I love Italian Prog!!!

interesting post....

moshkito wrote: Hi,   You know what's funny?   Italian "prog" ... is less inspired by "prog" music ... than it is by Classical Music ... which is a far better expose and field for experimentation and use of electric instruments than most other folks would give it credit for ...

that Bush still had 22% of wackos here thinking he was doing a good job...

oh...  that...

not funny... but something the site correctly identified.  What came out of Italy is quite unique.  In a nutshell.. instead of classicalizing (© Micky 2009) rock music as many commonly see 'prog' like the english did.  The italians went at it ass backward.. since before the dawn of the 'prog' era... that country had NO rock tradition at all... that is why what we call prog here on this site.. was called pop music there.  They dumbed down classical forms to the rock format instead of having a bunch of upper class English kids taking Classical to the unwashed masses.  It was just an extension of what they had always been listening to... an extention of that countries 'pop' music.  Just amped up and synth'd out.

NotAProghead wrote: Andrea, being a little familiar with Battiato's works, I understand what you are talking about, I see your passion and emotions. But it seems to me it's not so easy for newcomers to get from your reviews the idea what the music of Franco Battiato is. Please keep this in mind in future.  I believe you, being native Italian speaker, can tell us more and explain some things most of us can't understand because of language barrier. Good luck!  P.S. Battiato is one of the greatest Italian artists, but I must confess Fabrizio De Andre' means much more to me, though it's a matter of taste and another story .

Alberto Muñoz wrote: Mandrakeroot wrote: NotAProghead wrote: Andrea, what you think about mine and Micky's posts?   This thread was born as article / blog and I did not understand because it was moved to this section...   Personally, this thread should be used to discuss the technique and historical context of the RPI/ IP and the other should be used for the promotion of RP / IP.   But I'm noticing a tendency to censor what I do outside of the reviews... I added here those review because I wanted a start a study to Franco Battiato thought.   Clearly if the admin wanted to close this thread, I would not have problems with this decision. I regret only that this thread was not born for this section of the forum and that it has been moved in this forum section.   Andrea i support your idea about realizing studies about historical concepts and context about RPI and also the Battiato study.   Also i would like to add if we can discuss the techniques of playing, the lyrics and the departures of certain key members of RPI.