MR. G KNEW IT ALL...

A journey through Gaber's work, exploring his prophecies/dystopias that have often shocking come true and the sideways visions of our lives, woven with daily habits and quirks, miseries and aspirations, the political and the personal. We take him from the beginning of the second part of his career, a time when he brought his texts, along with Sandro Luporini's, on endless theatrical tours across Italy, where audiences would interact as was customary back then, standing up and voicing their opinions, even in open opposition to the artist who sometimes responded, emerging battered, other times not. Nowadays, one would rather give him a like on Feisbucc or become one of his haters, as it seems that no one expresses anything publicly anymore, limiting themselves to hiding behind a nickname or a pseudonym. Sometimes I find myself wondering what he would think of this or that happening; indeed, I would be curious to know, just...

Giorgio Gaber - Quando è moda è moda (10 - CD2)

"And you're also original, just listen to some of your phrases, filled with ever more cultured and increasingly disgusting new words; for a normal person, for someone with honest feelings, when they hear you utter them, they'd have a great desire to see your teeth fall out..."