antoniodeste

...as I can do with your comment. That was the point, in case you didn't understand.

I know little about Gomez's work, and I would say that what I do know is connected to the Steps period. However, if there’s one thing that has always struck me and (made me smile kindly) it’s the passion that Gomez has in vocally singing his bass solos in sync. Beautiful. Symbad: Another brick in the wall.

You're right, man! And indeed, you tried, managing to make me and who knows how many others crack up with this post... Yet she continues to sell millions of records and... high-powered positions continue to claim mostly unaware victims who... perhaps don’t even know who Bakunin was or what anarchism is. (In fact, they might even think with disgust that it's some sort of terrorist stuff.) My remark was clearly about the faces, and the useless/unpleasant speeches coming from "personalities" that have had their time, always assuming they had the right to use it that way. Attempting to bring this one or that one down is, in the end, just a pious hope/illusion. At most, in reality, we might manage to pull our pants down when, as we age perhaps, we become so pot-bellied that we encounter some difficulties in the bathroom... Until next time, Dante. :-)

.....or to Pippo Baudo, Raffaella Carrà, Emilio Fede, Aldo Biscardi.... shall we continue? Wise Dante, but "puccioppo" the trombones or the "quasi-trombones" are our cross and we have to endure them when they come into range..... Sursum corda and... let’s turn our gaze (and perhaps our words) elsewhere. (Nearly) fraternal regards. Until next time, perhaps on.... God... (Ronnie James...). Then there would only be Jesus (& Mary Chain) and, perhaps, St. Peter & Paul. After that, we’d need to invent some other saint or deity. (....). Pax tibi.

No, no, what a fool?! She really is a clever one!!!! She can't do a damn thing that has any real value... and yet millions of people have bought her records and mythologize her... could it be magic or predictable stupidity? Come on Dante, give your thoughts, you who are the author of the review, which I think is taking on "epoch-making" characteristics for the "noise" it continues to make!

Symbad, I must tell you that the first time I saw "Shadows & Light" was shortly after the release of the double LP (it was on Betamax tape) and seeing Metheny and Pastorius (especially) was an incredible emotion; not to mention Joni, who along with Romina Power (...) has been one of the loves of my life. I saw that same solo (of course with sensitive variations) by Jaco live on November 23, '80, during the presentation tour of "Night Passage" by WR. After that, I saw Jaco two more times (in '82 with Delmar Brown, Alex Foster, and Kenwood Dennard, and in '86 with Bireli Lagrene and Peter Handke), but it was a completely different experience, and you know what I'm talking about. It was thrilling and wonderful to see Joni at the Arena di Verona in '83 (Landau, Klein, Colaiuta, Ferrante). I will never forget it.

Most respected opinion and... I'm not complaining. However, there are things, Muso, and that’s what I meant, that if placed somewhere else "would act" differently. Music that (the same) played by x, you wouldn't even consider it, but if it's played by I don’t know, the Rolling Stones, Prince, Springsteen, a name that big, it suddenly changes "appearance". It’s an old question, and as far as I remember, this isn’t the first time it’s come up for me. My pseudo-paradoxes tend to question the "legitimacy" of certain assumptions. Whether you like PF or think "Dark Side" is overrated is absolutely legitimate. If someone less known had published it instead of them, etc. etc....: We will never know, Muso, if what you believe is true. It’s your assumption and once again I respect it: but thirty years later, what’s the point? And what is its utility? To diminish the value of Waters' band? Mind you, I like PF, but not to the point of defending them at all costs or writing rivers of motivations, as a fanatical fan, which I am not. It’s just to try perhaps to see more clearly and, if you will, to downsize the "case" or reevaluate it critically. But not to dismantle it, as it undoubtedly has some intrinsic value, even if it’s small. The proof is that even on DeB, whenever this title comes up, it leads to dozens and dozens of interventions. Mine, in this case, and it won’t be the final one, I suppose, is the 704th. It must mean something, don’t you think? :-)

Frankly, I think I might be a bit too old to listen to the things recommended by Vincolla, but I take note of them nonetheless. However, at least on one thing, I agree. I follow with a certain curiosity (I have their entire discography) the band of Mikael Akerfeldt (Opeth) and I have a fondness for "Damnation." Their DVD "Lamentations" is quite a nice document. Nothing comparable (neither in a negative nor positive way) to Camel or KC, though. It's something I've "inherited" from Steve Wilson's statements, as I would also consider myself a fan of Porcupine Tree.

Well, it happened to me back in '74, when I asked a certain Maurizio for a comment on "Larks' Tongues In Aspic," and I heard him reply: "Yes, nice....but it’s not danceable....."
I confess that this worried me a bit back then about the future "popularity" of the KC.... :D

Ah, I almost forgot: no double nicknames, or silly nonsense; antoniodeste is antoniodeste. In fact, Antonio D'Este. Okay?