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Guccini vulgar? Are you joking, Duane? No, wait, I’m certain: you’re joking. Or maybe you don't know what you're talking about.

I'm still curious: why does he curse?

And you put one on it? Well. Alright that there's no Duane Allman solo, but more than a judgment I have the suspicion that it's a prejudice. Then it doesn't matter, of course.

Duane, do you know the album? Just out of curiosity. Who is the bestemmia?

and off we go with the very long and convoluted sentences, just in case it’s not clear, I’ll translate it, okay?

Nice review, Grass, but as a true Guccini docg, I have a rather different opinion on the content, more about the individual tracks than the album as a whole. For me, the real masterpiece of the album—and I say this after several hundred listens (one of the Italian singer-songwriter albums I know best, given that by the age of fourteen I must have had ten of them)—is "Antenor," one of Guccini's most underrated tracks. Then there's "Poveri bimbi," which attempts metropolitan blues and, I believe, succeeds wonderfully in its rawness. "Bisanzio" is beautiful, the more "cultured" one, arranged more skillfully (by Dalla), but it lacks the succinctness of those two tracks. Even "Venezia," which isn't really Guccini's, still sounds very much like him, and although it's lovely, it ultimately pays the price for that excess of dramatic flair (though it contains phrases of monstrous beauty). In my opinion, the best Guccini of the 80s—I personally prefer it even to "Signora Bovary," which may be arranged with more care musically but lacks the anger I hear here. And then "Antenor," just how beautiful it is.

no no, you understood correctly. And think that when the Hatfields came to Rome last year and I didn’t go, thinking I would have other chances...

I agree, Zaireeka; for example, Pyle on drums was about seventy to zero compared to that of Caravan.

I second Fusillo's suggestion about Hatfield. By the way, recently Pip Pyle, the great drummer from Hatfield and also Gong, has said goodbye to this valley of tears...

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