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Prince One Nite Alone Live!

5 sep 06

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Dear Massimino, it happens very rarely, but I absolutely agree with everything you've said, down to the last comma. However, I wonder if it's possible to make an ideal ranking between two such different yet complementary personalities, like Zappa and Prince. I also find 3121 a good product, infinitely superior to the bland "musicology," which, being bland and being from these years, is the only one to have had a bit of success...

Chet Baker With Fifty Italian Strings

5 sep 06

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Thank you, first of all. Then, if I have to share my opinion, I read the book and it's frankly a useless work, interesting only for the purist philologist. It's clear that a great artist often has a personality you wouldn't expect. Amen...: it's the records we need to pay attention to, and there are plenty of those... however, on this note... I may be a bit fanatical, but I've never heard the "ghost of Chet"... the last recordings of his life, both studio and live, or at least the ones I know, are beautiful (my other review, "hart of the ballad" with Pieranunzi, is anything but a minor album, even if it might be "commercially" so... and it's definitely the last studio recording).

Edoardo Bennato e Alex Britti Notte di mezz'estate

4 sep 06

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Morgan... well... Rino Gaetano is, in my opinion, a highly overrated legend. Bennato during his golden years was infinitely superior to me. L'uomo occidentale had some moments of clarity, but also endless ugliness: "america... don't be too harsh with the severity" (or something like that...) is one of the ugliest lines in the history of written words as well as sung ones...

Enzo Jannacci Live@RTSI 27.12.1986

4 sep 06

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massimino: only 3 stars because despite everything it's a flawed concert, with many imperfections, and because if you give 5 stars to the best studio albums... well... this one deserves 3. but they are 3 good ones. Lexus: how old are you? (if you're already pissed off it means you're young and you blame yourself...) anyway Jannacci is to Zelig what Jarrett is to Moira Orfei.

Edoardo Bennato e Alex Britti Notte di mezz'estate

4 sep 06

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thanks to everyone (excluding the anonymous…). Bennato represents my biggest musical disappointment: up until "è arrivato un bastimento" he was objectively fantastic. Regarding the right/left opportunism discussion, if it's true that Edo made that statement, the solution is simple: he’s lost his mind, and it shows clearly in what he writes. about Britti the wannabe: he’s a technician, nothing more. There are guitarists who have been playing the same 4 pentatonic notes their whole lives but have made history in guitar. Britti is an overambitious little technician, useless and talentless: he might work in a musically awful era like this one…

Vasco Rossi Non Siamo Mica Gli Americani

26 aug 06

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x DoctorJ: sorry... given your comment: I missed it. To say that Vasco from the first 4 albums didn’t invent anything would require a corollary: who was doing that stuff then? both in Italy and elsewhere...? a detailed and reasoned response can be discussed: no slogans, no banalities (and calling someone a pirla isn’t that great of an insult... for many reasons I consider myself a bit of a pirla too).

Vinicio Capossela Live @ Sferisterio - Macerata 21/08/06

26 aug 06

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Well done: great Capossela. 35 euros for a nice concert is nothing.

Francesco De Gregori La Donna Cannone

26 aug 06

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bartlebioom: look, "pezzi" and "calypsos" are more beautiful than love in the afternoon... trust me: since you just left it not long ago (it's harder to convince someone who abandoned it from "scacchi e tarocchi"...), give it a try. trust me, you won't regret it. doctor: the more I know you, the more I like you (to have a definitive judgment though, I would need to know your super-secret tastes... fiulèi)

Vasco Rossi Non Siamo Mica Gli Americani

26 aug 06

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Doctor... why do you get angry that I don't see any of your comments...!? Paranoia or do you write the nasty comments under another name...!? Bah... anyway, it's true, I, along with 3/4 others, are the best. Thanks. Get to know each other better, so maybe we can argue properly, ragazzi.

Francesco De Gregori La Donna Cannone

25 aug 06

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true pearl...so, back when there were extra tracks...remember...they used to make these mini albums, often with absolute masterpieces (sometimes misunderstood even by the authors themselves). remember, for example, "Ciao a te" and "Madonna disperazione" from the tiny Qdisc by Dalla...? well done, beautiful and -alas- old mention