RIP Franco Battiato

Some grand stuff in those early albums. 

RIP 

In the linked article there's a big mistake: the single "Attenti al Lupo" was the crappiest song released by Lucio Dalla, nothing to do with Battiato. Lucia Dalla was a great jazzist and songwriter, but that song was his worst one (and as you can expect, a huge commercial success).

I've come to grips with so many of the favorite things that we loved way back when, see the artist fall by wayside like we all surely will.

The best thing, is the nice bits and pieces that everyone says, and I specially like to say that without Guy Guden and his Space Pirate Radio show, I don't think that many of us would know or care about FB. On many of the shows I had on tape (saved to mp3's 20+ years ago!) ... the music showed and its far out addition and difference, helped the show be the ultimate that it already was, and still is ... though many here on PA would scream about the lot of so much music that doesn't fit the "progressive" ideal ... it's not a show about "progressive" ... it's a foreign/alien movie without the subtitles and you get as many distance voices and styles as you do music ... and the "difference" is the part that so many love dearly!

FB's albums (and I have like 5 or 6 of them) are special ... and fun to listen to. Sadly, listening to something that defies description and distinction as something like the odd ball "progressive" ... is simply not something that is worthy of a discussion at PA other than when the artist dies ... and as sad as it has been for a long time ... you get better known and remembered when you're dead!

Such is life ... that we can not even celebrate it properly. But I can tell you that hearing this in 1974 and 1975 on Guy's show was very special indeed ...