Check out "Remembering Eddie Van Halen: ‘Jump’ through the years" on YouTube
Remembering Eddie Van Halen: ‘Jump’ through the years
 
 
Charlie Barnet - Cherokee

Charles Barnet - from "Cherokee"
1958 (Everest)

#jazzlegends
 
 
Van Halen - Van Halen - Ice Cream Man

You know how I feel about death; what really kills me is how one dies, and He definitely suffered a lot. As for the rest, dying is the norm, suffering to do it is madness.
What can I say about the guitarist if not that he reinvented rock guitar after Hendrix (who was obviously his great idol). Zeppelin, Beatles (yes, them too), Sabbath, and the like were his heroes as a kid.
On their first tour opening for Sabbath, they crushed them (the Sabbath were burnt out and the young VH were a war machine).
An idol and reference for all the rock guitarists that came after, as a band, they won’t be repeated, but their debut – regardless of your tastes, even if you don’t like hard rock, listen to it – is among the best of all time.
Goodbye, boy.
 
 
Do we remember the solo in “Beat It” by Michael Jackson?

Michael Jackson - Beat It (Official Video)

Well, it was by Eddie Van Halen, not just any old thing...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Watch "Harlem River" on YouTube
Harlem River
 
 
 
 
Enrico Intra - 6 ottobre
#songsforsevermonths
 
 
 
 
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (2015 Remaster) RIP Eddie, another giant departs ...
 
 
 
 
Eddie Van Halen has died... Another one leaves us...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I continue reading Diceria dell'untore by Gesualdo Bufalino; "but I had read more books than I had lived days, in my so fleeting, so ineffectual passage along the roads of men."
 
 
 
 
 
 
diesis cover
Una notte in Italia
 
 
Batsumi - Moving Along

Batsumi - from "Moving Along"
1976 (R & T)

#jazzlegends
 
 
Wanda, stai seria con la faccia ma però
One of Paolo Conte's favorites, that is...one of those he likes...
 
 
 
 
Mozart e il cinema - Incompreso (1967)

Luigi Comencini (2 of 3)
“Incompris” - (1966)

#35mm
 
 
Prog work from '69 that I’m hearing for the first time, I hope it’s worth it otherwise we’ll continue to live just the same.
Don Shinn ‎– Takes A Trip 1.969
 
 
I finally had the utmost pleasure of meeting @[IlConte la contessa e la contessina]. My stay in San Polo d'Enza was brief, but truly exciting. What great people, with noble souls and immense hearts.
 
 
 
 
Return To Forever - Song To The Pharoah Kings
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Picking up on the brilliant idea of @[Martello], I dare to pay a sort of "tribute" to a great artist who was (and is) Ivano Fossati, namely a ranking of his albums (from 1981 to 2003) from least to most beautiful...

N°7: "700 Giorni" (1986)
We are in the second half of the 1980s, precisely in 1986. A rather important year, for better or for worse, for Italian singer-songwriter music: Venditti self-destructs an excellent musical career, Battisti begins his collaboration with Pasquale Pannella (ah, the white records...), Pino Daniele continues to bewilder his longtime fans, Graziani releases one of his least convincing albums, Bennato starts to lean towards the well-known chart-pleasing tactics, Dalla alternates between a flop and a beautiful live album, and so on. And then there's Ivano, who continues with his evolution, and this perhaps represents the first album of his "golden period": not yet an absolute masterpiece, but we are already very close. The sounds become increasingly ethnic, and the lyrics increasingly cryptic yet refined at the same time. Furthermore, it contains what is, in my opinion, his greatest masterpiece (yes, I know I'm being cliché...)
Overall rating 8.5

The masterpiece of the album: Una notte in Italia
 
 
 
 
Turn up the volume, you ignoramuses...

I Saw Her Standing There (Remastered 2009)
 
 
 
 
 
 
it's a nice album instead
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Camion - Lucio Dalla

Lucio, always there at the right moment...always there to console
 
 
Resuming the brilliant idea of @[Martello], I would like to pay a sort of "tribute" to a great artist like Ivano Fossati, by creating a ranking of his albums (from 1981 to 2003) from the least beautiful to the best...

No. 8: "Ventilazione" (1984)
We are in 1984, and with songwriting in full crisis - excluding a few exceptions - Ivano continues his artistic evolution with this excellent album, which could be defined as a concept about travel (a metaphor that, along with the sea, is a "fixed idea" for the author). An album that might be considered "transitional," moving from the rock Fossati of the '73-'83 decade to the more inspired, intimate, and experimental Fossati of the '86-'03 period. While still quite distant from the well-known absolute masterpieces, it's a record that is enjoyable to listen to.
Overall rating 7.5

The masterpiece of the album: Viaggiatori d'occidente
 
 
 
 
The covers, those beautiful ones...
"We Love We Love Rocky "Aflatoon Ft. Akshaye Kumar, Urmila Martondkar
#masterpiece