ED eccomi di ritorno,da 800 km in due giorni a bordo della mia Chevy... il tutto per andare a uno degli appuntamenti , piu Rockabilleggianti, che ci siano....Si tratta dell' hangar rockin, un fantastico raduno, all'interno di un aeroporto.. con musica dal vivo , auto, stand e chi piu ne ha più ne metta, il tutto all'insegna dei Fifties, ovviamente.. qui alcune foto , m ne seguiranno altre.... p.s. gli aerei che ti decollano sopra la testa son davvero coreografici...
domenica 8 luglio 2007
Hangar rockin'
ED eccomi di ritorno,da 800 km in due giorni a bordo della mia Chevy... il tutto per andare a uno degli appuntamenti , piu Rockabilleggianti, che ci siano....Si tratta dell' hangar rockin, un fantastico raduno, all'interno di un aeroporto.. con musica dal vivo , auto, stand e chi piu ne ha più ne metta, il tutto all'insegna dei Fifties, ovviamente.. qui alcune foto , m ne seguiranno altre.... p.s. gli aerei che ti decollano sopra la testa son davvero coreografici...
domenica 1 luglio 2007
Slang anni 50 ( U.S.A.)

Ecco una buona parte di slang usato dai "giovani" negli anni 50, a sinistra troverete il termine in Slang e a destra la traduzione in Lingua Inglese di uso comune, spero vi piaccia.
Actor ---- Show-off
Agitate the ---- Gravel To leave (hot-rodders)
Ankle-biter ---- A child
Ape ---- Used with go - to explode or be really mad
Are you writing a book?---- You're asking too many questions
Baby---- Cute girl, term of address for either sex
Back seat bingo---- Necking in a car
Bad news--- Depressing person
Bash---- Great party
Bent eight---- a V-8 engine (hot-rodders)
Big Daddy---- An older person
Big tickle---- Really funny
Bit---- An act
Blast --- A good time
Blow off ---- To defeat in a race (hot-rodders)
Bobbed---- Shortened
Boss---- Great
Bread---- Money
Bug---- "You bug me" - to bother
Burn rubber---- To accelerate hard and fast (hot-rodders)
Cast an eyeball---- To look
Cat---- A hip person (Beats)
Chariot---- Car (Beats)
Cherry---- Originally, an unaltered car. Later, anything attractive (hot-rodders, originally)
Chrome-plated---- Dressed up (hot-rodders, originally)
Circled---- Married
Classy chassis---- Great body
Cloud 9---- Really happy
Clutched Rejected ----
Clyde---- Term of address, usually for a normal person (Beats)
Cook, cookin' ----Doing it well
Cool---- Indefinable quality that makes something or someone extraordinary
Cool it---- Relax, settle down
Cooties---- Imaginary infestations of the truly un-cool
Cranked---- Excited (Beats)
Crazy---- "Like crazy,man" Implies an especially good thing
Cream---- Originally, to dent a car. Later, to badly damage (hot-rodders, originally)
Cruisin' for a bruisin'---- Looking for trouble
Cube---- A normal person
Cut the gas---- Be quiet!
Cut out---- Leave
Daddy-O ---- Term of address (Beats)
D.D.T.---- (Drop Dead Twice) Response: What, and look like you?
Deuce---- A 1932 Ford (hot-rodders)
Dibs---- A claim - as in "got dibs" on that seat
Dig---- To understand; to approve
Dolly---- Cute girl
Don't have a cow---- Don't get so excited
Drag (hot-rodders)---- A short car race; (Beats) A bore
Duck Butt or D.A. ---- Hairstyle of greasers where hair in back is combed to the middle, then with end of comb, make a middle part.
Earthbound ---- Reliable
Epistle---- Letter
Eyeball ---- Look around
Fake Out---- A bad date
Fast---- Someone who was sexually active
Fat City---- A great thing or place; Happy
Fire Up---- Start your engine (hot-rodders)
Flat out ---- Fast as you can
Flat-top---- Men's hairstyle. A crewcut which is flat across the top
Flick---- A movie
Flip---- To get very excited
Flip-top---- A convertible car
Floor it---- Push the accelerator to the floor (hot-rodders)
Fracture---- To amuse
Fream ---- Someone who doesn't fit in
Frosted ---- Angry
Get Bent!---- Disparaging remark as in "drop dead"
Get with it---- Understand
Gig---- Work, job (Beats)
Go ape---- Get very excited
Go for pinks---- A drag race where the stakes are the car's pink slip (hot-rodders)
Goof---- Someone who makes mistakes
Goopy---- Messy
Goose it---- Accelerate the car fully (hot-rodders)
Greaser---- A guy with tons of grease in his hair, which later came to describe an entire group of people. Yes, John Travolta in Grease.
