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Originally posted by hellogoodbye hellogoodbye wrote:

Don't. They are wonderfull places. I don't know Florence yet. I'll try to go in october.


Thanks Smile Florence is wonderful, not just for all the art, but beautiful in a different way than Rome, the sunsets off the pink and green near the Duomo is amazing.  If you can go, make sure you visit the Academia to see Michelangelo's David - it's awe-inspiring when seen 'in the flesh'
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Mediterranea : Ecce rock (1981 CD). Progressive variations on folk themes. Some may like.
 
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Thanks ! I'll do !
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Pierre, both VM editions of Terra in Bocca are wonderful, meaning the demo and the finished versions. They both have the same packaging (at least mine do), even the disc labels are the same, and so you can only tell the different versions by the times of the songs. I don't have the Akarma version, but I would guess that the VM sounds better (they usually do). I also have the Japanese King version, and it sounds just like the full VM version (with the orchestral introduction).

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A question for Jim, Todd or Andrea : I have the occasion to buy for almost nothing the Vinyl Magic Edition of the I Giganti album : Terra in bocca (demos plus bonus track). Can I buy this VM edition or do I have to look for the Akarma edition ? Thanks.
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TISSOCO ALFREDO : KATHARSIS 1975
 
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Don't. They are wonderfull places. I don't know Florence yet. I'll try to go in october.
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Hi everyone - last September I mentioned that my wife and I went to Italy, and I've been meaning to post a couple of pics for ages (nearly a year as it turns out.)  Hope you enjoy em, we mostly stuck with cities. One day, if I can ever manage to save the money again, I mean to return. It was heart-breaking-ly amazing.


A view from the main square in Amalfi (the coastal town is bout an hour's drive from Pompeii's ruins)




Ruins in Pompeii - it was tough to find an empty spot, like most tourist sites, but Pompeii wasn't full of chatter by any stretch. The hush was humbling.



First photo I took - in Rome heading toward the Trevi Fountain, heat coming off the cobblestones is a wonderful memory as I type here, locked in damn winter.



Trevi Fountain (photoshopped a fair bit)


View from the top of the Duomo in Florence. 400 odd steps up from memory, tough going but worth it. In Florence I found one of the only CD stores I could hunt down, and hauled off about 17 RPI/Italian rock albums. It was awesome, wish I'd taken a photo of the store hahaha




Facing the Ponte Vecchio - most of those windows are jewellery shops and residences above. The other side is similar, the best stuff there (aside from the gelati) were the street artists with cheap but beautiful watercolours.




This warning was, of course, surrounded by graffiti.




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^^ Yeah, that's a really good one! I like that album as much as any of my Perigeo albums.
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Good album for the jazz heads!  Sax man
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BELLA BAND ( 1978). I don't have this one yet.  Jazz rock fans, don't resist.
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1663.
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^ it sounds great to me, looking forward to checking it out
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It has a very bad sound but I really love that album, full of great energies and excellent solos. I would rate it with 4 stars because I'm really into the hard rock progressive stuff.
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Hum hum. I think I'm going to buy it now Lamp
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^^ Yeah, true, and I love Bob Callero on bass.

I always thought this album was a 3.5 star album. I'll have to do a review someday.
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I always have, I don't know why, dismissed the Osage Tribe album. The soundclips I've just litsenned on you tube show me that maybe I was wrong.Embarrassed
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Here is something strange Stern Smile.

A few years ago I saw the very high rating for Osage Tribe's only album and I immediately got it, no need to say that I definitely agreed with the high rating. Few months ago I noticed that the album was now with a very low rating of about 2.5. I know it doesn't hold that classic RPI symphonic sound but still how the hell did that happen??

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Grazie Andrea !
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Originally posted by hellogoodbye hellogoodbye wrote:

Thanks very much, David. I'll try again. I promise you.
 
Todd, I'm suprised. I own the japanese I Giganti japanese SHMCD version. I know that another version exists, but I thought that the difference iwas only in the introduction. Please tell me more. This is one of my favorite records ever.
 
This book includes a CD featuring the remastered original album + an unreleased track. It's in Italian and you'll find here every information you're looking for
 
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Thanks very much, David. I'll try again. I promise you.
 
Todd, I'm suprised. I own the japanese I Giganti japanese SHMCD version. I know that another version exists, but I thought that the difference iwas only in the introduction. Please tell me more. This is one of my favorite records ever.
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