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| I tubi lungimiranti | |
|---|---|
| Paese d'origine |  Italia
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| Genere | Beat Rock psichedelico Garage rock |
| Periodo di attività musicale | 1964 – 1970 (, 1994 - in attività) |
| Etichetta | CDI |
Tubi Lungimiranti is a musical group founded in Fano in 1964. The group is part of the 60’s Italian beat musical movement and later became a cult group for dirty acoustics and garage bitt.
Tubi Lungimiranti History
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]1964-1965: Origins
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]Founded in 1964 in Fano by Umberto Bultrighini. His sister chose the group name, which otherwise would have been called Ossi Buchi[1]. The group was established the following year as a quartet with the addition of two brothers, Paolo and Francesco Del Bianco, and the drummer, Gualfardo Aiudi. They began by playing in the local spots of the Marche region of Italy.
1966-1968: CDI and Abbiamo Paura dei Topi
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]In 1966, the group obtained a contract with the CDI (Company Discografica Italiana) through Pier Quinto Cariaggi, husband to Lara Saint Paul. In January 1967, they recorded and published three songs on a single 7” titled Abbiamo Paura dei Topi (CDI, 1968)[2]. This vinyl record has a unique history: the record company printed the test-pieces rather than the final versions of the songs by mistake. This made the sound much dirtier than the standard of the time, approaching overseas psychedelia. Even though the leading song, Abbiamo Paura dei Topi, wasn’t successful from a sales point of view, it became a cultural reference for underground garage bitt bands and neopsychedelics.
That same year, the band participated in the second Italia-Beat Gran Premio Davoli Tournament then expanded the group with the addition of organist Pierluigi Mattiello.
1969-1970: A Poche Ore followed by the band's decline
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]After substituting drummer Aiudi with Guiliano Antonioni, they recorded the second 45 RPM in Milan of September 1969 and published it January 1970. The vinyl record contained Spegni Questa Luce, a cover by Rokes, on one side and A Poche Ore, a cover from 24 Hours from Tulsa by Gene Pitney, on the other side. The cover photo verified the group’s attention to their look. Each member exhibited a particular style: one wore glasses and the look of an intellectual, one wore a funky hat, and so on.
At this time, the band recorded 12 more songs which were not published. Beat music had already left the scene. The record companies had lost interest towards new bands and turned to established artists, as well as new and more complex rock styles. After vinyl records left the scene, Antonioni abandoned the band. His substitute, Adriano Pedini, had only played for a few months in concert, when Tubi Lungimiranti decided to disband. Their two records were then sought out by vintage vinyl collectors.
1994: New "old" CDs and the band's reunion
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]In 1993, Red Ronnie included their song, Abbiamo Paura dei Topi, in the CD Quei Favolosi Anni '60 ● 1968 - 12 (Fabbri Editori). The same year, Destination X published the collection Spegni Questa Luce, which included the 7” songs and the 12 unedited songs[3]. In 1994, the group reunited with a slightly different line-up and held a concert at Il Covo in Bologna. For the occasion, Destination X released Live 1967-1970, an album containing old and unpublished records taken from a 1969 concert at the RAI. Afterwards, Destination X included them into the compilation 60's Italian Beat Resurrection! Volume 5 (1994). In 1995, Reverendo Moon Records included a curated compilation by Reverendo Moon in Per Chi Non Conosce la Liberta' (Raro Beat Italiano Vol. 1).
The last drummer, Adriano Pedini, became a session man, playing the drums on many CDs published by Cramps. In 1976, he played in the celebrated album Ho Visto Anche degli Zingari Felici by Claudio Lolli. In 1995, he approached jazz and became Artistic Director and festival coordinator for Fano Jazz by the Sea.
Paolo Del Bianco devoted himself to photography and to this day engages in music, playing in Micio Sband.
