Members C-4 Posted July 11, 2006 Members Share Posted July 11, 2006 Originally posted by Ostracized Little Stephen Van Zant (spelling?) of the Sopranos and the East St. Band. That's E Street Band! Best Italian guitarist I know of is the late, great Tommy Tedesco. He is known as the Godfather of session playing and the most recorded guitarist of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members oryan Posted July 11, 2006 Members Share Posted July 11, 2006 Originally posted by Kace Lacuna Coil is an Italian band. Not necessarily Italian-American I don't think, but I saw em' at Ozzfest last week and they rocked pretty hard. The guitarists weren't any sort of virtuosos as the main draw of the band I think is their singer, but good nonetheless. I have to disagree. I thought their tone was muddy and their songs were the least bit interesting. "Hey, 1996 is calling, they want their songs back." *yawn* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sonnilon Posted July 11, 2006 Members Share Posted July 11, 2006 Originally posted by oryan I have to disagree. I thought their tone was muddy and their songs were the least bit interesting. "Hey, 1996 is calling, they want their songs back." *yawn* +1 They're a little too nu-metal for my taste, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members d_dave_c Posted July 11, 2006 Members Share Posted July 11, 2006 Originally posted by Archdemon We Swedes own their asses. Yngwie Malmsteen, Fredrik Nordstr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AmazingDM Posted July 11, 2006 Members Share Posted July 11, 2006 Originally posted by GibsonQC We may as well throw Jon Bon Jovi in the mix, too. He picks up the guitar from time to time. Original last name was "Bongiovi", I believe.Italian-American is different from Italian (as a previous poster asked). Italians are citizens of Italy, and generally live there and speak some dialect of Italian fluently. I'm an Italian-American: an American citizen of Italian descent, I do not live in Italy nor have I ever, and I do not speak the Italian language very well. So, there is a big difference between being "Italian" and "Italian-American". Both terms are politically correct, btw. oh god damntpolitical correctness is so freakin stupid we're not talking about your nationality we're talking about your race Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bucker Posted July 11, 2006 Members Share Posted July 11, 2006 Aldo Nova. I always liked that song with the lyric that went "powder pleasure in your nose tonight." I just had an 80s flashback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jerry_picker Posted January 13, 2010 Members Share Posted January 13, 2010 Great Italian Musicians...who'd a-thunk it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alex_SF Posted January 13, 2010 Members Share Posted January 13, 2010 Frank Zappa was born in Baltimore, Maryland on December 21, 1940, to Francis Zappa (born in Partinico, Sicily, of Greek and Lebanese descent) and Rose Marie Colimore (who was of 3 quarters Italian including Sicilian and 1/4 French descent). There's also Frank's one-time guitarist, ["Catholic girls ....."] Warren Cuccurullo. Y'all better be careful with this thread, before Buggin Out gets all up in your {censored}. [YOUTUBE]9kSR88HEKSQ[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fjs1229 Posted January 13, 2010 Members Share Posted January 13, 2010 Joe Pass... real name Joe Pasquale The lead guitar guy in 38 Special has an Italian last name.. The guys that plays the LP Junior and sings a lot.... bob Heh, I was gonna say Pass. I wasn't sure if he was actually itallian, but seriously: the mustache, the balding top of the head being from a very italian family I can assure you it doesnt get much more italian than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PanaDP Posted January 13, 2010 Members Share Posted January 13, 2010 Frank Zappa (perhaps ) I know wikipedia isn't exactly the kind of source I should count on but it has this to say about Zappa's ancestry: "Frank Zappa was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 21, 1940 to Francis Vincent Zappa (born in Partinico, Sicily) who was of Greek and Arab descent, and Rose Marie Colimore who was Italian and French." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kuroyume Posted January 14, 2010 Members Share Posted January 14, 2010 Blues Saraceno? (I skipped a couple pages so he might have already been mentioned) I'm half Italian (Paradisi on my mother's side). And I half shred (otherwise blues, rock, jazz). My friend Chris Orsatti is also Italian and a shredder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members danhan1113 Posted January 14, 2010 Members Share Posted January 14, 2010 not really well known, but Ralph Santolla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bdegrande Posted January 14, 2010 Members Share Posted January 14, 2010 Trey Anastasio? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members volvo1800 Posted January 14, 2010 Members Share Posted January 14, 2010 Al Di Meola (born July 22, 1954 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is a jazz fusion guitarist of Italian descent, known, among other things, for his incredible technique and the discipline with which he plays Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members almightycrunch Posted January 14, 2010 Members Share Posted January 14, 2010 :thu: :thu: Vito was one of the best. I don't know if he's Italian, but I used to have a tape of a guy named Alex Masi. From what I remember, he was pretty good. Italian???? shhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiit! hell no!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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