The Artist Formerly Unknown

About Me

The Ass Formerly Unknown But mostly known as Chef Ragoo Born in 1972, Rome. As a kid I was a huge fan of Edoardo Bennato and The Police. At 14 I felt this world wasn't fit for me. I started wanting to understand that 'punk thing'. I loved that thing, and so I do now. I sang (well, uhm) in Cazzi Di Budda (comedy punk-rock, 1 demo never published), then in Dissenso (punk-metal, 1 demo published). Later I found myself playing in 2 bands. Vocals for Dread Cannabys, a hardcore classics cover band, and drums for Block Of Flats, a nice hardcore band with a brainiac way of composing (2 demos and one Lp + various features on lp and tape compilations). After both bands broke up, and after a couple of years of plain listening, I formed Tramones, where I sang and played bass (punk rock, 1 demo), and joined the great cali-like punk band Guastafeste (spent years with them, yet nothing published except for a song on Panic Now LP/CD comp). In the meantime I started rapping and adopted the name I still wear (fits better than the world does...). I did 1 demotape and a cd/ep as a rapper, with the production of Mr. Little Tony Negri, and acted in the movie Zora La Vampira directed by Manetti Bros, rapping three tracks of the soundtrack as Profondo Rosso (with G-Max of Flaminio Maphia and DJ Squarta of Piotta and Cor Veleno fame). In addition to that I featured on a ton of mixtapes, albums and demotapes for rappers all around this little country. In 2001 I quit rap and - after a brief stint in a punkized pop band, The Cunninghams, with my man Enrico Silvestrin and a couple of Palermo's Semprefreski - got the chance to join the great roman hardcore band FLU!, with my old Block Of Flats pal Fabrizio and two other great musicians, Angelo and Lele. We played an intense hard core that reminded nothing but us, and I'm still proud of what we did with that band. But then, after we published one of the nicest pieces of music I've ever been part of (Sensei Sillo, cd, Vacation House rec.), being a dad stood up as an obstacle for Angelo and we had to turn the band off. Now I'm sitting behind the drum set with Anti You, a fast 1981 fashioned hardcore band, with people of my age (well, I happen to be the oldest) and with a similar, long experience in the punk scene. We're now promoting our first cd on SOA records and I finally see the kind of reaction I always wanted to see from stage, since 15, even when I was rapping: people slamming the shit out of each other, in a soft and lovely way, without unnecessary fights. ------------------------- This Myspace is dedicated to all the music, good or bad, I've done in the past and to all the musicians, good or bad, I've played with in the past. Sucka Myspace only offers 4 mp3 slots, that's why the 'jukebox' will often change its playlist. -------------------------- I know, I know, everything I always did sucks huge balls. Why bother telling me? Even better: tell me, but find a creative way. My musical-sheisse could be your life, fake names are proof.

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Member Since: 11/6/2006
Band Members:
Paolo Martinelli -
Chef Ragoo -
PP Tramone -
Tony Ficante -
Rock Araso -
Rovina Power -
Cannes De Niro -
Sonny Mbecille -
Anus Young
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Cazzi di Buddha were
Cristiano BonavolontÃ (chitarra)
Giovanna De Riso (basso)
Fulvio Liberati (batteria)
Me (voce)
Cazzi di Buddha

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Dissenso were
Mauro Iezzi (batteria)
Enrico Missana (chitarra)
Fulvio Liberati (basso)
Me (voce)
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Dread Cannabys were
Nicola Lambathakys (basso)
Peppe Ricotta (chitarra)
Francesco 'Ciccio' Celletti (chitarra)
Marco Fraschetti (batteria)
Me (voce)
Dread Cannabys

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Block Of Flats were
Riccardo 'Conte' Romani (basso e voce)
Fabrizio 'Soulside Tattoo' Di Benedetto (chitarra e voce)
Me (batteria)
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Guastafeste were
Marco Fraschetti (batteria, finchÃ© non sono entrato io, ma lui Ã¨ meglio di me)
Francesco 'Ciccio' Celletti (chitarra e voce)
Enrico Scaldaferri (basso Warwick e tecnica sopraffina)
Me (batteria)
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Tramones were
Ciccy Tramone (chitarra)
Suniky Tramone (batteria)
Pippy Tramone (me, basso e voce)
Tramones

