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Roberto

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About Me

I'M A ROCK'N'ROLL WRITER...WITH A HEART FULL OF NAPALM!!!

My Interests

OFFICIAL BLOG http://robertocalabro.blogspot.com/

I'd like to meet:

Rock'n'Roll lovers, Aussie-rock fans, Motor City freaks, poets, day-dreamers, Syd Barrett's appreciation society's members, Soul brothers, Black Panthers, Weather Underground revolutionaries...

Music:

I LIVE FOR ROCK'N'ROLL!!!The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Pink Floyd/Syd Barrett, The Who, Radio Birdman, The Fleshtones, The A-10, The Celibate Rifles, The New Christs, Ramones, Jefferson Airplane, Velvet Underground, Motorama, The Clash, Iggy and The Stooges, Patti Smith, New Bomb Turks, Pixies, Robyn Hitchcock, Backwards, Uzeda, Curtis Mayfield, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Al Green, MC5, Sonic's Rendezvous Band, Not Moving, The Modern Lovers, Flamin' Groovies, Real Kids, Nervous Eaters, X, The Saints, Died Pretty, Hoodoo Gurus, Asteroid B612, Brother Brick, B-52's, The Doors, Gravedigger V, Barracudas, Peter Sellers and The Hollywood Party, The Nerves, The Beat, Jam, The Jolt, The Boys, The Humpers, Fugazi, Make-Up, Stiff Little Fingers, Sex Pistols, Undertones, The Zeros, Talking Heads, Gun Club, Gang of Four, The Stems/DM3, Flaming Sideburns, Sewergrooves, The Hellacopters, Scott Morgan, Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels, The Sonics, The Standells, The Seeds, Nancy Sinatra, 13th Floor Elevators/Roky Erickson, Booker T. and The MG's (to be continued...)

Movies:

"THE (HOLLYWOOD) PARTY", "SUMMER OF SAM", "FANDANGO", "THE STRAWBERRY STATEMENT (Fragole e Sangue)", "EASY RIDER", "THE TRIP", "ZABRISKIE POINT", "BLOW UP", "QUADROPHENIA", "THE BLUES BROTHERS", "ANIMAL HOUSE", "ROCK'N'ROLL HIGH SCHOOL", All QUENTIN TARANTINO's movies, Blaxploitation movies ("FOXY BROWN", "SHAFT"...), etc....to be continued...

Television:

STARSKY and HUTCH

Books:

JACK KEROUAC - CHARLES BUKOWSKI - JAMES ELLROY - WILLIAM LEAST HEAT MOON - NICK HORNBY - HUNTER S. THOMPSON

My Blog

TOP TEN 2007 @ I-94 BAR

My TOP TEN 2007 is now online @ the I-94 BAR, the best Australian website dedicated to Oz-rock, via the Bowery and the Motor City.  Have a look: http://www.i94bar.com/staff2007.html Waiting for y...
Posted by Roberto on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:19:00 PST

MY PLAYLIST 2007

2007 PLAYLIST   Albums     1. THE HYDROMATICS  The Earth Is Shaking (Suburban) 2. BEASTS OF BOURBON  Little Animals (Albert) 3. WILD BILLY CHILDISH  Punk Rock At The British Legion...
Posted by Roberto on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 08:04:00 PST

PAMELA DES BARRES: Let’s Spend The Night Together

My article/interview with Miss PAMELA DES BARRES, The Queen of the Groupies, about her new book Let's Spend The Night Together is on-line on La Repubblica (Italian main information website): http://ww...
Posted by Roberto on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:35:00 PST

UZEDA return

UZEDA Return!!! My article about Uzeda's return after a 8-year hyatus, published on the Italian weekly mag "Diario"  ...
Posted by Roberto on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:59:00 PST

WHO KILLED BRIAN JONES?

WHO KILLED BRIAN JONES? My article about BRIAN JONES' death, published on "Il Venerdì", weekly mag of La Repubblica (Italian second-highest circulation newspaper) -  December 15th, 2006. ...
Posted by Roberto on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:18:00 PST