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[...] At first one might be tempted to simply insert The Blues Against Youth's
sound under "roots rock," but that doesn't quite do it justice.
Nearly, mind you, but not quite.
With
a hollow-bodied electric six-string guitar, kick drum, voice, whistle, hi-hat,
and an unusual piece of stomp percussion he calls his "invisible iron
snare," he has developed his sound from a slower, more organic and
traditional one to what it is now -- raw, gritty blues coupled with dirty,
primitive rock'n'roll and outsider country."
James G. Carlson, one man band examiner
“The
Blue Against Youth’s raison d’être is to
distil the essence of the past into something once more pure and while the
sound might well be dirty, the concept is as pure as the driven snow all the
way through these twelve tracks.” Bluesbunny.com
THE BLUES AGAINST YOUTH
country
rock primitive one man experiment
Biography
Hailing
from Rome, Italy, The Blues Against
Youth is a one man band project led by Gianni
TBAY who performs vocals, guitar, bassdrum, hi-hat and whistles
simultaneously. His sound comes directly from the seventies, looks back at the
old country tradition of Hank Williams and smirks at the sixties, moving
towards some gritty rock’n’roll filled with a punk attitude.
TBAY has been rocking around since 2009, performed
over 800 shows in all Europe, released three full-length albums (“Pure At Heart Blues” in 2011 , “Trapped In
The Country” in 2013 and "Apprentice" in 2016) and five 7”. His latest recording effort is "Barbed Times" 7inches out on Skronk Records, April 2017.
Discography:
“BECOME
THE WHYSKEY” – 7” (Brigadisco, Burning Sound, 2010)
“SPLIT
W/ THE RIBEYE BROTHERS” – 7” (Escape From Today, 2011)
“PURE
AT HEART BLUES” – LP (Primitive Records, Sonatine Produzioni, 2011)
“YOU
SAID I PRAISE THE DEVIL?” EP– 7” (Deer It Yourself, 2012)
“TRAPPED
IN THE COUNTRY” LP (Off Label Records, 2013)
“DOTTED
WHITE LINE” SPLIT W/ THE CYBORGS – 7” (Bloody Sound Fucktory, 2014)
“APPRENTICE”
– LP
(Beast Records, 2016)
“BARBED TIMES” – 7" (Skronk Records, 2017)
More in-depth (but not up-to-date) biography:
Firstly inspired by country gold such as Hank Williams, Merle Haggard and David Allan Coe, TBAY develops a mixture of grooves passing through 70's rock of Lynyrd and Zeppelin era, coming back to primitiveness of delta blues fathers and moving towards something muddier and overwhelming.
Once found his true dimension by switching from acoustic to hollow body guitar, and after turned up the drive of his amplifier, Gianni entered the infamous Snake's Studio in Rome with his friend Cangiarlo Barbati behind the desk. The sessions recorded have to be considered as the first official material from The Blues Against Youth.
The "Self-Bootlegged But True" cdr, was made in limited copies and handed around at the TBAY shows. People enjoyed it and the performances started to become heavier as the boy's limbs started moving tighter and more precise than the beginning.
In the summer of 2010, after two years of shows around Italy and Europe The Blues Against Youth released its debut 7" "Become The Whiskey" and left for a 3 weeks tour supporting The Bulemics (Austin, TX) in Europe. They rode and played all over Spain, Germany, Switzerland, France, Belgium and Netherlands, very wild shows, including the performance at the legendary Pit's in Kortrjik (BE). Some headlining Italian tours followed and some records were finally sold.
This very first release in 7'' was co-produced by TBAY and some people behind the names of Sonatine Produzioni (Fano, It), Escape From Today (Torino, It), Burning Sound Records (Geneve, CH), Brigadisco Records (Itri, It).
Four Portugal shows in December did very good and concluded the "Become The Whiskey Release Party Tour" in the year 2010.
Once come back to Roma, Gianni started to record his first full-length album at M.House Studio with Mattia Candeloro (Joe Lally, Spiritual Front).
In March 2011 TBAY embarked on his third headlining tour throughout Europe, playing 24 shows and spreading out his new self-produced cd-r "Ripped-Off And Broke", that bore the same tour's name and consisted of unreleased and released material, limited to 150 copies.
On the course of this tour, thrown off by so many rips-off issues he got through in the so-called "underground" scene, Gianni decided to found his Deer It Yourself Records and press his own records. This further step in TBAY's path stated once and for all his stand-alone attitude and the will to have a total control on what he does. In an era where the term "d.i.y." sounds as a MTV marketing point, TBAY prefers to stay behind the lines, taking care of everything from booking to records and working in co-production with people he knows and trusts only. Summer of 2011 saw TBAY's two latest releases: the compilation "Brigadisco 3 - Ulula", by Brigadisco Records, that hosted various Italian musicians such as Spookyman, Davide Lipari, Mombu and many others, and featured the unreleased song "Opportunities" by TBAY. The second release was the long-announced 7" split with The Ribeye Brothers (USA/Monster Magnet current and ex members) that came out in July 2011 thanks to Deer It Yourself, Escape From Today and Burning Sounds Records.
In September 2011 TBAY released his first full length album "Pure At Heart Blues" and left for a 5-weeks tour in Europe. Many roads around European country are explored and rocked out for more than a year, then a new 7 " EP comes out on a hot August in 2012. 
The yellow-large-holed "You Said I Praise The Devil?" EP is the snapshot of TBAY's new move towards a more acid sound, but at the same time he keeps the country music-side standing proud behind his overdrived amplifier. The record includes three originals and a Merle Haggard's "Mama Tried" version to tribute one of TBAY most influential musician.
In promotion of the new 7" TBAY enbarks on "Die WithThe Rat In Your Mouth" Tour, a new European journey that sees him kicking and strumming around Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium and Italy. He keeps on pushing the blues against youth through several tours and weekends all over Italy and Switzerland till the end of 2012. During these last tours TBAY got the pleasure to play with King Automatic in Karlsruhe, with the Jackets in Martigny and with Bob Log III at Skronk One Man Band Festival in Roma.In December 2012 Gianni locks himself into the M.House Studio to start tracking his 2nd full length album. Due in March 2013.
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The Blues Against Youth got the pleasure and (at times) the displeasure to play with: The Bulemics, Bob Log III, Lo-Lite, Urban Junior, The Stomping Hobos, Miss-Ipi, The Cyborgs, Harry's Sons, Golden Helmets, Guitou Scumfuck, The Jackets, The Gasoliners, Long Dong Silver, Antares, Reverse Cowgirls, Guitar Fucker, Sixtyniner, King Automatic, Mr. Occhio, Uoki Toki, The Big Sound Of Country Music, Davide Lipari, Spooky Man, Belly Hole Freak, Gipsy Rufina, OldSeed, Runaway Brides, Anti-You, Wasted Pido, Anthony Wild Turkish, Movie Star Junkies, O Lendario Chucrobill, Il Muro Del Canto, Skiantos, Angelo Rossi..
