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riccardo@, I didn't say that no one fought during those years; in fact, some who truly believed in it even lost their lives. However, that doesn't mean we should consider those struggles the result of genuinely revolutionary action. It was more of a cultural ideological uprising carried out by intellectuals who were, all in all, quite bourgeois. Even today, there are similar movements, but the right conditions for them to expand like in the '60s no longer exist, as industrial restructuring has already taken place. The massive labor movements that were the engine of those struggles are no longer around. Now we find ourselves with a handful of nothing, while the right flourishes with its leaders, and the left meekly aligns itself with the imperialist partition project. All this makes it evident how sterile and false those ideological struggles were. Only those who stubbornly cling to misleading analyses that pretend to be revolutionary or pseudocultural can believe that even in the rock scene of the '68 there were the seeds of real change. The music of the Beatles is not a low-profile cultural product compared to that of the Jefferson Airplane, Velvet, Hendrix, Dylan, or whoever you want; it is a variant of the same product of this civilization. If someone like Scaruffi builds the history of rock art on this, placing at the top those who haven't revolutionized anything, let him do it; those who believe it will always find it, it's part of the game.

riccardo@.."and yet during the protests of '68, there would have been interesting things to say"...and what would those interesting things have been? You're too young, riccardo, if you idolize '68; back then everyone sang the revolutionary struggle but no one ever brought a shred of a project to make it happen...and above all, the will, it's too easy to sing about it. With your mouth full of talk and committed lyrics, you engage in a lot of masturbation, that's for sure. The Beatles had more style; they never took that sterile and fashionable path of '68 politics.

..the bad ones are more insidious and do not declare it. However, he is an excellent artist despite his truly annoying voice.

.. luckily we have Riccardo, on Debaser he's worth a billion, he doesn't like Bitols and the like, but he's the most experienced there is.

..oh right, we were missing Riccardo, the Emilio Fede of Scaruffi.

I believe Peckinpah viewed his work as a "natural" man... for the philosophical analysis of the film, he left the intellectual efforts to the "cultured" man.

Cut them.. we're flying.

..the voice of Gary Brooker with a unique charm.

..ah, he's a guy with a map on his face.. anyway, I've always liked 10cc, the review is nice too.

Damn, I can't understand the cover image..