A social Vasco. Not the one of the posts with the words reassembled with games with a surreal effect on Instagram. The one on stage. He had announced a social lineup in the sense of social, and here it was. The “residency” of the San Siro rocker, seven shows, “the magnificent seven” he calls them from the stage, opens with a triptych: “Blasco Rossi”, the one about the gang of the excluded; then the mockery of the power of «Asilo Republic» in which Vasco, when in the song the teacher and the police arrive to sedate the children, taunts the Prime Minister with a «Giorgia I will love you» at the top of his voice; and again «The shots above» dedicated «to all the scoundrels who govern this world». «Last year I did a show on intimate and interpersonal emotions. This year I thought of a stronger setlist: we live in a dystopian situation, we are going back badly towards populism and fake news”, he said in a meeting with fans at Corriere on the occasion of the delivery by the mayor Sala della Pergamena of the City of Milan (and yesterday also a recognition from the Lombardy Region delivered by President Fontana). A blow, in the second part of a show that lasts over two and a half hours, also comes to the leader of the League. To the text of «It doesn’t take much», Vasco adds «to be intolerant: tell it to Salvini, tell it to those who vote for Salvini». There’s no anger. There is no hate. They wouldn’t be from Vasco. There is irony, rather, see the mocking smile on the giant screens when he brings up Meloni. There is concern, too. And above all the desire for freedom. The one of those who are not afraid to say how they think. Without acting like a teacher or a judge, but without even turning his head the other way like many of his colleagues do who fear losing some fans. It’s not his problem.
Vasco’s hunger cannot be satisfied. Seven concerts at San Siro for 400 thousand tickets (it reaches 600 thousand with the four dates in Bari): an absolute record. The 36 concerts in this stadium are unbeatable. The announcement of next year’s concerts will arrive in the next few days. Spoiler: there will be no Milan. «We are always here, lucid and finally living in Milan! We are here this evening to rock – he shouts from the stage -: it is the most powerful show in the universe, it is the first of the magnificent seven: seven times seven San Siro”. An imposing stage: 86 meters wide, 28 meters high and 25 meters deep, over 1000 square meters of LED screens. The beginning is a video between Blade Runner, concrete and rain, and the fantasy of the Lord of the Rings with a dragon with a disturbing look that breathes fire. Beast that returns on the shoulders of the black and studded jacket of Vasco, born in the year of the dragon, born in 1952.
The start burns the decibels. It’s tight, straight rock. It’s the musical setting of this tour, entrusted as it has been for a few years now, to guitarist Vince Pastano: there aren’t the metal drifts of some time ago, even the repechage of the 80s is less intrusive. Every now and then the foot lifts off the accelerator. After “Bubbles”, a little space (without advertising) to catch your breath and on stage you meet the crazy “Jenny” of the beginning and the timeless “Sally” who if you don’t get goosebumps you’re insensitive. The women return as protagonists later in the medley songs, on the screens for the traditional collective topless of «Rewind» which accompanies fans to the finale of the hits with «Sono solo noi», «Vita spericolata», «Canzone» and, obviously, «Albachiara ».
