Amsterdam presents…THE ARISTOCRATS: THE DUCK TOUR 2025

Saturday, May 3

7:00PM Doors ✖ Hall ✖ $30.00 ADV / $35.00 DOS ✖ 18+

TICKET LINK COMING SOON!

“More fun than fusion has any right to be.” – Rhythm Magazine (UK)
Over the past 12 years, The Aristocrats – guitarist Guthrie
Govan (Steven Wilson, Hans Zimmer, Asia/GPS), bassist Bryan Beller
(Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Dethklok), and drummer Marco
Minnemann (Steven Wilson, Joe Satriani, Steve Hackett) – have
established themselves as one of the most musically original, refreshingly
irreverent, and astoundingly entertaining instrumental rock-fusion acts on
the planet. Anyone who’s witnessed their live musical high-wire act –
employing random amounts of rock, jazz, pop, metal, country, and anything
in between – feels the spirit of a true band, one whose improvisational soul
allows for anything to happen onstage at any moment…including the
occasional Frank Zappa-influenced wink and nod at the audience.
The buzz from their supposedly one-off debut gig at the Anaheim NAMM
show in 2011 led to The Aristocrats self-titled debut album. Tracked in just
eight days, The Aristocrats [2011] was hailed as an instant classic in
leading music publications worldwide, appearing on many of that year’s top
ten lists. The Aristocrats then proceeded to make three more critically
acclaimed studio albums over the next decade, two of which landed in the
Billboard Top 10 Jazz Chart. (Jazz? Ok, sure.) Four world tours and three
live albums later, the band is known on five continents as a must-see
whirlwind musical experience.
In 2024 the band released their fifth and most ambitious studio work to date
– a concept album. Duck is the story of a web-footed Antarctic island
native fleeing a penguin policeman all the way to New York City…where
considerable misadventure and danger await. The album takes The
Aristocrats’ collective artistry to a whole new mindblowing – albeit ridiculous
– level.
With a successful Duck world tour launch across North America in summer
2024 under their belts, the band returns to the United States in 2025 for
more musical mayhem.