ALDO NOVA Explains His BLUE OYSTER CULT Connection
July 14, 2004, 20 years ago
In a recent interview with Classic Rock Revisited (classicrockrevisited.com) guitarist ALDO NOVA discussed his secret contribution to a BLUE OYSTER CULT song,
"I had written that song and it was called 'Psycho Ward.' It was about an escaped convict who escaped from the psycho ward and would kill again and again. The music was the same as it was on the BLUE OYSTER CULT version. We are both science fiction nuts. Eric Bloom said he wanted to write some lyrics for it. He wrote 'Take Me Away.' It blew me away.When they were doing their album Revolution By Night, I got permission from their manager to sneak into the studio and play on the tape. It is actually me playing all the guitars and the keyboard. It is not my solo though. I did the whole thing except for that."
Aldo Nova’s entire interview with Classic Rock Revisited can be found at this location.
