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Happy Birthday Happy Birthday to Chris Squire

Chris Topher Russell Edward Squire , was born in London on 4 March 1948 and then just turned 63 years. Happy Birthday.

is best known as bassist of the British progressive rock YES . It is the legal holder of the mark "Yes" and the only member of the group to play in all the official albums.

I had some years ago LUCK to see a couple of concerts targati Yes (2003-2004), forming almost standard (except replacement Bruford White) which I had not ever happened in the years' 70, at the time of the band's heyday. The first of two events changed my life slightly, returning on the road that I had set aside, the music.

A little 'history from Wikipedia.

Chris Squire was born in Kingsbury, a suburb northwest of London, and as a child sang in the church choir. In 1964 he was suspended from school because he "wore his hair long, and there was never returned. From an early age cultivated a great love of music, ranging eclectically from religious choral music and the Merseybeat of the early '60s. In those years he founded first a group called The Syn and then Mabel Greer's Toyshop, which became the first incarnation of Yes with Jon Anderson on vocals, Peter Banks on guitar, Tiny Kaye on keyboards and Bill Bruford to battery.

The Yes they recorded their first album in 1969, and are active today. Squire, in particular, was the only member to participate in any group project.

The music of Yes has been the main occupation of Squire years, his work as a soloist or in other projects have been relatively few. His first and only true solo album, Fish Out of Water 1975, which is one of the solo work of members of Yes most loved by fans of the group recorded during the Relayer, with the participation of two other members of the family Yes "Bill Bruford on drums and Ptric Moraz on keyboards.

In 1981 Squire was part briefly in a band called XYZ, together Alan White and Jimmy Page, however, the group recorded a few demo songs.

Later, Squire gave birth to the project with Billy Sherwood Conspiracy, the debut album of this band, same name, published in 2000 contains a number of issues taken up again by the recent release of Yes (in particular, Open Your Eyes ). The second work was The Unknow Conspiracy, published in 2003.

Squire has also collaborated on the project, Esquire, with ex-wife Nikki, and the group with Billy Sherwood of World Trade.

Chris Squire is generally considered a pioneer and an innovator of great talent the use of electric bass. The bass that usually is a Richenbaker 4001, which owns and plays since 1965, was the third Rickenbacker 4001 imported to England from the USA (the first was purchased by Paul McCartney). This instrument, with its clean and distorted sound, is a key element of the sound of Squire, also based on the technique of bi-amping : the bass of the instrument are sent to a bass amplifier and treble to an amplifier lead guitar, producing a kind of 'sandwich' that takes on a tone overdrive effect, while maintaining the power of the Rickenbacker bass. Squire was one of the first bassists to use effects like tremolo, phaser and wah-wah. The bass lines Squire are almost never obvious, and are often described as lines corresponding to the overlapping solo virtuoso guitar and keyboards. This particular technique extremely low status in some way also the first work as a precursor of the approach to low Squire Jaco Pastorius.

addition to the lower part in the Squire of Yes music with vocals, the harmonies with which the countertenor Jon Anderson is one of the "trademarks" of the band's sound.

Chris Squire is nicknamed Fish ("Fish"), and this name is associated with many of his works (for example, the title of His solo album, and the famous bass solo Schindleria Praematurus (The Fish) album Fragile (Yes 1971). Squire is a Pisces and seems to believe in astrology, but he appears to have been given the nickname by Bill Bruford at the beginning of his career with the Yes, when Squire flooded a hotel room in Oslo in the shower.

http://chrissquire.com/

A curiosity.

I'm reading a fantastic book that is the autobiography of Bill Bruford .

In different situations, show a critical trope even hidden, made by Bill to Chris concerning its slowness. It is even called "sloth", and this seems to be one of the reasons why, at some point, the collaboration is over.

Well, seeing him in action on stage seems anything but a "Lenton!

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Festival Altar-Second witness

That was the beginning of the 70s .. .



The story of Festival Altar increasingly takes form.

