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like the morning coffee! come il caff�! Yeah. s� The Byrds were great. I Byrds erano grandi They just became our friends. Divennero nostri amici I mean when we came to L.A., intendo quando siamo venuti a LA they came and hung out with us, you know. giravamo insieme That 12-string sound was great and the voices were great. La loro 12 corde e le parti cantate erano forti So we loved The Byrds. amavamo i Byrds They introduced us to a hallucinogenic situation. Ci introdussero al mondo degli allucinogeni Hmm. hmm And, ah, we had a really good time. Ci siamo divertiti The Beatles actually started the folk rock I Beatles veramente iniziarono il folk rock in California. in California It was... and it probably was the California guys i ragazzi della California trying to grab hold of that sound. cercavano di afferrare il loro sound It's all full of strange coincidences. E' tutta una serie di coincidenze John Hall of the Rickenbacker company flying to New York John Hall della Rickenbacker vol� a NY because he'd heard The Beatles played Rickenbacker perch� gli fu detto che i Beatles le suonavano and going up to the suite e and� in hotel with the second Rickenbacker 12-string ever made, con la seconda Rickenbacker 12 corde mai fatta giving it to George. e la diede a George. He brought it for John La port� per john because he's the one that played the Rickenbacker. perch� era lui che le usava But George had the flu, the other three had gone out Ma George era malato e John non c'era for a photo session, and George nabbed the 12-string. per fare delle foto e George afferr� la chitarra Mm hmm.

That changed pop music, you know, Quello ha cambiato la storia del Pop rock music I guess you would call it. e anche del rock We should have the nerve to call it rock music, Dovremmo avere il coraggio di chiamarla rock I mean it was rock 'n' roll music. voglio dire era rocn'n'roll music Everything was influencing everything. tutto influenzava tutto.... With this huge witches brew of, you know, in un enorme calderone and things would pop out. e le cose uscivano I mean and transatlantic, too, 'cause we were all listening anche da una parte all'altra dell'oceano perch� ognuno ascoltava to each other's records, you know. i dischi degli altri And The Beatles were doing their cop on The Byrds I Beatles prendevano qualcosa dei Byrds with one song and then they were doing The Beach Boys in una canzone e poi fu il turno dei Beach Boys with "Girl", you know. in "Girl" ♪ I wish they all could be California girls ♪

I was a sucker for Brian's work right away. Ero pazzo del lavoro Di Brian Wilson I was very close friends with Felix Pappalardi Ero amico di Felix Pappalardi and he was the guy who pointed out to me fu quello che mi fece capire the Bach-like qualities. le particolarit� della musica di Bach And he said listen to this chord sequence. disse di ascoltare la sequenza di accordi They're using like Bach chordal movements in there. Usano una sequenza tipica di Bach I mean that was really important. Era notevole.... ♪ Yeah, but I couldn't wait to get back in the States ♪

♪ Back to the cutest girls in the world ♪

♪ I wish they all could be California girls ♪

Well, they were the other band that we admired. Loro erano l'altra band che ammiravamo They were it. erano loro Everybody else... and they were as establishment as they could be, Erano molto interni all'enstablishment but they were good. ma erano bravi They had good songs 'cause of Brian Avevano le belle canzoni di Brian and they had really interesting harmonies, interessanti armonie vocali completely different than anybody else. completamente differenti da ciunque altro So, we liked them a lot. Ci piacevano un sacco May I have, I'm sure most everybody knows Sicuramente tutti vi conoscono but for anybody who might not, may be introduce you by name? ma per chi non vi conosce vi presentate per nome? - Al Jardine. - Thank you, Al. Al Jardine - Dennis Wilson. - Thank you. Dennis Wilson - Brian Wilson. - Carl Wilson. Brian Wilson Carl Wilson Mike Love. Mike Love Who determines what will be done next? Chi ha l'ultima parola? Well, I guess I do. I don't know. penso io, non lo so..... I write the songs and produce them, io scrivo e produco.... so I have a lot to say about it. cos� sono molto coinvolto I can't see something in Mozart Non vedo nulla in Mozart that's better than Brian Wilson. di meglio di Brian Wilson I think you could make that case. Penso si possa dire Those guys would have loved him. Sarebbero d'accordo anche loro Hmm.

He's really just too good. He's e' davvero bravissimo Yeah.

He's not a guy that comes down the pike in many lifetimes. Non ne nasce uno tutti i giorni That's pretty special stuff. E'speciale ♪ In this world I lock out ♪

♪ All my worries and my fears ♪

♪ In my room ♪

♪ In my room ♪

♪ I do my dreaming ♪

♪ And my scheming ♪

♪ Lie awake and pray ♪

♪ Do my crying And my sighing ♪

♪ Laugh at yesterday ♪

♪ Now it's dark and I'm alone ♪

♪ But I won't be afraid ♪

♪ In my room ♪

♪ In my room ♪

♪ In my room ♪

♪ In my room ♪

♪ In my room ♪

"In My Room", oh my God, you know. "In my room", Dio mio... Who has not, you know, sought solace of your... the privacy Chi non ha cercato conforto... and the solace of your own room, your own space. il conforto e la privacy della tua stanza, il tuo spazio.

It can be said in a million ways, puo' essere raccontato in molti modi but I mean just that... that song was so beautiful. ...ma quella canzone � meravigliosa Beach Boys was a primary thing I Beach Boys erano una cosa fondamentale when Cream was kind of philosophically driven by it, quando invece i Cream erano guidati a livello spirituale da quelle cose by the idea that we could somehow do something like that. dall'idea che qualcuno riusciva a fare quelle cose Or be inspired by that, Pet Sounds, you know. Essere ispirati da ci�....Pet Sounds They lived right down the street from us, Brian and Marilyn. Vivevano in fondo alla nostra strada, Brian e Marilyn And one day I went over there and the whole living room un giorno vado da loro e vedo il loro salotto was full of sand. ..era pieno di sabbia And there was nothing in the living room non c'era altro che but a Steinway and a piano bench and just all sand. un piano Steinway, un piedistallo e sabbia And I looked at her and I said what is going on? ho guardato lei e ho chiesto se era tutto ok She said I know it's crazy but he's writing some great songs. Lei disse che sapeva che era strano ma lui stava scrivendo grandi pezzi..... Mm hmm.

And he was writing Pet Sounds! Stava scrivendo Pet Sounds! I won that record on the radio, ah, on a call-in! Vinsi quel disco alla radio Like I was standing by the phone Ero l� al telefono and some trivia question was asked. e mi chiesero qualcosa I called right away and answered it and I won a record! Indovinai e vinsi il disco And it was Pet Sounds. Pet Sounds It took me a few spins to understand, like, Ci volle tempo per assimilarlo what's going on here. per capirlo But I just fell in love with that record. Ma me ne innamorai It's different. E' speciale You know, it's off in a corner by itself. sta in un angolo da solo Nobody else did that successfully, Nessuno ci si � mai avvicinato dopo not to the level they did non a quel livello 'cause they didn't have a writer like Brian. perch� nessuno � Brian I was just kind of maybe too young to really appreciate Forse ero un po' troppo giovane per apprezzare how incredibly sophisticated the music was. quanto incredibilmente sofisticata fosse quella musica I just saw five guys wearing the same shirt holding one surfboard vedevo solo cinque tizi vestiti uguali che tenevano una tavola da surf and I thought it was lame. noioso.... Hmm.

