Biography

We've been busy! In June, we released an album of live-in-studio demos called Northern Lights with some great tunes we'll never have the time to re-record.
We've already started recording our 6th album in 9 years, Uncivilization, and have released a single called Covid Blues, dealing with this horrible world-wide pandemic.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the album "In the Court of the Crimson King" by King Crimson, an album that influenced all of us, we have recorded a touching cover of "I Talk to the Wind" featuring guitarist Michael Paolucci, that may remind you of Jeff Beck and his breakthrough instrumental album, "Blow By Blow." No matter what type of music you like, great guitar is great guitar. It is our first ever cover and the only song we will cover.

In April of 2019, we released our first album in a year, AlumiNaughty, which is sort of our anthology of demos for songs we've released or will never get to re-record, due to the fact that over the past 40 years, we've written so many songs. Some of the tracks include musicians who have played with Peter Wolf, Rick Danko, and Jim Weider.
We will also be releasing a live album, and album of brand new material by year's end. Those of you who know our music, might think these demos are better than the remakes we did on previous albums. We are featuring the two drummers and two guitarists who passed away and never got heard, and also feature some of Boston's best musicians, including some who have been in Peter Wolf's bands. Hope you'll give us a listen once again!

When you were younger, you said you'll never be like your parents. Then you hit your forties and the inevitable happens. You Turn Into Your Parents is our new rockin' single.
Our 2018 album,"Half Fast", is a rock album featuring released and unreleased singles. The new single, "It's Time", features vocals by Bird Mancini and is about standing up. The time is now! "Feel What I'm Feeling" is rock at its best with dueling guitar solos. We hope you like this new album!

Our song 'Endless Corridor" from the 1975 re-mastered re-release has generated alot of airplay in the past few weeks. It's already been playlisted on WCAC-FM, WFMO-FM, and Mark Skin Radio. If you liked bands like Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, you'll like this. If you haven't taken the time to hear it, and rock is your format, you'd be missing a true classic. Download today!

We've all been drunk before, right? Our new song, "Everybody's drunk" is a little different than our other songs. It's the first collaboration between Special Guests songwriter/guitarist, Al Pechulis, and his singer/songwriter son, Jon Bonner. It's alot of fun!

We have videos for most of our original songs. Take a peek! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOI4xgzHooI

In November of 2014, Special Guests released "Studio Six: The Cockroach Sessions", a previously unreleased album, and now released digitally for the first time.

The Boston-based band had released a self-titled CD on Canned Peaches Records in 2011, and later several singles. The CD had been 2 years in the making and features superb vocal performances by Zoe Alpert, Craig Carter, and Suzanne McNeil. The project began when songwriter Al Pechulis met Zoe and Rick Alpert, while performing at the Frank Withey Memorial Scholarship Foundation concerts near Boston. Zoe particularly liked Al’s original songs, and after Al gave her a CD of original material, the trio met on a winter’s night in 2009 and knew this would be something special.
Pechulis had successes in the past, recording records for London Records and JEFF LYNNE’s (ELO, Traveling Wilburys) private label, Jet Records, which was distributed by worldwide by United Artists. After disappointing record sales, Al gave up and got into computer software. In 1986, Al began playing again with bassist David Karahalis and drummer Doug Parks. Al had always sung his own songs, but in 1995, developed an incurable vocal disorder called Spasmodic Dysphonia, and could no longer keep pitch. Hearing Zoe sing sparked Al’s determination to produce another record. After recording 5 songs, Zoe became pregnant and took a leave of absence from the band. From that point on, Al brought in several fine singers and musicians to complete the record, and thus the name, Special Guests.