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    Posted: September 21 2007 at 05:32
Originally posted by Mandrakeroot Mandrakeroot wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Lady In Black Lady In Black wrote:

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hahahha..  we just love to make Mandy blush.  Embarrassed


Mandrakeroot is a great person, sure. But also unpredictable...  Like a song of Osage!!! 


I really enjoyed getting a chance to meet him...  he is a hell of a guy. Clap


Am I a hell of a guy?

That Chacteeeeer...!!!


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Points: 5851 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2007 at 05:30
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Lady In Black Lady In Black wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

hahahha..  we just love to make Mandy blush.  Embarrassed


Mandrakeroot is a great person, sure. But also unpredictable...  Like a song of Osage!!! 


I really enjoyed getting a chance to meet him...  he is a hell of a guy. Clap


Am I a hell of a guy?

That Chacteeeeer...!!!
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Points: 46838 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 20 2007 at 18:28
Originally posted by Lady In Black Lady In Black wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

hahahha..  we just love to make Mandy blush.  Embarrassed


Mandrakeroot is a great person, sure. But also unpredictable...  Like a song of Osage!!! 


I really enjoyed getting a chance to meet him...  he is a hell of a guy. Clap
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Another great album with Nunzio "Cucciolo" Favia is this:

I DIK DIK

Carlotto & Cucciolo Gią Dik Dik


And this is my review:


4%20stars JOURNEY OF A POET... IN ARRIVAL TO THE ISLAND OF WIGHT

This album is a great surprise because Dik Dik with "Cucciolo" has a great power. But this "Carlotto & 'Cucciolo' Gią Dik Dik" has in possess of a more great power. This sentence is sprung from the listening of this MC. If you think that Dik Dik is a Beat of Melodic Italian band... I think that songs like "Il Primo Giorno Di Primavera", "Senza Luce (A Whiter Shade Of Pale)", "Io Mi Fermo Qui", "Storia Di Periferia", "Il Vento", "Viaggio Di Un Poeta", "Guardo Te E Vedo Mio Figlio", "Vendo Casa" or "Altre Mani" can change your ideas. Because "Cucciolo" (Nunzio Favia) is one of the best drummers in the world (and here doesn't escape. That then, for varied motive, it's acquaintance only in the Italy is an extreme erred!!!). Because "Hunka Munka" (Roberto Carlotto) is the Italian vintage keyboards (but not in this album) contributs to the music's quality. Nello Vivacqua and Matteo Criscuolo finished for to be two good appeared, crushed from "Cucciolo" and "Hunka Munka". But this isn't a demerit. In conclusion: this is only a Prog Related music but extreme good for all true Proglover.

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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

hahahha..  we just love to make Mandy blush.  Embarrassed


Mandrakeroot is a great person, sure. But also unpredictable...  Like a song of Osage!!! 
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hahahha..  we just love to make Mandy blush.  Embarrassed
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Mandrakeroot Mandrakeroot wrote:

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Great reviews, mom.

In general this is a great band for a fine Proglovers!!!


it is....  lucky you Elizabeth... not everyone can say their mother is a groupie LOL


Oooh... I think that this honour I will not have it ever!!! 


oooh what a lucky man....he was.... LOL



Lucky man? Mandrakeroot don't practice sex with me... ShockedLOLWink Also if...ShockedEmbarrassedEmbarrassedWinkLOLBig%20smile
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Originally posted by memowakeman memowakeman wrote:

Nice to see this kind of topics, Osage Tribe and other bands deserve more attention, Arrow Head is a magnific album, i hope people try this album and enjoy it.


yes, you are totally reason. The true Heavy Prog is that of obscure and semi obscured bands. Like this Osage Tribe... like 70's Deep Purple... like Blackmore/ Dio's Rainbow... Like Iron Butterfly and Vanilla Fudge... like Andromeda (UK) and Argent...
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Points: 13032 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 15 2007 at 21:10
Nice to see this kind of topics, Osage Tribe and other bands deserve more attention, Arrow Head is a magnific album, i hope people try this album and enjoy it.

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Originally posted by Mandrakeroot Mandrakeroot wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Ely78 Ely78 wrote:

Great reviews, mom.

In general this is a great band for a fine Proglovers!!!


it is....  lucky you Elizabeth... not everyone can say their mother is a groupie LOL


Oooh... I think that this honour I will not have it ever!!! 


oooh what a lucky man....he was.... LOL
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Points: 5851 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 15 2007 at 19:18
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Ely78 Ely78 wrote:

Great reviews, mom.