But all that changed when I heard Pet Sounds. Tutto cambi� con Pet Sounds That's said to be responsible for Sgt. Pepper, Si dice che Srg. Pepper venga da l�.... you know, totally. Assolutamente Imagine a band influencing The Beatles. Pensa una band che influenza i Beatles ♪ I keep looking for a place to fit in ♪

♪ Where I can speak my mind ♪

♪ And I've been trying hard to find the people ♪

♪ That I won't leave behind ♪

♪ They say I got brains ♪

♪ But they ain't doing me no good ♪

♪ I wish they could ♪

♪ And each time things start to happen again ♪

♪ I think I got something good goin' for myself ♪

♪ But what goes wrong ♪

♪ Now, sometimes I feel very sad ♪

♪ Sometimes I feel very sad ♪

Do you want to sit at the piano? Vuoi sederti al piano? Does the song sound familiar to you? Conosci la canzone? Ti � familiare? - Do you need me at the piano? - Yeah, come on. - avete bisogno di me al piano? - s� We're working on a couple of your songs. Stiamo lavorando ad un paio di pezzi tuoi We're working on "Just Wasn't Made For These Times". "just wasn't made for these times" What key is your original key? Do you remember? La tonalit� originale? Te la ricordi? My original... B-flat. Si bemolle We're in E-flat. Noi siamo in Mi bemolle E-flat, oh, you got the wrong key! Mi bemolle � sbagliata.... We'll get capos. Usiamo i capotasti Yeah, play it in E-flat or E or wherever you do. Fatela in mi bemolle o mi o come vi pare... Okay, cool. okay Well, Bach influenced "California Girls", Bach influenz� Clifornia Girls the duh, duh-duh, duh-duh, that kind of a beat, shuffle rhythm. il duh duh, lo shuffle.... Chuck Berry and the Four Freshmen taught me harmony Chuck Berry e i Four Freshmen mi insegnarono le armonie and Chuck Berry taught me rock 'n' roll melodies. e Chuck Berry le melodie rock'n'roll Well, I learned violin arrangement from George Martin. George Martin gli arrangiamenti di violino I learned how to make... write out, you know, ho imparato a scrivere violin for violin players. il violino per i violinisti I wrote manuscript for them, and they played it... Scrivevo per loro, e loro suonavano... if they played it wrong I can walk out and go se la facevano sbagliata dicevo "You got it wrong, buddy. You gotta do this right", "hai sbagliato, devi farla cos�" you know, and they'd fix their instruments and they'd do it. loro riprovavano e la facevano giusta Hmm.

Well, The Beatles were probably my favorite group, you know. I Beatles erano i miei preferiti I really liked them a lot. mi piacevano molto With Rubber Soul, one of my buddies brought it over Rubber Soul....mio fratello lo port� a casa and played it for me. e me lo fece sentire I said I can't believe this album! You know? non ci credevo.... He kept playing it and playing it and I said wow! continuava a suonarlo e dissi wow!!! I couldn't believe it. non ci credevo That made me write the Pet Sounds album. Mi ha fatto scrivere Pet Sounds ♪ Now, sometimes I feel very sad ♪

♪ Now, sometimes I feel very sad ♪

♪ And I guess I just wasn't made for these times ♪

♪ While I'm far away from you my baby ♪

♪ I know it's hard for you my baby ♪

♪ Because it's hard for me my baby ♪

♪ And the darkest hour is just before dawn ♪

♪ Each night before you go to bed my baby ♪

♪ Whisper a little prayer for me my baby ♪

♪ Because it's hard for me my baby ♪

♪ And the darkest hour is just before dawn ♪

We had the radio on and The Byrds came on. Avevamo la radio accesa e arrivarono i Byrds I mean it was The Byrds. Voglio dire...i Byrds We were sure of it because we knew them. Ne eravamo sicuri perch� li conoscevamo We knew them personally and we were friends with them. Eravamo amici allora So we said God, if The Byrds can have a hit, Dicemmo Dio , se i byrds hanno una hit anybody can have a hit! allora pu� averla chiunque! Hmm.

So, we've got to get back to L.A. Tornammo a LA But we were staying at the Albert Hotel. Stavamo all'Albert Hotel That's where all the musicians kind of stayed Dove stavano i musicisti when they went into town. quando stavano in citt� And since John and I had gotten married, E siccome io e John ci eravamo sposati I wanted to go back home. volevo tornare a casa And he said we can't go back home. e lui diceva che non potevamo We can't. no The music business is here in New York. il business della musica � qui a NY That's when he woke me up in the middle of the night e' stato quando mi svegli� nel mezzo della notte and he said I'm writing a song. e mi disse di questa canzone... Listen to this. ascolta... And he played: e suon�... ♪ All the leaves are brown ♪

♪ And the sky is gray ♪

♪ I've been for a walk... ♪

♪ On a winter's day ♪

♪ I'd be safe and warm ♪

♪ If I was in L.A. ♪

♪ California dreamin' ♪

♪ On such a winter's day... ♪

Has it been a while since you've been in this room? E' da un po' che non vieni in questa stanza? I was just saying that this is where we first sang Dicevo proprio che la prima volta ho cantato qui for Lou Adler, in this studio. per Lou Adler, in questo studio In this room, too? in questa stanza? We recorded in 3, but this is where we, Registravamo in tre, ma qui just where we're standing right now, proprio qui dove siamo we sang practically the first album for Lou. abbiamo cantato tutto il primo album And what were some of the songs you sang e che canzoni cantasti in the audition that you had? all'audizione? "California Dreamin'", California dreamin' "Monday Monday", Monday monday "Go Where You Wanna Go." Go where you wanna go - You had some good ones, then. - You know. ne avevi di belle.... ..s� - Wow. - We had some material. - wow - avevamo buon materiale And he said, with his hat pulled down over his nose like this, e disse, col suo cappello calato sul viso.... you know, "Why don't you guys come back tomorrow. Ragazzi perch� non ripassate domani? We'll talk about this tomorrow." Ne riparliamo domani "Okay." okay And when we came back, e quando tornammo... the contracts were all over the floor at Studio 3 i fogli del contratto erano sparsi sul pavimento dello studio and they were handing out pens like here! e ci porgevano le penne! Sign this! Sign this! Sign this! Firma ,firma ,firma.... Well, then the audition went well, obviously. L'audizione and� bene, ovviamente It did! s�! I think the first studio I recorded in, Il primo studio dove registrammo that's all the equipment they had, just this little slab here. tutta l'attrezzatura...sta tutta qui dentro The piano was in the middle. il piano era in mezzo Hal Blaine and his drums were there. Hal Blaine alla batteria l� John Phillips and his 12-string, P. F. Sloan, John Phillips e la sua 12 corde, P.F. Sloan maybe Glen Campbell, forse Glen Campbell Billy Strange, one of those guitar players... Billy Strange, un chitarrista... - All in here. - would be in a line. Tutti qui. Stavano in fila. We were at the end of a take and Denny Doherty... eravamo alla fine del lavoro e Denny Doherty... it was pretty wild through the night. era stata una session movimentata It got wilder and wilder. molto movimentata A lot of Crown Royal bags laying everything. Un sacco di sacchetti in terra.... And Denny had fallen asleep on the piano. denny dormiva sul piano And John said "Denny, get up. I need a note." e John gli disse di svegliarsi, gli serviva una nota And we couldn't raise Denny. Non si svegliava... So, we put... got a microphone and pulled it over here. Cos�, mettemmo un microfono qui Hmm.

And put it over Denny like that. lo avvicinammo a denny cos� And John leaned down and sang the note to him. John si stese e sugger� la nota a Denny Denny sang the note, he got the note he wanted, Denny la cant�, avevamo la nota! he went right back to sleep. poi torn� a dormire But it's a fantastic room. I mean it's... Stanza fantasica! This room looks exactly the same I would think, no? Questa stanza ha l'aspetto che mi aspettavo The room looks exactly the same. Sembra la stessa The speakers are a little different. Le casse sono un po' diverse But the room looks and feels exactly the same. Ma la stanza sembra esattamente la stessa ♪ Bah-da bah-da-da-da ♪

