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Piero Montanari

Jon Bon Jovi, the rock star of American the pop-metal fan, in an article published today in The Sunday Times, declares war on the already battered maramaldescamente Steve Jobs, Apple founder and guilty of having contributed to the decay and the final 'killeraggio' music industry with its iPod, iPad , iPhone and iTunes (before ending up who knows what else vowels invent it ...).

"The kids today have lost the whole experience of putting on headphones, turn up the volume to maximum, hold the cover, close your eyes and get lost in a vinyl album - said the singer Italian origins - and the beauty of taking my allowance and decide based on the cover, not knowing how to play a disc. It was magical, a magical time and this is now gone. "

Although I can not give entirely wrong - and then explain why - I find the attack on excessive CEO of Apple, which only had the responsibility for having invented and produced a technology, unstoppable, which finally scrapped any musical support. Lp first, of course.

We had already tried years ago with the Sony Walkman and cassette tapes, which one you carry around with headphones, at home after registering his favorite vinyl, delightful delirium of musical autonomy. It seems less a thing of the Mesozoic, and was the case only at the beginning of '70. A decade later came the Compact Disc revolution of the music stand, a plastic disk and a engraving, virtually indestructible and very high quality (44.1 kHz). Other than the hiss of needle on vinyl! I remember the blank CDs, to record the above machines antediluvian, cost the insane amount of 80 € of our time. Now, if you find them, you pull them back for a few cents and you also tell him freed because of the shelves.

Sony, always ready to get on the train of the technological revolution, was swift and later pulled out the Discman, which was then the ambulatory CD player, also the subject of archaeological technology Music.

Today, like Bon Jovi complains, the music you download for free from the network (you pay only iTunes), I put it where you like support, the plays where you want, and generally know little or nothing of the song, who sounds, producers, Who is the engineer of record and in what study was carried out the work. All the things we loved to read the disc spinning while hypnotized.

I knew all about the rooms, the sound engineers, producers, musicians, graphic and myself, when it appeared on the covers of the albums that I had made a famous bass player, I had a moment of pride and "peeled" the album cover and smelled the heady scent of Music.

"I hate to seem like an old man - still the leader of the Bon Jovi interview - but they are, and keep in mind my words, within a generation of people will say: What is happened? Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music industry. "

is not quite so even if something is true invective of Bon Jovi, but of course the record companies did not understand the revolution that was taking place just a few years ago.

The death of vinyl records has created, however, a group of maniacs, collectors, tireless researcher of old Lp ranging attack of musicians, journalists Rai, former radio DJ, radio regional and private collections, with the hope the rarity of finding trapped in cellars or forgotten on the shelves gathering dust at home, those records that were saved from the relentless garbage dump where most of us have for them.

"How wonderful it was thrown away - I said sadly one of these collectors, a doctor and became a fan of vinyl my friend, who frequents the markets in the world - an entire collection of wonderful rarities thrown in the bin, records the value hundreds, but thousands of euro, very hard to find! "

It 's a fashion, that of hunting the old vinyl, which often has curious implications: it is not hard to find the gates of the palaces in Rome in the Prati area, close to Viale Mazzini Rai area, post-it that read: "Wanted old Lp. I pay well, call ...

I could not understand why only in that area and find those notes, and I asked my friend collector. "Why are there we are all journalists, film programmers and managers in the RAI, for years, have received from record companies to make mountains of Lp free television to promote their artists. We poor collectors hoping for a good soul who has not dropped. "

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Piero Montanari

There is an alarm in the alarms of this bleak period Italian, who cares these days all those who care about the culture of our country, already seriously threatened by government cuts to the Entertainment Industry Fund (FUS), and the possible closure of the 'Istituto Luce-Cinecittà because of lack of money. "The situation is very serious - he says the same managing director of Cinecitta, Luciano Sovena, Corriere della Sera in an interview a few days ago - "Cinecittà danger of closing and funding cuts also threaten the historical archive, the pride of our memory."

The Istituto Luce was born in 1924 at the behest of Mussolini, who understood the importance of cinema as an instrument for propagating the fascist regime. Over the years he collected an innumerable multitude of photographs and produced newsreels, documentaries and films of extraordinary historical importance. The shots are hundreds of thousands and many are the hours of video. Virtually any, light, all memory of 900, nationally and globally, an artistic material, historical, cultural and Politics, whose importance can escape only to those who did not care about the fate of Italy and of future generations.

E 'the Undersecretary for Cultural Heritage, Francesco Maria Giro, which he says, worried, as are the accounts: on the basis of what remains of FUS, or 231 million, using the tax rates applicable to various sectors, foundations opera-symphony will be about 109 million, about 31 music, dance about 5, the theater about 37, about 3.4 million and about 42 cinemas (of which less than 7 could be used in Cinecittà). While the wait was a reinstatement of up to 414 million.

Then in 2011 the Institute Luce (merged with Cinecittà in 2009) will receive from the state only € 7 million and the money will be used only to pay the salaries of employees, while it will be locked, "hypoxia" economic, any strategic activity. A real disaster, if you think that archive their history which they said is at risk. We know how fragile are the media of film and how much care needs of the material is so valuable. Not to mention the importance that the light was in the production of feature films for cultural and commitment, directed by great directors like Monicelli, Avati, Belocchio, Chabrol, Cavani, Olmi, Scola, starting from 1935 when the light gave birth all'Enic, National Agency for the film industries.

The risk of a "Halzeimer" general memory of our country is so big, and many have raised their shields in defense of Cinecittà - Light. Here are some statements.

Gianluigi Rondi, "It's like turning off the voice of Italian cinema. Not only that, how to erase the image of Italy since the war. " Sergio Zavoli: "The closing vented Cinecittà is itself an evil thought: the result of a dangerous drift of our cultural heritage. It would be a task, though well disguised, vaguely barbaric. " Marco Muller, "The programs of the last editions of the Venice Film Festival has shown how valuable the role of Cinecittà Light in the exploitation of new directors and defense options auteur who can really bind to the territory. If the threat of closure is confirmed, not only crippled the Italian cinema to come out: to lose a historic brand as important, just when foreigners want to come back to show Cinecittà turn, would mean hopelessly impoverished in terms of international communication that remains Made in Italy film. "

Digression mischievous.

A misfortunes misfortunes are: everything that happens while Forbes magazine, U.S. Economics and Finance, Mr Berlusconi withdraws from the 118esimo 74th place in the ranking of the richest in the world with a personal fortune of "only" 7.8 billion dollars.

But that's another story.