Fronted by Andy Babiuk – guitar historian, consultant, and author (Beatles Gear: All the Fab Four’s Instruments from Stage to Studio, Rolling Stones Gear, and other books) – The Chesterfield Kings have just dropped their new album. The 14-track record, We’re Still All The Same, released by Wicked Cool Records, features the recent singles “Fly The Astral Plane”, “Electrified” (co-written with Stevie Van Zandt), and “Meet You After Midnight.” Keep reading below for more.
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Babiuk says, “When we set out writing the songs for the new album we stuck to our roots and what people know us for. Our producer Ed Stasium came to Rochester, and we recorded 20 new songs in August of 2023. We had a blast working with Ed pulling out a ton of vintage guitars, amps, keyboards and other odd instruments, coming up with interesting sounds that you really can only get out of vintage equipment. Ed took the tracks back to his studio in California and did an amazing job mixing the LP and also mixed the record in the new ATMOS format.”
“The title of the LP comes from a track on the album ‘We’re Still All The Same’. It’s a song I wrote that’s a social statement about people and humanity in general,” adds Babiuk. “People should stop fighting about religion, politics, race and everything else and realize that we may have different opinions or ideologies but in the big picture of things it really doesn’t matter. We actually have more things in common and in the end we’re really still all the same. If you think about how small the world is compared to the universe, we are all just a speck of dust. We should just be happy that we are all human, alive and we get to make it around a flaming sun once a year!”
We’re Still All The Same was recorded at Fab Gear Studios in Rochester, NY and produced by the legendary Ed Stasium (The Ramones, Talking Heads, The Smithereens, Mick Jagger) and serves as the band’s first LP in 15 years, after a lengthy hiatus. Throughout the recording of the album, The Chesterfield Kings used over 50 vintage guitars and a massive amount of vintage amps and keyboards (culled from Babiuk’s vast collection), resulting in an electrifying blend of classic tones that resonate with a timeless rock ‘n’ roll spirit, while maintaining a modern edge.
We’re Still All The Same tracklisting:
01 What’s The Value Of Time
02 Your Strange Love
03 Fly The Astral Plane
04 The Madcap Marauder
05 If I Had To Leave
06 We’re Still All The Same
07 So Down And Blue
08 Electrified
09 Meet You After Midnight
10 A King Of Hearts
11 Crazy Days and Wild Nights
12 It’s Mind Manipulation
13 Whisky Dreams Bourbon Schemes
14 Running On Madness
In 2025, The Chesterfield Kings will embark on the first ever Little Steven’s Underground Garage Cruise, which will set sail from Miami, FL to Naussau, Bahamas, May 9-13.
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Hailing from Rochester, NY, garage rock legends The ChesterfieldKings formed in the late 70’s, heavily mining the sounds of 1960s music from The Rolling Stones to acoustic blues and more. Instrumental in sparking the 1980s garage band revival, The Chesterfield Kings went on to record 11 albums and 15 singles, toured all over the world and performed live on television shows such as Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Night with Conan O’Brien and even made an appearance as themselves on the HBO hit show The Sopranos. The Chesterfield Kings went on hiatus in 2009 but are back with newly recorded music and their first live performances in over 15 years. At one of their recent shows in March of 2024, while introducing the band on stage Steven Van Zandt proclaimed, “Back in the 80’s music was getting a little slick with all the hair metal bands all over MTV, things were staring to drift away from traditional rock and roll and a new genre was born at that time called Garage Rock. The Chesterfield Kings are the guys who invented it!”
The Chesterfield Kings are:
Andy Babiuk – Lead vocals, guitar, other
Mike Boise – Drums, percussion
Jeff Okolowicz – Bass
Ted Okolowicz – Guitar
John Cammarosano – Guitar, keys
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