experience therefore, Falconara, their first line-"official" mark (I) on vocals, Daniel on guitar, Donald on bass and Mark on drums. So begins the true story of ANV, made not only sounds but also from time to time together. The rooms (so, simply call your local testing) were our new womb. We were always there, despite the commitments or after school. Into the night. We were among us to play, fuck, designing flyers for concerts or hypothetical covers fanomatiche tape and then listened to a bit 'of music or other sounds heard.
The rooms were on the premises of a former nursery school, abandoned for some time. Five rooms, a utility room with a cellar of miracles and two bathrooms. Our room was divided in two by a wall that is barely holding, by a casing made of wooden boards and covered with foam rubber, which was to have sound-absorbing function, but that - because we had no money to buy materials decent - it was so thin that the band playing on the other side of the fence could not do it simultaneously with us, and vice versa.
Beyond the fence were the bastions Gran Sasso rock band. In the most traditional sense of the word. Done by people who knew how to play and that's why you saw a few times (fortunately for us), maybe yes and no once a week. Then
There was a large room free, we called "meeting room", but in which we made a couple of yes and no group meetings. Certainly that was the room of farewell to the rooms, which was consumed by the end of that experience incredible. But the sad stories now let's leave aside, for now.
In the "big room" the Department of Culture regularly sent groups and associations to test the usefulness of the site ... no results. No one could live with the noise coming out from the other rooms. The UDI held it for a while ', they were three or four times, then walked off the field on the sly leaving there too much of their material.
The third room was that of Ashill Forrest, who played jazz-rock fusion to Level 42, which at the time was their favorite band. With them was a constant tease on musical themes: We hate their music, they could not even call "music" that came out of our amplifiers. Despite these Scazzi friendly relations with them will be very tight. By the time we made them and us a beautiful friendship association, made up of dinners, drinks, excursions and more. Francis, crazy for PFM, played drums, guitar Vito, Giulio (Giulio ie that with which we founded the Black Lizards) was the magician of the bass, Lorenzo (which one day I will devote a separate post) on sax, Charlet percussion. Then there was a keyboard can not remember the name.
The second half of the room (this perfectly sound-proofed thanks to the craftsmanship of Ashill Forrest and higher disposable income groups) was occupied by the "metalheads". But everyone calls them "the fjoletti" (which in our dialect means "children") because he was the youngest of the group rooms. Ixion's Wheel: Andrea on drums, Gianluca on vocals, Alex on bass and Michael on guitar. Although we made a good partnership with them, especially with Andrew, a student of cinema, with which the successor organization cineforum futuristic at the time.
Then there was the kitchen.
The kitchen, the final weeks of the rooms
A room with a large wooden table, a sofa with ticks, a dozen chairs, a kitchen with a gas cylinder, a refrigerator, television, a belief ... In short: a kitchen. That was the real meeting room. There he spent a lot of time. Together. Fuck the music! There were no more divisions of any kind. Who felt like there was. Along with the other. To do things together. Even doing nothing. But together.
Here we used the spaghetti with garlic, oil and chilli, we drank the wine that brought Francis: the green one-liter bottles with the cap of gilded iron. Card games. Meetings and toxic alcohol. "Those of the Night" on TV, singing all the letters together. At night, the kitchen comes to life with other strange characters, that had nothing to do with music. Animals that lived in the streets by day and night met with the other animals: the blind moles of the rooms.
