interview with GCCB 1.0
Have any of you played in other bands? Yes, all of us have played in other bands some of us have even recorded Cd for indipendent and major labels
How is it that you started playing music? I always loved music and wanted to play an instrument. After i heard Muddy Waters perfomr on The Lats Waltz movie i decided it was time to learn guitar so, with some friend advice i strated playing the blues
What are your names? / Who plays what? / How old are you? Enzo Pagliuca - Guitar and vocals (57) Daniele Primomo – Vocals and rithm guitar (42), Quirino Prosperi – bass (61) Daniela Ranzetti – Drums (31)
Have you had other previous members? No. We started as a trio, and recently we added Daniela on drums
Did you make music even when you were young? Yes, I started playing 40 year ago and i always have been in a band
Where are you from? Italy, Pescara in Abruzzo
What year did the band form? 2016
What's your style of genre? We play country music and blues
What inspires you? Life and old blues artists
How often and where do you reherse? We reherse once in a week. We have a rehherse room in our bass player house
How have you developed since you started with the music? I think that music helped in many ways. Improved my way of life, making it easyer to deal with other people and helped in diffcult periods of my life
Do you have other interests of work outside the band? Yes, we all have a regular work. I’m interessted in literature and writing
Are you looking for a booking agency, and what are your thoughts around that? Working with a booking agency could increase the number of our shows, but most of booking agency in Italy are interested in pop music and dont care about our kind of music
Are you looking for a label, and what are your thoughts around that? Yes, we are looking for a label ‘cause we wwould like to get our music more popular. Anyway today seems that music label don’t want to invest in country or blues music.
What made you decide to make this music? I always loved the blues, and since i was a young boy i wanted to play ita s best as i could. Blues hit the right strings of my heart. I strarted to play country music when i was involved in a Johnny Cash tribute, and i started to study that kind of music and found out that it was not too different from blues
What are your songs about? Most of my songs deal with love problems
Who does the composing and writes the lyrics? I do most of composing but also Daniele wirtes songs. We bring the whole song to the band an during rehersal we define the arranging
Do you start with the music or the lyrics? Usually they come togheter. Sometime i start witha guitar riff and when i find a good phrase to start i begin to work on lyrics
Do you compose in a certain inviroment? Composing should be a regular work, ‘case i work i can’t do that so i compose when i got a good idea, outstanding my fellings
Have you done any covers live? We still do covers, trying to arrange them in our style
What language do you sing in? English
What are the least and most people to attend one of your gigs? The least was two people, the most 5ooo
What ages are most of your concert attendants? Middle aged people are more interested in our music, but most of our attendants are youngs, (20-25) that we conquer duringour shows
Do you always play the same songs live, or do you vary? We have a regular base of songs but at every show we chamge sometingh
Do you have a regular place you play live often? Yes, we have 3 or 4 places where we play on a regular base
What was your first gig like? Our first gig with this band was at a wine fest where we regaled people that went there to drink wine and eat some food
What was your latest gig? A new year show in a restaurant
Where have you played live this year? In pub, restaurants anf music festival
Where do you plan to gig the comming year? We play wherever they want to hear our music
What do you think about people downloading music instead of buying records now a days? How do you think the music industry have changed because of this? Whe i was young if you wanted to hear music you had to go to a music store and buy LP, then you sat down and listen to it many many times, because you could not afford to buy many. That way you really appreciated and memorized eevry minute of the records. Today you can download ton of music and you listen it absently and nothing remains to you. Downloading at zero expenses, that what most of people do make record company don’t invest on music and that makes artist not have a direction
Do you have any role models or idols? Many idols.In music Muddy Waters is mine, but also all Chess artusts such as Little Walter, Jimmy Rogers, Otis Spann, Elmore James and other, not blues artist are Bob Dylan, Tom waits, Neil Young and Johnny Cash. Outside music i love Bukowski
Is it easier to find inspiration from older bands, or bands that are more active today? I listen only old old old music
What have been your biggest obstacles? Conciliate job, family and music
How do you get psyched for a gig? I play live by years, so i don’t get psyched for a gig, i try simply to relax and be in a good shape
Do you have any new material? What are your plans for the future? Yes, we are working on blues song that we want to record for our first cd
What are your web sites? We have a facebook page
