Elio e le Storie Tese "Plafone" Live (reaction episode 616)

[@deanwolfechannel]

I've copied the lyrics (English translation) in the description box. Check them out, they are clever!

[@marcoa7]

The main melody was initially written and thought to be played and sung through a vocoder, as the keyboard player (Rocco Tanica) stated during an interview. The range is therefore definitely wide for human voices, but the female singer Paola Folli in this live version (Antonella Ruggiero in the studio version) did an excellent job.

[@stefanobertuccioli6350]

good english mate!

[@ivanlanzoni]

Voleva strimpellare la canzone e appena ha capito che mostri aveva dinnanzi si è fermato 🤣🤣🤣

[@LucaGoesOffroad]

Good luck following Plafone with the guitar during your first listening! :)

[@alfalloppio3037]

Grandissimi gli E.E.L.S.T. ma senza i baffi di faso non sono nulla di che!

[@massimofede96]

The best rock band in Italy. They are amazing. (and the lyrics are hilarious....)

[@arkan72]

anche i testi di Zappa....eppure

[@89lozzi]

The singer is a transverse flute graduate at the Milan Conservatory. He occasionally sang opera, too, and at the 2008 Sanremo festival he sang "Largo al factotum" with his band in a comedic way ( kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3vIe2ePnrt5sJo ): the highlight of the show was when he made a long pause after the first two syllables of the name Figaro (hinting at the female reproductive organ in Italian slang)

[@watcherofthskies]

First Time that someone accept my suggestion, love this video ❤️

[@deanwolfechannel]

Great!

[@lupodelupis3672]

In the album "Studentessi" the female voice is performed by the amazing Antonella Ruggiero (former Matia Bazar).

[@TheMrcassina]

ma cosa dici...antonella ruggero è morta...

[@lupodelupis3672]

@@TheMrcassina Antonella in questo starà facendo gli scongiuri, ha 70 anni ed è viva e vegeta.

[@N.a.r.i]

I really LOVE Elio e le storie tese (Elio and the troubled stories) They are so funny, original, creative and technical really really good. They are one of the best bands out here. You should know how crazy the text are! I will miss them so much

[@belmatalet]

Grandissimi gli Elio e le storie tese!

[@FilippoVitaleIT]

Nice reaction video. I think now it's time to move to their next best prog song by Elio e le Storie Tese: Pagàno (then "ritmo sbilenco" perhaps?)

[@vitoumafioso]

I would say ‘come gli Area’ ;)

[@skumbino]

The female singer, Paola Folli, was one of the muses in the italian version of Disney's Hercules !

[@Gorthan]

With all respect with Paola Folli, who is fantastic and we can hear her (She's also the female singer in Domani by Articolo 31!), but not having listened to the original version featuring Antonella Ruggiero is kind of a let down.

[@MrCulorbia]

Paola Folli is a very, very good singer but, Antonella Ruggiero is from another planet

[@GioRewind]

Has to be said that Antonella Ruggero sang it in the album in multiple takes while Paola Folli had to made her own version to sing it live on one go and she made a wonderful job

[@Gorthan]

@@GioRewind kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKOxhqdoaNeseMk unfortunately video quality is poor...

[@rattotakki]

No, the point is that Paola and Antonella have a different register (frequency range) Antonella is a soprano and plafone is designed for Antonella, not for Paola. Paola can sing it quite well for his voice register, she is amazing as well.

[@__spina__]

Any respectable Italian sings this song in the shower, intoxicated by hydrogen, oxygen and melody. And it is immediately a condominium meeting. Cheers from Italy 🤣🤣

[@deanwolfechannel]

😂

[@ManlioFrizzi]

I went to that concert:Elio is the best

[@Abrakain]

Cesareo, the guitarist, plays with Ibanez and Engl amplifiers.

[@ugs574]

I like when instead of interrupting the song to speack you put written comments on screen while the song goes on

[@deanwolfechannel]

Thankyou

[@sabinorinelli3124]

You have no idea of the ironic lyrics They are singing after such a nice elaborated music. Think of Frank Zappa's Mother of invention in some way...

[@deanwolfechannel]

I read the English translation so I get the general gist

[@orlandodiciccio2748]

The whole point of the song is the stupid lyrics, the fact that stupid dialogues are backed by actually really good music is integral part of the performance. Without the lyrics, you can’t appreciate Elio’s genius

[@santon7546]

Hi, this is best italian rock band their hardest song to play and listen is Pagano, u can find also a karaoke version where u can appreciate better the composition and technical difficulties. I hope u listen even if u will not react song. Sorry my bad english, have a nice day

[@deanwolfechannel]

Thanks for your comment and fine English.

