Best Park Bench Blueprints

Wovenhand - Piazza Verdi - Bologna - July 6, 2010

If all the preachers were like David Eugene Edwards, probably there would be no atheists in the world.

Edwards brings more than two decades around the word of the Lord , first with 16 Horsepower, 2002 with the logical Wovenhand, a musical discourse that ranges from folk and blues, and psychedelic rock medieval music, punk and tradition of Native Americans. On

stand all its apocalyptic mystical visions, narrated with frightening fury and evangelical fervor in a constant state of trance whose sincerity is impossible to doubt. In giving voice to the word of God, Christian never was equally convincing (except, perhaps, Jesus Christ.)

David Eugene Edwards loves Italy. Since there are Wovenhand, has graced our land of about a dozen visits, the problem was that his range seemed to be deliberately limited to the outskirts of Ravenna, having set those shares at least 90% of its performances (Exceptions, if memory leak, Milan and Rome - one visit each).

this evening in Piazza Verdi breaks the border, and the result is that the big events, hundreds of fans of all ages, families with children in tow, a table of Vikings definitely emerged from some concerts death metal Northern European (which will remain for as long as absolutely real estate). There is also Brondi Vasco. At 21:45

precise the crowd like the Red Sea opens the passage of Moses, David Eugene Edwards has arrived, wearing a Hawaiian shirt with flowers from indecency, a panama with white stripe and white feather from Alpine pimp pants long light brown sandals and a student off-site in Sicily. The rest of the band (drums, bass and slide guitar ) dressed in black, mostly shirts open to the fourth button, the sleeve cuffs, casual as it can be an informal reception to an undertaker.

The concert is a long, uninterrupted stream of consciousness tracks of rhythmic, eerie, hypnotic, one amalgamated in the other, almost without pause, in which Edwards grabbed his eyes down, repeatedly empties his glass of whiskey that some unknown diligent bordopalco to ensure on time to fill, seems to want to undermine the head from the neck shots with sudden and violent. It's the same process ever. It is a concert Wovenhand. Musically

seem to hear just returned from the grave of Doors , with the exhumed corpse of Morrison that if the grins on the sidelines, occasionally bits of Elvis Presley, Danzig, Cramps, Joy Division and Sol Invictus (somewhere in the river September also a cover, completely transformed, Heart and Soul of ) or, more simply, the transposition of music in the novels of Cormac McCarthy, but better.

In any event, a unique absolutely awesome, marred only by the immobility of an engineer invisible, unable to resolve the quarrels of Edwards with a spy who does not seem to work. The only downside of a ritual that we hope to repeat as soon as possible.

rating 8

Matteo Cortesi

Alcohol Pain Behind Ears Or Neck

BEATLES - Let It Be - 1970

The end of the Beatles, the end of a decade, the end of a philosophy of life ... Let it be, let it be, now we need to think about what to do with large ...

We enjoyed a lot, but now it's time to put my head straight. Just Beatles, just Love & Peace, just bullshit. Just travel in India, just movies and cartoons, just life in common, just share everything. Now, each for himself and the god of rock for all.

When released "Let It Be", the most popular band in the world no longer exists (officially) for a month (but in reality McCartney and the rest of the group were at loggerheads for some time).

have already released solo albums of Paul, Ringo and John and the four are separated even on the cover .

The whole album has a little 'taste of something " had to be done" because it was really impossible to give up without even a final chapter. Not exactly

a happy ending, but at least the end credits and an end to this great history, the Beatles were.

Perhaps if the story of the Beatles was not over, these songs (recorded before "Abbey Road" which instead came out first) were never published and still not in this capacity.

Instead the four decided they still had to publish a "last record" so the poor in the hands of producer Phil Spector a handful of songs seconds (compared to their standards) recorded without having any desire in a period of boredom and quarrels.

Spector, then, according to almost all of Paul in particular, managed to ruin production with a pompous and pretentious even the little that was good.

He was then considered the best producer in the world, but the material on which it was found to work excelled and eventually became probably also get carried away.

John said: "It was given as shitty pile of shit poorly recorded and with a feeling lousy and has dug something," Paul said, "His work throughout the disc, particularly on" The Long And Winding Road "is terrible, plus represents an intolerable interference with my work. "George Martin was shocked to hear what he had done Spector, the press spoke of" an EP inflated "and" a slab of cardboard "... But it is a

so bad disc "Let It Be"? At the end probably not .

