Lillo plays the drums for Lùnapop and writes
some of the songs. He was originally Senza Filtro's guitarist but the drummer left,
so he decided to take the drummer's place.
Lillo loves to travel, but we don't know
where. The important thing to him is that Carol is there when he takes a break.
Carol is Lillo's girlfriend.
Lillo is the only Lùnappoper who does not
support the Bolognese basketball team.
After graduating from highschool in 1999, Lillo
was called up for Millitary Service, so Lùnapop had to wait til Sept 2000 before they
could start playing live.
Lillo has only had short hair in the Qualcosa di
Grande Video, when it was still growing out from millitary service.
Lillo loves Queen and the Beatles. He was the
first person to introduce Cesare to the beatles.
Cesare: "One day we were
sitting around talking about the release of "50 Special", when Lillo called me
and asked if we could meet up in piazza Aldrovandi. He told me that he had to leave to do
his military service. I couldn't believe it. I kept saying that everything would work out
OK, but it didn't. Without Lillo a lot of things changed in the band. He had always been
an important figure in the group. A long hard winter started. Without Lillo we really had
to work our asses off. We agreed to go anywhere, but it was really stressful, because
without Lillo I felt totally responsible for keeping up the band's enthusiasm. Lillo is
the kind of guy that loses enthusiasm totally if even the slightest thing goes
wrong."
" When Lillo left to do his
military service he wasn't a drummer anymore. Music was no longer at the centre of his
life, even if it was a situation that made him very unhappy. Lillo was so important that
the atmosphere in the group changed completely whenever he got a couple of day's leave.
Every time he came back he made such incredible progress that he managed to keep up with
the rest of the band. This made me really enthusiastic about the idea of putting together
a live show, and now that that whole business is over it's incredible how Lillo gets
involved with everything the band is doing. When he finished his military service I said
to him, "OK mate, I really need you to help me organize the band, because doing
everything on my own is killing me". And he replied, "that's just what I wanted
to hear".
"Lillo is like a big teddy
bear. He's polite and kind. His main attributes are his love for music, and an inborn
artistic sensitivity. He's sincere, totally unselfish but sometimes a bit lazy. I have a
whole series of unforgettable memories of Lillo and our friendship is something very deep
and special."
" After "Un giorno
migliore" I wrote "Qualcosa di grande", which is dedicated to Guido, a guy
I was at school with. He was the one who came up with the name "Senza Filtro"
and at the time he was having a hard time because Lillo had made off with Chiara his
girlfriend. They're not together anymore, but it shows one thing about Lillo, he's never
been one to have thousands of women but the ones he has had have always been hot...real
hot... "
"To begin with it was
really fun giving our mobile phone numbers out in radio interviews. The first calls came
from three girls who wanted to dive into bed with us. Then thousands of messages started
coming through for Lillo. They said things like "you're just so cool, so cool, so
cool", but we found out later it was a guy that was sending them."
Mike: " We
slept in the same hotel room for the first time when we shot the "50 Special"
video. We went up to Verona the night before because Walter wanted to go over the final
details of the clip with Gaetano the director. The hotel was incredible, we really felt
like rockstars. I shared a room with Lillo and we played at being the kind of guys who
keep a bottle of whisky on top of the TV... We didn't need to open it, just the fact that
it was there was, well, rock."
"When we play live the best
part is always the finale, after the fast bit. Hearing Lillo beat the shit out of the
cymbals is one incredibly physical high. Lillo goes into a kind of trance, brought on by
the music and by being totally exhausted after playing an entire concert. He invents
something completely different every time."
Gabri: "The night we didn't
pass the selection process for Sanremo, some of the Lùnapoppers got totally drunk...
Lillo was particularly off his head... I'll never forget him standing his bed on end in
the hotel room."
Ballo: "The holiday in the
Caribbean was really fun, even if my brain wasn't working regularly, but then neither was
Lillo's... I spent a whole day in the bedroom with him, smoking and repeating things like:
- Ahhhh Rastamaaaannn !!! -. The next day we left the room completely trashed and when we
saw that there were still people walking around it kind of ruined our karma. Some people
asked us for an autograph... I can remember that it took a lot of concentration, but Lillo
and I applied ourselves and...believe it or not, we even managed to sign our names."
