If, when I was fifteen, someone had told me “one day you will go to a concert of Led Zeppelin“, I would have laughed a lot certainly!
No, I haven’t gone to that concert and surely I will never go there (even if there are rumors about a reunion with the Bonham’s child), but what I have seen sunday evening at the ancient greek theater of Taormina is enough!
After two hours, in which three groups are alternated (particularly the magic Tinariwen), Robert Plant arrives with the amazing Strange Sensation.
Already with the first beautiful song I shiver: the voice seems really that of Robert Plant, the same that I listening for years. It is a little lower, deeper, but it doesn’t show some sixty years (or it perhaps shows them all, it depends on the points of view). The second song gives me the certainty.
Then, the madness: Robert screams “Hey hey mama, said the way you move gon’ make you sweat, gon’ make you groove“. It was the great Black Dog.
After amazing songs like Freedom Fries and Tin Pan Valley, that you can listen in the album Mighty Rearrenger, come the unmistakable sounds of Babe I’m Gonna Leave You and Going To California.
All the Led Zeppelin’s songs have almost been remixed together with oriental rhythms and with a cleaner rock, less ‘n roll, but of big effect.
But the best still had to come. Would you guess with which song Robert and the Strange Sensation had closed the concert? Perhaps it is banal, but the felt emotion is indescribable. The theater seems to collapse.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=88EE225D63E02D76
Eolie mon amour: earth, water, air and fire
Returning from a week in Eolie Islands, I talk about my beautiful experience.
Lipari is the biggest of the Eolies, the most commercial and touristic one and, therefore, also the most economic: in fact it is here that I and my girlfriend have lodged. The principal towns of the island are Lipari, Pianoconte, Quattropani, Acquacalda, Canneto.
Among the most beautiful beaches, I quote Centoscalini or “White beach” (in the photo above), the beach of pumice stone and another that is attainable in two ways: paying the boat service from the Lipari port or walking along a very steep path that departs from the hill. Obviously, we have chosen “the difficult street” ;-).
To turn the island in moped (or in bicycle) in the late afternoon is relaxing and it makes you always discover new promontories, new roads, new houses and new feelings.
We have been on other two islands: Stromboli and Panarea. Together with Lipari, it is the third time that I visit them; next time, however, I will go in the other four: Vulcano, Salina, Alicudi and Filicudi.
Panarea is very small, is all built in steep slope and it is painted with four colors: the green of the mediterranean plants, the blue of the sky, the bright blue of the sea and the white of the houses and the yachts. The landscape is more savage than in Lipari, the beaches are beautiful, particularly the famous Cala Zimmari.
Stromboli is not an island: Stromboli is the Mediterranean sea, is the Sicily, is the power of the Earth, is the timid presence of man, is the Fire and is Aeolus in person. It is the most beautiful, the wildest of the Eolie Islands. Stromboli doesn’t have confinements, the sea is an its prolongation. The only rampart, the Strombolicchio rock. The volcano is in continuous activity, it spits ash and red hot stones that, punctually, roll along the Sciara del Fuoco.
But Stromboli is also Ginostra a group of houses placed in the opposite part of the island. You can arrive to Ginostra only by boat, a small boat, because his port is one of the smallest in the world; its few inhabitants are taciturn, they love silence and they hate the electric energy, that they have never had for many years.
There are no words to describe the atmosphere that you can breathes in Eolie Islands, you have to go here to touch with your hand the four natural elements.