Mario Goretti, Valerio Negrini, Gilberto Fagg, Bob Gilliot, Mauro Bertoli ... Who are they? George, but the Pooh! The first line of Pooh, one dated 1965 that shows the development of "professional" of a group that for years, "beat" the dance halls of Bologna: the Jaguar.
Nothing to do with the current Dody, Roby and Red, who, one by one (with the recent fugitive Tony) would come in later years, but Valerio Negrini, one of the greatest Italian songwriters of all time , who earlier sat behind the drums, and today takes care of the texts, represents continuity during these almost 40 years of the longest running group of Italy.
However in 1971, to sign the first two hits of the band ("strong desire for her" and "Thought") is training almost final: there is still Negrini Riccardo Fogli on drums and bass, but Roby and Dody are already in place. In 1973, with "Parsifal," is finally Canzian instead of sheets and D'Orazio instead of Negrini. Here we are.
It can therefore be considered as "Parsifal" Pooh's first album of the 'modern era', but its value is not of course in this. The period of rock music was symphonic scores dilated, long instrumental sections, sumptuous orchestrations ...
The Pooh, the orchestra had always used, but that came mainly from England was something I had never done and that This intrigued them: spent hours listening to "Supper's Ready" by Genesis and thought that this was a matter that would have just wanted to try.
The 12 minutes that were born to give the title track pieces. A couple of years before, Facchinetti had been asked for a soundtrack for a film Lattuada "This kind of love", then he had not done anything, but the music remained: they became the core of the track where was combined with a theme already present in the album "contrast" of '69. For the first part
Fachinetti composed a theme of taste "Chopin" on which Negrini wrote a text inspired by the legend of the Holy Grail. The rest did the Battle of guitars with solos by a pair of primer for aspiring guitarists.
In the end it worked damn song well: it was in line with the music production more "evolved", but it had an accessibility that makes it accessible to the general public. A good compromise.
certainly not impressed that much fans of Genesis and PFM, but it certainly brought a lot of songs that just listening to a rock evolved.
The album then there was only "Parsifal," a good comparison chart of songs were more traditional (albeit excellent) as "You and me for another day" and "Inifiniti us," recorded with an orchestra of 60 elements. Although it was the story of the knight without fear and who ended up staying in the musical history of the four riproposero it up in concert not fed up and eventually renamed "pal par ...
rating 8
Lucio Mazzi
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