Last edit: 20/06/2024
Many times collecting is synonymous with deepening, to know more about a band, an author. Other times instead it is limited to being a sterile "possessing", setting aside without ever listening or reading, without comparing, buying maybe the same product several times!. This blog has a different and precise purpose. Not so much to inform the readers about all the outputs of the Il Dizionario del Rock (you can use Discogs for this) but to know through researches, more sources and official publications the material published by it - paying attention to the dates, locations, lineups, audio quality and anecdotes. In fact listening, as well as reading something, if out of its context, appears completely meaningless or at least less interesting: especially for live recordings and concerts. At the same time many times you ask yourself: in what situation was that song performed? Where were they? Who was there?. It is something you ask yourself spontaneously once you are absorbed by the music and I think that a research space (like this one) must also respond to these needs.
Surely what unites the collectors of the old generation is the prevailing will of a cultural end, “certainly characterized by personal ambitions, but not by directly economic interests. Some might define this blog and the work related to it anthropological and perhaps it would not be wrong. But the goal is only , to share the fruit of years of passion and research with the rest of the users.
More than six years have passed since I decided to really collect and reconstruct the history of this label: looking for informations, mp3s or when possible buying albums, searching for different sources, photographs and scans. Behind this work there is a great passion but also something purely affective. The Rolling Stones' Live at Leeds 1971 was one of my first album, one of the first works that I listened to as a child. Already at the time I was fantasizing about reading the titles of the other releases of the label (there was a list of bootlegs in the booklet). Years later I continue to listen to that record struck by the beauty of those performances and the charm of that music - with the same intensity of the first days. Now the work is complete and I am very proud of it.
Good surfing and good listening!
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Il Dizionario del Rock - Miti di ieri e di oggi is a project curated by Riccardo Bertoncelli and Massimo Cotto in 1991. The idea was to produce a real encyclopedia of rock alongside each issue with a CD publication with a bootleg concert by a specific band.The encyclopedia is made up of 3 bound volumes plus the cover of the 4th volume.Due to the closure of the publishing house in 1994 (it will reopen in 2004) the encyclopedia was not completed (72 files had to be - every 18 volumes were completed)A characteristic of these CDs is the different order of the live songs compared to the tracklist used in the other publications of that same concert. In any case, the collection provides excellent live concerts of the selected bands. In some cases, the quality of the selected recordings is very high often as regards the audio quality. These bootlegs offer an excellent image of the various bands, in some cases, better than the official material of the time. This is the reason why many of its bootlegs have been released officially.
Very often, as with unofficial publications (not only for this record label) the associated dates are incorrect. Here we tried to report the correct recording date and the correct location for each bootleg/concert all inserted in the information file attached to each album with, where possibile, a different and complete audio source – official or not. Using only MEGA links you will be free to select and decide what to download: if only the bootleg or also the different source we have shared.
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Un ragazzo in jeans, tshirt bianca, giubbotto di pelle nera, scarpe di camoscio, basette lunghe e ciuffo ribelle, appoggiato ad un jukebox: l'America degli anni Cinquanta, che aveva l'innocenza di un'armonia doo-wop, l'energia contagiosa di una canzone di Elvis ed il sorriso un po' triste di James Dean. Un gruppo di adolescenti pallidi, addobbati in nero, con scarponi militari e orpelli di metallo, davanti ad un negozio di dischi: l'aggregazione urbana e suburbana di una qualunque città dell'Occidente.
Uno stadio di periferia: frotte di studenti con sacco a pelo e famiglie rumorose in pellegrinaggio verso una festa musicale, politica e gastronomica. Estate: un piccolo appartamento nella Lower East Side, la zona ispanica di Manhattan, la finestra aperta sulla strada per lasciare entrare il suono delle radio che fanno vibrare il quartiere al ritmo delle onde chicane. Sono infinite le immagini che può evocare la parola 'rock', quattro lettere che sono entrare a far parte del nostro patrimonio culturale e che consentono l'accesso a mondi e razze diverse. Fuoco d'artificio della nostra adolescenza e stella della maturità, il rock continua ad essere, a quarant'anni dalla nascita, la colonna sonora della nostra esistenza, orologio che scandisce le ore della giornata, insostituibile compagno di viaggio verso nuove mete.
I supporti musicali: per i quali sono stati scelti i nomi più significativi della storia del rock dagli anni cinquanta ad oggi, in collaborazione con le principali case discografiche. Di alcune proponiamo concerti dal vivo inediti che oltre ad offrire una selezione di brani rappresentativi di quello o quell'altro gruppo sono documenti storici di eccezionale valore. A questi concerti ed altre compilation monografiche si alternano antologie che testimoniano momenti particolari della storia del rock, stili, generi e sottogeneri degli ultimi quarant'anni.
Qualcuno mancherà, inevitabilmente, ma non dipende da noi: non sempre è possibile stabilire accordi con chi possiede i diritti discografici dei musicisti. Quello che è certo è che questi 73 CD o musicassette contengono il meglio di quarant'anni di rock
from Il Dizionario del Rock - Miti di ieri e di oggi first number
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from Il Dizionario del Rock - Miti di ieri e di oggi first number
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We don't promote nor sell any bootlegs: everything here is for reference only
If you want to contribute to this site by providing informations about bootlegs or have notice some incorrect informations on this site (or if you have HQ scans of the albums and pictures of the silver CDs) please feel free to send an email to the site administrator.
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