Name: Fabio “TheDiamondKing” Vellata
Country: Italy
Age: 38
Name (and link if present) of your
website/magazine:
www.Truemetal.it
Position in your website/magazine: Editor in
Chief / Editorial Coordinator / Label Manager
Online since (year when your website went
online): 2001
Introduce you as editor and your website with a
little bio (year and how you started to write reviews, possible previous
versions and/or name of the website, more you want do add): hummm… I’m nothing more than a fan. A simple, true, rock fan. And I’m
lucky to have the possibility to express my opinion on this passion called
“rock” discussing about it through one of the most prominent italian webzine…
I’ve started writing ‘bout music on some
fanzine and school paper. Things have become serious on winter 2005, when I was
asked to try for Truemetal. And It’s fun to see that now, it has become the
site I lead…
Favorite rock sytles (AOR, Melodic Rock,
Hard-Rock, Westcoast, Glam, Sleaze or so on):
AOR and HR
of course.
Other music styles you like: Blues’s and country are in heart
too. And why not? A little bit of progressive and death metal. Music is fun,
give no limitations to it!
"THE" band / artist that fully
embraces your tastes in music: impossible to reduce all to a
single name. Let me call Whitesnake, Queen, Def Leppard, Pink Floyd, ELO… buta there are many more, that’s for sure.
However, want a name? Take Whitesnake and it’s ok…
Your personal TOP 5 of all times:
Queen – A Kind Of Magic
Whitesnake – 1987
Def Leppard – Hysteria
Pink Floyd – The Wall
Electric Light Orchestra – Out Of The Blue
Your personal FLOP 5 of all times:
Ehhh, I tend to forget musical delusions. Last
Strangeways album, however, is among them…
Your biggest delusion in music (a crap album, a
missed interview, a bad concert you've attended, etc): The missed show of Pretty Maids in 1999.
Your highest point reached in music (a long
awaited interview, a meeting with one of your idols, results reached with your
webiste, etc): interviewing
Jeff Scott Soto, Glenn Hughes, Jim Peterik and Jimi Jamison. That’s’ for sure.
Your most successful / favorite review: I’ve done a huge number of review.
Maybe, the one about Chinese Democracy is one of the best…
Your bitter regret about one of your reviews /
interviews: …no
regrets on my side…
Your 5 most promising acts / artists of the
"new" generation:
Heat, The Poodles, Lionville, Diamond Dawn,
Vega
Your vision for the next years about the music
biz of our music styles (possible death of the cd format, thoughts about
digital releases, evolution of rock labels, etc.): too many bands and labels are killing the taste
of music as it’s for illegal download too.
Going on in that way, we’ll have lesser quality
year by year, and a bunch of useless records made by untalented bands. Not a
good vision: need to restore that old “eighty” feeling, through which music was
not business but pure passion…
And please, if you can’t bring back vinyls,
keep cds at least!
Your personal suggestions for today's labels
and artists: Hey
guys! There are too many fishes in this sea now! Less business, more passion.
And give true opportunity to became “big“only to those truly deserve it!
Anything you want to add:
hummm…no!
YOUR LIFE IN
ROCK SONGS! (name one song for a particular moment of your life)
The one that changed your life: Animal – Def Leps / Is This Love –
Whitesnake / Radio GaGa - Queen
The one for your birthday: Highway Star – Deep Purple
The one for the love of your life: Is This Love - Whitesnake
The one for your beloved ones: These Are The Days Of Our Lives -
Queen
The one for the best moment in your life: Top Of The World – Van Halen
The one for your worst enemy: I Will Kill You – Cannibal Corpse
The one which represents you and your vision of
life: Still
Unbroken – Lynyrd Skynyrd
The one which helped you in your saddest
moments: not a
single song: rock in general for this!
The "Rock Music Manifesto": Crying In The Rain - Whitesnake
The one to say goodbye: The Best Has Yet To Come -
Scorpions
The one for your funeral: The Show Must Go On - Queen
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