♪ Bah-da bah-da-da-da ♪

♪ Monday, Monday ♪

♪ It was all I hoped it would be ♪

♪ Oh Monday mornin', Monday mornin' ♪

♪ Couldn't guarantee ♪

♪ That Monday evenin' you would still be here with me ♪

♪ Monday, Monday ♪

♪ Can't trust that day ♪

♪ Monday, Monday ♪

♪ Sometimes it just turns out that way ♪

♪ Oh Monday mornin' you gave me no warnin' ♪

♪ Of what was to be ♪

♪ Oh Monday, Monday how could you leave ♪

♪ and not take me ♪

♪ Every other day ♪

♪ Of the week is fine, yeah ♪

♪ But whenever Monday comes ♪

♪ But whenever Monday comes ♪

♪ You can find me cryin' all of the time ♪

It was all very, very romantic. Era tutto molto romantico We were living in the Virgin Islands on the beach in tents. Vivevamo alle Isole virgin sulla spiaggia And it's just inevitable, it's gonna happen, Ed � inevitabile, succede... the dynamics in a group when there are men and women. le dinamiche dei gruppi con uominie donne You see something in a band member, vedi qualcosa in un membro della band.. their talent and their sexiness, and there's a spark. il suo talento, la sensualit�, ed ecco la scintilla I know that it happened in the The Mamas & the Papas. So che � successo nei Mamas and Papas I've seen it happen in almost any group that I can think of l'ho visto accadere in ogni band that have men and women in them. con uomini e donne Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Airplane Fleetwood Mac. Fleetwood mac We were so confined Eravamo segregati to the four of us living together all the time. Stavamo sempre insieme We were always together. Vivevamo insieme And when we were rehearsing, e poi le prove Denny and I under the table were playing footsie. Io e Denny facevamo piedino sotto il tavolo And Denny was also a big flirt. E Denny � stato un grande flirt He just wanted to take it to the maximum, you know. Voleva vivere al massimo.... He had a great sense sense of humour Aveva un grande senso dell'umorismo that little look in his eye, you know. quello sguardo.... He was just so hot. Era proprio eccitante ♪ Boys and girls ♪

♪ You know they're birds of a feather ♪

♪ Like two sides of a coin ♪

♪ They are foreverjoined ♪

On the cover of our first album I'm lying back in Denny's arms. Sulla copertina del nostro primo disco sono sdraiata in braccio a Denny This is before we got caught. E' stato prima di essere beccati Really, the first night that we were together davvero, la prima notte che siamo stati insieme we had all been sitting at the table and John and Cass, eravamo seduti con john and Cass we looked over and they were asleep. Ci siamo accorti che dormivano And that's when Denny just got up Denny si � alzato and he walked over to the sliding glass door and off we went. e siamo usciti dalla porta scorrevole I was raised in a very free atmosphere. Sono cresciuta in un ambiente libero To me, having an affair was not as serious Per me, una relazione , non era importante as it was to the rest of them. come lo era per loro. I had had an affair before Denny Avevo gi� avuto una relazione extra prima di Denny when John and I had first gotten married. quando ero gi� sposata con john So, it was something that John had already experienced with me, E' stato qualcosa che John ha conosciuto con me and that's when he wrote "Go Where You Wanna Go". E' stato quando ha scritto "Vai dove ti pare" John was really crushed and upset about it John era innamorato ed arrabbiato and so the lyric of "go where you want to go, il testo della canzone Vai do ve ti pare do what you want to do, fai ci� che vuoi with whoever you want to do it with" bitch! con chi vuoi (puttana) So, I mean, I was busy. Cio�, ero indaffarata I was a very busy girl. Ero una ragazza molto indaffarata And I was having a lot of fun! E mi divertivo molto I'm glad you said that and not me! Lo hai detto tu.... ♪ And you gotta go where you want to go ♪

♪ Do what you want to do ♪

♪ With whoever you want to do it with ♪

♪ Go where you want to go ♪

♪ Do what you want to do ♪

♪ You don't understand ♪

♪ That a girl like me ♪

♪ Can love just one man ♪

♪ Three thousand miles ♪

♪ That's how far you'll go ♪

♪ And you said to me ♪

♪ Please ♪

♪ Don't follow ♪

♪ You gotta go where you want to go ♪

♪ Do what you want to do ♪

♪ With whoever you want to do it with ♪

♪ Go where you want to go ♪

♪ Do what you want to do ♪

♪ With whoever you want to do it ♪

♪ You don't understand ♪

♪ That a girl like me can love ♪

♪ Just one man ♪

♪ You've been gone a week ♪

♪ And I tried so hard ♪

♪ Not to be the cryin' kind ♪

♪ Not to be the girl ♪

♪ You left behind ♪

♪ Go where you want to go ♪

♪ Do what you want to do ♪

♪ With whoever you want to do it ♪

♪ Go where you want to go ♪

♪ Do what you want to do ♪

Oh, that is so touching! E' cos� toccante.... - Oh good, you like it. - I love it! -Ti piace... - S�... - Oh, cool. - I love it. - Bello - Mi piace I forgot what a great song that was! Non mi ricordavo che grande canzone fosse! Yeah, right? E' vero? ♪ One, two, three ♪

♪ You're going to lose that girl ♪

The 60s, right, it was really blessed. I 60's, che meraviglia. I mean all that stuff showed up at once. Tutta quella roba tutta in una volta. Must have been meant that way. Era destino... But it was a nice circle of really good artists, Era un giro di artisti davvero ottimo. well meaning artists, thinking about Artisti importanti, pensa how can I make a record as good as that one? come fare a fare un disco cos�.... Music happens at a particular moment in time La musica arriva in un determinato momento and it changes everything going forward. e cambia tutto ci� che viene dopo. ♪ You're going to lose that girl ♪

I had ended up with an acetate of Pet Sounds Avevo in mano un acetato (anteprima) di Pet Sounds. and I was going to England E stavo andando in Inghilterra to visit my friend Andrew Oldham, a fare visita al mio amico Andrew Oldham who is a producer of The Rolling Stones. che produceva i Rolling Stones And Paul McCartney came by E arriv� Paul McCartney and I played them Pet Sounds Ascoltammo Pet Sounds and they were listening to everything that Brian was doing Loro asoltavano tutto quello che Brian faceva and thinking about how they could use certain things e pensavano a come utilizzare quelle idee that he was doing on Pet Sounds. che lui aveva avuto per Pet Sounds. Out of that comes Sgt. Pepper. Da l� arriva Sgt. Pepper There was a lot of stuff going on. Succedevano unsacco di cose All those records you bought, those vinyl... we bought, Tutti quei dischi che compravamo.. you weren't even born... Tu non eri nemmeno nato... were just the best. 'Cause everyone was at it. erano le cose migliori. Perch� tutti ci mettevano il meglio. I have two favorite records, as a lot of people do, I miei preferiti, come per molte altre persone, and one of them is Pet Sounds and the other is Sgt. Pepper. sono Pet Sounds e Sgt. Pepper You can listen to the records Se ascolti quei dischi and you can see the cross-pollinization. puoi percepire il mischiarsi delle idee It was a magical thing. Era magico. Any time something good happens, Quando succede una cosa bella it's gonna show up other places. si mostra anche altrove It's gonna be mirrored back. viene come specchiata Well, that was just like cross-pollinization. Ecco , quella � una impollinazione incrociata. I mean The Beatles also grew up listening to skiffle music. I Beatles crescerono ascoltando musica Skiffle George admits "The Bells of Rhymney" George ammette che "Bells of Rhymney" and "If I Needed Someone" are very similar. e "If I needed someone" sono simili I think he sent Roger a little card about it Penso che scrisse a Roger a proposito di questo. that he still has, you know.

Someone would have written most of a song, say, Qualcuno scriveva una canzone incompleta you know, Paul or John, and they play it sai, John o Paul, e la suonavano and when it felt good okay, that's how we do it. e quando era a posto, la lasciavamo cos�. We would just jam. We were buskers. Improvvisavamo. Eravamo buskers. The riff was... Il riff era... ♪ Oh, what will you give me? ♪

♪ Say the sad bells of Rhomey ♪

Anyway, so George liked that riff and he wrote: A George piaceva il riff e scrisse: ♪ If I needed someone to love ♪

based on that. basandosi su quel riff He made a tape of it and gave it to Derek Taylor in London. Fece un nastro e lo diede a Derek Taylor a Londra. Derek came over to my house, he said George wants you to know Derek venne a casa mia e disse che lui voleva farmi sapere that he wrote this song based on your riff in "Bells of Rhymney". che la canzone si basava su "Bells of Rhymney" When you hear beautiful music it gets inside you Quando ascolti qualcosa di bello ti entra dentro and sometimes you want to do a little something like that e a volte vuoi fare qualcosa di simile maybe, but your way. ma alla tua maniera Or wow, he did that so maybe I could maybe... Lui ha fatto cos� quindi io.... and it's an open-ended thing. � una cosa in evoluzione... But that's fair, right? That's... that's fair. Ma � giusto cos�. But, you know, outright theft isn't that good but you... Beh, rubare proprio non si fa... But in that sense I thought it was really nice. Ma in quel senso va bene. You have the heavy... Hai della roba... you're a little bit on the heavier side. roba importante... You got the Pet Sounds and the Sgt. Pepper's over there... Hai Pet Sounds e Sgt. Pepper l�... I have some very good shit over here, yeah! Ho un po' di bella roba qua... I'll stick with this. Direi che mi � andata bene. Yeah. And these records come Questi dischi all of a sudden like an avalanche. arrivarono tutti insieme, a valanga. Mm hmm.