Grody----- Sloppy, messy or dirty
Hang ---- As in "hang out" which means to do very little
Haul ass---- Drive very fast (hot-rodders)
Heat ---- Police (Beats)
Hep---- With it, cool. Someone who knows the situation.
Hip---- Someone who is cool, in the know. Very good.
Hipster ---- Same as above
Hopped up---- A car modified for speed (hot-rodders)
Horn---- Telephone
Hottie---- A very fast car (hot-rodders)
Illuminat---- Good ideas, thoughts
In orbit---- In the know
Ivy Leaguer---- Pants style. Also any person who attended an Ivy League college
Jacked Up---- Car with raised rear end. (hot-rodders)
Jacketed ---- Going steady
Jelly Roll---- Men's hair combed up and forward on both sides, brought together in the middle of the forehead.
Jets ---- Smarts, brains
Kick---- A fun or good thing; Also, a fad
Kill---- To really impress
Knuckle sandwich---- A fist in the face
Kookie---- Nuts,in the nicest possible way
Later, also later, gator---- Goodbye. See ya later, alligator. Response: after while crocodile.
Lay a patch---- To accelerate so rapidly that you leave a patch of rubber on the road.
Lay on ---- To give (Beats)
Lighter ---- A crew cut
Like crazy; like wow---- Really good, better than cool
Machine ---- A car (hot-rodders)
Made in the shade ---- Success guaranteed
Make out ---- A kissing session
Make the scene ---- To attend an event or activity
Meanwhile, back at the ranch ---- From TV Westerns. Usually used to get a storyteller back on track.
Mirror warmer---- A piece of pastel fabric (often cashmere) tied around the rear view mirror. A 50s version of the Medieval wearing your lady's colors.
Most ---- A in "the most" - high praise usually of the opposite sex
Nerd ---- Same as now. Bill Gates without the money.
Nest ---- A hair-do
Nod---- Drift off to sleep
Nosebleed---- As in hey, nosebleed - hey, stupid. Not a compliment!
No sweat---- No problem
Nowhere---- Opposite of cool. Nowheresville was a boring, bad place to be. (Beats)
Nuggets---- Loose change
Odd ball ---- Someone a bit off the norm
Off the line ---- Start of a drag race (hot-rodders)
On the stick---- Pulled together. Bright, prepared...
Pad Home----
Paper shaker ---- Cheerleader or Pom Pom girl
Party pooper ---- No fun at all
Passion Pit ---- Drive-in movie theatre
Peepers ---- Glasses
Pile up Z's---- Get some sleep
Pooper---- No fun at all
Pop the Clutch---- Release the clutch pedal quickly so as to get a fast start
Pound ---- Beat up
Punch it ---- Step on the gas (hot-rodders)
Put down---- To say bad things about someone
Radioactive---- Very popular
Rag Top ---- A convertible car
Rap ---- To tattle on someone (Beats)
Rattle your cage---- Get upset
Raunchy---- Messy or gross in some other way
Razz my berries---- Excite or impress me
Real gone----- Very much in love. Also unstable. Hmm, there's a difference?
Reds ---- The Communists
Righto---- Okay
Rock ---- A diamond
Rocket ---- A car (hot-rodders)
Rod ---- A car (hot-rodders)
Royal shaft ---- Badly or unfairly treated
Scream---- Go fast
Screamer ---- A hot rod ,
Shoot low,they're riding Shetlands ----- Be careful
Shot down---- Failed
Shuck, shuckster --- A deceiver, liar or cheat
Sides---- Vinyl records
Sing ---- To tattle or inform on someone (Beats)
Sounds---- Music
Souped up ---- A car modified to go fast
Spaz ---- Someone who is uncoordinated. A clutz.
Split --- Leave
Square ---- A regular, normal person. A conformist.
Stacked ---- A woman with large er, ah...you know, well endowed.
