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Welcome, I'm your Rock Host & Guide!
This Channel is about History, Art, Rarities, Dates and Places: in Venice, in Dolomites, in Italy and in Rock Music.
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Forwarded from Dolomites Rocks
πŸŽΈβ›° If you are on the #Dolomites next weekend and you are a Metalhead 😈

#Domine, Power Metal legends will headline this Festival, free entrance!!!

Among the supporting bands #Anterra from #myhometown and #Membrance from Venice🀘

#Rudenfest 20.09.2025
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Forwarded from Venice Local Guide
πŸ‘¨β€πŸŽ¨13 September 1506. Andrea Mantegna (above his sculpture portrait☝️) passes away in Mantova.
Born near #Padua, in a place that today is named after him (Isola Mantegna) at the time under the Republic of Venice, #Mantegna was one the most prominent painters and engravers of the early #Renaissance.
Some said he was the only artist able to "sculpt on a painting".
#AndreaMantegna was brother-in-law of another fantastic πŸ‘‰ Venetian painter Giovanni Bellini.

Mantegna's works are held in the most important Italian and international museums.
In Venice we can admire just 2 of them, those in the pictures above☝️:
San Sebastiano at Museum Franchetti inside the #CaDOro and San Giorgio inside the #AccademiaGalleries.

#VeniceArt #13September
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🎼🎀 #AnthonyKiedis, frontman of #RedHotChiliPeppers, in Venice, April 2017.
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⚑️#TheMondayRecharger

#Nirvana and #GreenDay were among the biggest bands in the 1990s.
When interviewed about their sound at the beginning of their career, both answered the same: "Nothing new, HΓΌsker DΓΌ did it before".

So this Monday let's pay tribute to this amazing and underrated band, #HuskerDu 40 years ago, 1985 🀘

πŸ‘‰#HuskerDu@Albums_Release_Dates
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"It's temples and palaces did seem
Like fabrics of enchantment pil'd to heaven."

πŸ“ Percy Bysshe Shelley, he lived in Venice in 1818.
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#Venice and the #Dolomites.
No ordinary love ❀️‍πŸ”₯
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Forwarded from Venice Local Guide
πŸ‘¨β€πŸŽ¨πŸ“œ17 September 1510. Giorgione (his portrait on the left☝️), one of the most mysterious painters of the Italian #Renaissance, passed away of pest in Venice. This is actually the only certain thing we know about #Giorgione.

He was probably born in 1478 in #Castelfranco, Medieval town 30 minutes away from Venice and at the time part of the Venetian Republic.
He moved to Venice very young and entered the Art School of πŸ‘‰ Giovanni Bellini as a palace decorator, soon joined by πŸ‘‰ Tiziano.
That's why Bellini and Tiziano are the main witnesses of Giorgione's work, due to the fact that he never signed his paintings.

Today we all can admire Giorgione's most famous paintings in the #AccademiaGalleries in Venice: among them "La Tempesta"☝️, unanimously regarded as one of the most beautiful and important artworks of the Renaissance!

#VeniceArt #17September
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Who are these 2 guys?
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πŸ—£πŸŽΈ#19September 1985.
On this day of 40 years ago, 3 prominent musicians were admitted for hearings at the US Senate, in front of the #PMRC (Parents Music Resource Center) commitee.

PMRC at that time was not only aiming to put the (in)famous Parental Advisory sticker☝️but they were arguing to introduce a rating system based on objectionable lyrics for Rock albums!

PMRC became in the years the main target for musicians of all genres, and these 3 guys were widely regarded as "The Holy Trinity" in defense of Rock Music and freedom of expression and against censorship:

🧠 #FrankZappa "The Brain"
πŸ”₯ #DeeSnider "The Fire"
❀️ #JohnDenver "The Heart"

In the comments the complete hearings on that dayπŸ‘‡
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Forwarded from Albums Released Today
πŸ“€ Album of the Week
     @Venice_Rocks

πŸ“Œ19 September 1995

Dream Theater
πŸ“€ A Change Of Seasons
#ProgressiveMetal #ProgressiveRock #HardRock #HeavyMetal

30 years ago Dream Theater from Boston, #USA released their first EP, even though with its 57-minute length it could be considered a proper album.

Side A contains the 23-minute titletrack, an incredible suite which is not only my favorite #DreamTheater, one if my favorite pieces of music ever ❀️‍πŸ”₯

Side B is a fantastic collection of live cover songs performed at a fan club concert on January 31, 1995, at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London.
Songs covered are of #EltonJohn, #DeepPurple, #LedZeppelin, plus "The Big Medley" containing excerpts of #PinkFloyd, #Kansas, #Queen, #Journey, #DixieDregs, #Genesis.

In this album:
#JamesLaBrie β€“ vocals, production
#JohnMyung β€“ bass, production
#JohnPetrucci β€“ guitar, production
#MikePortnoy β€“ drums, cover concept, production
#DerekSherinian β€“ keyboards, production
#19September

🎧Listen to A Change Of Seasons πŸ‘‰ here
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