And there's nothing like them before. Non c'era nulla cos� prima. It used to be that every time any of these came out Era cos� quando uscivano... it was like this giant event ogni volta un grande evento and people would talk about it and gather together La gente ne parlava, si ritrovava and put on a record in their room and listen to the record. oppure metteva su il disco nella propria stanza - It's so cool. - For days. - che bello - per giorni e giorni For days! Giorni! And they'd be deciphering, you know, why is he wearing this cape, E pensavano,perch� sta indossando poncho, from the Renaissance Fair. quel poncho (collegamento con Renaissance Fair) Yeah, one of my favorite things about all these bands una cosa bella di questi gruppi is that they're, in a sense, they're sort of super groups, � che erano dei super gruppi you know. They have multiple lead singers. Avevano pi� di un cantante They have multiple songwriters. Pi� di un autore But I think the beauty of all this is how they came together Ma la cosa bella � come mettevano tutto insieme and brought the best of that they had for something. e portavano il meglio per la causa Yeah! I mean just listen to Buffalo Springfield Voglio dire, ascolta i Buffalo Springfield

- and all those bands. - Yeah. - e tutte quelle bands - s� You just get something completely remarkable and unique Qualcosa di notevole e unico... - when it's... - Oh, yeah...

A combination, a collaborative, that you can't... Una combinazione, collaborazioni... you just can't do, with all your own DNA. cose che non puoi fare individualmente. You just can't. non puoi Gentlemen! Gentlemen!

Nice to see you all! E' bello vedervi Welcome. Benvenuti Would you be kind enough to act as spokesman, Sii gentile e fai il presentatore, introduce yourself, and then let us know who else is involved. presenta te stesso e gli altri Ah, my name is Neil Young. Mi chiamo Neil Young All right, Neil. How do you do? Ciao Neil, come stai? I'm the lead guitar player. How do you do? Sono il chitarrista solista This is Richie Furay. questo � Richie Furay Hello, Richie! Nice to see you Ciao! - This is Steve Stills. - Hello, Steve. Nice to see you. Steve Stills How does three Canadians and a couple of other fellows Che ci fanno tre canadesi e altri due tizi all fall into together? How did that happen? insieme? che succede? Well, we, ah, Bruce and I came to Los Angeles Bruce ed io siamo venuti a LA in an old hearse to try to, you know, make stars, you know. su un vecchio carro funebre We're gonna be stars. a fare le star.. So, ah, we were just about to leave and I saw him in a van Stavamo per andarcene e l'ho visto su un furgone going the other way on Sunset and he stopped and he... nell'altro senso di marcia e... and we stopped and we all stopped and then we started. ci siamo fermati e tutto � partito da l�... ♪ There's something happening here ♪

♪ What it is ain't exactly clear ♪

♪ There's a man with a gun over there ♪

♪ Telling me I got to beware ♪

♪ I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound ♪

♪ Everybody look what's going down ♪

♪ Oh, hello Mr. Soul, I dropped by to pick up a reason ♪

♪ For the thought that I caught ♪

♪ That my head is the event of the season ♪

♪ I'll cop out to the change ♪

♪ But a stranger is putting the tease on ♪

We were in Fort William, Ontario, Eravamo a Fort William , Ontario and the owner of the club said these guys that we, e il proprietario del club dice you know, employ regularly are gonna come in che una band nuova suoner� dopo di noi and do a set in between you guys and the main act. e prima dell'attrazione principale. It was Neil with a little trio called The Squires. Era Neil con un trio chiamato The Squires And he was doing exactly what I wanted to do, E faceva esattamente quello che avrei voluto fare io which was to play folk songs on electric guitar. cio� fare folk elettrificato And we hung out together for a week. ci siamo frequentati per una settimana We talked and dreamt and fantasized Abbiamo parlato e fantasticato about what we wanted to do. su ci� che volevamo fare And we were inseparable. eravamo inseparabili. Buffalo Springfield, you know, that was a big one. I Buffalo Springfield erano grandi I saw them back in '67 or '68. Li vidi nel'67 o '68 They came to Gainesville and played with The Beach Boys. Vennero a Gainsville e suonarono coi Beach Boys You know, I never got over it! Non lo dimenticher� mai. It was a really mind-blowing show, you know. Fu sconvolgente. It was like that's as good as it's supposed to be, you know. E' stato fantastico proprio come te lo aspetteresti. It was maybe better. Forse meglio. Buffalo Springfield had like, you know, I Buffalo Springfield avevano just like legions of the girls that, you know, I wanted, un sacco di ragazze intorno, che avrei voluto io you know, were like just looking that way. ma guardavano loro. And I thought, you know, this is... Pensavo che fossero this must be a pretty good band. una grande band. - We went to L.A. with Cream. - Yeah. - Andammo a LA coi Cream. And I hadn't been there more than about an hour Non c'ero mai stato per pi� di un'ora and there was a knock at the door and then Stephen Stills bussarono alla porta, era Stephen Stills was there with a guitar, you know. con una chitarra. He just came in. Entr�. I took his guitar out of the case and said Prese la chitarra "I hear you like this".

- He played you "Bluebird"? - He played "Bluebird". -suon� Bluebird? - suon� Bluebird! They'd end with this really long "Bluebird", like, you know, Finivano la canzone trading guitars for... 'til it just got really intense. incrociando le proprie parti di chitarra era intenso... It was great. Grande! The Byrds picked up the Buffalo Springfield for an opening act I Byrds li scelsero come supporters and it lasted until David Crosby saw us for the first time e dur� finche Crosby non ci vide per la prima volta and he says "Get them out of there. They're too good." E ordin� di farci scendere perch� eravamo troppo bravi! I remember thinking when we did it this is a bad idea. Ricordo di aver pensato che fosse una cattiva idea farli suonare prima di noi 'Cause they're - they're really amazingly good. Perch� erano bravissimi. And we had hits, you know, so we could follow them, E noi avevamo delle hits, quindi potevamo reggere but they were awfully goddamn good. ma loro erano meravigliosi. What was good about it is that we had a wealth of material. La cosa buona era che avevamo un sacco di materiale buono What was bad about it, it was in really divergent directions. quella brutta che il tutto andava verso direzioni divergenti. The first song we had, "Clancy", la prima canzone, "Clancy", with the Buffalo Springfield, we did the first take incidemmo la prima take and the voice comes back from the booth and said, e la voce dalla regia dello studio disse:

"It's too long. Play it faster." "Troppo lunga, suonatela pi� veloce". Mm hmm.

