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Rock Train Band

Band, IT
Rock

The group was founded in 1979 and right from the first moments is characterized by brave musical choices, trying to combine the live impact from rock band to the desire for Italian music, preferring to write original songs and texts in Italian instead of focusing on foreign covers. This address allows him to form a more precise musical personality that arouses interest among the insiders. Thanks to the work behind the scenes by Massimo "Gippo" Poggini producer, writer (Una Vita Spericolata, beautiful biography of Vasco Rossi) and journalist (Ciao 2001, Corriere della Sera-Boy Music, Max) the band immediately publishes a 45 laps (Buon Compleanno / Sulla Strada - Belgravia records) and begins to be known throughout Italy. The album allows the band to participate in numerous shows, radio and television programs, catwalks and live concerts throughout Italy, obtaining flattering reviews in the press and a good public and sales success. Among other events, the group participates in the Rock Festival organized in Rome by Ciao 2001 magazine, wins the II Rock Festival in Milan, obtains the special jury prize at the 13th National Paroliere Prize and participates together with the big Italians of the moment at the evening finale of the Disco Boy kermesse, an alternative of the time at the Festivalbar, organized by the Corriere della Sera music weekly. The publication of an LP (Chiavari, Milano, Londra) and a new 45 (Va Bene Così / Rita) conclude this first exciting period, during which there were no extraordinary collaborations with internationally renowned artists such as Riccardo Zappa, Bob Callero, Aldo De Scalzi. There are a few years of rethinking during which life, with its mix of family, work and duties, was changing the table to everyone. But the call of music soon returns to be felt and the locomotive starts again at full steam. With an extended training and with the collaboration of Marco Raffo (producer, multi-instrumentalist and long-time friend) the group puts on a big breath set, resumes the live activity and starts working on a great quantity of new songs. The result is the album "Non Saranno Restituiti I Soldi" that sees the light in 1994: rock, electronic, funky, Italian music, all seasoned with a good dose of fun and disengagement. The album is struggling to get out of the region, but in Tigullio there are very few who have not had it at home or heard at least once. .. After a new intense period of live activity in Liguria and Piedmont and attempts to produce a new record, new changes in training and repertoire, the train again ran the risk of stopping. A new turning point was needed! Robi Amadori leaves the band, and to the "founding partners" Alberto "Guizzo" Guizzetti and Pino Solari are flanked by Marco Morelli on bass (Senso Unico) and Stefano Giacometti on guitar (Smalltown). Also important return is that of Marco Raffo who replaces Roberto at the drums and resumes the production work together with Pino and Guizzo The saxophonist Hector Biscuso (Soundflowers) and the pianist Luca Scherani, a pupil of Franco Ponzano and the motor of numerous Genoese initiatives (Buoni Konsigli, Periplo), collaborate occasionally with the band. The newcomers bring freshness and new energy to a project that if not in itself solid would not have survived all these years. A new repertoire very "american rock" with many covers, new songs Rock Train Band on the same wavelength, an aggressive and hot lineup, a groove never dormant, a sound and a very vintage impact are the main features of the new set of band.

Members

	Pino Solari voc IT
	Stefano Guazzo sax, cl
	Alberto Guizzetti g
	Antonella Siri voc
	Marco Raffo key
	Giovanna Malatesta key, p

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