The biggest experience of my life...10 years in heaven!!!

To be part of a team, a big commitment, a greater pleasure!!

A man, a woman, a kid, an animal, out of a group is not much, alone you can't grow up, you can't progress, you can't achieve big targets, most of people need to be alone in the moment of the "metamorphosis", but it's something that you achieve anyway after you met 1000 faces, souls, experiences and words.
My self when i was younger(about when roman soldiers were still wandering around chasing a guy with cross) I was quite a reservate and lonely kid, but growing up i learnt the importance of matching up with people, making group, achieve targets together.
About 15 I started to play drums, mostly inspired by that hero that still is Alex Van Halen,Steve Riley and Sid Falck, i was living in a small town of about 10'ooo people so after 4 months everyone knew it and i started to join the musical scene of my city, Brescia, getting more and more involved in its activities, i met other musicians, with those i've spent nights and days in time getting to know each others, being partecipating to something that i wouldn't think possible before.
I started to be invited in playing sessions, dinners and lunches, bbqs in the forest, I met my first girlfriend in one of those situations, and through this situation i met the people that i joined after in my first band, it was amazing to meet, talk about how to create music, translate your self in sounds, so we just found a room, took our instruments there, and we started playing!!!At the beginning we found a place in a farm, well isolated,we were playing in a room that formerly was a pig house!!!!Then we sorted it out in a month became our room, with posters of hot girls, Van Halen, Overkill and our heroes on paper!!!
At the beginning it was a bit more difficult than expected, i never plaied with anyone before and to bond with the others was not that automatic, but i've learnt. And when i've learnt enough we started playing around, first in small clubs, mostly in front of other friends, then we had luck and we got included in a small festival and there, as the only hard rock band of the area(about 15 years ago)we impressed the crowd in a terrific way, we were the devil by the church, the scandal in the small village, there things started to change a lot...After that my first band basically ended up in a quite real rockstar style, 2 of us too involved in heavy drugs just disappeared in a few weeks, the third one became a father too soon and had to stop part of his dreams to dedicate to something more important, the 4th one opened up his own business, and me i went on playing, right choice!!! At that point i was someone, not an important one but someone, i developed a soul, full of interests and energy,friends, there was a guy that started to call me "maestro", i felt proud of it, even if by character i'm a modest one(i don't gas up my self too much, i think it's like to illude urself that u're finally there, and that's where u sit down and u stop to progress) it was a pleasure to be called like that!!! And this guy now is a fucking cool drumming as well, better than me in certain points!!! In 10 years, after that night at the open air festival where i've had that big concert, i reconed that finally many drummers in the area started to play drums inspired by that crazy storm of a guy that plaied at Under the tower festival. Somes of them didn't even know it was me, but they always said they started playing after the sound of my drumming moved something in them. This is something to be proud of.
After that, i still used to meet the people of this experience, we were often to eachothers house for a dinner, a beer or other nights that went on until dawn watching and commenting videos of us plaiyng, of other bands that inspired us, the guitarist, Lopez,had 2 young daughters that i've seen growing up, untill both of them showed up at the driving school i used to work in and through me they had their driving licence, and by what i know they still haven't had an accident anyway!!!!
After that short experience i met other musicians, other people, other stories, and i went on playing with them (most of my dearest friends today are still musicians)in other places, other towns, other situations...
But most of times were bands that wouldn't last longer than 1 year, strange to say but it's like that, vaguity of life maybe...Untill I met a guy at a reunion of my first band in a open air party with live music, where as people spotted us we were invited straight on the stage to perform our glorious version of a song from Slayer, and all at once this crazy guy jumped on the stage and grabbed the mic, starting to sing with us!!! This was il Rusu....and here an amazing story begins...but i will tell it tomorrow just to leave u something to come back for!!!