After my own initiative, carried out thanks to the valuable information of Fred Perry, I had come to describe the event as follows:

http://athosenrile.blogspot.com/ search / label / Festival% 20of% 20Altare

All had been published in "Counterpoints ," the quarterly Genoa dedicated to progressive music, inside the CSPI (Center for Studies Progressive Italian).

Months after I added a new testimony, due to the intervention of a character on stage, Massimo Bovio, you read my blog contacted me to work spontaneously. His memories are once again finished on the "Counterpoints" and publish them here today, hoping that the domino effect you give me more ... satisfaction.

I wrote that ...

time ago I wrote for " COUNTERPOINT " an article about the Festival of Altar , which participated in the early seventies.

E 'was an opportunity to remember something very far, but clearly present, albeit blurry, in my mind.

But if we unite to remember objective facts, with some concrete evidence, the story takes a complete form.

I struggled enormously to gather some information and I have not found any kind of enthusiasm and no desire to cooperate.

But it can happen anywhere not what you expect, and after the online publication occurred two events that I have traced to that event.

First, the virtual meeting with Silvana Aliotta, then vocalist of the Circus 2000, by which we remember those days of "musical history": a long interview also made up of details are important to anyone involved in music .

And then, a few days ago I received a mail on this festival, which reproduce in full.

My name Massimo Bovio are in Turin and at the time was playing in a group of free / prog called Vivaldi. Then I was eighteen. The group was composed by Giorgio Angelo Cardella Stocovich on guitar and drums.
We had a lot of ambitions and a great poker face. So with the assurance of being the best, typical of that age, we went to Study Virus in Turin and we set out as a group for that event. The organization accepts us without feeling, and so the adventure begins.
We asked the Circus 2000 (we were good friends at Spooky, aka Marcello Quartarone) if it was possible for them to bring their van in our amplifiers (200 watt double Davoli Lied Lombardi cash for the low and 120 watts for the double bass guitar). They accepted, and so the adventure begins.
three of us set off from the train station of Porta Nuova. We had a house tent "Moretti Rondine" prestataci from my grandparents. Altar and arrived at after a long walk we found ourselves in the field for the concert.
The Organization informed that we had to sleep and we had to arrange for the food we were considering them. Then we went to dinner, consisting of coca cola in cans (which were first seen in Italy) and sandwiches to choose from cheese, salami and ham.
mess that first night. I have vague memories and confused.
The next day the festival began. Began to arrive and the first band came the first instruments. Circus arrived with their 2000 Ford Transit, which also contained our amps. Build them and prepared to play with borrowed instruments, part circus and part of 2000 by local musicians.
We started our performance and a few minutes later I dropped the belt is low, so not to break the will flow of not, and I squatted down and played the instrument by way of sitar.
forty-five minutes We played one song. Giorgio Stocovich was produced in a single solo.
After the show get off the stage. My foot stayed for nearly an hour under the weight of my body was still dozing. Thought it well to give in during the short walk to get off the stage. Do not really remember if I fell or I made a simple bow with knees on the ground (I hope it is because it was certainly more dignified).
returned the bass to the owner, he asked us for autographs. Truly a historic moment and
After we have performed other groups.

such Dedalus remember our brothers and Fiorenzo Di Castri Bonansone.

They did a great concert. The songs were inspired by two main groups in vogue in a certain musical elite: The Nucleus and Soft Machine with some mention of Mahavisnu Orchestra. Good musicians and good people. A good concert. I must say that in those years to see the work Dedalus it was quite common. Always very good performance.
remember Balletto di Bronzo. I had an album (maybe Ys) and between us, hopeful musicians proletarian Turin hinterland, were met with good appreciation.

