Mass Giorgini
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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.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] Incomplete Production discography
- Screeching Weasel- Ramones (1992)
- The Queers- Love Songs for the Retarded (1993)
- Screeching Weasel- Wiggle (1993)
- Screeching Weasel- Anthem for a New Tomorrow (1993)
- Smoking Popes- Get Fired (1993)
- Screeching Weasel- How to Make Enemies and Irritate People (1994)
- The Riverdales- The Riverdales (1995)
- Squirtgun- Squirtgun (1995)
- Screeching Weasel- Bark Like a Dog (1996)
- Squirtgun- Another Sunny Afternoon (1997)
- The Huntingtons- Fun and Games (1997)
- The Queers- Punk Rock Confidential (1998)
- The Lillingtons- Death By Television (1999)
- Anti-Flag- Underground Network (2001)
- Rise Against- The Unraveling (2001)
- Common Rider- This is Unity Music (2002)
- Justin Sane- Life, Love and the Pursuit of Justice (2002)
- Ben Weasel- Fidatevi (2002)
- The Copyrights- We Didn't Come Here To Die (2003)
- The Queers- Pleasant Screams (2002)
- Anti-Flag- The Terror State (2003)
- The Riverdales - Phase Three (2003)
- Squirtgun- Fade to Bright (2004)
- Resident Genius/Howard Zinn- You Can't Blow Up A Social Relationship (2005)
- Los Pepiniyoz - Lluvia, Lluvia, Lluvia (2005)
- The Queers- Munki Brain (2007)
- The Queers - Grow Up (2007)
- Suckerbox - Suckerbox (2007)
- The Peacocks - Touch and Go (2007)
- Alkaline Trio - Remains (2007)
- Los Pepiniyoz-Carta a la Luna(2007
- Living Another Yesterday - End Of Summer (2007)
[edit] 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.
At present, in addition to his continuing production work, Giorgini works with the foreign language department of Purdue University teaching classes in both Italian and Spanish. He is a Ph.D. student in Spanish Language and Literature.
[edit] External links
An article by Mass Giorgini for an academic psychology journal:
- Response Time Distributions: Some Simple Effects of Factors Selectively Influencing Mental Processes (1999) by Richard Schweikert & Mass Giorgini, from the Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Volume 6, Issue 2, pages 266-288.
