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I remember seeing the set of this film when I was a child while they were shooting it. The fight scene was filmed in Piazza D'Armi in Turin.

Hi brusko, I see you're struggling in the heat of Puglia. The power of internet connections, you'd never believe it but the internet is almost everywhere. Of course, it’s not ADSL, but for checking emails and watching you getting roasted by kosmogabri, it’s more than enough.

However, be careful, judging an international artist based on the Italian market is like giving (y)(y)(y)(y)(y) to Rosy Bindi after drinking two liters of absinthe with a funnel. In other words, you're looking at an artist from an absolutely restrictive and biased perspective, and you’re giving him a judgment that tends to be objective, but that only the objectivity of the numbers (72 million records sold) can provide. Even Fabrizio De André never gets played on Finnish radios.

So is Billy Joel underrated or what? Are we really pushing in the same direction after all?

I don't think Supersoul meant that to find some freshness in a blues record you have to listen to a 39-year-old album, which is, quite frankly, an absolute nonsense (Texas Flood?). What Supersoul is saying is that if you really want a great blues album with Clapton and Winwood, you have the London Sessions. The real issue, however, is the approach to blues, both from those who listen to it and those who make it: Clapton and Winwood once really struggled to find their way home, today that's not the case anymore, and for Clapton it hasn't been the case for about thirty years. I agree with Templare, Clapton is only the one with the Gibsons (especially the Les Paul).

How can one say that Billy Joel is an underrated and perhaps even unknown artist? His records have reached 72 times multi-platinum status in the American market (meaning over 72 million records sold, with "Piano Man" alone accounting for 4 million) and the platinum records on all other markets, which however have much lower thresholds compared to the million records in the American market, are countless. His "Greatest Hits" ranks sixth among the best-selling albums of all time, behind bestsellers like Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and AC/DC's "Back In Black," still holding the record for the best-selling album by a "rock" artist today (the ones that precede him are bands, and Michael Jackson). Has he been reevaluated after a long time, as happened with other unknown artists? In 1974, the single "Piano Man" was at number 4, and 25th in the Billboard Top 100, and the album was already platinum, meaning it had already sold a million copies. So much for the unknown and underrated.

one of the few albums from 2009 that I liked

The discography of John Lee Hooker is vast and quite tangled; if you’re looking for an album that can summarize it, go for "Live At The Cafe Au Go-Go (and Soledad Prison)." It consists of two live performances, the first one held in 1966 in Greenwich Village (!) with Muddy Waters' backing band (!!), and the second in 1972 at Soledad Prison in California. "Bang Bang Bang Bang" is nothing more than the prison version of "Boom Boom." The first live set is essentially blues, while the second is essentially boogie. As Willie Nile says in his latest album, "mr. John Lee Hooker is gonna kick your ass."

Come on, Johnny Burnette, on the other side of the ocean, was known by heart by Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck, far more than Elvis. The central solo in the medley of Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin, for anyone familiar with the (short) discography of the Johnny Burnette Trio, is practically a continuous déjà vu. It was Johnny Burnette who did the first rock arrangement of The Train Kept-A-Rollin' by Tiny Bradshaw. It's a given that Carl Perkins was better than Link Wray at that time. Link Wray was ahead by about a decade with his amplification experiments, but people only realized it in the '60s.