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Franco

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About Me

Bassist for Live Action Hero:
www.liveactionhero.com
www.myspace.com/liveactionhero
Listen to some of my playing:

"Learn to Fly", by Live Action Hero
"I'll Be", by Live Action Hero
"Riding With the King", by Joe Nipper & Eyewitness Blues

Since retiring from NASA's Corps of Astronauts (he was mission commander for Apollo 23), Franco has explored various careers in the entertainment industry. An original member of Aerosmith and Weather Report, Franco gravitated to the film industry, where he gained quite a reputation as a body double, most notably for the Mark Wahlberg character of Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights. When not busy undergoing psychiatric therapy for delusions of grandeur, he resides in a villa on the southern coast of France, with his six wives and 200 servants. His musical influences are the Hindustani sarod and sarangi, Tuvan throat singing, Peruvian pan flutes, and Kabuki Theatre.

My Blog

Going over to the dark side

Somewhere along the line, I became a bass player. How'd that happen?I guess I always had an attraction to the low notes, from when I was a kid. I always enjoyed listening to music on my parents "hom...
Posted by on Mon, 14 May 2007 04:45:00 GMT

The 70's and 80's

High School was fun. It was great being a rock star (at least in my own mind), playing in front of lots of folks. Even got me laid a time or two (OK, maybe more). But when I hit the university, tak...
Posted by on Sat, 12 May 2007 12:02:00 GMT

Rock, Rock, Rock'n'Roll High School

Although I was involved in various "projects" in elementary school, I guess I joined my first real band in high school. "Real band" being defined as one that was actually paid to play gigs. We had F...
Posted by on Sat, 05 May 2007 05:22:00 GMT

The Beginning

I started taking music lessons, on guitar, when I was eight. My parents bought me a 1959 Gretsch anniversary model (new) and a little Premier amp. I wasn't exactly a child prodigy. I would look at ...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:45:00 GMT

Prologue

OK, unlike the biography, I will try to keep this relatively factual and informative. No, Franco Bollo is not my real name. The word francobollo means postage stamp in Italian.  It has been my ...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 06:16:00 GMT