And that's when Neil and I looked at each other and said Io e Neil ci siamo guardati e ci siamo detti oh my God, we've gotta learn how to do this ourselves. - dobbiamo imparare a fare le cose per noi stessi! There's Neil and I'm listening to something that he's doing. Ecco Neil,ed io sto ascoltando qualcosa che sta suonando. And that's the old original console. Quello � il mixer originale. This was only 8-track. Era quello a 8 piste. That's why it's an old Altec console with like big knobs. un vecchio Altec con manopole grosse And right after that, I think we got an MCI or something E dopo quello arriv� un MCI, credo... and went to 16, which to me was all we ever needed. e quindi un 16 piste, tutto ci� di cui avevo bisogno. But this is like after we obviously had learned Ma qui � quando to make them ourselves. I see, no... abbiamo imparato a fare le cose That's probably the engineer that was hired for the session. C'� probabilmente un fonico assunto per la session. He's gotta sit down now? Stava seduto? Just go sit down there. Vai vai, siediti l�.... ♪ Where are we going love? ♪

♪ What are you feelin'? ♪

♪ Now that I've caught my love ♪

♪ My head is reelin' ♪

♪ With the questions of a thousand dreams ♪

♪ What she's doing what she's seen ♪

♪ Now, come on lover talk to me ♪

Should we talk about "Questions"? Parliamo di "Questions"? Well, to start with I had this what... you know those magical days Partiamo da.... Sai quei giorni magici where a lot of stuff happens? quando succedono un sacco di cose? I met Judy Collins and Eric Clapton on the same night. Incontrai Judy Collins ed Eric Clapton la stessa notte. I went to the Whisky to see Eric. Andai al Whisky a vedere Eric. And so I'm flirting with Judy, trying to listen to Eric, Flirtavo con Judy e cercavo di ascoltare Eric, who's blowing my mind, and so I'm overwhelmed. che mi stava spazzando via, ero sopraffatto And then later on, Crosby had brought Eric to my little house Poi pi� tardi Crosby lo port� a casa mia in Laurel Canyon. nel Laurel Canyon. And the changes to "Questions" were derived E i cambiamenti a "Questions" arrivavano from a song of Judy's called "Since You've Asked". da "Since you've asked", una canzone di Judy. And I just took this first three chords Presi i primi tre accordi and changed the cadence and everything. e cambiai la cadenza ed altro And then it evolved into the song. E si trasform� nella canzone. And I think I was playing it for him as I was trying to write it, Penso di avergliela suonata mentre la scrivevo. and it later ended up on a Buffalo Springfield album. Poi fin� su un nostro album. I haven't listened to that stuff for a long time, Non ascolto quella roba da un po' you know, the west coast music, at all and so... sai, musica della West Coast The original version you... La versione originale... No, I haven't heard the original version of "Questions" No, non sento la versione originale for a long, long, long time. da un sacco di tempo. And it really took me back. Mi porta indietro ♪ What was it made you run ♪

♪ Tryin' to get around The questions... ♪

It took me back to a song that I had done, too, Mi porta indietro ad una canzone che feci around the same time. in quel periodo. Ah, a little later, actually, called "Let It Rain". Forse un po' dopo,"Let it rain" And it was one of the first songs I'd ever written. Una delle prime che ho scritto And it... and there, you know, there's that kind of... C'era dentro.... I was influenced by it, I think. Ero stato influenzato Yeah, I thought that we talked about having, hopefully, Ne abbiamo parlato you play on that song with Stephen... hai suonato quella canzone con Stephen Yeah. S� I wondered if that was gonna be... it's not gonna bother you Mi chiedevo se ti infastidisce that there's the... there's a similar feel or... che il feeling sia simile Well I didn't... I must have copped it Devo aver preso ispirazione and not even known, you know. senza neanche accorgermene. We can edit that part right out. Questa la tagliamo... Well, no, no! I think, no, No, that's very important for people to know. � importante che la gente sappia. Well Stephen owes you one. Beh, Stephen ti deve un favore... ♪ Come on lover, talk to me ♪

Sorry I got lost. Scusa mi sono perso. Whatever happened in the solo section was great. Quello che � successo nella parte del solo � bellissimo - Cool. - With you and Eric together. - Bello - Tu ed Eric insieme! Yeah. When Eric's playing in the top of the second solo, Eric suona nel clou del secondo solo you know, he's playing in the higher register usa note alte... and I think anything in the lower register penso che qualche nota bassa would be cool as a complement. sarebbe un bel complemento. ♪ Where are we going love? ♪

Eric was very meticulous about reminding me back then, Eric me lo spieg� molto bene allora he said You know, when you're doing this on stage, ...quando la suoni dal vivo you must take turns. devi fare a turno Much like schoolyard, you know. Come nel cortile della scuola. Gentlemanly. Educatamente. I had got an invite to go and watch Fui invitato Buffalo Springfield rehearsing in a house in Laurel Canyon. a vedere le prove dei Buffalo Springfield nella loro casa nel Laurel Canyon. I had met this girl called Mary Hughes who was Avevo incontrato questa ragazza chiamata Mary Hughes the kind of beauty queen of the Strip at that time. Tipo la regina di bellezza del Sunset Strip Jeff Beck was dating her and Keith Moon was dating her Jeff Beck e Keith Moon uscivano con lei. and I somehow managed to get into the equation. In qualche modo c'entravo anche io And I'm with this beautiful girl and there's joints being passed around Sto l� con lei e intanto girano un po' di canne and they start to play. e cominciano a suonare. And they played at a level where it wasn't too loud for everybody Suonavano ad un volume abbastanza normale. and they were rehearsing a set, I think, to play for a show. Stavano provando lo spettacolo. And then there's a knock at the door. E si sente bussare And someone goes to answer and there's an immediate vibe Qualcuno va ad aprire e subito si diffonde una cattiva vibrazione in the room of that something's wrong, you know. Qualcosa che non andava... And they open the door and there's a policeman standing there. Aprono la porta e c'� un poliziotto And there's a squad car in the background. e una pattuglia dietro di lui And he says, "You'll have to keep it down. Dice di abbassare il volume We've had some complaints about the noise. che c'erano state lamentele What's that?" Poi sente l'odore And next thing you know, they're in the room. e subito entrano tutti And I had nothing... I had just put down a joint. Io non avevo nulla... Avevo buttato a terra la canna I had nothing in my hands, Nulla but, ah, I was handcuffed to somebody. Ma fui ammanettato So, we were all taken to L.A. County Jail. e portato alla prigione della contea di LA Meanwhile, it was like where's... what happened to Stephen? Nel frattempo non si trovava Stephen Stephen, when he realized who was at the front door... ...che quando aveva fiutato i guai Yeah!

Jumped out the bathroom window and ran off. Era saltato dalla finestra del bagno e corso via! There's a party that we heard about, too, your... C'� un party del quale abbiamo sentito... was it your house that had a party in the Canyon? Era a casa tua no? Is that the same party you mentioned? E' proprio quel party? What? Disastrous. Disastroso... What I heard was you were there, Eric was there, So che tu c'eri e c'era Eric... Neil was there, and so were the police. C'era Neil....e la polizia. - I'd say yeah! - That sound right? S� - Torna tutto? Neil and I were sitting in a bedroom in the back Neil ed io eravamo seduti in camera da letto and we here this. abbiamo sentito And I said go check that. E ho detto di controllare I'm gonna go next door and call lawyers! Stavo per chiamare gli avvocati. And I book it out the back. E sono scappato dal retro So, of course, that blew up into ruining my reputation. Cos�, ovviamente, mi sono rovinato la reputazione.