In general this is a great band for a fine Proglovers!!!


it is....  lucky you Elizabeth... not everyone can say their mother is a groupie LOL


Oooh... I think that this honour I will not have it ever!!! 
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Originally posted by Ely78 Ely78 wrote:

Great reviews, mom.

In general this is a great band for a fine Proglovers!!!


it is....  lucky you Elizabeth... not everyone can say their mother is a groupie LOL
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Great reviews, mom.

In general this is a great band for a fine Proglovers!!!
When the love becomes poetry, distant from the eyes

(Quando l'Amore Diventa poesia/ Lontano Dagli occhi [Aphrodite's Child)
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And this from the first single:

OSAGE TRIBE — Un Falco Nel Cielo / Prehistoric Sound
Review by Lady In Black (Sara)

— First review of this album —

3%20stars A HAWK IN THE SKY

I bought this single in 1980 in Venice from an old friend that from 1992 I don't know that end have done. Said this... This is the sole Osage Tribe release with Franco Battiato. Isn't heavy Prog but a good POP single. The A side is the same song of B side. But the B side is sung in English. And if A side is good because POP but extreme technical, the B side sound like a Western film O.S.T.. But this is the sole motive of interesting of this album. The A side ("Un Falco Nel Cielo") was the signature tune of the Italian transmission "Chissą Chi Lo Sa".Just for curiosity.



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Finally i reviewed "Arrow Head":

OSAGE TRIBE — Arrow Head
Review by Lady In Black (Sara)

5%20stars ARROW HEAD... THE FIRST ARM OF THE MAN

Osage Tribe produced one single and one album in their short career. "Arrow Head" is, simply, a great Heavy Rock album. Nunzio "cucciolo" Favia is one of the best drummer in the world and only a series of fatal situation not permits to affirm itself outside the Italy. "Bob" Callero (later with Il Volo) today is one of the best and request bassists in Italy. Only Zoccheddu not continuied i musical fields. This "Arrow Head" present a big band. For the musical story is another power trio. In this case "Arrow Head" sounds like an atomic bomb because is too technical, simply, also melodic, ironic, self indulgent... And all in the same time. If "Hajenanhowa" have a powerful but not deflagrant melodic reflessive extreme long intro the second part is simply... Prog Metal. Like Prog Metal (if exist Prog Metal in 1972) is "Arrow Head" with an immense "cucciolo" and Zoccheddu with its wah wah distorted guitar. A killer track for a killer band. All the album is in this two songs because the rest of "Arrow Head" is a perfect mix between this two track plus some Jazz interludes. Today "Arrow Head" plays still actual. But is a strange album. This because today an album like this has been gold for a lot of bands. But in 1972 "Arrow Head" was an ordinary album. Not in Italy because the Italian Prog is a mix between Folk, Jazz, Heavy Prog, Symphonic. But "Arrow Head" is a sort of Italian "Salisbury". And this fact help this album to ba a masterpiece. If then we complete everything with three monsters... Five superior songs... "Arrow Head" becomes one of the diamond points of Heavy prog and Italian Prog


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Points: 46838 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 14 2007 at 15:41
that's awesome Jimmy.... glad you liked it as much as I did. Clap
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Points: 2601 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 14 2007 at 15:20
^^I'll look forward to this, I can recall some great keyboard work on the UM album (yes, even the beloved mellotron) so if that's any indication of the sound of Akallabeth I'll have to check it out, thanks.
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As you are interested in Ubi Maior, whom I know personally, I'd like to post here the link to keyboardist Gabriele Manzini's (formerly with The Watch) blog about his solo project "Akallabeth", inspired by an episode in Tolkien's "The Silmarillion":

http://akallabeth.splinder.com/

Unfortunately the blog is only in Italian, but as you can see there is a final list of song titles, and the album will be released at the end of this year. I think it will be an interesting project, even if probably more on the prog-metal side of things.
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What a coincidence, Arrowhead is my album of the week as of now, I've been addicted to the insane bass work from Bob Callero.  Soffici Bianchi Veli is surely one of the greatest bass lines of all time imo, I had that damn thing stuck in my head literally ALL DAY on Wednesday...funny because it's complex and quick making it very diffiicult to play air-bass toLOL

btw, thanks micky for the recommendation a few weeks backWink it's a good one (I'll get back to you on Ubi Maior, been kinda busy).

 
I suppose if my schedule permits next week then I'll break my lazy-streak and begin writing reviews, this one'll be at the top of the list...
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Points: 24429 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 14 2007 at 13:53
Great band indeed, one of the finest examples of Heavy Prog on the RPI scene. They should get much more attention than they have so far.
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