![]() that's rock! The one man band project, starts officially in 2005 doing a lot of shows around Italy. This combination create his own peculiar style, melting his punk and savage garage attitude with traditional bluesy sound. all that musical stuff are played simoultaneus. ![]() When he play as one man band the set is composed by guitar bassdrum, snare, hi hat,maracas,cimbals,tamborine,harp,kazoo. After few year of practice, he starts to play delta blues using a resophonic guitar. ?In the meanwhile he studies other guitar techniques, and becomes more inclined to blues styles like fingerpicking and slide guitar. Occhio quits with them and starts djing in some clubs in Turin, Paris, Gineva, Zurich and other dancefloor selecting ska, rock steady,northern soul and garage. The record was produced and distributed only in the DIY scene, and that's why is so rare and difficult to find, for this reason the myth of obscurity and mystery is still around this band. Occhio founds immediately another one in which he could shows his creative efforts: he joined the hardcore band "La maschera di ferro" with whom he recorded a 10" in Ruggero Catania's recording studios(Ruggero becomes later a member of Africa Unite). ![]() ?Although the band's career passed just few but intense years, Mr. ![]() The 7'' "Un mondo fichissismo" with his fresh and easygoing sound was in the top ten of the alternative rock chart in the Italian musical magazine Rumore and was even set in the playlist of Tim Johannan (editor and creator of ''Maximum rock'n'roll'', that was really a holy book for punk rock lovers). In 1993 starts his adventure with "I Fichissimi"(whose name refers to a trashy Italian movie with Diego Abatantuono), one of the outstanding bands in the Italian punk rock scene with a peculiar sound a la Ramones that made their songs a classic anthem for all the young Italian punks. In the same years released a song in the legendary compilation "Inni della Rivolta". Occhio, born in 1975, starts playing guitar in the early 90's in different Turin punk hard core bands, such as Cruelty Free Core (CFC), with whom he played in all the most important stages of the Italian hard core scene. 30/11/-0001 Scritto da mr.occhio one man band mr.occhio one man band 0 ![]()
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