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Add to My Profile | More Videos And so to the bio, which i've pretended has been written by someone else. To maintain this illusion, please pretend to be someone else when reading it. Ready?....Good, once upon a time... Robboland is the creation of Rob Wheatley, a musician & writer who lives in Essex, in the UK. Rob records from his home studio "Disgracelands", where as well as guitar, he covers bass, keyboards, vocals, loops, and anything else that doesn't sound like a Pineapple! Rob's approach to music is that 'anything goes'. His outright refusal to stay within one style, coupled with his reluctance to do anything he's told...ever, mean that Rob himself rarely has any idea what the current track is going to end up like, let alone the next one ................................... .................................. Major breakthroughs for Robbo include: Accidentally stumbling on a B.B.King concert on the tv, late one night, many years ago. Buying a 'Best of' album the next day & ordering an import 'History of American Blues' at the same time. EUREKA!!!!, "The Rover" by Led Zep, first ROCKRIFF learnt, "Beatin' around the bush" AC/DC..the second, The Eighties, for being such a crap-house of a musical decade, (mostly), forcing Rob to write his own music so he had something to listen to. His old musical partner Blaise, for the chord of A MINOR, His old musical partner, & fingerstyle guru, Tim Whitnell, for the nails, & showing just what is possible with one man & his guitar, BigBruv Tony, for constantly finding new things to listen to. Previous band's include Blaising Chaos, Toad, Treatment, Altogether Gone and Duck Unit. Rob's taught both guitar and bass in the past, but has never been asked to give singing lessons! -----------------The Link below will take you to some amazing tunes & some top guitar playing, enjoy...
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Member Since:

January 07, 2007

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Add to My Profile | More Videos The robboland tunes here are done by .. ROB WHEATLEY: Guitars, basses, loop & fx programming, percussion, vocals, mandolin, keyboards , any other noises you may hear, writing. DAVE McCALLUM THE INVISIBLE PINEAPPLE: Security, backstage psychology, gimmic.

Influences:

John Lee Hooker, BB King, Robert Fripp, Richard Thompson, John Scofield, EST, Martin Carthy, Jimi Hendrix, Django Reinhardt , Billy Jenkins, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Eivind Aarset , Yes, Pink Floyd, Santana, Richie Havens, All things Funky, All things Jazzy, All things Groovy, and finally My Big Brother Tony without whom.......Cheers Bruv. Mr.Happy Plays The Blues

Add to My Profile | More Videos Oh, so you want more? ok then, in no order, until i get bored... AC/DC, T.Bone Walker, Camel, SFF, Richard Pinhas, Rick Wakeman, Steve Hackett, Hawkwind, Motorhead, David Torn, All Things kCrimson, Phillip Glass, Steve Reich, Bill Bruford, Steve Hillage, Steve Hillage again, hot sunny days sitting on my front step playing acoustic guitar and drinking beer, Little Richard, Peter Gabriel, Prince, Fairport Convention, Led Zeppelin, Caravan, Gong, Brand X, The Strawbs, The Clangers, Kraftwerk, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Manfred Manns Earthband, Tommy Cooper, Jamie & the Magic Torch, Chet Atkins, My hands that don't work properly, My brain that doesn't work properly, cheap second-hand guitars, the Stranglers, Beethoven (the inventor of Heavy Metal), Elvis, things i'm allowed to take to make me happy & things i'm not, trousers (never leave home without them), Dance Music in all it's forms, Space in Ibiza, Ibiza, Ib, sounds of everything else going on around me, total silence......................................................................................................................................very complicated music in every way, cheesy lift muzac, Mambossa, Jerry Lee Lewis, jamming with my 8-track, Love With A Heart As An O (totally total), everything i write goes into the next thing i write- so, everything i write...and everything i dont write etc

Sounds Like:

Funky-Jazzy-Blues from Outer Space, with a hint of Big-World Folk!!

Record Label:

Imaginary..