May 2008

GRAHAM BONNET ROCKS YOU TO THE GROUND PART 1 (1968-1981)

(statements of Graham Bonnet & co. Are drawn from several interviews published on http://www.bonnetrocks.com/ )

Top Ten by Graham Bonnet

1. White Album (The Beatles)

2. In Through The Out Door (Led Zeppelin)

3. Talking Book (Stevie Wonder)

4. Surf's Up (The Beach Boys)

5. The Buddy Holly Story (Buddy Holly)

6. Love on the Airwaves (Gallaghar & Lyle)

7. All Things Must Pass (George Harrison)

8. Imagine (John Lennon)

9. The Kink Kronikles (The Kinks)

10. No Dice (Badfinger)

(da un'intervista rilasciata alla rivista giapponese "Rockin' f", 1983)

Pochi, alla luce di quanto scritto sopra, e conosciuti gli esordi di Graham Bonnet, avrebbero osato predirgli una carriera marchiata hard & heavy.

Inglese di Skegness, Lincolnshire, dove nasce il 23 dicembre 1947, Bonnet muove i primi passi in una direzione artistica completamente diversa da quella che avrebbe poi intrapreso ("Amo il R&B e il blues, sono le mie radici musicali"). A 15-16 anni suona blues nei pub londinesi; qualche tempo dopo fonda i Graham Bonnet Set, ai quali si unisce presto il cugino, Trevor Gordon Grunnill (poi solo Trevor Gordon), di un anno più giovane, nativo di Skegness ma cresciuto in Australia, dove nel 1964 era entrato in contatto con i Bee Gees, incidendo con loro quattro canzoni. La collaborazione con i futuri interpreti di "Saturday Night Fever" è destinata a continuare: al Revolution Club di Londra, dove la band sta per esibirsi, Trevor reincontra Robert Stigwood, manager dei Bee Gees e padrone della RSO Records. La band si scioglie, mentre Graham Trevor and enter into recording studio to record some songs of the brothers Gibb, Neil Sedaka and other artists. Barry Gibb is the supervisor of operations: it is to find and impose as The Marbles (Robin's brother had chosen Peanuts ...), while Bonnet and Gordon had thought his name was Bonar Law. The duo was signed to the Polydor and released their first single in August 1968, written by Maurice and Barry Gibb, Only One Woman. Due to the overwhelming interpretation of Bonnet, impressive vocal range that is ideal cross between Tom Jones and Rod Stewart, the song reaches the fifth place in England, and even in South Africa's number one. A story eloquently of the powerful voice Bonnet: durante le sessioni di "Only One Woman" Barry Gibb invitò Graham ad allontanarsi sempre più dal microfono!

Esattamente vent'anni dopo, nel 1988, la canzone sarà reincisa da una band svedese, gli Alien, e raggiungerà la vetta delle charts locali.

Purtroppo Only One Woman rimane anche... l'only one hit dei Marbles: infatti il loro secondo singolo, The Walls Fell Down , passa inosservato in madrepatria, mentre diventa popolare in Olanda, dove raggiunge il numero 3 della Top 40 nell'aprile del 1969. Ciononostante, i Marbles si sciolgono. L'anno successivo viene dato alle stampe il loro primo, e unico, album, ristampato in cd nel novembre 2003 by Repertoire Records with the addition of several bonus tracks and a booklet full of photos and news.

After the end of the Marbles, Bonnet ends meet recording jingles, and in 1974 he even makes his debut as an actor in a comedy Three For All, directed by Martin Campbell, in which she plays the role of Kook, singer a band by the curious name, Billy Beethoven.

In 1977 Graham Bonnet out first try as a solo artist, which won the gold in Australia. Driving part of an album devoted to the verb of a rhythm & blues cover of Dylan's It's All Over Now, Baby Blue , played with vigor by our. The disc doth a glossary with clear references to the nostalgic 60 Years: Bonnet running Will You Love Me Tomorrow , written by Carole King and brought to success in 1961 by the Shirelles, and a version of It Is not Easy Ron Davies, engraved five years earlier by David Bowie "Ziggy Stardust", and is measured even with a traditional folk-blues as Rock Island Line, recorded by Leadbelly for the first time in 1937, while the only song written by the former is the Marbles third, the merry march soul of Wino Song .

