FANKÁZ (IT)

Riccardo Daga

FanKàz was born on June 2003 to create their own Melodic – Skatecore-style songs. After many changes in the group's line-up, after friends' comings and goodbyes, the line-up is momentary settled: Ricky (guitar and vocals), Mora (bass and vocals), Pole (drums) and Elio (guitar).

The band that inspires these tree guys to play is Belvedere, as all those bands that belongs to Skatepunk and technical hardcore scene, like This is a Standoff, A Wilhelm screm, BigWig, Strung out, Action men, Pendleton, Forus, SunEatsHouers, LagWagon, Venerea and so on.

They record their first 4 songs-DEMO “What is..?” in Paolo Martorana's record-studio in Summer 2005, followed by a professional EP, recorded at Natural Head Quarter (NHQ) on July 2006: this one lets the band cooperate with Alkemist Fanatix Europe (Management and Booking).

At last after a lot of hard work and thanks to the belief of some very good people, they sign on 12/09/2007 their first contract ever with Quick Flow Records. The recordings take part during October 2008 at West Link Studios at Cascina (PI); Alessandro Paolucci and Alessandro Sportelli did the production and the mixing, and Alan Douches did the mastering at West West Side Music (NY). Their first LP “Slow victims for fast predators” was published on October 2009.

Riccardo Daga, the band's guitarist, uses Mayones Setius GTM 6 Lizard model in it's standard configuration with Seymour Duncan's Jazz + Jeff Beck pickups.

Amazing! This is the first word I said when I saw this beautiful guitar. My first impression was confirmed by the versatility and beautiful sound, powerful and precise that I got thanks to my new axe! Visually stunning with the lizard on the twelfth fret, the sound is incredibly clear with no smearing or strange noises .. It's what I searched and I wanted and I finally found thanks to Mayones.

The possibility to split the pick-up also gives me the opportunity to not only have a really powerful sound but also cutting edge in typically fender style. In short, crystalline clean sound and very powerful distortion, the neck and fretboard are very comfortable and fast that’s all you need.

I‘m absolutely convinced that everything is possible with this guitar. Thanks to Mayones to give me the possibility to play this amazing guitar!