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The Cunninghams were
Enrico Silvestrin (voce e chitarra)
Stefano Lumetta (chitarra e voce)
Marco Sannino (basso)
Me (batteria)
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Flu! were
Angelo Capodacqua (basso)
Lele Tomasi (batteria)
Fabrizio 'Soulside Tattoo' Di Benedetto (chitarra)
Me (voce)
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Anti You are
Andrea Marra (voce)
PG Garibaldi (chitarra)
Marco Sannino (basso)
Me (batteria)

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Chef Ragoo is
un coglione.
Influences: Edoardo Bennato - Stewart Copeland - Dead Boys - Sex Pistols - The Clash - Misfits - Kiss - Dead Kennedys - Kina - Minor Threat - Negazione - Husker Du - Descendents - Wretched - Ramones - Black Flag - Bad Brains - Cro Mags - Anthrax - Metallica - Jingo De Lunch - Indigesti - Gang Green - MDC - DRI - 7 Seconds - Dag Nasty - Minutemen - Fugazi - Agnostic Front - Scream - Bad Religion - Church Of Violence - NoFx - Suicidal tendencies - RKL - Nomeansno - Spermbirds - Hirn! - Peggiopunx - Raw Power - Youth Of Today - Screeching Weasel - Ritmo Tribale - Cringer - Discharge - Onda Rossa Posse - Sud Sound System - Sangue Misto - Beastie Boys - Cypress Hill - House Of Pain - NWA - Public Enemy - Wu Tang Clan - Artifacts - Organized Konfusion - Notorious BIG - 2Pac - Rakim - Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Gravediggaz - Prince Paul - Dan The Automator - Necro - Snoop Dogg - Dr. Dre - Eminem - Nice & Smooth - KRS-ONE - Fat Joe - Gangstarr - Fugees - Speaker Deemo - Kaos - Uomini Di Mare - Gopher D - Dre Love - Casino Royale - MOP - Truceklan - Fabri Fibra - Padre P-Yo - Lacrisi - Ingegno - FUG - LxExAxRxNx - The Felt-Ups - The Intellectuals - Superciuk - Growing Concern - Comrades.
Sounds Like: Shit, man. I'm predestined to eternally sound like a huge pool of liquid shit. here's some. Block Of Flats was a strange band man. When we started we were totally wack and I definitely couldn't play. Yet we played these 6 minutes tunes. We got better with time but always a little naive. A little too naive maybe. .. Every band has that tune, the one the people wants to listen shouting for it, sometimes saying 'hey, play the good one' (were the others bad?!?). Well we had this Jovanotti cover with delirious lyrics, it was plain shit, and yet for years people kept shouting us 'play Sakamoto!'. Here it is, your favorite shitburger. This gig was in Brancaleone, Roma, july the 28th 1990. Crowd attending: something like 50 people.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

2 nuovi rap

Perché nun stamo a pettinà le bambole.3mst è il mio j'accuse nei confronti della produzione 'culturale' del nostro paese. E' nato una mattina che andando al lavoro ho letto almeno 5 volte su muri diff...
Posted by The Artist Formerly Unknown on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:18:00 PST

4 RAP 4

I 4 rap che da oggi sono su questo spazio sono le prime robe rappuse che faccio dal 2001, se si eccettua una sorta di rap-metal che ho realizzato a novembre su beat di Pivio e Aldo De Scalzi per un ep...
Posted by The Artist Formerly Unknown on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:55:00 PST

New (and old) songs

La mia strada, with Brusco on a MacroMarco beat. My last rap (until this year), recorded in the first months of 2001 for a Gramigna Sound System compilation called Combo. Great track, Brusco and I kic...
Posted by The Artist Formerly Unknown on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 03:15:00 PST

Diario della data palermitana degli anti you sul mio altro spazio.

Sul myspace del me-essere-umano c'è un diario lungo e approssimativo della tre giorni palermitana degli anti-you. Per leggerla andate su www.myspace.com/chefragoo Ciao.
Posted by The Artist Formerly Unknown on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:27:00 PST

Questi 4 pezzi - These 4 tracks

Flavia è una raggamuffin girl - Tramones.Registrata circa nel 94, era la prima canzone del nostro cortissimo demotape, la cui thanxlist chiudeva con la linea "siete tutti chornuti". Che bei ricordi.De...
Posted by The Artist Formerly Unknown on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 04:30:00 PST