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About Me

PLEASE NOTE: my notebook is being repaired. for the second time. the display did no longer work. i sent it to them. they sent it back to me after two weeks. the diplay worked, but the keyboard had gone wild. that's the story so far. what i want you to know is that what you are listening to is just some bass, recorded on a really really really old pc with really really awful software. so i beg you, come back in a few days, and i will upload something better! thanks-Then, what about me? There's not really much to talk about. uh, before i forget, you can see me on youtube if you want. 21 years old (but I have plans about growing up, someday), born in Florence, and still living there, wannabe artist, wannabe musician, wannabe bass player (wannabe virtuoso, indeed. great dreams aren't more expensive than the average ones. Oh, and also law student, appassionate reader, politically uncorrect person.I cannot live without music. As I said above I'm a bass player (or something like that), mostly self-taught (but i attended to masterclasses, with mr. Michael Manring himself) and i'm constantly trying to develop different techniques, in order to escape from the "cold wind of conformity" (yes, it's a quotation. yes, you should be able to remember that it's an excerpt from a song by Primus without using google) and go further. I said i'm trying, you tell me if something good has actually come. Well, this was meant to be a short bio, and there are too many parentheses, and i should have warned you that i suffer from graphomania. but who cares, i just hope you're enjoying my page and my music as well.
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Member Since: 6/2/2006
Band Website: you can try to click here, but nothing will happen
Band Members: biro: bass (read basses. mainly a Peavey TL-Six, but also a Peavey G-Bass V and a H&S Sequoia 6-string fretless), laptop programming, a series of woodwind instruments, and even a few necklaces of my girlfriend's (when she let me do it. and don't worry, no necklace has been injured yet). yes, i'm also known as niccolò ridi, but it's fun to chose your own pseudonym. even the pope does, so i feel legitimate to do the same. the moral is: if he can, why can't we?
Influences: namedropping is actually one of the lamest things on earth. but i'll try to do my best naming some of my greatest influences. After reading this list, you may feel a slight mental confusion, but don't worry: this is only due to the complete disorganization of this listing.Thelonious Monk, Frank Zappa, Tool, Béla Bartok (and Béla Lugosi, as well. But, despite your expectations, i'm not so into Béla Fleck), Squarepusher, Haendel, Les Claypool, Brian Eno, John Zorn, Glenn Branca, James Brown, Husker Du, Nick Drake, Kaki King, Michael Manring, Michale Hedges, Wim Mertens, At The Drive In, Charles Mingus, Daft Punk, The Beatles, Weezer, Hiromi Uehara, John Coltrane, Anthony Jackson, Don Cherry, Aphex Twin, Steely Dan, Jaga Jazzist, Claude Debussy, Screaming Headless Torsos, Mike Oldfield, Beethoven, Radiohead, Johnny Cash, Nine Inch Nails, Elvis Presley, Brad Mehldau, Yuji Ohno, Paul Simon, Steve Swallow, Jamiroquai, Joe Pass, Richard Wagner, Mr. Bungle, Charlie Parker, Depeche Mode, Otis Redding, Weather Report, R.E.M, Adam Nitti, Charles Mingus, Ennio Morricone, The Police, Gov't Mule, Jaco Pastorius, Donatella Rettore, Ares Tavolazzi, Pierre Bensusan, Stanley Clarke, Morningwood, the one who composed Monkey Island OST because he's one of the greatest heroes of the 20th century, Billy Sheehan, Prince, Keith Jarrett, Buckethead, Bootsy Collins and, last, but not least, the one and irreplaceable Michelangelo Corsaro.and many others that i won't mention now.
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new tune on my-myspace-space. just a demo version, but...

... i've recorded it with a bass that sells for about 150 euros. a chinese made MM stingray look-alike. i strung it with the infamous EADGC tuning, and i immediatly started recording that new song. it...
Posted by biro on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 06:33:00 PST