pier_paolo_farina

When too much success drives great musicians off the rails... I would be curious to understand how such "excessive" albums linger so much in (your) heart.

But don't they ever take a vacation? Don't their wives tell them to stay home for an evening once in a while?

I'll be brief: it's my favorite Rush album!

Behind Pezzali there's Cecchetto, who pushes and pushes, and when there's a new album to launch, he even sends him to Piero Angela to talk about volcanoes and neutrinos. He and all the bullshit shovellers at the helm of the Italian music business should be taken out.

The real problem with the RHCP is that they have a monstrously disproportionate success compared to their talent. Okay, there would be a place for them in rock music, but not with this following! Personally, I think the same thing about a bunch of people (REM, Clapton, U2, Madonna, Vasco...) but with them, it's a scandal!

Bitter disappointment, at the time... you really hit the nail on the head when you said it's poorly produced: It sounds flat and uninspired.

Great record. Magnificent band. Nice review.

Derek Shulman lives in the United States and is a big shot at a record label, I can't remember which one. Phil Shulman returned to teaching in 1973... by now he must have finished doing that too since, if I'm not mistaken, he was born in 1941. Kerry Minnear tried to revive the band a couple of times; he’s the one with the most regrets. Thanks for the approvals.

Britti is an excellent guitarist, a poor composer, and a terrible singer. In Italy, there’s no room for guitarists; instead, there’s space for little recommended singers, so... it must have cost him a bit because I’m convinced he’d rather do other things, but he would need to emigrate... and struggle with the hundreds of thousands of skilled guitarists like him who play every night for fifty people and 100 Euros in America, England, Germany, Brazil... After all, it’s like that everywhere, isn’t it the same story (with due proportions) as Phil Collins?
Then, there’s no doubt that Radius is a historically central musician in Italy, but as a guitarist he has very modest talent. It’s characters like him that make you reflect on how poorly off we are in Italy with rock, if he is still a reference point for many... His only merit is having been in the right place (at Ricordi in Milan) at the right time (the late '60s). There’s no doubt, however, that Mussida, besides being well-prepared, has personality and charm. Braido, finally, is an almost useless "monster," highly skilled, spectacular, and completely anonymous.

Stuart Elliott is also the drummer for 10cc, a lovely band.