Umberto Bultrighini devoted himself to teaching. He kept up his interest in music, which eventually led him to publish the volume Dopo i Beatles: Musica e Società negli Anni Settanta in 2003. He wrote the album with Gianni Oliva, a colleague from his university years, and published it on Editrice Carrabba. By 2010, Bultrighini toured around Italy with Gene Guglielmi and Claudio Scarpa the debated musical “Al di Qua, Al di Là del Beat,” which goes into the reality of Italian beat and plays/sings songs. In July 2011, the book “Al di Qua, Al di Là del Beat" was written about this by the three authors and published by Edizioni Carabba. The book included a CD of Gene Guglielmi and Tubi Lungimiranti songs[4].
In 2012, a new collection of old songs came out titled Qui e Adesso (Halidon), on which Gene Guglielmi and the girl-band Le Rimmel were guests.
Lineup
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]- Paolo Del Bianco: voice and guitar
- Francesco Del Bianco: bass
- Gualfardo Aiuti: drummer (1965 - 1969)
- Umberto Bultrighini: voice and guitar soloist
- Giuliano Antonioni: drummer (1969 - 1970)
- Pierluigi Mattiello: organist (1968 - 1970)
- Adriano Pedini: drummer (1970)
Music Industry
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]45 RPM
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]- 1968 - Abbiamo Paura dei Topi/Hai Distrutto una Famiglia/L'Anima (CDI, 2028)
- 1970 - Spegni Questa Luce/A Poche Ore (CDI, 2038)
33 RPM
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]- 1994 - Live 1967-1970 (Destination X)
Collections
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]- 1993 - Quei Favolosi Anni '60 ● 1968 - 12 - with the song Abbiamo Paura Dei Topi (CD, Fabbri Editori curata da Red Ronnie)
- 1994 - Various - 60's Italian Beat Resurrection! Volume 5 - with the songs Il Vento Dell'Est (LP, Destination X Records)
- 1995 - Per Chi Non Conosce La Liberta - with the song Abbiamo Paura Dei Topi (Raro Beat Italiano Vol. 1) (LP, Reverendo Moon Records)
References
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]- ^ Mauro "Shake" Ferracini, Intervista ad Umberto Bultrighini, in Jamboree, Maurizio Maiotti, #69 aprile-giugno 2010.
- ^ Marco Dellabella, Da Woodie Guthrie a Woodstock. Nascita e sviluppo della musica rock dalle radici folk e blues al movimento hippy, Kipple officina libraria, 2009.
- ^ Cesare Rizzi, 1996. pg. 185
- ^ Elisabetta Fazzini e Giorgio Grimaldi (a cura di), Ricerche e prospettive di Teatro e Musica, LED Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere, Economia, Diritto, 2015.
Bibliography
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]- Ursus (Salvo D'Urso) - Manifesto beat - Juke Box all'Idrogeno, Torino, 1990, pag. 139
- Raro! numero 152, febbraio 2004
- Claudio Pescetelli - Una generazione piena di complessi - Editrice Zona, Arezzo, 2006, pag. 156-157
- Tiziano Tarli - Beat Italiano. Dai capelloni a Bandiera Gialla - Edizioni Castelvecchi, 2005
- Alessio Marino, "BEATi voi! n.2 - Interviste e riflessioni con i complessi degli anni 60 e 70",edizioni I LIBRI DELLA BEAT BOUTIQUE 67, (vol.2) 2008; (foto e informazioni sui Tubi Lungimiranti e altri gruppi beat della provincia di Pesaro)
- Alessio Marino, "BEATi voi! n.6 - Interviste e riflessioni con i complessi degli anni 60 e 70",edizioni I LIBRI DELLA BEAT BOUTIQUE 67, (vol.9) 2011; (foto e informazioni sui Tubi Lungimiranti contenuto in un articolo sui complessi psichedelici e acid-beat)
- Cesare Rizzi (a cura di), Enciclopedia del rock italiano, Milano, Arcana, 1993, ISBN 88-7966-022-5.
