Piero Montanari
One of these families had combined with the sister of Sophia Loren, Maria Scicluna, with whom he had two daughters, Alessandra and Elizabeth. From these three women he loved so much was then separated, but never completely, leaving the home of Montesacro, Piazza Monte Gennaro. He had gone to live in Libya Avenue (applicants are in the life of Roman historical sites of fascism). I have a memory of that house truly tragicomic. Romano once asked me to go to him to try some new pieces of concert footage. I entered the apartment and I was stuck at trying to bring my bass amp is not massive in the living room where there was the piano. But the amp was not included in the room because of the very small step to allow access only to a thin person and pergiunta profile. Surprisingly, the rest was quite normal: the frame of the entry of fine wood and painted white walls perfect. Only all incomprehensibly narrow. When, stunned and dazed with a smile in my face I asked Romano explanations, he was vague and told me to leave to the input and play there while he went to the floor in the lounge. - Can you hear me okay? - Asked me from afar and then - Sounds I try to feel you - do not really agree, given the distance that existed between our tools! I laughed at the absurdity of the situation and eventually, under pressure from my insistence, he revealed the secret. It was just a ploy to not to take away the furniture, in case the bailiff had come to pawn them for sale. "By law - slyly told me - you can not knock down any walls of the house to bring out the furniture for the auction proceedings." That day I learned something else.
( The two films which is discussed in history, produced by the Roman Empire, with a soundtrack written with Roberto Pregadio ).
's financial problems had started because of some films he has produced that had not been as successful as hoped. He had some movie people involved by Roman B movies hoping for an economic return, and why he signed "fantozziani" bundles of bills that had been on time for protest. The film is financed by Romano called: "Diabolik" Kriminal "and" Satanik "based lucky comics in vogue at that time. In fact I never knew because the operation went wrong. Typically, these films "B", however, and almost always had an audience of fans, who went to see them, maybe with the outlets already planned in the second and third visions and church halls, and then produced in the total economy. But even that little was fatal to the Roman Empire, which obviously was not cut out to make money that way, and paid for a long time that investment improvident, even in terms of personal serenity. I remember, in the endless trips by car to reach the places where we played, or at night when we returned home, I often spoke of those waste of money and trouble that had procured the creditors.
( One of several pictures with party clown Romano)
Anyone who has played with him knows the drama of travel far and wide to the Peninsula. Romano had no shame in taking an evening in Milan and the other the next day, Bari: "Italy is covered in one day - he said - and if you do not want to work the squeamish." I remember, among many The 'deal' worse Pordenone - Lecce - Rimini - Udine - Roma and all one day after another, doing concerts, traveling on buses or broken-down cars with flat tires often smooth, like eating and where they could. We slept in turns, and often as in war, as well as driving, I had to keep awake Romano ( great driver ) with various stories and fuck. We went to bed in the morning, crossing the people who went to work at bus stops, Romano often exclaimed: "Oh, poor things, they had to be up early, what a life they do!" "They - I added - and that because we life we \u200b\u200bdo? "
( Mirage, the record of" turning power "of the Roman Empire in 1977, produced by me and played by Romano, Roberto Spizzichino, Tullio de Piscopo, Emilio Soana and Glauco Masetti and myself on bass Fender)
At his funeral we played in the church packed, all of us, his friends and associates. Over the years we have been very many, Romano was a kind of Vespucci Ship - School of Italian jazz.
But that sad day there were also many who have nothing to do with the Roman Empire, the ones with the banners of the Social Republic of Salò, fully dressed with black shirts and out, leaving the coffin, a year screamed "Greetings the Duce "three times.
That day my sadness over the death of a friend, joined the anger that Romano had been insulted for the last time.
He was a musician, a jazz musician. He was my friend, Romano Mussolini.
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