Al-Fadista wrote:
I listen to many sorts of rock since the age of 12, and honestly I don't like the song. I don't know the band, maybe they have better tunes to offer.
To me Italians were pretty good at progressive rock in the 70s, and GOBLIN is one of my favourite of the genre. Here are two great tunes by them :
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To me rock is mainly anglo-saxon but in America, many Italian-american are well known 'rockers'! Is it me or many guitar virtuosos or 'shredders' have italian roots? Such as Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Al di Meola, John Petrucci, Al Pitrelli, Michael Angelo Batio etc...
You can add Tony Iommi, who pretty much 'invented' heavy riffing and Ronnie James Dio, one of the best hard/heavy singer of all time. In a sense, heavy music is italian too :D
By coincidence I've just uploaded a Goblin's tribute on wikiloops :)
Yes, I really like them but less when they sing in italian. In any case, in the 70' there were some good italian bands (Pfm, Area and so on). Today I also like Lacuna Coil (but they sing in english)[youtube]4wfRHPsRGkk[/youtube]
I agree about italian-american artists (I would add Frank Zappa and Steve Tyler, who's real name is Steven Victor Tallarico) but in that case the fusion beetwin the two cultures is decisive :)