Oh, he was the guy that booked, you know. Ero quello che scappava... And, ah, and I went next door and... Andai dal vicino e... totally reprehensible. Assolutamente riprovevole I should have manned up and... and it wasn't. Avrei dovuto presidiare... I've never lived that down and felt awful about it ever since. Non c'ero e me ne sono sempre pentito Neil got really aggressive and was out the door Neil fu molto aggressivo and he was gonna go chase the police away. Voleva cacciare la polizia 'Cause he's Canadian and I guess in Canada you can do that... Perch� � canadese e forse in Canada si pu�... It was really exciting to get to Los Angeles Era eccitante arrivare a Los Angeles coming from Gainesville, Florida. da Gainsville, Florida. And in my mind, it was the weather and the girls Nelle mie aspettative, bel tempo e ragazze and the surfing and the cars and it was a young mentality. il surf e le auto, pensieri da giovani... This is kind of where people that really were big dreamers Qiu � dove vengono i sognatori went to because that's kind of allowed here. perch� � loro permesso sognare.. There are people that believe that Persone che credono it might be possible to do something that's not ordinary. di poter fare qualcosa che esca dall'ordinario The first thing I remember going down Sunset Boulevard La prima cosa che ricordo del Sunset Boulevard looking out the car at the all the record companies, you know. sono io che guardo dall'auto le sedi delle case discografiche. In those days it was MGM, you know, Capitol, you know, In quei giorni la MGM, la Capitol, all these labels that aren't there anymore. etichette che non esistono pi� It was true. I got out there and man, these recording studios Poi ci sono andato in quegli studi di registrazione are all spotless and engineers are really remarkably good. tutti puliti e con fonici bravissimi. This is where Phil Spector and Brian Wilson were working. Era dove lavoravano Phil Spector e Brian Wilson People started showing up here trying to work with the engineers La gente sperava di lavorare they worked with and the studios that they worked in coi loro fonici, negli stessi studi to make things sound... fat. Per ingrossare il suono. In America it's very, very different. In America � differente... Abbey Road was the only place that, basically, Abbey Road � l'unico posto we ever recorded, right. dove lavoravamo. There it was almost like, ah, almost like the BBC. Come fosse la BBC All the engineers had these white overalls on. Coi fonici in camice bianco And, you know, if you wanted to bring the bass up Se volevi alzare il basso you had to go to the producer who then went to the engineer andavi dal produttore che lo diceva al fonico who then brought the bass up. che alzava il basso. You were secondary somehow to these people in white coats Eri in qualche modo subordinato a questi professionisti. that were really making the music. Che producevano musica They had all these like professors guys. Avevano tutti questi professorini You know, scientists upstairs. Scienziati osservatori We were in the studio. Eravamo in studio It's like an old 40s movie. Come in un film degli anni '40 Oh, what's that you want? You want to play? Che vuoi? Suonare? Mm, let me see what I can do. ....fammi vedere che si pu� fare... Very different here. Very much looser, much better. Molto diverso qui, libero, meglio... "Good Vibrations" was recorded in four studios, "Good Vibrations" fu registrato in quattro studi four different studios. Differenti studi Well, each studio is different, you know? Ogni studio � differente, sai? Like you can't... not any one studio's the same. Non sono tutti uguali Western was good for the, ah, instrumentation, Il Western era buono come strumentazione like the bass, the drums, guitars. Il basso, la batteria, la chitarra Sunset Sound, I liked their tech piano. Il Sunset Sound, mi piaceva il loro piano I used that on the bridge to "Good Vibrations." L'ho usato nel bridge di Good Vibrations Gold Star was good for just the echo. Il Gold Star aveva un bel riverbero The echo of Gold Star was good.

And RCA Victor, that's where we did the vocal. Allo studio RCA Victor feci le tracce vocali There were so many studios. C'erano un sacco di studi They had that great RCA studio on Sunset and Ivar. Lo studio RCA sul Sunset It was a fantastic place. un posto fantastico Columbia Studios. Il Columbia... And Western, you know, il Western... United Western at times it was called. allora chiamato United Western It's still there. E' ancora l�.... Have you... have you recorded here? Mai registrato qui? No, I've never been here. No Yeah, this is where Brian Wilson, Mamas & the Papas, E' dove registravano Brian Wilson, i Mamas and Papas and Buffalo Springfield recorded. e i Buffalo Springfield Yeah? S�? As well as you can see the evolution of Don Was. Qui puoi vedere l'evoluzione di Don Was Yeah, there he is! S� And let's go back further. Andiamo ancora indietro... And there's some more of him over there. Ancora un po' di lui qui... Yeah, you can here see this... Guarda qua... There's some more him down there - Ancora lui... ...before he really figured it out. prima di diventare importante What about these guys? E questi? Mm, not really familiar. mmm, non mi dicono niente... - That's okay. - It's okay.

- This is all right here, huh? - Yeah. It's cool. - Bello qui Yeah, I want to record a song by The Association. Vorrei registrare un pezzo degli "Association" Yeah!

They're not really marked who's doing what, Non si capisce chi deve fare cosa but that doesn't really matter. ma non importa... ♪ You ask me if there'll come a time ♪

♪ When I'll grow tired of you ♪

♪ Never my love ♪

♪ Never my love ♪

Let's do it.

♪ Well, you ask me if there'll come a time ♪

♪ When I'll grow tired of you ♪

♪ Never my love ♪

♪ Never my love ♪

♪ You wonder if this heart of mine ♪

♪ Will lose its desire for you ♪

♪ Never my love ♪

♪ Never my love ♪

♪ Now, how can you think love will end ♪

♪ When I've asked you to spend your whole life ♪

♪ With me ♪

♪ Buh-buh buh, Buh-buh ♪

♪ Buh-buh-buh ♪

♪ Never my love ♪

♪ Never my love ♪

♪ What makes you think love will end ♪

♪ When I've asked you to spend your whole life ♪

♪ With me ♪

♪ With me ♪

♪ Buh-buh, buh-buh, Buh-buh ♪

♪ Buh-buh, buh-buh ♪

♪ Never my love ♪

♪ Never my love ♪

I was driving down Sunset and I turned on Stavo guidando sul Sunset ed ho svoltato one of those roads that leads up into the hills su una strada laterale che porta alle colline and I stopped at this place that overlooks the whole city. e mi sono fermato a guardare il panorama It was fantastic. Era fantastico I suddenly felt exhilarated there. Mi sono subito sentito euforico I was really moved by the geometry of the place, Ispirato dalla geometria delle cose its harmony. Dall'armonia It's a fabulous city. E' una citt� favolosa To think some people claim it's an ugly city Alcuni la ritengono persino brutta when it's really pure poetry, it just kills me. Quando invece � pura poesia, mi colpisce I wanted to build something right then, create something. Volevo costruire qualcosa, creare... I used to love L.A. Amavo LA when I was first there in the early 60s. Arrivai nei primi anni '60 You can drive around and smell the orange blossoms, you know. potevi giudare ed annusare i fiori d'arancio It was really cool. Un posto molto cool We moved into Laurel Canyon Ci traferimmo nel Canyon and we just loved the scene there. e ci piaceva la scena l�. And a lot of people, a lot of folk singers would come around Un sacco di gente e di Folksingers sarebbero arrivati... and play and we'd, you know, get high and stuff. e ci avremmo suonato insieme, ci saremmo sballati etc. It was fan... a fun time. Una epoca piena di divertimento Just driving up those canyons and people pointing out houses Guidavi nel Canyon e la gente sapeva che quelle of famous people that lived there, erano le case di persone famose. Houdini and Tom Mix and Zappa Houdini e Tom Mix e Zappa and, you know, it was a fabulous time. Una epoca favolosa. ♪ I need somebody groovy ♪