Maybe we should listen with their ears back then, hearing it coming from all that the Beatles had done before, to understand the reactions of the period, but heard today The album is not so terrible .

certainly contains some moments of high-level (the two Harrison songs "I Me Mine" and "For You Blue," but also "The Long And Winding Road", "Two of us", "Get Back" and the same "Let it be ") and the episodes are not memorable (" Maggie Mae "and" One After 909 "which actually belonged to the period Quarrymen, the sluggish" Dig it ") does not seem so scary.

Perhaps Betles deserved a better farewell , but who knows, maybe a great album would make the pain of regret and their fans even more ...

Rated 6.5

Lucio Mazzi

Kates Playground Flip Flops

BEATLES - Abbey Road - 1969

I Beatles had left the recording of 'White Album' apart. Each began to glimpse the end of the joint and the beginning of personal interests. Although no one wanted to say the word "fine", all they had in mind.

Maybe they were tired of each other , perhaps the early enthusiasm had run out, or perhaps the many quarrels economic management had come to undermine the mutual trust, perhaps (as many claim) even Yoko Ono it took its ...

finally deciding to make an album together, even recorded live and without further elaborated, each of them may have thought in reality to a hard farewell.

Why live? The idea was to film the group to work , but the four did not agree on anything and the presence of Yoko Ono on the set certainly did not improve the climate.

Among many difficulties, the filming was carried out (from hundreds of hours if brought out 88 minutes) and the songs were so painstakingly recorded, but then, as also on those recordings was no agreement, all was left gathering dust on shelves. Disc movie and would have gone under the title "Let it be" a year later.

But that was not the end.

After the recording of those pieces, the four decided to agree with George Martin to record a final album before they broke up that now seemed inevitable .

In fact, the songs that comprise this album were conceived and often recorded "in house" by the musicians and some, quite rightly, spoke of four solo albums in one, not the album of a group.

So George must two of his most beautiful songs ever ("Something", the piece of the Beatles with more cover after "Yesterday" and "Here Comes the Sun"), on two songs Lennon hallucinated that would advance his career hits like "Come Together" and destabilizing "" I Want You, "McCartney signature, among other things, the final part of the beautiful suites at the B-side:" She came in through the bathroom window "/ "Golden Slumbers" / "Carry That Weight" and even Ringo took leave from his companions with a bird's wing: the excellent "Octopus's Garden".

A great album at the end. ... Or four great little album

Rated 8

Lucio Mazzi

Queen Mattress Cargo Van

BEATLES - The Beatles - 1968 (White album)

The famous "White Album" by the Beatles is considered by many a monument , a masterpiece like "Sgt Pepper".

This double vinyl is the result of a trip to India that if the Four certainly not increased significantly their spiritual depth, certainly cleared a bit 'their brains by the acid. And in particular Lennon (which is in the company of new girlfriend, Yoko Ono, soon after he took the heroin to attend). This cleaning

unlocks the creativity of the musicians who quickly wrote over thirty songs.

Not all high level: at a distance of time, you could say that it might be better to make a great single album, rather that a double good moments in which living with songs rinunciabili .

In any case, the Beatles decided to record and publish everything. Packaged in a plain white cover era explosion of colors.

But in the end time is the best judge of the greatness of a song (and, in the case of the Beatles, it is unthinkable that a masterpiece to remain "hidden"). So, if the 35 tracks that make up the 'White Album "will remain in the collective memory some (the silly" Ob-la-di ob-la-da ", the sparkling" Back in the USSR ", the beautiful "While my guitar Gently Weeps "that marks the compositional maturity of George, the gentle acoustic ballad" Blackbird "), there is a reason ...

Not that all other tracks are to be ignored: in many great efforts were undertaken under construction ( "Revolution 1" and "Revolution 9", originally a single track, "Happiness Is A Warm Gun"), others had the "importance" that went beyond the strict scope of music ("Do not Pass Me By" was the first song Ringo , "Glass Onion" said the bitterness of the whole brood by Lennon just like "Piggies" George told the auction, "Happiness is a warm gun "was actually the only song of the disc which worked actively with all four musicians).

However, many other songs are other attempts have failed miserably (pseudo fracassone of heavy metal" Helter Skelter ") and other ("Rocky recount," "Wild Honey Pie" "The continuing story ..." Honey Pie ") were only fillers uses throw-away . In short, a fragmented and disjointed album that almost never saw all four work together and of the famous "Hey Jude", but only as a single output, would certainly have raised the tide.

Rated 6.5

Lucio Mazzi