Old Rockers Never Die 
As happens in the film even in the rock that has been lacking in the distant past, defined as the
Serie B but with a knife between his teeth. They come out so many great movies and big, usually Hollywood production, some other beautiful sound hoaxes or simple blockbuster for boys and fools, but those little film of series B, many noir, other road-movie, some comedy and a couple of westerns out of time , are missing except for a few films
James Gray (Little Odessa, Two Lovers, We Own the Night), or the recent State of Play
of
Kevin McDonald or some other Mohican escaped the massacre. Because of killing it, the producers do not invest more than half of the film, those on a tight budget can give surprising results (the archetype is
Easy Rider), probably because there is no longer available and receptive audience for such a product better or artistic work. Those films that are seen without eating popcorn and drink Coca Cola, which is usually alone in the cinema to see them because not even the girlfriend knows about the existence and who can not afford the hit television which are launched, no commercials or cry at sites Internet.
cinephiles stuff but also this kind of fauna has changed because the old, dear little film American independent or semi-detached they prefer the last ball of some African or statelet neo-realistic drama of Asian history has been told that in Italy 50 years ago. We did leave the B-movie on DVD would be a way to save us but this seems to only happen in the U.S. in part because we have the bookshelves of various charterers are always just ruthlessly invaded by the same title and by the same actors and even if you have the fearless courage to stay awake until 3:45 the TV also does not help. For
rock is more or less the same thing, although not so radical. After years or even decades in which they lived with a healthy, beautiful and exciting series B is now in the abyss and survived a life jacket seems to run some of the 60 in the teeth of his own age still making music. Luckily, we have them.
For more than a decade, with some ninety name
as Springsteen, Dylan, Mellencamp, Petty , he lived primarily with followers who were not the remains of the system but rather those who in terms of creativity, feeling, authenticity offered languages, manners, attitude and the inspiration to rock that they took the gasoline to keep up the race. In the eighties there were the
Dream Syndicate, the Blasters
, the
Green On Red, the Beat Farmers
,
Joe Ely, Steve Earle , the
Los Lobos, the Del Fuegos
, the
Del Lords, to name a few in the nineties and the Gin Blossoms
, the
Uncle Tupelo, Wilco
, the
Son Volt, Slobberbone
,
Todd Snider, the Jayhawks
,
Whiskeytown, Alejandro Escovedo, Joe Henry, James McMurtry, Blue Mountain, Black Crowes tuuti yet to name a few and they fill our plays that he felt no need to resort to serious or at least made by a continuous basis, permanent, constant, insistent that it was to hear the rock, his heart, his blood, only to get drunk with
Springsteen when he was on tour or in any album of passionate
U2 o sperare che
Dylan fosse di luna buona.
Adesso non è più così, consumata l’ondata che è andata a rimorchio dell’alternative country e del roots-rock da cui per fortuna sono usciti gli unici che tengono ancora a galla l’eroica Serie B col coltello tra i denti ovvero
Drive By Truckers, Lucero, Ryan Adams, Calexico, Ray LaMontagne, Cracker più qualche jam.band come
Dave Matthews e
Gov’t Mule (oltre naturalmente agli inossidabili
Black Crowes che hanno saputo rinnovarsi senza perdere l’anima), di outsider in grado di dare linfa al nuovo/vecchio rock n’roll o almeno di segnalare una possibile street to live in some dream of rock n 'roll you have never seen even the shadow and reflection, and so for reflux has returned to restore confidence to old rockers who fortunately did not die and continue their honest work. Probably we were still in the last ninety discs
Robert Plant, in particular
Band Of Joy and Clapton namesake of these days even I would have bought so much I had anything else to amuse. I got better things to hear and other evidence on which to invest my time and my money, records and artists with determination to sell, get hungry, energy to spend, show ideas, passion to share.
Serie B with a knife, but in short tra i denti.
Ed invece nella penuria di squadre agguerrite, giovani e pimpanti come quelle offerte da una battagliera serie minore mi tocca tornare genufletto al tempio del rock e godere, in realtà piuttosto freddamente e con un orgasmo ridicolo, di gente che preferivo quando urlavano l’hard-rock o facevano il blues dei crossroads o cantavano di
Zuma .
Plant, Clapton e
Young sono solo un esempio, perché sono gli ultimi in ordine di apparizione e i loro dischi poi non sono affatto male, anzi, forse un po’ troppo eleganti, formali e pensionistici per i miei gusti (per il
Neil Young di
Le Noise il discorso è diverso e lui dovrebbe prendere Dylan
example, do fewer disks and better manage the inspiration), but times have changed and given the current climate in all fields especially in the political, is perhaps better to have some old wise man who knows what to do that some rampant it is believed that the future of rock n 'roll
or the savior of his country.
Certainly it is a life that is more than smiles, but does not laugh anymore.
Mauro Zambellini
