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Mass Giorgini (born Massimiliano Adelmo Giorgini in 1968) is an Italian-American bassist and record producer, currently playing with Squirtgun. He is also the son of renowned Italian artist Aldo Giorgini.
gini has played bass and sung backing vocals for a number of punk rock bands including Rattail Grenadier, Squirtgun, Screeching Weasel, Common Rider, and Sweet Black And Blue.
As a composer, Giorgini has written songs primarily for his band Squirtgun, but in addition has lent writing assistance to several bands he has produced.
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Mass Giorgini (born Massimiliano Adelmo Giorgini in 1968) is an Italian-American bassist and record producer, currently playing with Squirtgun. He is also the son of renowned Italian artist Aldo Giorgini.
Music career
Giorgini has played bass and sung backing vocals for a number of punk rock bands including Rattail Grenadier, Squirtgun, Screeching Weasel, Common Rider, and Sweet Black And Blue.
As a composer, Giorgini has written songs primarily for his band Squirtgun, but in addition has lent writing assistance to several bands he has produced. His songwriting work also appears in the films Mallrats (Gramercy Pictures) and Bubble Boy (Disney).
As a producer, he has worked in conjunction with leading punk rock figures such as Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day and Kris Roe of the Ataris. Since 1990, he has owned and operated Sonic Iguana Studios in Lafayette, Indiana. He has had his hands in creating the recordings of many bands (sometimes recording, mixing, mastering, and producing). His production work has taken him all over the globe, recording in Australia, Spain, Canada, and the Cayman Islands, as well as in numerous states of the United States.
Incomplete Production discography
Personal life
Giorgini is the son of artist Aldo Giorgini. Prior to his career in music, Giorgini earned a degree in Psychology from Purdue University and began a course of graduate study in that same field. When his father became terminally ill with a form of brain cancer, Giorgini decided to suspend his studies in order to care for his father. During the illness, Giorgini re-evaluated his life plans, and chose to continue in the field of music rather than return to school and begin a doctorate in psychology. Despite his departure from the field, Giorgini leaves behind a pair of co-authored articles in respected psychology academic journals.
Giorgini was the model for the fictional character "Max" in the novel Weasels in a Box by Ian Pierce. In the novel, the character "Max" is a punk rock producer who also studies the literary figure Don Quixote.
At present, in addition to his continuing production work, Giorgini teaches Italian and Spanish in the foreign language department of Purdue University, where he is also completing a Ph.D. in Spanish Language and Literature. He is member of the faculty at the Ivy Tech Community College in Lafayette, IN.
External links
An article by Mass Giorgini for an academic psychology journal:
- (1999) by Richard Schweikert & Mass Giorgini, from the Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Volume 6, Issue 2, pages 266-288.
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