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Longsong's new cd. A incredible impro session with Simone Massaron, Massimo Pupillo (from ZU) Zeno De Rossi, Giorgio Pacorig and Pacho.
Now available on Long Song web site.
Tiziana Ghiglioni's new cd release: "A Male Walk In The Caudron" with: Simone Massaron, Tiziano Tononi, Silvia Bolognesi, Emanuele Parrini, Piero Bittolo Bon, Daniele Cavallanti.
Massabon's first cd release: "Iron Glove, Suede Fist" also avaible on i-tunes
feb. 27th on Battiti, radio broadcast on Radio3 at 0.10 AM simone massaron & marc ribot duo,
july 17th 2008 live reconrding. info at http://www.radio.rai.it/radio3/battiti/index.cfm
Simone Massaron is one of the selected guitarists for the Ralph Gibson's book "State of The Axe - Guitar Masters in Photographs and Words".
The guitar you play says who you are. Or, better, you are the guitar you play.
When I was 9, I was attracted by guitars as they were magnets: I would spend whole afternoons in music shops, looking at the Fender Stratocasters and the Gibson Les Pauls closed in the glass showcases. It was exciting to see them so close and imagining to play them, and then going back home dreaming to buy one someday.
A family friend was manager of one of those big music shops and, occasionally, he allowed me to play some electric guitar. This went on until the day I finally could buy an Eko.
It was the early 80s and Italian guitars were really bad quality... as American ones, for that. My playing wasn't so good either.
I'm always been a custom maniac, I customized every instrument I had until it was really impossible to identify
it. Every instrument represented what I was in that moment.
I remember a Strat with some hundreds colors, tortoise pickguard and fluo pick-up, another Strat full of fake dents and jazz guitars absolutely mint.
I love guitars, I love everything about guitars. But, most of all, I love the feeling to have one in my hands.
The strings under my fingers, the neck in my left hand's palm, the pick against my thumb. It's a phisical connection, very intimate.
When you play guitar, other people think you're playing guitar and that's it. You don't have any psychological
connotations other than to be a guy who chose to play a very popular instrument that everybody can play.
I wonder what would've become of me if I played basson, or clarinet.
No, I could not play anything else but guitar.
Now my favorite one is a Telecaster, a very good '52 re-issue, very simple. The simplest guitar around, maybe,
and because of that, maybe the most difficult. You play what you have to play and she responds without mediation, in a very direct way. I like her because she gives me a much more
true relationship with my music, and right now I "need" to be absolutely honest about music.
I play also a strange fretless guitar, a custom-made one that keeps me in a closer contact with the most innovative part of me and of my music. Then I have some old Italian 60's guitars. In those years, Italians built weird, bizarre guitars, trying to emulate the Americans.
They built guitars with great naivety, maybe without even realizing that they would've become fantastic instruments just because of that.
I love guitars world. I love to talk about it, I love to play guitars.
I'm lucky.
I'm a guitarist.
Simone Massaron from "State of the Axe"