Howard Hughes just sent me a review he wrote on the London concert.
I’ve added it to the database here: [Addio, Ennio: London 2018 - The Spaghetti Western Database]
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wow great, added a few links and formatting and already posted it on facebook/twitter also. great initiative!
looking forward to the concert myself
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My ticket for 28 January has arrived!
The concerto will be in Telenor Arena, which you of course know nothing about, so I’ll tell you. It’s in Oslo’s neighbour municipality, Baerum, the one with the highest density of snotty rich people in the entire Norway.
Once their football team had a couple of fairly good seasons in a row, so some rich uncles started asking why is it that our boys have to play at the shitty stadion they are playing at now? So they built them a new one, Telenor Arena. Their team played there for a couple of seasons, then they couldn’t afford the rent and went back together with their preppy supporters to play at the same shitty stadion as before.
It was built as an INDOOR football stadion with WOODEN stands. I went there once for an away match, and it was real embarrassing.
But now I’ll pinch my nose and go there for a second time, all ears, and then never again.
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Out my price bracket aswell.
Never been to London either so did not want to break that line ha, ha. Manchester City Centre is bad enough for me.
Hours away…
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Third encore omg we dont deserve this
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#paywall
Glad my wife and I went to his concert in Amsterdam. It was excellent.
Last year I, again with my wife, visited Verona. After pizza one night, we walked past the colosseum, and we heard The Ecstasy of Gold coming from there. I asked security if Morricone was performing there, which he confirmed. I kept listening outside. Beautiful setting for that, even though I wasn’t inside.
RIP Maestro
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“Big Gundown: Reggae Inspired by Spaghetti Westerns” is a reggae album that includes covers of compositions by Morricone and other composers. Anyone know about country musicians covering composers of Spaghetti Westerns? Thanks.
@scherpschutter wrote an amazing piece
https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Leone_left,_Morricone_right
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Well done Scherps. Great piece
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Morricone Conducts Morricone from 2005 (geolocation will probably allow access only for IP addresses from certain countries) –
https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/032530-000-A/morricone-conducts-morricone/
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A great posthumous tribute to Morricone: Rome’s Auditorium Parco della Musica will be renamed Auditorium Ennio Morricone, as Wanted in Rome reports.
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So, the wife bought me this double album as part of my birthday present back in July and now I can’t stop myself from buying the rest of the series as they get released.
Picked up the second one (Psycho themes) a month or so ago
And today the third one (Lounge themes) arrived.
I’m spending far more on these than is sensible but I am enjoying them a lot so what the hell.
The psycho one is not so easy listening but the western one is full of classics and this Lounge one is super cool in a suede jacket and cravat kind of way. They are all on coloured vinyl too which shouldn’t really impress me as much as it does. They look great. Psycho in red, Lounge in orange and Westerns in Gunsmoke!
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When I recently heard “Apache” in a German schlager flick from the early sixties, I was reminded of how inspiring Morricone must have found this instrumental written by Jerry Lordan. In the movie, Paul Martin’s Adieu, Lebewohl, Goodbye, not the famous version by the Shadows was played but the one by Danish guitarist Jørgen Ingmann. However, the version of “Apache” that points most to Morricone’s music is the one by Lordan himself.
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New official release next month: Morricone Segreto (“secret Morricone”)
Italy, mp3:
https://amzn.to/3k1bm4C
UK, vinyl:
https://amzn.to/3j6ukp2
UK, CD
https://amzn.to/3k11Mid
Germany, mp3
https://amzn.to/3dxHLxj
USA, CD
https://amzn.to/343k4tt
USA, stream
https://amzn.to/2T1jm9Y
