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The important thing is to know how to play the Piffero with elegance.
 
DEF LEPPARD - 'Pour Some Sugar On Me' (Official)

One of the most beautiful stories... when do humanoids smelling of money, fame, and success ever risk "ruining" everything for a friend?

Rick Allen joins Def Leppard at 15... yes, fifteen... not that the others are much older...
He celebrates his 16th, yes 16th, at Hammersmith Odeon when they open for AC/DC...

In '83, the band hits the big sales success with their third album "Pyromania"... I loved the first two so much... already mentioned in the previous story...

On December 31, 1984, the accident: “I think my arm is still in the car”... a nearby doctor wraps the limb in ice, they rush to the hospital but attempts to reattach it fail...

Neither Allen nor his bandmates give up the idea that he can't play anymore. He puts everything into it, encouraged by all the bandmates, and realizes he can make up for the missing arm's work with his legs.

Rick is in a studio alone with the new “hybrid” drum set practicing every day...

The Friends will never even try to find another drummer... they'll have to soften the sound... but, rightly, who the hell cares...

After several months, Allen reunites the band and plays the intro to Bonham’s “When The Levee Breaks”... there are tears of happiness...

His live return is sealed at the Monster of Rock festival in 1986 in England with an ovation that every time... breaks your heart...

The following year "Hysteria" arrives and the success is global...

I have faded but wonderful memories tied to "Hysteria"...

Oh, I almost forgot... Rick still plays and is still with Def Leppard, savansadir...

A nice cheesy 80s video as it should be, for heaven's sake.

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Quanno Chiove (Remastered 2014)

"‘Quanno chiove’, one of the most famous songs in Neapolitan by Pino Daniele, has a profound and delicate meaning, never explicitly stated in the lyrics recorded in 1980 on the album ‘Nero a Metà.’ The year was 1980, and a 25-year-old Pino Daniele was releasing his third album after the dazzling debut of "Terra mia" (1977) and the confirmation of the self-titled album (which many fans call ‘ore 8’ due to the cover photo, a combo of four pictures of the artist with the time displayed). The third work was called "Nero a metà," and even in the title, it was clear to the Neapolitan music scene whom it paid homage to: the singer of the ‘Showmen,' Mario Musella, who had passed away a few months earlier, a son of Naples on his mother's side and a Native American father in Italy due to the war. Thus, a black man halfway.

«And I feel you when you go down the stairs / You run without looking»: this is the opening of one of the most beautiful songs from that album. It’s called ‘Quanno chiove,’ when it rains. It’s in dialect, actually in the Neapolitan language. Not everyone knows that those delicate words, like poetic eyes, sweet but never pitying, resting among the alleys washed by the water «che te 'nfonne e va» (that wet you and goes down) on the profile of a woman, told the story of a prostitute. Yes, a prostitute who spends the whole morning preparing, her high-heeled footsteps distinctly tapping on the lava-stone pavement of the streets of Naples. A girl like many others. Who then works and «nun rire cchiù,» doesn’t smile, can’t smile anymore given the work she does.

A sweet arpeggio, almost a lullaby, one of Pino Daniele's songs most loved by young people fiddling with the guitar for its ease in chords. Over forty years since its recording, "Quanno chiove" remains undoubtedly one of the masterpieces of the Neapolitan artist, who passed away on January 4, 2015. It has been interpreted by female voices like Mina and Giorgia, but also by an emotional Eros Ramazzotti that night at the San Paolo stadium in the summer of 1994 during the legendary concert alongside Daniele and Lorenzo Jovanotti, a massive event that took place just a few weeks after the death of Massimo Troisi.

And I feel you when you go down the stairs
You run without looking
And I see you every day
Laughing as you go to work
But then you don’t laugh anymore.
And far away it goes
All life like this
And you hold back not to die.
And wait for it to rain
The water wets you and goes
So the air must change
But then when it rains
The water wets you and goes
So the air must change
It gets dark and the moon speaks
And you live to feel
For you everything can speak
But you’re left with the words
And the shame meets you
But passing by someone
Turns their eyes and goes away.
And wait for it to rain
The water wets you and goes
So the air must change
But then when it rains
The water wets you and goes
So the air must change
And wait for it to rain
The water wets you and goes
So the air must change
But then when it rains
The water wets you and goes
So the air must change.
 
Keel - Rock and Roll Animal

I was wondering how many of you, senseless bumpkins from the Galapagos, are familiar with the first hard rock record that abused thunderous drum machines like there was no tomorrow.

Year of (dis)grace 1986.
 
Everydays (Live)
Buffalo Springfield
 
Robert Plant greets Brian Johnson in the Misty Mountains of Wales in his Celtic warrior outfit Robert Plant is aging, and I've noticed that the old man on the cover of my old L.Z. IV LP is getting younger year by year.
 
Filth

I continue with the music I discovered through Alan Wake, just like yesterday.
 
Ingrandisci questa immagine
Ingrandisci questa immagine

simply Albertone.
Autumn/Winter.
 
In A Year With 13 Moons (1978) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Clip: Soul-Frieda relates his sad dream

"A Year with Thirteen Moons"
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1978)

starring Volker Spengler
Ingrid Caven
Gottfried John
and Elisabeth Trissenaar

#35mm
 
For All We Know

Patty Waters
"For All We Know" from: You Thrill Me: A Musical Odyssey 1960-1979
2004 (Water)

#jazzlegends
 
As the Crow Flies
The Animals
 
Barbra Streisand - Woman In Love ~ With Lyrics

Completely immersed in "Songs Of A Lost World" – which is an album that wants to tell me something, even if I don’t understand why for now – I need something to distract me.
So, let me share my usual, personal, quirky little story about this MASTERPIECE.

When the song was released, the singer (I love playing with women: they bring out the best, if they’re good) insisted that I execute that guitar intro perfectly, as if it were the easiest thing in the world.
Oh no, damn it!
Easy as hell!

So I went to my trusted dealer – he has perfect pitch – and asked him how I could reproduce those seventeen guitars with my little, tiny hands.

"Simple," he says (sharp), "you need a Multi-Octaver!"
Which was one of those little pedal boxes, like Fuzz,
that back then nobody quite understood how and why they worked.
One hundred fifty thousand lira! Damn!

I won’t even mention the frustration, me who can’t even change a light bulb, trying to configure that bizarre gadget!

Yet, when a guitarist who knows what he's doing meets a damn multi-octaver, that multi-octaver is an instrument that must obey!

It took me a week, but when I played the riff for the Boss, she said: "not bad; but add some echo."

So, can you understand?

Fortunately, Trump won and so did Inter.
Both played badly, what can I say.

P.S. I adore the Cure.
 
We Love You
The Stones' love for the Beatles