After all, he sang it already in 1993. “To live or survive”. The thought Vasco comes out of a song and becomes a letter: «If I’m not a survivor I … I’m a … Super Lived!» To stimulate the rocker’s pen was Cesare Cremonini. The singer-songwriter from Bologna is the artistic director of the issue of Vanity Fair on newsstands today. With an email he invited the rocker to reflect on a difficult present: for the music with the concerts stopped and the workers who have to go to do deliveries for Amazon to bring home the salary, but complicated for anyone. “A little letter on survival” is the request. After the pleasantries (“I’m fine, thanks. Or rather … I’m holding on”) Vasco gets to the heart. “It’s a really bad time. For everyone. A planetary catastrophe that no one could have imagined, it would have been worse only … if a meteorite had hit us! ». No live shows, no stadiums, no fans under the stage … «No health system can last long in an emergency like this … And us? We will still have to stay indoors … And … For us who need to scream, sing, “gather” … the possibility of performing concerts is still a long way off … But we will survive even this … ” .
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The certainty of the rocker is certainty of the experience of a “survivor” or, indeed, a “Super Lived”. Kom has been through a lot, but really a lot, and tries to make a list that runs parallel to that of its successes. Scroll through the photo album of his life. It starts with a boy in the Emilian Apennines. “I survived the ‘boredom’. Living in Zocca, I knew that we had to leave from there because if you are retired you are fine, but at 20 there is nothing to do ». And then here comes the Punto Radio “train” that “I founded with my group of historical friends”. The gaze opens to the national scene. “I survived the 1970s. When there were the years of lead, the Red Brigades, Lotta Continua and Potere Operaio ». He had called himself outside the ideological alignments, he felt like a “metropolitan Indian” an “anarchist man” and “the people who called themselves” workers power “seemed crazy to him and they were students, like the others who called themselves” continuous struggle “, and then in the afternoon they all went home, to their parents … because they were students … And their continuous struggle ended there. (Which then, you know, how they all ended up working for the Berlusconi, for better or for worse) ». He tears a smile when he tells that he was with a feminist in the style of «sincerity and dialogue in the couple first» who however «at my first confession of betrayal, she dumped me». There is always a veil of irony in Vasco’s words. It serves to make less heavy what, as life is by definition.
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