Davide Garavaglia

I was born in Magenta, near Milano (Italy), in 1972.I’m interested to bonsai, to the good food and wine, to friends, to nature and music. I started playing guitar in 1985, during a summer camping... by the fire, while I was having a good glass of camomile with cognac... or vin brule’ (hot wine with fruit and spice).... One year later I tried to write songs ’cause... I was in love with a baby... it was a wonderful period, I remember that... especially for my first French kiss!!!... Then I bought my first electric guitar, it was an Applause, Stratocaster model... and I began my first stage with "Rio Verde Band" where I had been playing rhythm and lead guitar as well as singing my own songs and covers.By 1994 I played in some occasional band, then (1995) I entered my "serious" period with the "Get Down Blues Band" as lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist, till 1997.In the meantime (1995) my best period with the Biglietti Falsi Soul band (Porretta Soul Festival in 2001), as rhythm and lead guitarist, was at its best! I had been playing with this band till 2005.I learnt basic guitar (I’ve tried to do that!!!...) with Marco Limido, Massimo Minardi, Mauro Palermo, Marco Porcu and everybody who can teach me (=anybody!!) ....Now I’m playing with Sivia Fuse’ (SEYES - Soul&Pop band... wonderful voice) and Alessandra Vicentini; as well as in a funny rock & blues band (local dialect songs) called "Gamba de Legn" (the translation is "wood leg"). Moreover in the soul band called "biglietti falsi".... yes! we are back! ten musicians to remember the famous ’70 and ’80 songs: rhythm’n’blues, soul, funk and disco ’70...

Discography...

"Curia Picta" (2004 - Gamba de Legn); "Prugna" (2006 - Gamba de Legn); "20 ANN" (2007 - Gamba de Legn);

My guitars...

- Carvin Custom: thin solid body and through-body neck in koa (Hawaiian Island), ebony fingerboards (24), std dots inlays, pre-slotted graphite/teflon nut, two Holdswort Humbuckers with possibility to split on single coil each ones, three positions switching (neck, neck and bridge, bridge), Sperzel locking tuners (24 gold plated), Wilkinson tremolo (24 gold plated), knobs "volume" and "tone" (24 gold plated); ... optimum for every kind of music, it’s very well-rounded, good midrange sound... I know, it’s too much for me... but it’s a bomb!!!... it is the guitar in the most of the pics... do you like it?... - Fender Stratocaster Plus Deluxe ’97 U.S.A.: natural ash body with 3 gold Fender Lace Sensor, red tortoise pickguard, five position switching, maple neck with Sperzel locking tuners and LSR Fender roller nut. - Fender "Strato" Custom: body strato (unknow origine), neck Squire (made in Korea), rosewood fingerboards, black hand-made pickguard, white knobs-switch-pickup covers, vintage pickups but over-wraped (like a texas special but with vintage hot sound)..... the second tone knob gives a mixing sound of the neck pickup and the bridge pickup (it’s not a tone!!).... it’s unbelievable... it sounds!!!! - Ibanez AGS83B: very slim semi-acoustic guitar, Artcore set-in neck, 3-piece maple/mahogany neck material, flamed Maple top/back/side, large frets, bound rosewood fingerboard, ART1 Ibanez bridge, Ibanez ACH1 neck pickup, Ibanez ACH2 bridge pickup, Artcore DX inlay. - Fender Telecaster Custom: made in Mexico, sunburst body, maple neck, black pickguard, humbucker neck pickup, single coil over-wraped on bridge, five positions switching (the neck humbucker could be splitted in single coil...) ... it’s not the usual telecaster...!! - Zerosette Castelfidardo: electric vintage guitar (unknow model). - Taylor 110-E: acoustic (mod. 2004), full-sized, solid sruce top Dreadnought with Fishman preamp system. - Cort: nylon cutaway semi classic.And now... Does anybody knows someone that can sell me his good hands??? ... also only some fingers??!??? .... no?... ... So I have to continue to spend my money thinking that good guitars sounds better?... the good fingers are minor detail?... it’s a pie in the sky... ... ok... let’s do so... My Amplifiers...

- Kustom 72 coupé (2x12’’ - tubes 72W); - Carvin Nomad (1x12’’ - tubes 50W/100W) - modified for trade fair; - Fender Super Champ XD (1x10’’ - tubes 15W)

M y e f f e c t s . . .

- Digitech GSP 21 PRO - Alesis Microverb (rack 1 unit) - Digitech GNX-3 - Various stompboxes (electro harmonix small clone and Pulsar, VOX Brit Boost, T-rex Dr. Swamp; boss FDR-1, TU2, DD6, RV3, SD1, NS2, CH1; Aria-Pro analog delay; Dunlop Cry baby...).