Pensa Day: live diary on air.....

Here I am too...
First, I am sorry I can't write my review in Italian. Hope you all would understand it well.

Three LEGENDS, three new stars and a very very good professional House Band with Marco Pensa Caviglia on the guitar.

I came in Italy very excited because it was my very first Pensa Day. Borgo la fornace is a small, but very elegant and relaxing SPA resort set in Tuscany's green heart. They has made a big organization with many surprises, very delicious food and wines, presents, great warm and very complaisant staff, doing everything for their guests to feel comfortable.

I won't post the set list of the 3 concerts, because I'm sure I'll miss some songs.

The 3 concerts were built in three parts each...

The first part was performed by Polly Wood & Steve Picken, and also by Fede ( we all know him well). I'm not surprised by them because I have seen them last October in London's Bush Hall and also in April for the Sergio Tacchini's night for the International Tennis Tour AOTP. Polly is a young but very talented singer and songwriter and Steve Picken is a finger style guitarist, both from UK. They played some old and new songs all written by Polly. During the Pensa concerts their performance was very artistic, powerful and full of young energy. They owned the hearts of the whole audience from the very first note to the last. Their style - a mix of acoustic, rock, blues and some Latino tunes totally blowed away the public.

I was delighted so much by Fede's beautiful voice and very good guitar playing. I like his songs too much. BRAVO Fede!!

It was GREAT to see Maestro Steve Phillips right away after them keeping his spirit young and so lively with his amazing, convincing and really elegant style of playing, behavior and everything on the stage and on the real life. A real classical English gentleman with great smile, big heart and incredibly good with the guitar and singing.

The third part...well, they are John and Chris, with Marco and Solid Rock!!! WOW!!! What can I say...It was so inspiring to feel the BIG Dire Straits spirit again forced by both Dire Straits legends from the past - John and Chris, enjoying themselves so much together on the stage. I am a big fan of MK, die-hard fan of him I love so much all his DS and solo albums and concerts but I can't agree that Dire Straits is Mark Knopfler ONLY. He has never played ALONE on the stage and would not be that big without a band playing with him. (Please, don't kill me about that... LOL).

It was amazing to hear John saying in all concerts that he had a great BAND with him in Pensa day!! Thank you Marco & Solid Rock to be so good and proud to play with John Illsley!! So, for all who missed the concerts, keep your eyes on this site, because I'm sure it would not be the last time of John playing with these great guys!! MITICI!!! Thank you Marco for setting all these things together.

I would wish to thank personally to all memebers - Marco Caviglia, Primiano Di Biase, Fabrizio Bruzzichini, Salvatore Scorrano, Maurizio Meo and the other bassist who replaced Mauro. THANK YOU SOLID ROCK!! Really a great band!

I'm sending all my love to all friends from the forum or not - Fede, Davide ( ci siamo lost... LOL) and Nunzio, the beautiful Stefy and Cristina, Pensa Boy and his friend, Jurij, Farco (great video!!), Marisacche, Maffet. We had really very fun time together in Gambassi!!

Thank you Valerio, Gustavo, Kamelia and his friend Maria for the great company!!

See you all on the next Pensa Day!!
Missed Angelo and Ivan...a bit sad about that.

Thank you Borgo la Fornace and the sponsor MEYER !! I'm sure tha charity concert will help to the children of l'OSPEDALE PEDIATRICO di FIRENZE!

Well, a little bit more breath....THANK YOU John Illsley, Maestro Steve and Chris - Maestro di saxophone...with his incredible modesty he refused to be Maestro, but I'm sure he IS because I receive on his site hundreds of mails by people inspired to play the saxophone by DS sax legend Chris White.

P.S. Will post some pictures later...WOW!! Che bella photo, Nunzio...

Polly...

Polly...

......beata la chitarra.........

Translation for Slavi: ....guitar lucky chap!

P.S. che bella quella Telecaster !!!

Angelo! Take your hand off Polly
Ti dico che Polly ad ogni canzone si girava (e piegava) a poggiare la chitarra sulla sedia di Steve e il pubblico faceva "ooooooooooleeeeee"
Che maiali sti italiani

Mi sa che è la chitarra costruita da Davide, non ne sono certissimo, ma la ha usata anche Marco sul palco.
Davvero molto bella!

Polly e Steve sono le controfigure di Celine Dion e Gary Burlow

Vero!!

p.s. Ascolta "Shades of you" sul Myspace di Steve ...

P.S. che bella quella Telecaster !!!

PS: per la cronaca.....la Dave's Telecaster Custom è ora dello scrivente mentre la Pensa MK80 Maliblu è di Davide.....quanto ce piace fa' 'sti scambi de chitarre.....

il vero problema è che ora per andare oltre questo Pensa Day.....manca solo MK..... .....