♪ Someone who's able to move me, yeah ♪

Any time you drove by the Canyon Store Ogni volta che andavi al Supermarket del Canyon you saw some pop hero. vedevi qualcuno famoso There's David Crosby, you know! C'era Crosby! There were people from everywhere in Laurel Canyon. C'era gente da ogni luogo del Canyon. In '66 it was teeming. Nel '66 era pieno... And you might see anybody. Potevi vedere chiunque Like I one time saw Crosby blow through there Una volta vidi Crosby and scoop up these two girls. caricare queste due ragazze... And he was wearing a cape, by the way. Indossava un cappello, a proposito... Disappeared, you know, into the night! Poi scomparve nella notte Frank Zappa lived across the street. Frank Zappa viveva dall'altra parte della strada. And he once stood in the middle of the street Una volta si mise in mezzo alla strada reading me the lyrics of "Who Are The Brain Police", e mi lesse il testo di "Who are the brain police" like Alan Ginsberg. It was... come fosse Allen Ginsberg.. And I kept going whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Io dicevo: whoa! whoa! whoa! And then I heard Frank Zappa do an orchestration E poi sentii Frank fare una orchestrazione on a track without the yelling over it. di una traccia And it was... it was otherworldly. Era ...una cosa ultraterrena... It was really... really incredible. Incredibile There's not the kind of scene there is in New York Non c'era il genere di scena tipo New York and the east coast cities where there's a club you go to. O altre citt� dell'est dove ti recavi nei clubs We would go over to people's houses Noi andavamo a casa di qualcuno and yak it up for hours and hours! ci stavamo per ore And play music, you know. E suonavamo All kinds of music all the time. La musica che si suonava allora I wrote a song with Brian Wilson one time. Una volta ho scritto con Brian Wilson Brian came over to my house. Brian venne a casa mia I said wow. He had never come over before. Dissi WOW, non era mai successo. And he came up and he said, "You got any speed?" Venne e chiese se avevo dello Speed And I said, "I think so." I went to the medicine cabinet Dissi che credevo di s� e andai nell'armadietto and I gave him two Biphetamine 20s. e gli diedi due Biphetamine 20s He... he wanted two. ne voleva due And this is about, mm, 4:00 in the afternoon. E questo alle 4 del pomeriggio We started playing a song. It was like a... Cominciammo a suonare... Okay, we're playing that and we're playing that and playing that. E ancora e ancora... And it finally gets dark and I go to bed. Alla fine si fa buio e vado a letto And, you know, seven, eight hours later I got up Sette, otto ore dopo mi alzo and Brian is still at the piano going... e Brian � ancora l� al piano... - Still playing the same figure? - Yeah, same song, yeah! - Ancora quella? - S�, ancora quella... - Really fast. - It's only got one verse. - Ha solo una strofa And they finally released it, called it "Ding Dang". Alla fine la pubblicarono, si chiama Ding Dang And whenever I see Brian these days he points at me Quando vedo Brian, mi fissa e dice : and goes "Ding dang!" Ding Dang! There's a lot of strange stuff happening here. Accadevano cose strane qua... George and I just drove up to wherever Micky Dolenz lived Io e George guidavamo fino a casa di Micky Dolenz and Stephen Stills was there and several other people. E c'era Stephen Stills e altra gente. And they were all being hippies in the nude. C'erano tutti questi hippies nudi And when they saw it was George and I driving Ma quando videro me e George arrivare they all run in and got dressed! corsero tutti a vestirsi And we were going well, that's not very hippie. Noi pensammo che non fosse molto hippy.... You just felt like you could do anything, you know. Sentivi di poter fare di tutto... You just felt like there was nothing stopping you, Come se nulla potesse fermarti is the way that... and Hollywood was right there Hollywood era proprio l�... and the music industry, or a good part of it. e il music business, o almeno una buona parte. And Sunset Boulevard, you know. e il Sunset boulevard , sai... It just... it reeked of what happened in the 40s Ricordava gli anni '40 with the movie stars and that lifestyle. Le stars del cinema e il loro stile di vita And, in a sense, we emulated it in a different way. in un certo modo, noi li emulavamo.... There's a certain thing about freedom of spirit, ...quella sensazione di libert�.... a certain thing about lack of rules, ..la mancanza di regole.... lack of previous stuff holding you in place. ...la mancanza di riferimenti al passato che ti inchiodassero al suolo Certain people wound up, you know, in certain places Certe persone hanno preso una direzione and chemistries happened e generato alchimie and they inspired other chemistries around them. e ispirato alchimie attorno a loro I kind of compare it with Vienna at the turn of the century Mi fa venire alla mente la Vienna di inizio secolo when all those architects and painters and furniture builders quando architetti e pittori e costruttori di mobili would drink massive amounts of coffee, bevevano un sacco di caff� and what are you doing and what are you working on now? e si informavano di continuo su chi faceva cosa.... Paris in the 30s with Gertrude Stein and all, Parigi negli anni 30 e Gertrude stein etc... you know, all those artists coming together. artisti che si riunivano But I think this era, in time, is gonna be treated exactly the same way Penso che quel periodo sar� visto allo stesso modo in a couple of hundred years by the historians. tra duecento anni dagli storici The power of music is undeniable. La forza della musica � innegabile I truly believe it can change the world. Io penso veramente che possa cambiare il mondo I do. S� Small ways, but... A piccole dosi... I'm not letting this go! Non mi arrendo... ♪ I think I'm goin' back ♪

♪ To the things I learned so well ♪

♪ In my youth ♪

♪ I think I'm returning to ♪

♪ Those days when I was young enough ♪

♪ To know the truth ♪

♪ Now there are no games ♪

♪ To only pass the time ♪

♪ No more electric trains ♪

♪ No more trees to climb ♪

♪ But thinking young and growing older ♪

♪ Is no sin ♪

♪ And I can play the game of life to win ♪

♪ I can recall the time ♪

♪ When I wasn't afraid to reach out to a friend ♪

♪ Now I think I've got ♪

♪ A lot more than just my toys to lend ♪

♪ Now there's more to do ♪

♪ Than watch my sailboat glide ♪

♪ And every day can be ♪

♪ A magic carpet ride ♪

♪ A little bit of courage ♪

♪ Is all we lack ♪

♪ So catch me if you can ♪

♪ I'm goin' back ♪

♪ La la la la-la la la la, la-la la la ♪

♪ La la la, la-la la la la, la-la la la ♪

♪ La la la, la-la la la la, la-la la la ♪

You know, the politics in bands Sai, le discussioni nelle bands it gets pretty heavy sometimes, possono diventare un guaio especially when one guy's getting more songs on the record Specialmente quando un membro ha pi� canzoni degli altri sul disco. than somebody else.

And David had written this song about a ménage à trios. David scrisse questa canzone su un menage a trois ♪ What can we do now that we both love you ♪

♪ I love you too ♪

♪ And I don't really see ♪

♪ Why can't we go on as three ♪

I didn't think it was appropriate Non pensavo fosse appropriata for what we were doing, per quello che facevamo. but he thought it was cool and hip and everything. Ma lui s�, pensava fosse Hip e Cool etc... And we decided to do a Goffin and King song e decidemmo di fare una canzone scritta da Goffin e King, called "Going Back" and he was just up in arms about that. Going Back, e lui non la prese bene It just wasn't, you know, Era... something that they thought was in good taste, you know. ..qualcosa un po' di cattivo gusto per loro It was risqué, it was out on the edge, you know. qualcosa di rischioso, al limite... To me it's not out on the edge at all. Per me assolutamente no. It's just a love song. E' una canzone d'amore. It has happened. E' successo I mean otherwise the French wouldn't have a name for it! Se no i francesi non avrebbero un termine per ci�. It wasn't so much David writing the song. il problema non era David o la canzone It was the realization that he actually lived it, many times. era sapere che gli era successo davvero, molte volte. That was what pissed me off. mi faceva incazzare.... He knows it was a naughty song to write. E' una canzone crudele.... You gotta remember, Crosby was like Brando. Devi sapere che Crosby era come Brando He had no boundaries. non aveva limiti Carole and Gerry had moved from New York to L.A. Carole e Gerry traslocarono a LA and they had starting writing songs that... e cominciarono a scrivere canzoni... not the kind of girl band stuff they'd been doing. meno delicate di quelle che scrivevano. But more of like a hipper style. Ma pi� in voga coi tempi... And David was... he was, um, insufferable. e Davi era insofferente He was tough to live with. Era dura conviverci He didn't get his cool song on non aveva la sua canzone figa... and we did this kind of really commercial song instead. e facevamo roba troppo commerciale per lui So, he was angry with that. Era arrabbiato The breaking point really was when Chris Hillman Il punto di rottura fu quando Chris Hillman got mad at David and said we gotta get rid of him. Si arrabbi� con lui e disse che dovevamo cacciarlo The fun thing is that everybody thinks that La cosa divertente � che tutti pensano che that's why they threw me out of The Byrds. sia quello il motivo della mia cacciata dai Byrds Ladies and gentlemen, Signore e signori, They threw me out of The Byrds 'cause I was an asshole. mi cacciarono dai Byrds perch� ero una stronzo! He was saying things like you guys are not Diceva cose tipo: good enough musicians to be playing with me. voi non suonate abbastanza bene per suonare con me. I went oh, really? Io dissi: ma davvero? - That's not cool, you know! - Yeah. Non era molto carino. So, we didn't like that attitude very much. Non ci piaceva quell'atteggiamento. You know, I say it's because I was an asshole. Ho detto gi� che ero uno stronzo It wasn't that simple, of course. ma non era tutto l�, ovviamente, If you give kids millions of dollars, you know, se dai a dei ragazzi milioni di dollari they'll screw up. li rovini. We held it together for a pretty long time. Siamo stati insieme un bel po' Bands tend to devolve. Le bands tendono a deperire They evolve up the point where they're exciting Arrivano al top e sono eccitanti and they're new and they're good, e nuovi e bravi and then after that they work their way slowly downhill poi c'� la discesa until it's turn on the smoke machine and play your hits. e ti trovi a suonare il gratest hits con la macchina del fumo sul palco. And that's not good enough for me. Non era per me... It's just not. No I've done it. L'ho fatto.... You know, 'cause it was the path of least resistance Sai, era il percorso pi� facile and it made me lots of money and all that good stuff. mi ha portato un sacco di soldi e molte cose buone. It's not good enough. Non abbastanza per�... ♪ Now there's more to do ♪

