About Me
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joined forces 2000 reunion
arch street taveren...hart ct.
hello, my name is chelsea,
One could argue, and quite convincingly, that the debut GIRL COP from Mark Franco is one of the best things you have ever heard. One problem though, it IS the BEST thing you ever will hear! Apart from his spine chilling vocals these are amazing instrumental pieces! Mark Franco is rock with a new angle, this man truely one of a kind.
it seems within a press of a button, mark franco's music is a display song for many profiles! He is very popular and has a very supportive and dedicated fan base throughout myspace.
if you havent heard 'girl cop' 'addiction' and 'daytripper' from his debut cd, then you have either been on holiday or been sucked in by reality tv.. Either way your missing out on some of the catchiest tunes this year! Its original, catchy and something different to the drooning Interpol copy-cats which is currently littering the rock scene .
Mark has now joined forces with rock legend producer/musician PAUL SABU.. to record his first solo cd, and make the most raunchy blood curdling stew of rock you've heard in years.
through marks wide range of musical talent : songwriting, vocals, guitar, bass and piano , not only can you hear his soul, but you can feel it..so keep listening to rocks rising star......
i come from a family of profesional musicians, artist and addicts.. on both sides of my family.so i didnt stand a chance.. of even remotly coming out normal or whatever societys verson of what normal is! my father was a profesional stand up jazz basist during the 50's and earlys 60's. there was always music i'm my home form my fathers jazz to my sisters beatles. and eveything in between.my first lessons were on the piano at the age of 8.. at the age of 10 i was taking stand bass lessons at my elementry school,. by the middle of my first year i was studying classical bass with Bert Tererski of the hartford sympany orchestra and attending Hart School of Music on a full music scholarship. at the age of 11 i was playing with high school and college students.in the Greator Hartford Youth Orchestra i loved the way the sounds of the clasical greats moved my soul what i didnt love (still dont) was practicing, especialy on a saturday afternoon my weekend away from jail (err school).lol so at the age of 13 the call of rock everthing that goes along with it finaly won out . bu by classical hello rock n roll insanity!!
my teanage years were filled with inner turmoil, anger, depression, and a deep hatred for athourity, fueled by massive amounts of drugs and alcohol to kill the pain and confusion i felt inside. .school, home work and studying held absolutly no interest to me, i would of been a drop out at 17 but i got arrested and thrown in jail for fighting the with police from the next town over (not good)!.they beat my ass down bad! so my lawyer sugessted i cut my hair and stay in school, because the judge wanted to put me a way for a while..so off came the hair and into the special ed class i went... all my friends where there .. i loved it ! 3 hours a day in one class room with all my crazy friends,.compleatly stoned, smokin cigeretts in class and doin 6th grade math!.
i didnt fit in with society.. nor did i want to.! but for some reason the girls loved me n' my friends! i really was a compleat mess
..but damn i could play fuckin rock n roll!.. electric bass was my primary instrament and by the time i was 19 i was playing professionally.. finally, i found my calling..
by 21 i was gigin out 6 nights a week.. i absolutly loved the rock lifestyle.. it fit like a glove.! no rules, no athourity .. no responsibity.. only sex, drugs and rock n roll.! still in my 20's myself and high school friend jimi bell ( house of lords) started joined forces an all original band with marc diamond (vocals) and joe apparo(drums) who i luv like brothers!
we quickly became the no 1 rock band in the state..big hair ,, hot women, free drugs n drink 24/7!. we landed a part in the movie 'Light of Day' with Micheal j Fox and Joan Jett .. i had an extra part so i got to stay in chicago and... well.... i dont remember much more... trust me when i say i was out of control..! .
still, the creative juces were flowin.. joined force's toured with Joan Jett.. played all across the united states, did various namm .conventions opened up for countless major acts, (most of which i can remember) lol.. duing that time 89-91 we met up with rock legend producer/musician paul sabu who became our producer. we came close to getting a deal but fell short of our goal i'm not sure if it was because of the over the top partying, excessive drug use and the sex and circus atmosphere that followed us around, but i'm pretty sure that played a role. ya think!!! by the early 90's the music scene changed and the nirvana era began just as my life was falling apart from all the years of drug abuse in.1993 i entered my first rehab my life style finally catching up to me.