Stack up --- - To wreck a car (hotrodder)
Submarine races---- While waiting for the submarines to race, which might take quite awhile :>) couples found creative ways of killing the time.
Subterranean ---- A hipster. Used by both Ginsberg and Kerouac. (Beats)
Tank---- A large sedan (usually driven by parents)
Tear ass ---- Drive (or go) very fast
That's close ---- Something wrong or not true
Think Fast ---- Usually said right before someone threw something at you
Threads ---- Clothes
Tight ---- Good friends
Total ---- To completely destroy, most often in reference to a car
Unreal ---- Exceptional
Wail ---- Go fast
Wazoo ---- Your rear end
Weed ---- A cigarette
Wet rag ---- Someone who's just no fun
Word from the bird ---- The truth (Beats)
What's buzzin, cuzzin ---- What's new?
What's you tale, nightingale - ---- What's the story?
Wheelie ----- Left the car's front wheels off the ground by rapid acceleration
Actor ---- Show-off
Agitate the ---- Gravel To leave (hot-rodders)
Ankle-biter ---- A child
Ape ---- Used with go - to explode or be really mad
Are you writing a book?---- You're asking too many questions
Baby---- Cute girl, term of address for either sex
Back seat bingo---- Necking in a car
Bad news--- Depressing person
Bash---- Great party
Bent eight---- a V-8 engine (hot-rodders)
Big Daddy---- An older person
Big tickle---- Really funny
Bit---- An act
Blast --- A good time
Blow off ---- To defeat in a race (hot-rodders)
Bobbed---- Shortened
Boss---- Great
Bread---- Money
Bug---- "You bug me" - to bother
Burn rubber---- To accelerate hard and fast (hot-rodders)
Cast an eyeball---- To look
Cat---- A hip person (Beats)
Chariot---- Car (Beats)
Cherry---- Originally, an unaltered car. Later, anything attractive (hot-rodders, originally)
Chrome-plated---- Dressed up (hot-rodders, originally)
Circled---- Married
Classy chassis---- Great body
Cloud 9---- Really happy
Clutched Rejected ----
Clyde---- Term of address, usually for a normal person (Beats)
Cook, cookin' ----Doing it well
Cool---- Indefinable quality that makes something or someone extraordinary
Cool it---- Relax, settle down
Cooties---- Imaginary infestations of the truly un-cool
Cranked---- Excited (Beats)
Crazy---- "Like crazy,man" Implies an especially good thing
Cream---- Originally, to dent a car. Later, to badly damage (hot-rodders, originally)
Cruisin' for a bruisin'---- Looking for trouble
Cube---- A normal person
Cut the gas---- Be quiet!
Cut out---- Leave
Daddy-O ---- Term of address (Beats)
D.D.T.---- (Drop Dead Twice) Response: What, and look like you?
Deuce---- A 1932 Ford (hot-rodders)
Dibs---- A claim - as in "got dibs" on that seat
Dig---- To understand; to approve
Dolly---- Cute girl
Don't have a cow---- Don't get so excited
Drag (hot-rodders)---- A short car race; (Beats) A bore
Duck Butt or D.A. ---- Hairstyle of greasers where hair in back is combed to the middle, then with end of comb, make a middle part.
Earthbound ---- Reliable
Epistle---- Letter
Eyeball ---- Look around
Fake Out---- A bad date
Fast---- Someone who was sexually active
Fat City---- A great thing or place; Happy
Fire Up---- Start your engine (hot-rodders)
Flat out ---- Fast as you can
Flat-top---- Men's hairstyle. A crewcut which is flat across the top
Flick---- A movie
Flip---- To get very excited
Flip-top---- A convertible car
Floor it---- Push the accelerator to the floor (hot-rodders)
Fracture---- To amuse
Fream ---- Someone who doesn't fit in
Frosted ---- Angry
Get Bent!---- Disparaging remark as in "drop dead"
Get with it---- Understand
Gig---- Work, job (Beats)
Go ape---- Get very excited
Go for pinks---- A drag race where the stakes are the car's pink slip (hot-rodders)
Goof---- Someone who makes mistakes
Goopy---- Messy
Goose it---- Accelerate the car fully (hot-rodders)
Greaser---- A guy with tons of grease in his hair, which later came to describe an entire group of people. Yes, John Travolta in Grease.
