Steve DiGiorgio
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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 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 the actual bass player of 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.
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[edit] Discography
- Artension - Future World (2004)
- Autopsy - Severed Survival (1990)
- Autopsy - Fiend for Blood (1991)
- Control Denied - The Fragile Art of Existence (1999)
- Dark Hall - Demo (1995)
- Death - Human (1991)
- Death - Fate: The Best of Death (1992)
- Death - Individual Thought Patterns (1993)
- Dragonlord - Rapture (2001)
- Iced Earth - Horror Show (2001)
- James Murphy - Feeding the Machine (1999)
- Lunaris - Cyclic (2004)
- PainmuseuM - Metal for Life (2005)
- Quo Vadis - Defiant Imagination (2004)
- Rob van der Loo - Freak Neil inc. Characters (2005)
- Sadus - D.T.P. (1986, 2003)
- Sadus - Certain Death (1987)
- Sadus - Illusions (1988)
- Sadus - The Wake of Severity (1989)
- Sadus - Swallowed in Black (1990)
- Sadus - A Vision of Misery (1992)
- Sadus - Red Demo (1994)
- Sadus - Chronicles of Chaos (1997)
- Sadus - Elements of Anger (1997)
- Sadus - Out for Blood (2006)
- Scariot - Momentum Shift (2007)
- Takayoshi Ohmura - Nowhere to Go (2004)
- Testament - The Gathering (1999)
- Testament - First Strike Still Deadly (2001)
- Vintersorg - Visions from the Spiral Generator (2002)
- Vintersorg - The Focusing Blur (2004)
- Various artists - Roadrunner United - Constitution Down (fretless bass), Annihilation by the Hands of God (fretless bass)
[edit] 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.
