Fabio Pignatelli is an Italian musician. He is the

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player for the Italian

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band

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. Goblin provided

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s for several

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s, most famously

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's ''

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'' (1977) and George A. Romero's '' Dawn of the Dead'' (1978). The band was largely defunct by 1983, but Pignatelli kept the group together, as well as holding onto the name, and the group continued well until the end of the 1980s, with its main lineup restored briefly in 2000. Because of Pignatelli's operation of a band with the name, they were credited as Simonetti-Pignatelli-Morante for the film, ''

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'', because the other band members (most importantly,

Maurizio Guarini Maurizio Guarini is a self-taught keyboardist, multi-instrumentalist and composer, best known as a member of the progressive rock band Goblin. Biography Born in Rome, Italy in 1955, Guarini started playing organ and guitar at the age of 10. He st ...

and

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), most of whom had also worked with Simonetti and/or Morante, were not involved. In 2013 he played bass guitar on "Backlit" track from

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album, vintage synthesizers music project created by Paolo Prevosto.

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* Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Italian bass guitarists Italian male bass guitarists Progressive rock guitarists {{italy-musician-stub

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