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Steve DiGiorgio (born November 7 , 1967 , Waukegan , Illinois ) is an American musician. He played Bass Guitar in Metal bands such as Death , Autopsy , Control Denied , Testament , Vintersorg , Iced Earth , and Sadus . He is widely renowned for his technical skills, and he is one of the very few bass players in the metal scene who plays a Fretless Bass . He is also a founding member of the jazz-band Dark Hall and is also the bass player for the Sebastian Bach band, ex- Skid Row lead singer. With Sadus, he also plays additional keyboards. Within his genre, Steve DiGiorgio is generally regarded as a virtuoso. He is noted for his ability to execute very fast 32nd notes with his plucking fingers, as opposed to using a pick or playing at half the speed of his bandmates as many metal bass players do. In most musical genres, the bass guitar is plucked with two fingers, but this is inadequate for duplicating the speed at which many death metal guitarists play. (Metal guitarists have the advantage of playing with picks, which makes the execution of rapid 32nd notes relatively easy.) In order to compensate for this, DiGiorgio uses three fingers in a sequential pattern. DiGiorgio is not the only bass player who uses this technique, but he is certainly one of its pioneers. He has recently worked with Underground Emcee / Record Producer Necro for his upcoming album entitled Death Rap . DISCOGRAPHY
EQUIPMENT Steve plays custom ESP Basses , specially made for him. He is mostly seen with a F-series fretless 5-string bass in a dark green finish, but also uses a very unusual double-neck construction with a fretted and a fretless neck in one body. He uses Ampeg SVT Classic amps and cabinets by Ampeg and Randall.(June 2007) Guitar World's Bass Guitar Magazine REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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