Album Notes

The Limbs (or The L1MBS) is one of several stage and recording names of singer-songwriter John Mazzucco (born 1969). He currently resides in Denver, Colorado, and has released four studio albums under four different acts, and two EPs. His most recent work is the full length CD Boo The Villain, independently released 12/28/07 (as The Limbs). The Limbs is a one man band project in which John plays drums, guitar, and sings simultaneously, at live shows and in the studio. The name The Limbs is inspired by Mazzucco's physical appearance while performing live, and more loosely, an attempt to describe his genre hopping songwriting style.

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The Limbs are one part Frank Zappa, one part Leonard Cohen and one part Modest Mouse, only with ten times less manpower.

Wild-eyed and writhing, limbs flailing, if you can imagine, Mazzucco takes this performance to a whole new level. The Limbs are no novelty act, mind you, but rather a brilliantly dark display of hollow-sounding and haunting compositions backed by the busy man’s morose lyricism...

-The Met University Newspaper
Metropolitan State College of Denver

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Armed with a guitar and a drum set up out of some demonic marching band, Mazzucco began the set with a crunch that never stopped. While relying on so little, Mazzucco somehow managed to sound like (and I know this will be hard to swallow) a mixture of Daniel Johnston and ZZ Top... Finishing off his set, with the crowd clamoring for more, Mazzucco played a number that was so fierce that for a second I believed that Sabbath was a one man band...

-Jeremy Brashaw, Westword Backbeat

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One-man bands, unless incredibly well excecuted, can't help but come off as being schmaltzy sort of children's birthday party music. The Limbs, far from the norm, is a swampy, creepy, articulate one-man project whose music opens up a world of creepy mystery you'll only start to comprehend. It's like he channels some rustbelt ghost, wandering through the wreckage of a post apocalyptic zombie world.

-Josh Vanek, Wantage USA Records

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If the Battle of Waterloo had been fought by wild apes on the deck of a burning ship it would still not match the unbridled spectacle of a LIMBS show. It is a singular tsunami of musical bedlam.

-Kent Shelton, Manager - Gothic Theatre, Englewood CO

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"We've all seen 'one man bands' but this guy pulls off some death defying act with his delivery...He's got two kick bass that he operates with both 'limbs' and a high(hat) that he bashes the hell out of with the head of his guitar while sounding like a full-blown, comebacktolife DOORS all over again, and you could just swear he is going to blow a vocal chord, and writes some of the trippiest tunes I've heard in some time. If you closed your eyes, you would swear there were at least 4 band members on stage..."

Carmen Allgood
Program Director, Rock On Colorado syndicated radio