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About Me

Sergio - guitarist, songwriter, music journalist ("Chitarre"), former/stand-by theatre critic; graduated with honours to Performing Arts/Musicology (DAMS) in Rome with a thesis about American popular music in the first half of the XXth century ('Fairy tales can come true - Una lettura della canzone d'autore americana nella prima metà del Novecento'), analysing the evolution of light entertainment tunes of the 1880s into theatre/movie music in the 1920s, and its connections with jazz (From Tin Pan Alley to 'somewhere over the rainbows') and with later 'music for the masses'

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/28/2007
Influences: beatles, bob dylan, eric clapton, leonard cohen, nick drake, richard thompson, william blake!, bryan ferry/roxy music, velvet underground, stones, yardbirds, led zeppelin, hendrix, jack bruce, queen, marc bolan, small faces/faces, the who, aerosmith, genesis, chicago, duane allmann, joni mitchell, elton john, brian eno, U2, REM, jeff buckley and tim too, herbert pagani, boris vian, antero jakolla...(to be continued)
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Ooh La La - The Faces

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZEy_kJ8nJU celebrating one of the greatest bands ever: The Faces (please pay attention to the fact that Ronnie Wood carries out vocal duties here, and main au...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:08:00 GMT

here we are, june the 15th_jeff healey

here we are, June the 15th. June the 15th?!? time ran lately, no time to pop in and update and post comments and send message and clean friends list (mmm, half the bunch off in a while). anyway: last ...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:51:00 GMT

upcoming

syd barrett; jeff healey; stochelo rosenberg/salvatore russo; hank marvin writing, transcribing, listening to music/writing, transcribing, listening to music/writing... it’s all nice, I’d ...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:35:00 GMT

Nick Drake, hangin' on a star_CHITARRE, march 08 - published works

Oh yeah, march came at last and CHITARRE's march issue's out right now. Nick Drake fans - go hurry to page 90 for reading my article commemorating him and his art. Then go back to the start ...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:22:00 GMT

madcap laughs (pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease, baby lemonade)

thanks to God, after a shitty two weeks breaks caused by pc problems (again), toady I eventually finished re-writing (again) long awaited pink floyd and syd's article and sent it to the editor. hope t...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:38:00 GMT

led zeppeliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin

ladies and gentlemen, led zeppelin - jan 08 Chitarre's issue with my cover story about the fab band_celebrating mr jimmy page with analysis and transcriptions
Posted by on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:08:00 GMT

zeppelinesque 2_whole lotta potatoes

why did all those potatoes fell from my hands into the cookware? it was supposed to be a simple potage. damn it.  
Posted by on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:50:00 GMT

zeppelinesque_forthcoming witing on Mothership_forgive me syd

due to Mothership's release and following article/review/stilldunnowhat even if I'll have to write it and send to the magazine's editor in some 7 days, writing and publishing upon syd barrett will be ...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:46:00 GMT

(old) new pics added; band wanted, anybody joining?

subject says everything, plain and clear
Posted by on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:13:00 GMT

someone’s been phishing my account again

Everybody please delete recent bullettin with my name on it. Someone managed to send all this shitty stuff again. Hope the problem will be solved in short time from now.
Posted by on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:23:00 GMT