Toward evening he made his entrance, right in front of the stage, a Simca-Talbot, from which descended a dazed Franco Battiato. Under arm had a synthesizer, I think an Arp Odyssey. From the car still went down a lot of people.
When they went up on stage just remember Battiato asked me to be able to use our amps. Needless to say, what are immensely proud and happy of course loaned them to him. The concert was extraordinary from all points of view. For those who know the discography Battiato had the time of Pollution. We watched the concert on the stage. The band played with intensity, Franco sang with transport, the stage was vibrating because of the volume and jumps of the musicians. I felt really a creative one with the universe created by the music. I tried with my eyes my friend George Stocovich (still is my greatest friend), I wanted to share with him the moment with just a glance. He was behind his 120-watt amplifier Lombardi, bought with sacrifice (especially of his family). He was terrified. His look and his actions told me that he feared that at any moment the amp last breath because of the volume at which Frank Sinatra made him play. Gleam in his eyes I saw the same look that I suppose he had when Guglielmo Marconi invented the radio! In the back of the head of Lombardi was the "gain" then somehow he could not intervene since the volumes of Battiato. So he raised the volume in front of Frank Sinatra and George Stocovich from behind the lowered. In the face of iperpignoli engineers I met on some stage in recent years.
The concert went on and at some point Battiato called on the stage of the guys who were just in the front row. Some of these came up, and he encouraged them to use the instruments on stage. Total degeneration. My mind associates those moments in a performance having a little 'for years after starring Fura dels Baus (perhaps I exaggerate but I was a rookie and memories combine with other events).
Suddenly someone took a can of newcomers and with it began to strike the gong Silvana Aliotta. I remember considerable disappointment in the eyes of this stranger to Silvana.
I shall digress. One of those crazy jumped on the stage is now a dear friend and has a guitar shop (maybe the last one left in Turin), his wife sings. Guess' Who is the teacher's wife? Silvana Aliotta. One day I remembered the anecdote about the gong with Silvana and cans just saying that it was a mutual friend of "terrorists beer. Here again, that look.
Back to Altar. The evening concluded Alan. Alan was the real, original, to the air, as a censer old dawn of a deserted village. The brother of another myth that is Jenny Sorrenti (Sain Just in time). The festival had to close it. Long hair, sitting behind an acoustic guitar, began to spread his flutes notes on the night of the hinterland of Savona. It was a dream. But like all dreams, something interrupts them to bring everything back to reality. The first drops of rain that summer begins to frighten the organizers, the audience (not us, who were under the tent Moretti Swallow), artists and owners of the securities. Alan continued to sing. The first came nylon sheeting to cover amplifiers (including ours). Alan was always there. Guitar in hand which accompanied the passing of notes. He said one sentence: "... do not worry, I still am to be with you in the rain until morning ...". At that point he broke a guitar string, all greeted quickly and within a couple of minutes gone.
It was the last day, even on the first day "after the Festival." We got up, stretched us, we went behind a tree (there were few so the road was long enough and the "behind the plant" quite busy. We went to the banquet of the organization that gave us our breakfast (bread and cheese with tin coca). Finally, our eyes went to the stage now completely empty, except for a Lombardi 120 watt head and two more speakers 200 watt Davoli Lied, two more cases tested. And the Circus 2000 that had brought us the amplifiers from Torino? They had just left. We did not know anyone. The organization had finally realized that we were three kids bumbling with the spawning season of making music and not seasoned professionals. The moment came towards us a guy with a bushy beard and long hair. It was against the light and the feeling of being in front of a mystical vision was not so farfetched. Fiorenzo was Bonansone of Dedalus who offered to return the equipment to Pinerolo where we could go and return more comfortably.
This is what I remember of the Festival of Altar.

now play in a band called Rock Blues BB.Brothers. I attach a link. (I'm the fat guy who plays bass)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YBFDqtq5Xk

I felt so .....

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Nine Below Zero in Savona

When I read that Nine Below Zero would be presented at Savona, instinctively I went looking for what I had recorded a couple of years ago, during the downtown blues that took place in the squares of Varazze. Sometimes the boundary is as important as the music.

NBZ the occasion occupied the main stage, in the best possible hours, the 21, in order to enchant an audience well-prepared to be transported, and the performance was dedicated to sharing. See the movie in the attached link may exemplify my thoughts:

http://athosenrile.blogspot.com/2009/05/varazze-downtown-12-h-no-stop-music.html

I was surprised to learn that the concert would be held Saturday, March 5 at Center Billiards , and which also hangs out for various reasons, almost always order cooking, but I never thought such an event.