♪ Than watch my sailboat glide ♪

♪ And every day can be ♪

♪ A magic carpet ride ♪

♪ A little bit of courage ♪

♪ Is all we lack ♪

♪ So catch me if you can ♪

♪ I'm goin' back ♪

♪ La la la, la-la la la la, la-la la la La la la, la-la ♪

♪ La la la, la-la ♪

I feel like we hear these songs, ascoltiamo queste canzoni.. we grew up with these songs, and then we take them for granted ci siamo cresciuti e le diamo per scontate and I feel like there's this thing happening tonight ma qualcosa sta succedendo stasera and in your hands, and in this band's hands, e nelle nostre mani... where you're kind of bringing them back to life possiamo donare loro nuova vita and reminding us of the brilliance. e ricordarci di quanto fossero brillanti Can you talk a little about that? Puoi parlarne? It really started with, ah, seeing this film, E' cominciata vedendo questo film, which was "Model Shop". Model shop And it was a movie in '67 done by Jacques Demy. un film di Jacque demy del '67 That movie looked like the sound of The Beach Boys Quel film era come il sound dei beach Boys and The Mamas & Papas. e dei Mamas and Papas And so, it sent us on an exploration back to that time E cos�, siamo andati indietro nel tempo and to look at the records that, you know, made, ah, e preso in mano quei dischi che fecero made that age of innocence of southern California writing l'et� dell'innocenza del songwriting californiano from '65 to '67, you know, come alive. del '65 al '67 Most of the groups that we're talking about, I gruppi dei quali abbiamo that we've picked from, I think they were... preso le canzoni those are the ones that are the premier southern California rock bands sono stati gli iniziatori a quel tempo from that year at that time.

Something happened there that engendered Qualcosa successe, che ha marchiato a whole lot of music, a whole lot of un sacco di musica new ways of approaching the music possible. una nuova maniera di approcciare la musica Whatever it was, it was a good thing. Qualsiasi cosa fosse, � stata positiva I don't think you have to put too much effort into it, really. Non penso che i pezzi richiedano un grande sforzo interpretativo I think they're classics. They're timeless. Penso siano dei classici senza tempo And a good song will sound as good then as it'll sound today. e una buona canzone � in grado di suonare bene oggi e domani You don't have to do much. We didn't reinvent them at all. Non devi fare molto, non abbiamo reinventato nulla We actually stayed pretty true to what they sounded like. Siamo rimasti vicini al suono originale And oddly enough, that sound is pretty relevant. E stranamente, � un suono pertinente It's pretty current right now. Abbastanza attuale I think, you know, people have been trying alcuni hanno provato nel tempo to put salt on its tail for a long time, a smuovere le acque trying to figure out why it happened there cercando di capire perch� era accaduto questo and how it happened there. e come era accaduto quello And I... you can guess Penso... and you can point out certain factors che tu possa concentrarti su certi fattori that you think would have been influencing it. che potrebbero avere avuto un ruolo But I don't know if we'll ever get it named. Ma penso sia fatica inutile It did happen. E' successo And it still is a place where people come to make music. E ancora la gente viene qui per fare musica. Maybe it started with this optimism of The Beatles Forse � stato l'ottimismo dei Beatles to Ed Sullivan was the beginning of '64, All'Ed Sullivan Show nel '64 so that is the perfect kickoff where there's this fad, right? Quello fu il perfetto calcio d'inizio People want to be their own Beatles. La gente voleva essere i Beatles And then so that lasts for two, two and a half years. e duro due anni, due e mezzo forse Well, it probably changed a lot when E tutto cambi� quando tutti everybody started writing more complex, longer songs, cominciarono a scrivere cose pi� lunghe e complesse which is kind of up until Pet Sounds and Expecting to Fly. tipo Pet Sounds o Expecting to fly... Songs were three and a half minutes and they could do... Canzoni di tre minuti e mezzo ma dove they realized they could do a lot more. gli autori capiscono di volere di pi� Don't you feel like some of these songs Non vi sembra che alcune di queste canzoni structurally, like word-wise and sound-wise, Strutturalmente, a livello di testo o di suono they're almost like more related to dreams? siano associabili ai sogni? Because they feel like music before was more written I sogni sembrano musica prima di essere scritta for like the conscious mind and this seems to be like more per come la mente cosciente e questa musica coming in touch with the subconscious, viene a contatto con il subconscio which is on the way to psychedelia probably, il che ci porta alla psychedelia suppongo just that in-between? proprio a met� strada... Well I think we talked about "Expecting To Fly" Stiamo parlando di "Expecting to fly" and maybe that's the end of it? che forse � stata la fine di tutto? You know?

I'm not sure I would be the one to say why it's the end of it, Non sono sicuro di voler fare questa affermazione but that's very different than everything else we listened to Ma � molto diversa dalle cose che abbiamo ascoltato and I wouldn't say more ambitious, non direi pi� ambiziosa... but it seemed like something cracked open maybe right then. ma sembra un punto di frattura That era begins with this collective idea of these Quell'epoca comincia con queste idee collettive musicians and this creative force coming together di questi musicisti to make something bigger. per costruire qualcosa di grande And then the era ends when it becomes more E il periodo si chiude about the individual, su qualcosa di pi� personale yeah, searching their own life and their own path con ognuno che cerca la sua vita e il suo percorso and, ah, yeah, you get all these groups breaking up. Tutti questi gruppi che si sciolgono... When you have strong minded people Quando hai a che fare con forti personalit� and they're having these visions of a new type of art che vedono nuove possibilit� di fare arte and they start to compromise, then it just doesn't last maybe. ma devono giungere ad un compromesso.... forse non dura. What do you remember about "Expecting To Fly"? che ti ricordi di Expecting to Fly? 'Cause we recorded that for the record. Perch� noi l'abbiamo registrata.... What do you remember about recording that song? Che ti ricordi della registrazione? Actually, I wasn't allowed on those sessions. Veramente, non mi hanno fatto entrare You're not on that at all? Non c'eri proprio? No, that's when Neil had decided to take flight. No, fu quando Neil decise di prendere il volo - That song was a warning. - Was it? - Quella canzone era un avvertimento - Davvero? - Yes, I'm leaving. - Really? - Me ne sto andando.... And I'm going to wait until it's absolutely ...e aspetter� il momento in cui critically important to the survival of the band, sar� decisivo per le sorti della band like the night before Johnny Carson booked the first rock band. Come la sera in cui Johnny Carson invit� la prima rock band Neil quit the day before we we're getting on the plane. Neil se ne and� il giorno prima di salire sull'aereo ♪ There you stood on the edge of your feather ♪

♪ Expecting to fly ♪

♪ While I laughed and I wondered whether ♪

♪ I could wave goodbye ♪

♪ Knowin' that you'd gone ♪

♪ By the summer it was healing ♪

♪ And we had said goodbye ♪

♪ All the years we'd spent with feeling ♪

♪ Ended with a cry ♪

♪ Babe ♪

♪ Ended with a cry ♪

♪ Babe ♪

♪ Ended with a cry ♪

♪ I tried so hard to stand as I stumbled ♪

♪ And fell to the ground ♪

♪ So hard to laugh ♪

♪ As I fumbled ♪

♪ And reached for the love I found ♪

♪ Knowin' it was gone ♪

♪ If I never lived without you ♪

♪ Now you know I'd die ♪

♪ If I never said I loved you ♪

♪ Well now you know I'd try ♪

♪ Babe ♪

♪ Now you know I'd try ♪

♪ Babe ♪

♪ Now you know I'd try ♪

♪ Babe ♪

♪ Now you know I'd try ♪

♪ I don't know ♪

♪ What's going on here ♪

♪ And I don't know ♪

♪ How it's supposed to be ♪

♪ Oh, I don't have ♪

♪ The vaguest notion ♪

♪ Whose it is ♪

♪ Or what it's all for ♪

♪ I don't know ♪

♪ And I'm not cryin' ♪

♪ Laughin' mostly ♪

♪ As you can see ♪