Hi! My name is Luca Briccola and I live near Como (Italy), in a little village dipped in the green among the mountains.

I really love all kinds of art: painting, poetry, philosophy, literature, cooking, architecture, graphic design...etc. This passion brought me to experiment in all these arts, but what has always helped me is music. I started to play bass guitar at the age of ten, when I created my first band with two schoolmates. Until now I've played with a lot of different bands, in different genres & with different instruments. I started under the influence of the greatest of the 60's soul, blues, rock & jazz bands like Cream, John Mayall, Sam&Dave, Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin, Procol Harum, Beatles, Ten Years After, Creedence Clearwater Revival...etc. Then I moved to my most important phase of the 70's progressive (Queen - Yes - EL&P - Gentle Giant - Uriah Heep - Who - PFM - King Crimson - Pink Floyd...) then to modern prog-metal.

Music

My favourite groups are: - Queen (first of all!!) - Jethro Tull - Yes - Gentle Giant - Genesis - Spiral Architect - EL&P - Dream Theater - Inflames - Symphony X - Finntroll - Opeth - Orphaned Land - Aghora - Tenacious D - Shadow Gallery - Testament - Therion - PFM - Rhapsody - Burzum - Necrophagist - Cannibal Corpse - Rakoth - Queensryche - Focus - Strapping Youg Lad - Anekdoten - To-Mera - Ark - Visceral Bleeding - Cripple Bastard - Obsidian - Blackmore's Night - ZeroHour - Andromeda - Camel - Pain of Salvation - Happy Pink Dead Rabbit - Deep Purple - Ayreon - Decapitated - Dark Tranquillity - Blue Oyster Cult - Dimmu Borgir - Tool - Audioslave - Black Symphony - Within Temptation - Gordian Knot - The Flower Kings - Jamiroquai - Thin Lizzy - Borknagar - The Doors - Nile - Porcupine Tree - Dresden Dolls - Uriah Heep - The Who - Elio e le Storie Tese & more...

The songs that meant much for me: - White Queen (Queen) -Who wants to live forever (Queen) - Life is a long song (Jethro Tull) - A Reason For Waiting (Jethro Tull) - Nothing at all (Gentle Giant) - The Musical Box (Genesis) - Empty City (Gentle Giant) - Benighted (Opeth) - A change of season (Dream Theater) - The edge of forever (Symphony X) - Roundabout (Yes) - The rain song (Led Zeppelin) - Astronomy (Blue Oyster Cult) - Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Harold Arlen) - Jeremy (Pearl Jam) - Winter (Tori Amos) - One (Metallica) - Schism (Tool) - Claire De Lune (Debussy) - Nocturne Op 9/2 (F.Chopin) - Baba o'riley (Who) ...

My favourite albums are: - Queen II (Queen) - Origin (Borknagar) - Octopus (GentleGiant) - Burn The Sun (Ark) - V (Symphony X) - Blackwater Park (Opeth) - Mabool (Orphaned Land) - Aske (Burzum) - Aqualung (Jethro Tull) - Close To The Edge (Yes) - Nursery Crime (Genesis) - Aghora (Aghora) - II=I (Andromeda) - Low (Testament) - Extraction (Greg Howe) - Images&Words (Dream Theater) - Animals (Pink Floyd) - Trilogy (EL&P) - Jaktens Tid (Finntroll) ...