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I should have been there at this concert...

Dear Santa Claus, this year for a gift I thought of a nice gesture: instead of bringing me the usual useless and unappreciated things, how about giving a social life to the good user Miraggio? You’ll see, it will be the most appreciated gift for me. Oh, if you could also add a small Italian dictionary, since he only knows the words "cazzo" and "merda": apparently, those are topics he’s very knowledgeable about, even though I didn’t expect that from someone with such a brilliant mind (hey, after all he listens to Tom Waits, Mozart, Coltrane, The Doors, Frank Zappa, right?). Thank you very much!

Uhm... the cover must be the work of the same artist who also did the one for "Dance of Death" by Iron Maiden: I recognize the stroke, the style, the taste, the perfect sense of space and proportions...

A review that's almost too precise, but well written :-)
I don't have the DVD, but I'm certainly not going to buy it, because the Iron videos are either made with clips from live performances, or they're ridiculous ("The Trooper," "The Number of the Beast") or they're embarrassing (the computer graphics in "Different Worlds" or "Wildest Dreams" are terrifying; okay, they’re not here, but come on... I agree with Gnagnera: with all the billions they have, they should hire someone who knows what they're doing when they sit down at the computer...); nothing to say instead about the music.

5, always and only 5

Well, Miraggio, you know how it is: I find my email full of notifications about comments on this review of mine, so it seems normal to check back, right? Then I see it's the usual comments with four nonsense points, so I respond accordingly. By the way, you say that I keep coming back here: it costs me nothing, since, I repeat, I get notifications via email... you, on the other hand, come back here to check every time, right? Anyway, I’d say let's leave it here otherwise, since we were talking about Mel Brooks, let's do like Dracula vs. Van Helsing.

Ah, okay got it Seagull :D
Thanks everyone, as usual. @Rorix: yes, the best is definitely yet to come... I've already done the reviews of "III Sides..." and "Waiting...", maybe for completeness I'll also do one for "Pornograffitti" (even though they're all basically duplicates, but what can you do? Extreme is one of my favorite bands).

Ah, by the way, I took the liberty of sneaking a peek at your comments: the more I read, the more I realize that 90 out of 100 times you're just another fake having a good laugh while we're here responding to you seriously. Mirage, Mirage... I invite you to follow the advice you yourself gave to another user in a comment on the review of "Cattive Abitudini" by Massimo Volume ;-) Cheers again (but that's enough now, okay? Come on, the break is over...)

Following your reasoning, Mel Brooks is refined comedy and Vanzina is lowbrow comedy=shit: very well, I agree with that reasoning too. Simply put, the musical comparison you make is the opposite for me: Racer X is Mel Brooks and Beatallica is Vanzina (not that they are shit, but simply because they copy/paste parts of songs already made by others without adding anything of their own: "lowbrow absurdity" for me, but it’s their style). As for LaBrie's project, I’ve said myself that it’s a colossal mess, right? I think it's on the same level as Lombardo and Arruga too, sorry (plus I still maintain that if you have such strong feelings against Gilbert, there must be a bit of envy involved ;-) Come on, I’ll step back, returning to my shit music in my sad and lonely corner, envying your vast musical culture and looking at you with envy, because I will never be like you, I will never have your tastes... it will be hard to move forward, but I will try, praying that the God of good music has mercy on me and that the various Tom Waits, Mozart, Coltrane, The Doors, Frank Zappa don’t hold it against me if I dared to give 4 balls to a Racer X album.

Yes, objectively the album covers I review aren't the best :D
(Excuse me, but what does "The 'a' is in the west and the 'o' is in the east" mean??)