interview
There is always the gigantic and human figure
of Johnny Cash, his warm and granitic voice,
his appearance, that heroism linked to his fal-
libility, that splendid parable, among trium-
phs and falls that ever since I was sixteen and
I heard Johnny for the first time hit me. John-
ny’s “American Recordings” are there, when I
want to get excited. Just listen to Johnny and
the shivers rise to me.
Along with you there are your forever com-
panions, like Previte and Pellati, as well as
guitarist Antonio Gramentieri. If you had
the chance to choose one more musician,
completely at your choice, who would you
add to your lineup?
Jim Keltner, is one of my dreams in the
drawer, a piece with Keltner on the drum.
From the height of your experience, can you
tell us what you like and what you do not
like about the music in Italy today?
I do not like the logic of the increasingly strict
“pool” that music has become, I do not like
this “end of the world” climate that is perva-
ding the environment, I do not like who also
negates our dreams and not only in talent
shows; even musicians or pseudo-such, who
pretend to do music with the same protection
as any other trade. It does not work that way,
I say, quoti ng the immense Kandinsky, that it
takes an “inner necessity” to express yourself
to do music (but even cinema, literature, pho-
tography), if your soul asks you.
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