Birthplace Rugby March
1955
Birth sign
Aries
Favorite Bands
Hooker, Aerosmith, Ac/Dc,
Stones, Canned Heat,
Doors
Plays 5
Piece Gretsch Drum Kit (Left Handed),
Also a White Staccato 1970's kit that has
to be seen to be believed...
Rob was into music from an early age, at primary school he
obtained an old wind up gramophone record player and a collection of early rock
and roll 78’s, which he subsequently shot to pieces with an air rifle (what
would they be worth now), he also found that by jamming a piece of card against
the turn table to slow it down, he could play his collection of 45’s most of
which he still has.
During the 60’s his dad bought a proper record player, at last those 45’s
didn’t have to suffer that dreaded gramophone needle, his record collection
then started to grow with singles from The Kinks, the Troggs and early Stones
and Canned Heat LP’s constantly blasting out of the tiny mono speaker.
By the early
70’s and now at work as an apprentice engineer rob bought his first stereo
system, he was now into Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Iron Butterfly, one
Sunday with “ In Rock “ at full chat his gran hammered on his bedroom door
and shouted “ your driving your dad up the bend “ she always was a little
confused bless her.
Rob spent some of his leisure time in Lutterworth with work mates, one of which
Graham Eckersley was part of a band they were known as `Piltdown man` and were
looking for a singer, Graham asked Rob if he wanted to come to a rehearsal,
speaking to the bass player years later Simon recalls hearing the roar of a
motorbike followed by a leather clad figure walking into the rehearsal room
grabbing the mike which was already set up and yelling “ you ain`t nothin` but
a hound dog “ after which the rest of the band looked at each other and said
“you’re in” or was it “urine” . Now the seeds were set and the band
rehearsed for several weeks and organized a gig at the local village hall.
The band eventually split up with members going in their own directions. Nicky
went on to play with the UK Subs, Simon and Alan formed the DT`s and Graham
plays in a duo with his brother.
There was a long gap before Rob got involved in a band again, and it all
happened by chance. After attending a drum workshop in Peterborough were he now
lives, he met Maurice and with other friends Colin, Trev and Ray suggested a
jamming session, this was in 1993 twenty years after
`Piltdown man ` the band “ Hooker ” were formed, and six years on are
still rocking, the rest as they say is history, but nice history......
Rob and Trev also appeared on TV, competing in
Channel 4's Scrapheap Challenge. A show in which 2 teams have to build something
out of scrap, and then use their invention to beat the others in a knockout
competition. Click on the logo below to see how they got on....
