A MAN ON THE ROAD!!
The singer Pino Scotto represents, without a shadow of a doubt, the most important icon of national rock. Charismatic and feisty singer with marked blues influences, gifted with a deep and scratchy voice, he represents the best incarnation of the rocker figure ever to appear in Italy. His career officially began at the end of the 70s, when he recorded his first 45 with Pulsar; after some time he became the frontman of Vanadium, the most important heavy rock band on the Italian scene, with which he made eight great albums (seven of these at the rate of one a year, unthinkable for a rock band from the peninsula) and with which he could afford to undertake regular tours within and outside the borders of our country.

VANADIUM!!
The debut "Metal Rock" (1982), an instinctive work imbued with that sound that made the legendary Deep Purple great, managed to sell 8,000 copies and was also successful with critics and sales. A Race With The Devil” (1983), but it is with the album “Game Over” (1984) that the band reaches, to the amazement of the experts, the record figure of 54,000 copies sold in Italy alone. For the subsequent live album “Live On Streets of Danger” (1985), the first live album published by an Italian heavy rock band and for “Born to Fight” (1986), Vanadium even shot two videos, regularly scheduled on Videomusic: “ Easy Way to Love", taken from the second LP mentioned above and recorded at the Marquee in London, becomes the main theme of the TV program Discoring, while "You Can't Stop The Music", an unreleased song contained in the live performance, represents one of the first examples of video testimony from an Italian band.
Following the bankruptcy of their label, Durium, the group saw the climb towards success with their last studio work "Corruption of Innocence" (1987), produced by Jim Faraci (Ratt, Poison, Guns N'Roses) abruptly interrupted. , but still manages to recover: with great courage and a great desire to question himself, he enters the Green Line/Ricordi stable, giving birth to the album "Seventheaven", a record excellently produced by Guy Bidmead (Motorhead, Tina Turner, Wratchild ) and more focused on American rock, very popular in that period. In this work Pino noticeably softens the timbre of his voice, demonstrating that he has a very versatile approach, suitable for enhancing the taste of the melody typical of the A.O.R. (Adult Oriented Rock), especially in tracks like the famous “Take My Blues Away” and “To Be a Number One”. The distribution and promotion of this LP, however, were thwarted by the incompetence of the new label, which did not guarantee the group adequate support.

ALONE
After this last experience the band decided to take a break: between 1990 and 1992 Pino Scotto released his first solo album in Italian "Il Grido Disperato di Mille Bands" (to which Vasco Rossi's ax - man contributed Andrea Braido, Luigi Schiavone, Enrico Ruggeri's guitarist and the harmonica player Fabio Treves) and embarks on a tour with his Jam Roll Project, which also sees him as a guest on the very important stage of the Monsters of Rock, where he shares the scene, among others , featuring Black Sabbath, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Pantera and Testament.
Subsequently, as part of the "Spazio D'Autore" exhibition, he was awarded the Grammy for the album and the credibility of the character.
In 1993 he began collaborating with artists of the caliber of Luigi Schiavone, Antonio Aiazzi of Litfiba, Fabrizio Palermo of Clandestino (former Ligabue band) and his companion of a thousand adventures Lio Mascheroni, with whom he formed the "Progetto Sinergia" and created an album of the same name in 1994.
1995 marks an important return: with the historic Vanadium he publishes a magnificent album sung in Italian, "Nel Cuore del Caos", which sees the group engaged in a long tour that lasts until the end of February 1996. Subsequently the compilation " Segnali di Fuoco", which collects tracks present in the last three albums published by Scotto ("Il Grido Disperato di Mille Bands", "Progetto Sinergia", "Nel Cuore del Caos") and some unreleased songs (produced by RIMA Records) which feature involved in their creation, in addition to the members of the immortal Vanadium, also other artists such as Ronnie Jackson and the aforementioned Andrea Braido and Fabio Treves. In addition to the thirteen pieces contained in this collection, marketed at a reduced price at Pino's express wish, we also find a multimedia track edited by Giuseppe Galliano and an interesting attachment (only with the first 1,000 copies of the CD) including a mini-comic drawn by Giacomo Basolu, taken from the monograph “Standing Rock (Lo Scotto Da Pagare)”.
The latest creation born from the fertile mind of the charismatic vocalist is the album "Guado", a bloody album divided into eleven great pieces, in which our artist collaborates