo acknowledged about his prolonged absence from the highway: “I’ve averted happening tour for years and years. Once I was off, I obtained supplied many instances to do these traditional rock reveals and these traditional rock revivals with bands and that is all they do. They trip and forwards and backwards yearly and all they play is their outdated songs. I think about myself to be a present artist that has new stuff to supply and ‘Eddie Gage’ is the proof of that. So I did not wish to do a traditional rock tour. I would love to do a small headlining tour or open up for somebody greater, like Sammy [Hagar].

“If I went to a booker now, he would actually not take me as a result of he would say, ‘He is obtained one hit, he is a one-hit-wonder, he is in all probability fats and has no hair and we do not know what he seems like,'” he continued. “That might be the preconception he would have and he’d e book me within the traditional rock reveals… Like I mentioned, these individuals don’t have any notion of what I appear like, what I sound like, the one-hit-wonder until I show them in any other case… So it is all a step-by-step [process].”