General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: PR3D4TOR on August 03, 2015, 04:28:15 PM
Title: Italians rock!
Post by: PR3D4TOR on August 03, 2015, 04:28:15 PM
1,000 Italian musicians playing the Foo Fighters' "Learn To Fly" as a call for Dave Grohl and company to come and perform in Cesena, Italy.
To me it sounds like they really don't need the Foo Fighters just more sheet music!
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Post by: craz07 on August 03, 2015, 05:34:54 PM
wow thats pretty impressive
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Post by: pipz on August 03, 2015, 06:00:02 PM
Outstanding!!!!!!!!!!!! :aok :aok
Was Borgoo there?
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Post by: mbailey on August 03, 2015, 08:25:33 PM
Saw that the other morning...they nailed it!
Saw that Dave Grohl tweeted to them (in Italian) "see you soon"
Very cool
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Post by: FLOOB on August 03, 2015, 08:45:23 PM
Didn't Weezer do something similar a long time ago?
The world would be so lame without America.
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Post by: Dichotomy on August 03, 2015, 09:03:25 PM
Grohl will make it happen. He's a heck of a good dude.
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Post by: Widewing on August 03, 2015, 11:32:27 PM
Quell'era grande!
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Post by: zack1234 on August 04, 2015, 01:35:38 AM
How much did that cost me?
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Post by: Widewing on August 04, 2015, 07:36:41 PM
I tend to forget my two years in Italy taught me a few things.... Tutte le signore erano attraenti. Molti erano semplicemente sfarzosi.
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Post by: Selino631 on August 04, 2015, 07:45:08 PM
that was awesome! thanks for sharing :rock
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Post by: Bizman on August 05, 2015, 01:42:29 PM
Can they speak English, too, or only imitate the original singing? The four days I spent near Milano taught me that no one regardless of their age would speak any other language than Italian, except for one of our hotel clerks. Ergo, I had to learn to speak Italian, trying to remember each and every word of the pizzeria menus I've seen accompanied with some musical terms.
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Post by: craz07 on August 05, 2015, 02:52:18 PM
how can you diss what going on here.. there's a thousand people performing a song that pretty much everyone likes.. don't talk bad about something so good as this when there is only hate and minor issues are the problems concerning you... Italians do rock!!
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Post by: mbailey on August 05, 2015, 06:32:50 PM
how can you diss what going on here.. there's a thousand people performing a song that pretty much everyone likes.. don't talk bad about something so good as this when there is only hate and minor issues are the problems concerning you... Italians do rock!!
Can they speak English, too, or only imitate the original singing? The four days I spent near Milano taught me that no one regardless of their age would speak any other language than Italian, except for one of our hotel clerks. Ergo, I had to learn to speak Italian, trying to remember each and every word of the pizzeria menus I've seen accompanied with some musical terms.
Many of the younger Italians can speak a little English. One of the issues I heard in this video was that Italians will struggle with English conjunctions. Especially if they have just memorized the lyrics by reading them. If you listen carefully, you'll hear "I'd" spoken (sung) as "Id".
Of course, Italian conjunctions are just as challenging for English speakers. Words such as "cenare", which means to have dinner. The first thing I learned was enough Italian to order a meal. When you order dinner you may say, "Io vorrei un piatto di spaghetti, grazie." This translates to, "I want a plate of spaghetti, thanks". Or you could say "Io voglio una pizza con una bottiglia di birra, per favore", which means "I want a pizza with a bottle of beer, please".
Please excuse any grammatical errors... My never quite fluent Italian is very rusty as I don't get to use it very often these days. We have an invitation to a wedding in Siena in late November. If we decide to go (probably not), I'd have to brush up pretty quick.
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Post by: Bizman on August 06, 2015, 02:10:06 AM
@ craz07: Sorry, I didn't mean to diss the event itself, although I don't seem to belong to the group "pretty much everyone". It looks like the people are having a good time which is always nice. What I meant, have they learned the lyrics by rote without really knowing what they sing? Don't get me wrong here either, even opera singers do that if they haven't studied the language they're supposed to sing. Faking a song is relatively easy, it's mostly about pronouncing the vowels correctly and getting the intonation right. Plus you can compare your performance with the original singer. Reading a song text in a foreign language as a poem or a speech is much harder. Not to mention having a conversation, which involves understanding the other party as well as making oneself understood.
@ Widewing You may be right about the younger Italians, but as I said even the younger ones working in cafe's and restaurants spoke very little if any English, or any other foreign language. I found that rather confusing, one would suppose that in a small town where there's the helicopter Training Academy of AgustaWestland there'd be a constant flow of wealthy foreigners to be served...
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Post by: BaldEagl on August 06, 2015, 02:24:50 AM
That was very cool and rather amazing.
How could Foo Fighters ignore an invitation like that?
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Post by: craz07 on August 06, 2015, 02:14:26 PM
italian's Roman's its all the same and all the rage back a few years ago why can't it be the same now?