The Ade Concerts comments of Max Zatini and Andrea Dreoni. The first bassist of the “Comma_13 Band” and the first guitarist, refer to the CD collection of the recordings made at ADE in the years 1994 – 1995.
I’ve been listening to the CD of the “Comma13 Band” with the ADE recordings quite assiduously since the delivery night. The first impact was, in some ways, almost traumatic, in the sense that I just remembered having played those pieces with you, but nothing more. At first listening I did nothing but ask myself if it was really us, the same bass parts seemed to be played by someone else !!! Then I began to recognize myself in some bass lines. In the tremendous vice of then to make machine guns of notes and in some choir here and there. To hear my mistakes too, when I anticipate, when I accelerate.
I remembered that I had actually heard some of Alessandro’s lines (“I have to sing again in English”. His La Bamba and Hotel California sung practically without remembering the text. The general impression was one of amazement, like having found old photos and being able to feel the smells and noises of when they were taken. lt interesting to hear those recordings is to reopen an area of existence lived in a certain sense not at its best and to have rediscovered it as an active and pulsating common. Paradoxically, I am much more aware of certain things of our initial period.
Under the Boardwalk & Honey Don’t
We had found a good amalgamation, a flexible and balanced formation. There was the possibility of alternating on drums with Roberto Mazzi allowing you (Gualtiero Lemmi) to play the keyboards and the presence of second voice of Andrea Mazzi, more tame, which compensated and supported the beautiful and total instinct of Alessandro Arcangioli.
Their departure, the arrival of Claudio Russo and your definitive transition to drums would have required a greater running in to learn how to better manage this leaner, more rock and this new sound. The real positive surprises were those related to the foreign front. Songs like “Under the Boardwalk” and “Honey Don’t” made me breathe a beautiful, effective and dirty atmosphere. As if they were really played by the original performers.
Beat the rhythm
I want to say it. The same thing was told to me by others to whom I felt the pieces and who all the time accompanied by stamping their feet, moving their heads and snapping their fingers! And Sugar “Overdose” also has a really great shot! He sure feels that we are not professionals, of course, but he feels, and very well, that we are very much in love with that stuff !
So, apart from wishing you Happy Holidays, I really thank you very much for the thought you had, which goes far beyond the “remember” tribute!
Maximilian
Now the comment of Andrea Dreoni, the first guitarist of the Band.
Surely spontaneity was present in those pieces of the CD because we were right there in the midst of the people who were dancing, they judged us” the right “but he liked to be there listening to us, dancing and so on. favorable but we were also in the right feeling to transmit these covers, not perfect, but definitely felt! Happy Holidays to all!
Andrea (22.12.2008)
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