Bel stage and discrete space, but without detracting from the structures of our house, I could not forget seeing the NBZ, in 1980, the stage of Sanremo, as a group "shoulder" of Dire Straits . And way since then they have done a lot.

What about ... demonstration of professionalism (because their enthusiasm is not missed) and another to praise Marco Traverso , after years of Raindogs , mega concerts, like those of Jack Bruce and Johnny Winter , and after the various Downtovn background in blues, music continues in its commitment of overriding importance.

The public response, as often happens in our country, has not been much, when you consider the value and reputation of the musicians on stage.

Only two Italian concerts, Torino the night before and just Savona, should have led to a sell-out. These are unique opportunities in the area where musicians can take a closer look and steal some secret, and men more "old" can find their roots, perhaps trying to bring together their children with good music.

Or is it just a matter of participating in a good concert. Point.

But once again I must record my personal disappointment, one of many that fill this blog when I talk in my hometown.

Around 22 open "Les Trois Tetons ", a group of some repute in Savona, performing a couple of albums consisting of original songs and a few foreign tour.

And 'course, a theme night being R & B, food for the present, but there is another stretch of continuity between the two groups.

While "Les Trois Tetons are showing there's Nine Below Zero, and despite the need for a quiet moment pre-concert stop a few minutes to watch / listen showing an interest not of circumstance. When the guitarist and singer Dennis Greaves hangs in front of the stage, I wonder if you remember what happened in Varazze, on the occasion mentioned above, when Zac, frontman of "L3T", at the bis was pushed on stage and performed a song in the Stones , accompanied by the rest of the group seemed to enjoy (see links above).

Zac's music and members is top quality. Their performance is equal to the situation and for them drew my usual worn-out concept, which contains the fact assume that arise in the right place at the right time, determines the different paths of life.

So I create an image where it is natural "L3T" sound, in some smoky room London's mid-'60s, alongside colleagues who soon will enter the mythology ... listen to him:

( http://www.3tetons.it/ )

the duration of the show mean that the first part should be completed by a certain time, and when informed that the time is the last track, the "Midnight Rambler " and it is hard to remain composed.

it is up to Zac to do as a liaison and provide the main attraction.

The NBZ are Dennis Greaves (guitar, vocals) , Mark Feltham (harmonica, vocals), Gerry McAvoy (bass) and Brendan O'Neill (drums) .

not clarify what some of the music can be transmitted in some situations, times when it is very important for the appreciation of the many categories in which we like to "pigeonhole" the artists, because they are moments that transcend every rule and not depend on personal taste, but for some reason that alchemy is created by mixing audience and artists who pursue a common goal.

Supported by the powerful rhythm section Greaves from the best, hanging in the balance between voice and rhythm misrepresented. His role as leader the stage is shared with Felthman, who sings and plays harmonica divinely. They are always attentive to the dynamics of the stage and how often natural, which is used to communicate. That harmonicity is absolutely continuous opening and enlargement of the arms is something that captures the audience and, perhaps unconsciously, assimilate. Details ... huge.

The group goes over a bit 'of history and having fun on stage, while "positive restlessness" increases.

Angelo Lucardi , my own age that would have things to tell galore, shoot from any position (his photos of this article), while mobile phones try to capture the right sequence.

It 's a series of riffs R & B and blues rock sound that makes the movement, until "the mix of roles becomes too physical. During the encore, in fact, the stage remains the only O'Neill, while the rest of the band joined the audience to encourage the drummer.

Excellent acoustics and an applause usual Alessandro Mazzitelli, the king's service, Usually the musician added.

The spectacle ends after midnight and with great composure fool the public.

There is still time to buy a solid CD / DVD and have it signed by the players.

A nice, unexpected evening of music. A real shame to miss certain occasions!

( http://www.ninebelowzero.com/ )