fast forward to 2002 while playing in a local ct. rock band and once again out of control, i was set up at a local gig by an undercover narcotic agent posing as a groupie..dayum she was fine! yup busted again.! this time for posession and sale of narcotics.i got an 18 month sentence suspended after 5 years with 3 year probation..my bail was set at 250.000 dollars.. i lost everything!. we finally got the sentance reduced to a year which i did bout 8 months of it in jail .which actually was the best thing that could of happend to me
(gettin clean) my creativity exploded ..finally free of addiction and the hell it brings, with all this music inside me i began to write songs about my life in rock ,, all the ups and downs that we all go through with bj zampa (house of lords) as my writing partner..after 15 months we parted ways.it was the lowest point in my life .once again i turned to drugs.
i became totaly depressed not knowing what to do or who to turn to. deep down in side me i knew the new material i had written was the truth, my truth!.no bullshit just real music and was something ppl would want to hear... i just had to get into the right hands. kinda hard when u have no connections. ! as hard as i tried i was stuck.. stuck in the depression of my life. u know..,the kind where u cant get out a bed depression!. every door seemed closed.! all my life all i wanted was a chance, just one chance to have people in the music biz and people on the streets (the ones who matter the most) hear my music, the expression of my soul. and if nobody liked my songs, i would be fine with that. but nothing, nothing was coming my way, i was done , cooked..my spirit seemed brokin
i was just about ready to give it all up... my dreams.. my passion.. when the name paul sabu popped into my head, as clear as day!so i said 'dayum why didnt i think of that'! . so i made a call to paul,and sent him some of my demo work... i hooked up once again with paul and in may of 2006 we started recording together .. the three song cd. girl cop is our first collaboration..
.....what i write and sing about is my truth, life as i see it..i am the proverbial ' what u see is what u get'! i've loved passionetly and i 've hated with equal passion.. i been loved and and hated as well.! i' really am just another human being trying to find his way on this fuckin planet, bleeding, falling down, and making all kinds of fucked up mistakes along the way. hurting the ppl who've loved me the most (and who used to loved me) ): way to many times,
so its time to stop that shit!! am i gonna fuck up again?. huh!.. of couse i am, we all do !!!...
what i can say tho' is that i am a surviver,.AND SO R YOU !!
if i can give anything to u from what i have learn so far on my journey, it's to follow your truth !!
STOP believing all the bullshit lie's from ppl who never wanted to see u experience happiness or success. the whole.. your not good enough, talented enough, get a real fuckin job..whatever!! FUCK THAT SHIT!! the power that we've all been looking is waiting inside of u to explode.!!
THE POWER OF THE UNIVERSE (love) LIES WITHIN US.. EVERY FUCKIN ONE OF US!! 'NEVER'.. . I SAID 'NEVER' .. LET GO OF YOUR DREAMS .!!
IF SOMONE DISAGREES WITH YOUR PASSION..
TE'LL UM' TO GO FUCK THEMSELFS !!
BE THE SHINING STAR THAT U ARE... START CREATING YOUR DREAM ...TODAY!!
so sit back, enjoy, and soak it in ,, ...might wanna fasten your seat belt for the rollercoaster called ...LIFE.....
HI EVERYBODY !! A FEW PPL WROTE TO ME AND ASKED ME IF THIS IS ACTUALLY MY SITE AND DO I RUN IT. YES IT IS AND YES I DO!! (with chelse's help) SO I WANT TO THANK ALL OF U FOR VISITING MY PAGE, SUPPORTING MY MUSIC, AND FOR ALL YOUR GREAT COMMENTS !!..
I'LL TRY MY BEST TO ANSWER AND RETURN EACH ONE!
THANKS...AND DONT FORGET TO ALLWAYS KEEP THAT SHIT ROCK HARD !!!
PEACE... MARK
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"If you help only one soul to find itself,
if you comfort only one mourner,
if you heal only one sick person,
then the whole of your earthly life is justified."