In 1978 he published No Bad Habits; disc there are two versions, one Australian and one Dutch, with ladders different. In 1981, the disc will be reissued in Japan with a fundamental shift: Warm Ride, the brothers Gibb, is replaced dall'incalzante Bad Days Are Gone , written by Bob Young and Mickey Moody, with a nice solo that impreziosce . No Bad Habits territories traces the pedigree of our most congenial with the slow, painful Is There A Way To Sing The Blues , blues cadence Cold Lady, the perky folk-rock of Can not Complain , rock and roll Stand Still Stella to surprising reggae Only You Can Lift Me , South African singer-songwriter John Kongos, from whose repertoire Bonnet proto-world music draws on two other songs, Pyramid and the closing, solar Will not You Join Me , the latter preceded by Dylan I'll Be Your Baby Tonight .

released in 1979 for the German market Can not Complain, album that collects the best of both previous albums. That same year, the unexpected happens: Ritchie Blackmore is looking for his Rainbow of a singer that he does not regret Ronnie James Dio, andatosene for the usual creative differences. The choice, after a very short sample (the only Mistreated), falls on the Bonnet, "Ritchie remembered hearing me sing with Only One Woman Marbles, and Roger Glover asked about my account. I, honestly, I did not know who were the Rainbow. Of course, I knew the fame of Deep Purple, but at the time my musical preferences were the Beatles

...". In light of these statements, the choice seems risky, because the curriculum and look at James Dean (!? ) do not seem the best suited to erase the memory of fans remember the elf's Italian-American voice from adamantine.

On 28 July 1979, published in England Down To Earth, album that marks a significant turn towards sounds more mainstream: "The decision [to soften the sound] was taken before I joined alla band". I Rainbow entrano per la prima volta in classifica con due canzoni, All Night Long ma soprattutto una cover di Russ Ballard, Since You Been Gone , tutt'ora cavallo di battaglia del Nostro dal vivo. La voce graffiante di Bonnet lascia il suo marchio indelebile su diversi pezzi, dall'epica cavalcata di Eyes of the World passando per l'intenso blues di Love's No Friend e arrivando alla trascinante Lost In Hollywood, che per inciso sono le sue predilette .

Il tour di supporto al disco è molto intenso: alle prese con il vecchio repertorio dell'era-Dio, Bonnet dimostra idiosincrasia nei confronti di canzoni quali "Man On The Silver Mountain" and "Long Live Rock 'n Roll": "Singing songs not recorded by me gave me the unpleasant impression of being under constant comments like' is not as good as ...'". The last performance of the singer (and drummer Cozy Powell) with the Rainbow is the best, August 16, 1980, Castle Donington nell'esaltante frame, to seal the first edition of the Monsters of Rock, in front of 100,000 enthusiastic spectators . A curiosity: the stage is performed Will You Love Me Tomorrow , drawn from the repertoire of the solo singer, the group would like to publish as an individual but which remained unpublished.

As mentioned, after the Monsters of Rock drummer leaves, and keyboardist Don Airey threatens to do the same. Bonnet, who had tied a lot with the two, is displaced by the events and he meditates to leave the group, "was the new drummer Bobby Rondinelli, Cozy was gone, Don Airey was just going to go, things were changing . At that time we were in Copenhagen for the preparation of the new disc: the instability had made it unproductive. At one point I returned to Los Angeles and from there I announced that I would not be returned. With hindsight, I could not resist a little ', as did Don Airey, who did not go away immediately as he had announced. The routine, however, was taking over, the enthusiasm of the early days it was gone. Boredom occurs when it is better to give up, so I did. "

After declined the offer to replace Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath -" their manager approached me, I never refused ... I was never a big fan of Sabbath, although perhaps then made the wrong decision ... "-, Bonnet returned to devote himself to his solo career: it is under contract with Phonogram, Vertigo shore; David Oddie, his manager since 1977 and linked to the Quarry Productions, the project involves Francis Rossi of Status Quo - also the team's Quarry - and John Eden. Aim: the creation of a single, the choice falls on Night Games , Ed Hamilton. The song is catchy , has a melody commercial design and is just right: the compelling voice of Bonnet shall then provide you with a more aggressive musical outfit. The training gathered around the former lead singer of Rainbow (label on the cover of the inevitable future discs ...) is very respectable: Cozy Powell on drums, Mickey Moody to acoustic and electric guitar, Gary Twigg on bass, Andy Bown of Status Quo the piano and organ. Night Games in March 1981 is published in England, where it reaches the sixth. Bonnet also participates in the transmission Top of the Pops: the musicians who play on the disc are only Powell and Twigg. Meanwhile, in Japan, the song reached the second place.