[@LucaGoesOffroad]

Apart from Elio e le storie tese being an amazing band of poliinstrumentists capable of sudden odd signatures, modal changes and clever lyrics, it's important to remember that italian prog from the 70's was probably the most beautiful prog ever, in my opinion better than many english speaking bands (that I also love), but unfortunately the italian language didn't allow it to become worldwide famous. I'll search among your videos to see if you reacted to the Concerto Grosso I and II from New Trolls or "Come un vecchio incensiere all'alba di un villaggio deserto" from Alan Sorrenti (than after that left prog and made the big money with disco/pop)

[@deanwolfechannel]

Thanks for sharing. Just re listening to Grosso

[@ugs574]

Funny thing about the name of the song: Plafone, which if I'm not mistaken is a france word, is pronunced correctly when speaking Italian, just as you did pronunced it, but in this song it's pronunced badly on purpose in order to make a hilarious effect.

[@261290]

The guitarist uses engl amplifier.

[@bacicinvatteneaca]

The name elio e le storie tese is pronounced *É* [like English "eh" but with the tongue a bit higher, like the first half of the glide "ay"] Lyó [y as a semiconsonant, like in yes or yellow, and ó like (british) English short o, but with the tongue a bit higher, like the first half of the glide "oh"] É Lé *Stò* [ò like (british) English short o] Ryé *Té* Zé Lyó-é can be pronounced as a single syllable optionally

[@adaiuto]

Hi, I suggest another song of theirs: La canzone mononota (The monotonous song) competing at the Sanremo festival some years ago. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ooPUYYewjqeln9U it is a technically very interesting "joke": the main theme is simply a C repeated practically endlessly wanting to demonstrate that with just one note you can do a lot of things, but throughout the song they have fun changing the whole contour (accompaniment, rhythm, speed, atmosphere, minor octave, major octave , excess, diminished etc etc ... and you can also pretend that the song is over...) then inserting into the text their usual and much loved nonsense (the monotonous song is democratic, opposed by dictatorships, pay attention to it, the Cuban anthem is full of notes...and they play the beginning of the Cuban anthem...when in reality ANY anthem is full of notes...). To understand it well, I recommend you download the text from Google, translate it with chatgpt and try to follow their magnificent delirium Have fun!

[@ranelaghm8]

I see a Steve Hackett cover in the background. Not really Hackett, but not so far either. Elio played this kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6PIeJWvg7iLfrM I guess you might enjoy that...

[@ugs574]

Only the last part has to do with the leaking. the rest of the song has to do with singing while having a shower, and the lyrics are besically speaking about going Higher and Higher with your

[@alessandrolamuraglia]

I made a more prog style version of the instrumental part. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJe0loaoZrCna5Y&ab_channel=alessandrolamuraglia

[@danilobasili4928]

Ohh you miss the final speech, very inportant to dimostrate the last low note was real, and not made by vocoder. Hear it again till the end, even if you don't understand italian. And you cannot play improvvisano on it. The melody has too many chords and variation!! Long life to one of the best italian group: Elio e le storie tese!

[@ugs574]

You should have listened to the studio version. The female singer is way better. In the record the song is sung by Antonella Ruggiero, the singer of the band "Mattia Bazar"

[@deanwolfechannel]

Yes I should

[@piafounetMarcoPesenti]

They are an institution

[@ithaliem]

This was a new acquaintance for me but a pleasant one. The rest of the album seems to be more like humor rock (unfortunately?) but then again, so was Zappa. But if you still want to continue with good Italian music, here is a recommendation: Felice Lichene by Patrizio Fariselli, who was the keyboard player of Area. The song is from the 2001 album Lupi Sintetici E Strumenti A Gas which is one of my my all time favourites. The music is a mixture of prog, jazz and italian Commedia dell'arte, very theatrical. Here's the link: music.kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6m1dKOti95qqrM The opening track Pangea is more accessible and a great mixture of Italian folk music and prog if that is your cup of tea: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3LYpIh8rZiGY8U

[@albomusicman85]

I'm glad you liked it!! EELST are amazing!! also they did a collab with Area since you mentioned!! the song on the "Album Biango" is "reggia" and also "come gli Area" where they praise on how good of a band Area is!

[@ranelaghm8]

In a concert they played Zappa with Ike Willis. It goes without saying, they are huge Zappa fans PS: thanks for the Fariselli hint, never listened to any post-Area member production. Quite interesting.

[@ggrimpecom]

Great band, thought the best word to describe what they have done in their career would be the french "pastiche". At the core, their music is a very heterogenous mix of bits and pieces of inspiration from all the Italian and international popular music that the band members have grown up with, often with very obvious citations in the lyrics and/or melody. All done with mastery and, as in every good "pastiche", a strong taste for parody and humour (the band also has connections with the Italian "stand up comedy" scene, right from their beginnings). Not surprisingly, when asked from a fan who liked this very song "When will Italian Prog be back?", the keyboard player answered: "as late as possible, I hope!".