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FranZ

I play DrumS to silence the voices in my head!!!!

About Me

I LOVE music and all the performing arts. I play the drums and I like to attend all the musical and dancing events.
I played in several bands of different genres: American rock, hard rock, funky/blues and most recently rock 50's , so my main love is for RocK but I always try to explore musical experiences that can make me a better musician.
I attended several clinics of GREAT drummers: Thomas Lang, Gregg Bissonette, Simon Phillips, Virgli Donati, Mike Mangini, Steve Smith, Mike Portnoy, Billy Cobham, Christian Meyer, Ellade Bandini...
I had great experience and inspiration seeing other musicians' clinics: John Petrucci and Billy Sheehan.
I am a proud member since 80s of the drumline of Contrada San Luca of the Palio di Ferrara (www. contradasanluca.it) where I master the drum rudiments!!! %)
With Contrada San Luca I won several local and national competition. I won 7 of the 9 victories of the category "Musicians" at the italian championships during the last 20 years.
Actually I'm addicted for Drum Corps! I had the fortune to met Blue Devils in Italy on summer 2005 and since then I am studying a lot the drum rudiments.
I recently started again to take Drums lessons.
I am actually studying with Christian Meyer, Elio e le storie tese drummer.
Christian Meyer's students!!!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/4/2008
Band Members: Past bands:

Alone after midnight (My VERY first band, I was only 14 y.o.)
Street rockers band (My first RocK band!!)
Giullari (Hard Rock band!!)
Transgenika (Guano Apes/ Skunk Anansie tribute band)
Bello Carico (Funky/Blues/Disco band)
Perizia PsiKiatriKa (Crazy Cover band)

Actual:
Minuti Contati (Cover Band)
The Scramblers (50s Rock 'n roll band)

Influences: Drummers: Mike Portnoy, Mike Mangini, Thomas Lang, Gregg Bissonette, Max Weimberg, Christian Meyer, Virgil Donati, Dave Weckl, Terry Bozzio, Pat Torpey, Jeff Queen, Scott Johnson, Casey Brohard, Blue Devils.....

and of course who made all possible: MUM AND DADDY!!!

Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

10 reasons to date a drummer!

1. Our coordination is incredible. 2. We can keep any tempo you want. 3. No matter what speed we go, we can make it good. 4. No matter how tired we are, we always finish the job. 5. We can follow the ...
Posted by FranZ on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:04:00 PST

Musica e Tempo

"In musica il tempo non passa mai!" (Elio) "Il musicista invecchia a tempo!" (Rocco Tanica)
Posted by FranZ on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:50:00 PST

DJ who "plays a gig" - Il DJ che "suona"

Il DJ che dice che "ha suonato in un locale" รจ come quando ho spiegato Matrix a mia nonna e mi ha detto "si,ho capito"! ----------------------- DJ saying he "played a gig"... it's like when I tri...
Posted by FranZ on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:06:00 PST

HEAVY METAL term

Do you know where "HEAVY METAL" term come from? Yesterday I was listening to Virgin Radio and in the section Music History Paola Maugeri said that this comes from EASY RIDER movie. Here is ...
Posted by FranZ on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:29:00 PST