Bari, 50 thousand at San Nicola celebrating Vasco: “I love Puglia and the South. The rest are fake news”. Among the fans Checco Zalone and Luca Zingaretti

Explosion. “Tonight those emotions are concentrated that we have not been able to bring out for two years. Tonight we return to To live“, the fans had said before the concert at the San Nicola stadium in Bari, taking up the title of the piece of the Kom. And so it was. The fifty thousand that flooded the Spaceship for Vasco Rossi – without even a free seat, from the lawn to the stands – they have recovered with interest what they have not been able to listen to (live) for a long time. A great show – the first of this magnitude in Bari after two years – on a majestic stage. With a big drawback: the viability in the pre and post concert, with waits even longer than an hour to be able to leave Stadium.

Among the fifty thousand there were also Checco Zalonegreeted by Vasco and invited to go on stage during the concert (but there were no gags), e Luca Zingaretti: his wife, Luisa Ranieriis shooting the TV series in Bari Lolita Lobosco. From the west grandstand a banner was displayed in memory of Mimmo Bucci, frontman of the tribute band Vasco’s gangwho died in 2007 in Bari after being hit by a motorcycle.

The concert opened on the notes of XI commandmentsong from the last album We are here, and a “Welcome back, finally”. And during the show, which lasted two and a half hours, Kom also praised Puglia and the South: “I love Puglia, I love the South, the Center and the North: all of Italy. And there is a rumor circulating. for years but it’s fake news, a lie. ” The reference is to an anti-southern phrase that was attributed to Vasco several years ago and which he nevertheless held to deny. Even more so: “You are fantastic people, a wonderful region, you are from God: you are better off in the South than in the North”. Vasco, among other things, is now at home in Castellaneta Marina.

Zocca’s rocker also lashed out at the conflict in Ukraine: “Fuck the war – he repeated several times – after Covid we only needed war. All conflicts are against civilization, humanity. The victims are children,” women, old people. We want to live in peace, we want music, because where there is music there is no war and vice versa. In the seventies it was said that you put flowers in your guns, but something must have gone wrong. Only love and music will save us “.

The ladder

During the concert moments of pure explosiveness alternated – thanks also to the guitars of Stef Burns e Pastano winsat the bass of Andrea Torresani and of the “Gallo”, Claudio Golinellito the keyboards of Alberto Rocchetti e Frank Nemolaon the battery of Matt Laug and the percussion of Beatrice Antolini – to other very poetic and intimate pieces, such as Toffee accompanied by the sax of Andrea Ferrariotook the stage with Tiziano Bianchi on the trumpet and Roberto Solimando on the trombone. The fans, in addition to the milestones of the rocker, many concentrated in the last part of the concert (such as Sally, Just us, Reckless life, Song e Clear dawn that closed it) and the songs from the last album – among them the last single Love love – were able to retrace the eighties with pearls such as Love help, I’ll cut your throat e move.

The beauty of the concert, however, was tainted by the paralyzed traffic at the exit. After two years of pandemic, nothing has changed: the road system outside the San Nicola stadium has once again proved inadequate for major events, as it already happened in the past. Among other things, the cars were parked not only in the dedicated areas: there were so many that many stopped at the side of the road and in the flower beds. And at the exit it was chaos: “It took me an hour to get out of the parking lot”, complains a lady. “The management of outgoing traffic is highly questionable – comments another – A sore point for an extraordinary concert”.

Checks and seizures

Over 20 administrative seizures of illegally sold goods were carried out yesterday by the local police of Bari during the concert. Almost 2,100 glass drinks, banned cans and bottles and hundreds of gadgets sold illegally around the stadium, “some counterfeit as they depict the singer’s registered brand” explains the municipal police.

Seven illegal parking attendants were reported with over a hundred euros seized; four vans found to have been hired and used by unauthorized peddlers from Campania were intercepted in the Stadium area and all the goods illegally contained and on sale were seized; four people were also charged with violating the trade union ordinance on the ban on the sale of beverages in glass containers.

As regards traffic management, the local police let it be known that to the more than 50 thousand people who attended the event in the sports facility, “at least another ten thousand approached the stadium to try to see Vasco Rossi or listen to the songs “and” the last cars left the parking lot at 3 in the morning “.

“For the local police – says the commander, the general Michele Palumbo – they were 36 hours of demanding services: 220 units engaged in traffic services, commercial checks and administrative and judicial police “.

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