Grody----- Sloppy, messy or dirty
Hang ---- As in "hang out" which means to do very little
Haul ass---- Drive very fast (hot-rodders)
Heat ---- Police (Beats)
Hep---- With it, cool. Someone who knows the situation.
Hip---- Someone who is cool, in the know. Very good.
Hipster ---- Same as above
Hopped up---- A car modified for speed (hot-rodders)
Horn---- Telephone
Hottie---- A very fast car (hot-rodders)
Illuminat---- Good ideas, thoughts
In orbit---- In the know
Ivy Leaguer---- Pants style. Also any person who attended an Ivy League college
Jacked Up---- Car with raised rear end. (hot-rodders)
Jacketed ---- Going steady
Jelly Roll---- Men's hair combed up and forward on both sides, brought together in the middle of the forehead.
Jets ---- Smarts, brains
Kick---- A fun or good thing; Also, a fad
Kill---- To really impress
Knuckle sandwich---- A fist in the face
Kookie---- Nuts,in the nicest possible way
Later, also later, gator---- Goodbye. See ya later, alligator. Response: after while crocodile.
Lay a patch---- To accelerate so rapidly that you leave a patch of rubber on the road.
Lay on ---- To give (Beats)
Lighter ---- A crew cut
Like crazy; like wow---- Really good, better than cool
Machine ---- A car (hot-rodders)
Made in the shade ---- Success guaranteed
Make out ---- A kissing session
Make the scene ---- To attend an event or activity
Meanwhile, back at the ranch ---- From TV Westerns. Usually used to get a storyteller back on track.
Mirror warmer---- A piece of pastel fabric (often cashmere) tied around the rear view mirror. A 50s version of the Medieval wearing your lady's colors.
Most ---- A in "the most" - high praise usually of the opposite sex
Nerd ---- Same as now. Bill Gates without the money.
Nest ---- A hair-do
Nod---- Drift off to sleep
Nosebleed---- As in hey, nosebleed - hey, stupid. Not a compliment!
No sweat---- No problem
Nowhere---- Opposite of cool. Nowheresville was a boring, bad place to be. (Beats)
Nuggets---- Loose change
Odd ball ---- Someone a bit off the norm
Off the line ---- Start of a drag race (hot-rodders)
On the stick---- Pulled together. Bright, prepared...
Pad Home----
Paper shaker ---- Cheerleader or Pom Pom girl
Party pooper ---- No fun at all
Passion Pit ---- Drive-in movie theatre
Peepers ---- Glasses
Pile up Z's---- Get some sleep
Pooper---- No fun at all
Pop the Clutch---- Release the clutch pedal quickly so as to get a fast start
Pound ---- Beat up
Punch it ---- Step on the gas (hot-rodders)
Put down---- To say bad things about someone
Radioactive---- Very popular
Rag Top ---- A convertible car
Rap ---- To tattle on someone (Beats)
Rattle your cage---- Get upset
Raunchy---- Messy or gross in some other way
Razz my berries---- Excite or impress me
Real gone----- Very much in love. Also unstable. Hmm, there's a difference?
Reds ---- The Communists
Righto---- Okay
Rock ---- A diamond
Rocket ---- A car (hot-rodders)
Rod ---- A car (hot-rodders)
Royal shaft ---- Badly or unfairly treated
Scream---- Go fast
Screamer ---- A hot rod ,
Shoot low,they're riding Shetlands ----- Be careful
Shot down---- Failed
Shuck, shuckster --- A deceiver, liar or cheat
Sides---- Vinyl records
Sing ---- To tattle or inform on someone (Beats)
Sounds---- Music
Souped up ---- A car modified to go fast
Spaz ---- Someone who is uncoordinated. A clutz.
Split --- Leave
Square ---- A regular, normal person. A conformist.
Stacked ---- A woman with large er, ah...you know, well endowed.
Stack up --- - To wreck a car (hotrodder)
Submarine races---- While waiting for the submarines to race, which might take quite awhile :>) couples found creative ways of killing the time.
