Here you are a short summary of our recordings and some sound clips you can hear in Real Audio format. For every sound clip you'll be able to find a description of what that song has meant for us...
1989
NOVEMBER : Release of the single "Your memories
begin here / Feelin' alive", as Fede's
demo.
1991
APRIL : Release of "BACK IN A WHILE", as Fede's demo, including "Back in a while", "Feelin' alive", "Ain't never been there", "Cool wind maybe blows in hell too", "Ev'rytime I dream" and "Your memories begin here".
NOVEMBER : Release of the single "Hit the city / Growin' the fear", as Fede's demo.
1993
MARCH : Release of "BACK IN A WHILE AND OTHER SONGS", first Distillery's demo, including "Cool wind maybe blows in hell too", "Now you know", "Daylight song", "Back in a while", "Hit the city", "Walkin' in the sun", "Ain't never been there" and "Flashes on the water".
1994
JANUARY : Release of the single "Care of you / If you look up in the sky".
1998
OCTOBER : Release of the single "Too soon / God's sultry summer".
2003
DECEMBER : Release of the album "Family Tree" to celebrate the return of the band as a trio. The album contains "Too soon", "Walkin' in the sun", "Flashes on the water", "God's sultry summer", "If you look up in the sky", "Ain't never been there", "Care of you", "Hit the city", "Growin' the fear", "Back in a while", "Cool wind" and "Daylight song". It was given, personally, to Mr. Gerry Beckley and Mr. Dewey Bunnell after their concert in Genoa on March 16th, 2004.
In the following notes you'll find some names that you'never read in the "History" page, we're building a "Who's who" page that will be ready as soon as possible....
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BACK IN A WHILE : I wrote it down in the spring of 1991. I
had lost three old friends in less than one
month and I was still shocked. It seemed
impossible it could had happened in such
a short time, words sound almost like a prayer....Don't
go away....I'll be back in a while....At
the end of the song I realize I'm still here....
- FEDE : all guitars, lead vocals.
- MARIO : piano and keyboards.
- ROBY B. : bass
- TAMTAM : drums.
- RAFFY : background vocals.
CARE OF YOU : I always worry a lot when I hear sentences
like "....don't worry, I'm taking care
of it....". Luca started to play a little chord pattern
while drinking beer in my kitchen, I tried
to imagine it backed by a harp riff. It took
Luca more than three hours to put that riff
on the tape....Its 19/8 intro is the curest
thing I've ever done with an axe in my hands....
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FEDE : acoustic 6 strings, electric rhythm
and lead guitars, bass, drum programming,
lead vocals.
- LUCA : acoustic 12 strings guitar, harp,
background vocals.
- MARIO : piano.
COOL WIND MAYBE BLOWS IN HELL TOO : One of the first song I've ever written.
It was my wife's favorite. How many people
waste their time worrying about the things
to come?....
- FEDE : acoustic 6 strings, electric and
slide guitars, 6 strings banjo, bass, lead
vocals.
- BEO : mandolin.
- MARIO : piano.
- TAMTAM : drums.
FEELIN' ALIVE : May 8th, 1989, 3 a.m. . That night I fell
in love with a beautiful brown haired, dark
eyed girl....When I went back home I started
writing down what I was feeling....After
I finished it I was so tired that I fell
asleep, with head on my arms, on my living-room's
table. When I woke up at the first light
of dawn, the print of my right hand was impressed
on it....The following October I married
that girl....It's my wife's song....
- FEDE : all guitars, bass, drum programming,
lead vocals.
FLASHES ON THE WATER : Spring 1991. I had been travelling all night
long to Switzerland on a train. At dawn the
train was driving along the shore of Zurich
lake and sunbeams' reflexes on the water
woke me....The first thing I noticed was
an old big house that was aloof from other
buildings. So I tried to imagine who could
have dwelled in that and a strange story
came out of my thoughts....I had just a pen
but no paper, so when I stood off the train
in Zurich I immediately looked for a bar-room....I
started to write it on the back of a famous
Swiss beer's saucer....Mario's piano track
make it really happen....
- FEDE : all guitars, bass, drum programming,
lead vocals.
- MARIO : piano.
- RAFFY : background vocals.
GOD'S SULTRY SUMMER : The only recorded song written by Davide,
but we mean many more will follow it....
- FEDE : all guitars, 6 strings banjo, bass,
drum programming, background vocals.
- DAVIDE : lead and background vocals.
- ALE : piano.
GROWIN' THE FEAR : Max played me this song for the first time
in the summer of 1990. I just changed some
words and rewrote the chords. His powerful
background vocals at the end of the song
are really amazing....
- FEDE : all guitars, bass, drum programming,
lead vocals.
- MAX : background vocals.
- LU "THE VET" : background vocals.
HIT THE CITY : Max and I were joking with instruments in
my room....A, G, F, G....Max started hitting
his bongos with a frenetic rhythm but there
were no words so I began to sing some "....pa,
pa, pa, pa....". I wrote about some
young country men that have a trip to the
city for the first time in their lives and
that riff sounded so simple that fit perfectly
to the meaning of the song. Some months later,
Beo was listening to a sample of that stuff
and he told me that the "....pa, pa,
pa, pa...." riff was exactly alike a
Mama's & Papa's song but he couldn't
remember the title. If hearing the real audio
sample someone can recognize it, please let
me know. If it really sounds the same I excuse
me a lot with Mama's & Papa's and I'll
provide immediately to remove it.
- FEDE : acoustic rhythm and electric lead
guitars, lead and background vocals.
- BEO : lead guitar.
- MARIO : organ.
- ROBY B. : bass
- TAMTAM : drum programming.
- RAFFY : background vocals.
TOO SOON : Abdul Sattar was a friend of mine. He was
the owner of a bar-room where I used to have
a good beer after stopped working. We spent
many evenings together talking about everything.
He was one of the most sensitive and intelligent
men I've ever known. One night he told me:
"Fede, will you remember me in your
CD?". None of us could ever imagine
that he would have heard this song from Heaven....
- FEDE : all guitars, bass, drum programming,
harp, lead vocals.
- DAVIDE : background vocals.
- ALE : piano.
WALKIN' IN THE SUN : Some people think this is the best song
I've ever written....Actually, I have a particular
feeling with it....Let me know....Tamtam
gave his best on it....
- FEDE : acoustic guitar, bass, lead and
background vocals.
- BEO : electric guitar.
- TAMTAM : percussions.
- RAFFY : background vocals.
- ROBY F. : harp.
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