The second single to be released is Liar piece written in 1969 by Russ Ballard of Argent for the first disc and already interpreted by Three Dog Night in 1971. The B side is taken up by much more aggressive Bad Days Are Gone. The choice of the label reveals unhappy Liar does not go beyond the 51 th place in the UK charts. It 's a pity that in his place was not chosen another song signed by Ballard, SOS, with dynamic aggressiveness, ideal for the business card of our scratchy throat, as explained by the same Cozy Powell " SOS was ideal, instead they chose a single anachronistic as Liar, and I often wonder how to reason the record: maybe they choose the waitress brings the tea. " The ingenuity, however, commit the most serious Bonnet himself, who returns to Los Angeles if they lose interest in the final mix of the album. Mixing that inevitably dampens more rock tones: "Despite the conditions, the disc ended up becoming pop, we played the likes of Jon Lord, Cozy Powell and Mickey Moody, but producer John Eden thwarted their presence with the arrangements of exaggerating keyboards. I was not at all satisfied with the final result. "
At the end of October 1981, the disc is finally given printed: Line-Up (This is the title chosen anonymous) received a modest promotion by the Phonogram, so that after reaching the 62 th place in the British charts disappears without a trace. The lp has some time convincing - Night Games , SOS , ballad and I'ma Lover Boy Anthony - but others are decidedly understated, and, more seriously, it lacks a clear direction in style: Be My Baby (Phil Spector) is defined by the English press "sugar nauseating." Bonnet relies on a classic rock 'n roll too weak and conventional production rende il disco anemico.

Charlie Dominici: BACK WITH A TRILOGY

O3 - A TRILOGY

E' proprio vero that the number 3 is "perfect"? After many illustrious examples movie - Matrix ; The Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean ; X-Men - even the music acco

by the prevailing fashion. To release a trilogy in the notes is survived by an illustrious past noble even fallen: Charlie Dominici. Made in Brooklyn Italian-American, born in 1951, good Charlie is famous for having sung on the first album of Dream Theater "When Dream and Day Unite" (1989). Long before the fatal encounter with Portnoy & co., Dominici, a great admirer of the Beatles, he formed the duo "Billy and Charles", author in 1969 of a semi-acoustic self-titled album has become a cult collectors: they sell it on Gemm at $ 65 ...

In 1981 he participates as a chorister of the debut album "Franke & Knockouts", a band of ephemeral success of New Jersey, most famous for hosting the file in his future Bon Jovi drummer, Tico Torres.

experience in the Theatre of Dreams was quite short. After that Dominici is devoted to extra-musical activities (including the management of a company of loans and mortgages ...) until 2005. On 5 July of that year he published "O3 A Trilogy - Part 1", first album after a silence that lasted 16 years. The return on the music scene proves undoubtedly brave; heedless of fashions and nostalgic appeal, Our impact that no one would have expected: accompanied only by sparse counterpoint of an acoustic guitar and sometimes a harmonica, Dominici makes the first part of what its intentions would be a concept apocalyptic divided into three segments. Ten songs pregnant with melancholy moods, ten songs that reveal an unexpected vocal talent, enhanced by thoughtful and intimate tone that permeates the whole work.

In 2006 the band came into contact with the Swiss-Sardinian Solid Vision (two excellent albums to date, and Eleven Hurricane ), with whom he began to work for the drafting of the new pieces. The fruits of the partnership will materialize The following year, when "O3 A Trilogy - Part 2" is given to the press. The tones and delicate arpeggiated onset are replaced by virtuoso guitar-keyboard duels, bearers of a prog metal certainly not oblivious of the lesson of Portnoy & Associates. An impeccable record in terms of formal, but too afraid to leave trails paths too.

2007 saw more and more involved in the project Dominici O3: the story of the end of humanity and its rebirth, thanks to the DNA of its sole survivor, Detective Anthony Dam (Dam A., Adam, Adam .. .), was published in 2008. The songwriting has matured and has set the tone, as demonstrated by some Steps pseudo-thrash nell'apripista King of Terror, and the work of the band is illuminated by the talent of the brothers Maillard, Yan Brian on drums and the fulminating solo, backed by our own Riccardo Atzeni on bass and keyboards to Amerigo Rigoldi.

With a record of good caliber behind him, Charlie Dominici is ready to carve out a little, but basically well-deserved place in the sun. In the hope that it will not be swept away forever by real people like those described in his concept ...

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