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Rob C

About Me

born Robert P Collins in a now sadly closed St Helens on the Nth Shore of Auckland. Moved immediately to the flat pastures of Christchurch for 23 years of penace, amateur guitar bands, student radio RDU98.5FM and hayfever medication dependancy. A couple of years drying out in Melbourne playing a bit of music and now enjoying the random showers and rich soils of Auckland with my lovely lady, Michelle. A ruthless addiction to colossal industry standard bass rigs has left me poor and broken of wallet but stout of spirit. Soon my SVT will come. I play bass guitar in The Heavy Jones and try not to obsess about the height of my guitar strap too much. Just kicked a few tracks into the guts of the Lab tape machine with the boys and it's sounding good huh?

My Interests

Musty guitar porn, psychedelic guitar bands, mod-ish shoes, the art of Fuzz-Bass, licquorice papers, The 1970 Ampeg SVT, Gonzoid writings, blistering lead breaks, whiskey sniffing, rambling radio shows, the craft, appropriate lighting, well timed cups of tea...mots

I'd like to meet:

Entwistle, Hunter S, Brian Jones, Anthony Bourdain, Tom Dowd, Keef, Macca, Grace Slick, James Jamerson, John P Jones, Sly Stone, Kerouac, Eddie Hazel, Neil Young and Michael Caine in no particular order..

Music:

Skip Spence, Apples in Stereo, The Band, The Bats, Brian Jonestown, Calexico, The Clean, Capt Beefheart, Circulatory System, The Chills, Comets On Fire, The Dupa, Dead Meadow, Drive By Truckers, Dungen, Elephant 6 etc.. Flaming Lips, Gas Cowboy, Flying Burrito Bros, G Parsons, Phoenix Foundation, Parliament/Funkadelic, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Howlin Wolf, The Jam, Hendrix Exp, King Loser, Reduction Agents, The Zeppelin, Love, Mogwai, Motown, My Morning Jacket, The Monks, Olivia Tremor Control, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Reduction Agents, The Stones, Sleep, Shellac, Sly & The Family Stone, The Who, Wilco, Scott Walker

Movies:

The Ipcress File, Spinal Tap, What's New Pussycat?, The Kids Are Alright, Rust Never Sleeps, Heart of Gold, Fearless Freaks, The Song Remains The Same, Last Waltz, Festival Express, 24hr Party People, Withnail & I

Television:

no, no, no, well M.A.S.H, River Cottage, Macgyver natch Venture Bros certainly, Young Ones, Cold War docos, Metalocalypse, Yacht Rock!

Books:

Fear & Loathing, The Mid-Atlantic Man, Awopbopalubopbamboom, The Rum Diaries, End of The Golden Weather, Mystery Train, Mr Nice, For Whom The Bell Tolls, Big Sur, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Drugs, Kitchen Confidential, Bill Graham:My Life Inside Rock and Out, Da Capo series..

Heroes:

ooh.... me Mum, JPJ, Entwistle, Anthony Bourdain, James Jamerson, M K Ineson, Richard E Grant, Hunter S Thompson, Tom Wolfe, G Benfield, Carol Kaye, Duck Dunn, Jack Casady, those people who write songs and still insist on great lighting