pier_paolo_farina

DeRank ™: 9,02

DeAge™ : 7265 days • Here since 20 july 2006

Saga Network

27 jan 11

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Thank you for the proposal, YRO167. I live in the Marche, a bit far away... You know, I saw them in Switzerland, in Zurich, for the first and only time. It must have been 1998. I also saw Foreigner and Journey together at the Gorge along the Columbia River, not far from Seattle. The most beautiful place for concerts in the world, inside the canyon. Still with Lou Gramm, but sick, fat, and out of breath. The Journey with Steve Augeri on the microphone, though. It was 2001.

Saga Network

23 jan 11

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@YRO0167: go ahead and get lost in it, love has no age, luckily. Furthermore, especially for us guys, it happens that great loves never really end. I remember spending 2003 listening almost exclusively to the Beatles and buying about ten books on the subject. Every now and then, I find myself falling back for entire months into marvelous and always surprising universes like Gentle Giant, King's X, Free, Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell... (each of us can add our own). @MARMAR: you can also start over with this album... even better with Trust or House of Cards, even more successful.

Saga Marathon

16 jan 11

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@Always Pibrock: the capitulation started immediately; the chapter numbers are an integral part of the titles themselves (examples: "Don't be Late (Chapter 2)", "Streets of Gold (Chapter 14)" etc.).

Saga Marathon

16 jan 11

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@Pibrock: as far as I can gather, the original idea of the Chapters consisted of eight chapters, carefully spread across the first four albums. Twenty years later, in a full self-reflection, here you have a sort of sequel, with another eight chapters. @YRO167: thank you for the compliments, involving some passionate individuals around important fixed points of musical passion is always a pleasure. @Roby: amazement! A classic rock album you don't know! I didn't think it was possible, given your evident encyclopedic appetite.

Journey Raised on Radio

27 dec 10

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The same advice, but applied to Punk, Brit Pop, Grunge, Hip-Hop, Growl, Death, Italian Rock, Reggae, New Wave. A fan review, but "Girl Can't Help It," "Positive Touch," and "Happy to Give" are in my heart. I've always found "Be Good to Yourself" insignificant.

Jack Bruce Harmony Row

1 dec 10

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@Bender: I missed your note about Andy Fraser... You are absolutely right, a true luminary, the young lad from Free, who as a teenager played the bass however he pleased, without copying anyone, with syncopations and key shifts that were disorienting, but above all he dictated to his guitarist Kossoff much of the foundational riffs and to frontman Paul Rodgers the choruses!... To be thorough, among the luminaries we can gladly and wistfully add the late Gary Thain from Uriah Heep, another talented drug addict but with a wonderful phrasing, not to mention the exaggerated American Tim Bogert, a missile, a TAV of notes, and finally Ray Shulman who, while working in the progressive realm, had a hard rock spirit and played live with the strength of an ox cart.

Uriah Heep Sea of Light

27 nov 10

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Great Fede. Passion and objectivity. I don't know this album, but sooner or later I'll make up for it. Box is the Gattuso of hard rock: talentless but with willpower, positivity, and dedication. A real man.

Thompson Twins Into The Gap

27 nov 10

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Damn it. What a struggle to read you: change the keyboard, or learn Italian. I prefer Maria Callas.

Saga Full Circle

27 nov 10

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I don't need it, Splint: at the beginning of 1985, I left the Discomane, a used record store on the Naviglio Ticinese, with a copy (used, for two or three thousand lire) of Worlds Apart. That LP had the cover with the old man, the map, and the band's red logo. I didn’t know a single note of that album, but at that time they were occasionally playing the video for I'm the Flyer (from Heads or Tales) on Videomusic, and I had noted down the Saga, promising to "give it a try" at the first opportunity. The rest, for me, is history: I got home, put the record on the turntable, On the Loose started playing, then Time's Up, then the others, and it was love at first sight.

Saga Full Circle

25 nov 10

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@Splinter: the cover of Worlds Apart with the old and the debut of the "classic" logo is not a reprint. It was released simultaneously as an alternative to the other one, the one with the glasses-wearing girl in the foreground.