ARJEN LUCASSEN’S SUPERSONIC REVOLUTION Unveil Music Video For Cover Rendition Of ZZ TOP Track ‘Heard It On The X’
May 23rd, 2023
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Dutch progressive rock band Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution, spearheaded by namesake musician Arjen Lucassen, have released a music video for their cover rendition of the ZZ Top track ‘Heard It On The X’, which can be viewed below.
Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution issued debut full-length studio album Golden Age Of Music on May 19th, 2023 through Music Theories Recording / Mascot Label Group.
The whole project grew from a request to provide a track for a cover CD for the German music magazine Eclipsed. “They asked if I had any cover versions lying around,” Lucassen recalled. “I said, ‘No but I’ll happily record one for you.’ So, they gave me a list of bands and I saw a ZZ Top song ‘I Heard It On The X’ that I really like. I said I could record it for them, but then they told me it had to be ready in one week…”
“I was like ‘Oh my god!’. I contacted my favourite musicians in Holland via WhatsApp and literally within 30 minutes I had assembled five people. A band basically. ‘I want to form a band. And I want to simply have fun!’.
“I’m a perfectionist as you know, so I’m always sending musicians their parts back and asking them to change stuff,” he acknowledged. “But this was all brilliant. We were having fun, calling and WhatsApping all the time, and within a week we had a complete product. Also I wanted to have an up-beat, positive project.
“I was like, let’s form a band and let’s write songs in the style of the 70s, and have the lyrics be a celebration of all the memorable things from that time, because those were my formative years. But I didn’t want it to sound like the 70s because that’s already been done, and I can’t do it any better than ‘Stargazer’ (Rainbow) or ‘Kashmir’ (Led Zeppelin).”
“The guys are all younger than me – around 30 – so they weren’t even alive yet in the 70s. So, it was a great way for me to make 70s music with lots of Hammond and blistering guitars, but to update it to this time.”
The end result is debut effort Golden Age Of Music. “This album is not a typical prog album,” Lucassen said. “It’s not Yes or Genesis. But it’s not a metal album either. There’s a track called ‘Burn it Down’. It’s totally based on ‘Smoke On The Water’ (Deep Purple) but written from the perspective of the ‘stupid with a flare gun’ mentioned in the original lyrics.”
Cover artwork was created by by Claudio Bergamin Art.
The track listing is as follows:
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01. ‘SR Prelude’
02. ‘The Glamattack’
03. ‘Golden Age Of Music’
04. ‘The Rise Of The Starman’
05. ‘Burn It Down’
06. ‘Odyssey’
07. ‘They Took Us By Storm’
08. ‘Golden Boy’
09. ‘Holy Holy Ground’
10. ‘Fight Of The Century’
11. ‘Came To Mock, Stayed To Rock’
Bonus tracks
12. ‘Children Of The Revolution’ (T-Rex cover)
13. ‘Heard It On The X’ (ZZ Top cover)
14. ‘Fantasy’ (Earth, Wind & Fire cover)
15. ‘Love Is All’ (Roger Glover cover)
Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution’s line-up is as follows:
Arjen Lucassen (bass, Ayreon / Star One)
Jaycee Cuijpers (vocals, Praying Mantis)
Timo Somers (guitars, ex-Delain / Vengeance)
Koen Herfst (drums, Vandenberg / ex-Dew-Scented)
Joost van den Broek (keyboards, ex-After Forever / Star One)
Music videos were filmed for the title track and the song ‘They Took Us By Storm’. In addition, an official lyric video was created for the opening tracks ‘SR Prelude’ and ‘The Glamattack’. All three clips can also be viewed below.
