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Rating: How difficult it is to poorly review the live performance of one of your favorite bands.
If the band is called Verdena and this year they have only two dates in Italy, then it becomes really tough. Nonetheless, the beautiful Cascina Monluè has seen a lot and will survive this as well, for sure.
It will be more challenging to swallow this hubris consumed in front of an adoring audience, ready to soar on samurai's suicides and hurting moons, instead of being faced with an orgy of covers like at the Miramare ballroom of Bellaria.
Ok, ok, from the right perspective one should write about a tribute to the pantheon that has always inspired the best Italian rock band in recent albums, one should praise the precision (always surgical, it must be said) of Albi Luca and the utterly defiant Robi on strings, cymbals, and snares, one should extol the power that the three from Bergamo exude without ever holding back...
The point is that, for once, Verdena played for themselves, they did their own thing, they may have enjoyed it thoroughly, but the last thing I expected at their concert was to see their audience motionless, arms crossed, lips sealed, staring at them and nodding their heads from time to time. Too many covers, period.
A couple of tracks from each of their CDs (luna live always sounds better, it must be said), and a special guest appearance to remember an extraordinary man: bugo on acoustic guitar playing "flaming", one of the most beautiful pieces written by Syd Barrett for 'The Piper at the Gates of Dawn'. And in all this, Mart even managed to fall in the middle of the mosh pit.
Well, both need a re-evaluation.
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