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Music has been the greatest and most intense passion of my life.
I have devoted all my puberty energies to the most abstract of arts.
I studied classical piano for seven or eight years with a private teacher who lived in my grandmother's building. Santuzza Caccialanza in Cacciaguida (Santuzza because of Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana) was a true teacher of life and taught me much more than just music. During his lessons we also talked about painting, literature and the history of music.
At the age of fourteen I realized that the girls liked those who could play the guitar and so overwhelmed especially by the beat (and the Beatles) I learned the guitar self-taught.
Unfortunately, I was not talented enough to become a music professional and I also made the mistake of surrounding myself with even less talented friends, thus becoming the leader of a very modest band. I have done the best things in solitude with a Revox A77,
If you have the patience to follow me in these pages (I certainly do not ask you to listen to all the passages, some of them very long) you will have the opportunity to witness the classic parable phenomenon of many human activities, of life itself above all.
To make listening more pleasant, I took away the whim (more than fifty years after the original recordings!) To create an idea that fascinated me as a boy (at the time there were no video clips yet) to accompany my compositions with moving images in concert with music,
I imagined a new art form could be born even if I didn't have how to make it.
Thanks to digital, to stock videos, I delighted in "visualizing" my old songs. It is certainly not what I imagined, but the direction is the same.
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Side note
When Merry Go Round disbanded in 1975, I went on alone in the company of my beloved Revox A77, an analogue open reel tape recorder produced by the Swiss company Revox from August 1967 to October 1977. Inspired by Mike Oldfield's performance that in Tubular Bells he had done everything by himself (with a lot of other equipment of course) I got down to the best with the sound on sound function of the old A77 which allowed, during a recording, to pour onto the same track where you were recording live, what he had previously recorded on the other track.
In this way, for example, after having recorded the piano as a base, you could superimpose the bass, the guitar, the percussion, the synthesizer and ... a great dose of noise. If I remember correctly, it was practically impossible to go beyond the fourth / fifth supercision. Not to mention the fact that you couldn't pause or start recording from any point, but that every single recording had to be started at the beginning and carried through to the end without any interruption in continuity.
Years later, in the only moment of rapprochement with music in 1990 (see Mondaysh Man later), I bought a Yamaha cassette recorder that could hold up to eight channels, an already extraordinary number but laughable to what any equipped personal computer can do today. of the appropriate software where the channels can be hundreds.
A curiosity that, on the other hand, can be of great teaching.
In 2000 I decided to digitize all my recordings and those of my group and then with a special sound card and good software I was able to recover everything even if different recording speeds had been recorded (something technically rather complicated to explain).
However, I experienced a dramatic moment when I realized that the magnetic tape was being destroyed while it was being played for the last time in the digitization phase.
The plastic material with which it was made had not withstood the course of the years.
What is the lesson learned? Never wait too long to back up your data and, when you do, do it in the cloud avoiding any physical media. It seems that even CDs have a drastically shorter life than the Egyptian papyri ...