Subterranean ---- A hipster. Used by both Ginsberg and Kerouac. (Beats)
Tank---- A large sedan (usually driven by parents)
Tear ass ---- Drive (or go) very fast
That's close ---- Something wrong or not true
Think Fast ---- Usually said right before someone threw something at you
Threads ---- Clothes
Tight ---- Good friends
Total ---- To completely destroy, most often in reference to a car
Unreal ---- Exceptional
Wail ---- Go fast
Wazoo ---- Your rear end
Weed ---- A cigarette
Wet rag ---- Someone who's just no fun
Word from the bird ---- The truth (Beats)
What's buzzin, cuzzin ---- What's new?
What's you tale, nightingale - ---- What's the story?
Wheelie ----- Left the car's front wheels off the ground by rapid acceleration
mercoledì 27 giugno 2007
Jerry Lee e Myra



Diciamo che si cercò per un periodo di mettere a tacere tutto, questa situazione, andò avanti per circa un anno, fino alla tournè in Inghilterra e precisamente il 22 maggio del 1958.. appresa la notizia dai giornalisti... e messa sulla bocca di tutti, si creò uno scandalo tale da far vacillare la carriera i uno dei piu grandi, suonatori e creatori di rock'n'roll.
Tornato in patria ebbe un trattamento altrettanto severo e l'ostracismo arrivò all'ennesima potenza, iniziò il declino. Jerry Lee si ritrovò a suonare in piccoli localini, davanti a poche persone, a dover , sbarcare il lunario.......
Questo breve sunto... ( molto minimalizzato) per porre qualche quesito.. Primo, se jerry Lee, non avesse incontrato Myra o meglio se non l'avesse sposata, secondo voi... sarebbe stato il numero 1 ? (tenete presente che i suoi dischi era perennemente alle vette della classifica).
secondo... se fosse successo ai giorni nostri, che reazione avrebbe avuto l 'opinione pubblica ??
terzo... premesso che noi non giudichiamo nessuno, e che ognuno si vive la sua vita, voi come la pensate, punito o assolto ? Ultima cosa, Jerry Lee, dopo anni di ombra è riuscito a ritornare al suo splendore e a donarci ancora, quella musica che solo il suo talento poteva darci... ora mi chiedo, quanti altri, dopo tutto questo sarebbero rimasti in piedi ??? Lui si.. ed è arrivato a noi pochi mesi fa con il suo ultimo lavoro dal titolo (mai nome fu piu appropriato) THE LAST MAN STANDING........ un cd veramente fantastico con la collaborazione di alcuni grani della musica...
Mi fermo qui , anche se potrei scrivere per ore e ore... ditemi pure la vostra.
Massimmiliano
giovedì 21 giugno 2007
SUN RECORD

La Sun record , nasce a Memphis , Tennessee nel febbraio del 1952, ad opera di Sam Phillips, che affittò un piccolo spazio, che adìbì a vari utilizzi, tra i quali, studio personale e sala di incisione, si dice che Sam Phillips era una persona che, tendenzialmente adorava ascoltare tutto cio che gli veniva proposto (o quasi). Memphis, allora era una buona piazza per Gospel, Blues, Hillibilly, Country e Western Swing. Non avendo la Sun record un genere ben definito ( come etichetta)nel 1954 si imbattè in un giovane, che suonava con un suo stile, qualcosa di nuovo, di mai ascoltato prima....( quantomeno nella versione di questo giovane).... pura "dimamite" usando uno slang dell'epoca... si trattava di Elvis Presley,vennero a seguire Johnny Cash, Carl Perkinas e Jerry Lee Lewis, queste quattro persone furono poi soprannominate dalla stampa, "Million dollar Quartet".. ovviamente c'erano altri personaggi come Roy Orbison, Charlie Rich, Bill Justis, Harold Jenkins (a.k. Conway Twitty) ed altri grandi talenti musicali che sarebbe lungo elencare. A questo punto la Sun record, venne conosciuta come un etichetta produttrice di un sound particolare, una miscela esplosiva denominata ROCKABILLY..
In quel periodo , musicalmente non c'era un largo uso della batteria, molti generi musicali ne facevano a meno, questo non accadeva nel rockabilly, per il quale la batteria aveva un ruolo fondamentale, ancora una volta la Sun Record aveva trovato un suono caratteristico , facilmente associabile ad essa. Devo dire che a tutt'oggi dopo ben 50 anni, ascoltare un brano con etichetta SUN è un piacere immenso. Un sound davvero inconfondibile per gli appassionati del genere, ma che consiglio vivamente a tutti.
Massimiliano
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