This is the year of the concerts for me.
I saw Roger Waters, Joe Satriani, Inhalers and Iron Maiden, so far.
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I created a playlist :-
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLox_xf3zXe3hhRRT54wPgMPEVqdOZYTOf
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It’s funny you should mention youtube playlists…
funny how, I mean funny like I’m a clown? I amuse you?
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In Italian we would say: " e sti cazzi!! Questa é qualitá sopraffina" 
I’ve lost count of the concerts I’ve seen… but I prefer quality over quantity… From the Weather Report to Pink Floyd in Venice, from Sting to the Verona Arena, B.B. King, Ray Charles, Pat Metheny, Chick Corea and Elektrik Band and all, ALL Pino Daniele’s concerts in Bologna …
…not counting the classical concerts (I was a season ticket holder at the Teatro di Bologna)
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Italian melody… 
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… same pianist but with another instrument…
Today i re-discovered this rare little diamond and i’ve thought some of you certainly would enjoy it. IMHO the full disk is a master-piece with a work of voices absolutely brilliant, to mention some of the strongest points.
Enjoy it!
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Even if the genre is completely different, you reminded me of the Great Gegé Telesforo… When the voice is a complete synthesizer of sounds…
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Classical Composer Examines score of Tarkus by ELP, a couple of versions Tarkus were shown here earlier. He finds the use of 4ths were unique in this and other ELP songs. Probably comfortable to Keith Emerson’s hands.
The (dot) has to be replaced to get the video into a new browser window. (didn’t want to clutter.
www.youtube(dot)com/watch?v=_FMjCN6jEyY
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I still have the triple vinyl of :
Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends – Ladies and Gentlemen…
Emerson, Lake & Palmer!
FANTASTIC!!!
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I’m sure you all know the song. I thought I did. What I didn’t know was that it was part of a project to bring the written lyrics of Woodie Guthrie to life at the request of the Guthrie family.
This is why I love music. There is more than words and sounds. It is stories and life lived.
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I acquired a taste for Billy Bragg as a teenager in a similar way as I had acquired a taste for beer not long before. It was a challenge but the reward was worth the effort. (That was before he could sing as in tune as this.)
I loved both Bragg’s original and Kirsty MacColl’s interpretation of New England. A great song with two quite different and good versions.
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Enjoyed the idea of Billy Bragg, but the actuality was often disappointing. Wrote some good stuff …
I’ve always assumed the guitarist is Steve Lilywhite unless you know better.
According to Karen O’Brien’s book on Kirsty, it was Pete Glenister who played guitar. I had it in my mind that Bragg also played on that version but I think I am confused with the fact that he wrote an extra verse for her version. Lillywhite produced it.
A few weeks ago I had the honor of meeting a teacher from the Verdi Conservatory in Milan who organizes a review dedicated to Pino Daniele in Naples, where only the students play and sing… I believe that these young people are at a level that will make many “Big” disappear …
Well, good Zynthianers, now it is time to introduce you the most unusual, transversal and trailblazing Italian musical personality of the last half-century: Franco Battiato.
Some of you may have had some casual acquaintances with this ingenious master of music, since he has been occasionally promoted abroad by EMI, through Spanish and English albums with translated lyrics.
Stockhausen protege during the 70s (recipient of one of the first EMS VCS3 ever, from Zinovieff himself), daring art-rock/pop crossover herald in the 80s (among the very first worldwide adopters of the CMI Fairlight and PPG Wave), spiritual researcher in music across the 90s and 2000s (composer of four complex operas, a Latin mass, an electronic ballet and various soundtracks), eventually director of three prized movies and also writer and painter.
Had this remarkable inventor of a cosmopolitan retro-futuristic and pseudo-Mesopotamian fictional Middle-East been an English speaker/singer, he certainly would have been at least as influential as Peter Gabriel or the Pink Floyd.
He sadly passed away in 2021, rather early for his notoriously sober lifestyle, probably by self-decision and out of uncontrolled curiosity about the nature of the otherworld.
"It is true that roses bloom thrice on the Black Sea?
It is true that Doric columns crumble there,
and one can hear speaking of distances,
to reach Alexandria in Egypt?
Glory of old Europe…
The smell of gunpowder
scattered through neighbourhoods,
while a band accompanies the Saint’s relics:
religious impulses of the West: accident!
Troops lined up in front,
at an order the rifles fire,
the first rows fall as rain;
the smoke thickens with sweat.
(the left side of Baku
looking at the port…)
The smell of gunpowder
scattered through neighbourhoods,
while a band accompanies the Saint’s relics:
religious impulses of the West: accident!
The left side of Baku,
looking at the port.
It’s the lookout…"
"Tell me about the existence of very distant worlds,
of lost civilisations, of continents adrift;
Tell me about the love that is made among men,
of extraordinary travelers in mystical territories;
much more…
We instinctively followed the trails of comets,
like vanguards from another solar system.
No Time, no Space
another race of vibrations,
the sea of the simulation;
keep your feelings in memory,
I love you, especially tonight.
Space traffic controllers ready for take-off,
gigantic telescopes to follow the stars,
sailing, sailing through space;
much more…
We instinctively followed the trails of comets,
like vanguards from another solar system.
No Time, no Space…"
Translations: Aethermind
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This is totally unknown to me. And …
I’ve really enjoyed the global sound and the mix of the first song.
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