Flavio " Ruspa" Mangiavacchi
flavio.ruspa@parrock.net
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Bass Man

WARWICK CORVETTE PRO-LINE 5 CORDE CUSTOMIZZATO CON IMPACCHI DI BIRRA E SANGRIA DEL BATI E DEL NARDE.
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“Mamma” Franca and “Babbo” Mario finished to print him 27th april 1975, after they thought about him as a project in calabria (southern Italy) in a small terrace….pratically a mistake!!!

Like his friend Perugini (guitar boy) after having……….all the football fields in Siena province making a lot of damages, the music cought him thank to tiredless Danilo member of the Sarteano Philarmonic orchestra.

12 years old is an age that is impossible and cruel to carry a tenor saxophone around and after three years of pain he moved to bass guitar………a bit lighter………

First group: the STIGE then the ETCETERA, KILGOURE TROUT, few gigs around………

In 1997 he joined the MILESTONE and he goes around to play seriously: Beer Heineken Festival, few gigs with Bill Bruford and a very well know Italian Group “BANDABARDO’”. It was the 1999.

In 2000 a U.K. tour came true: they played in Denholme, Queensbury, Bradford, Liverpool at the “Cavern”. In 1999 he played also in a Big Band called VALANGA VANGA and he recordered his first serious thing: a Frank Zappa tribute with “heavy duty judy”.

In 2000 P.Ar.Rock project starti. Together with Diego, Mr. Lung, “Croissant” he stayed in studio for one year to catch anything from Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple.