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ROckBERTO

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About Me

Mexican MUSIC fan roaming in California. I have played drums in amateur bands like Demonios Bisarr, Astaroth, LoZa PitoZ and Evil Ultraman. My childhood hero was the legendary Ken "Snake" Stabler of the Oakland Raiders, several soccer legends, car racers and countless musicians & drummers.

My Interests

Music, drums, Formula One racing, mountain biking, football, soccer, history, travel, my Son.

I'd like to meet:

Ken Stabler, Clive Burr,Dirk Bruinenberg (the Drum Meister), Rick Wakeman, Jon Oliva, Terence Hill, Franz Beckenbauer, Kate Bush. ALL ROCK DRUMMERS!

Music:

The Sweet, UFO, Elegy... ABBA, Accept, Adagio, Alaska, Angel, Angra, Arcade, Arch Enemy, Bad Co., Beatles, Jeff Beck, The Bee Gees, Beethoven, Black Sabbath, Blizzard of Ozz, Blue Oyster Cult, Boston, Botellita de Jerez, Brahms, Kate Bush, Captain Beyond, Cheap Trick, Tony Childs, Chopin, Cockney Rejects, Colosseum, Consortium Project, early Crue, Deep Purple, Def Leppard, Devin Townsend, DiAnno, Dio, Disco music, Doctor Butcher, Dokken, Geoff Downes, Dvorák, Edguy, Elegy, Danny Elfman, ELP, Everything But The Girl, Fastway, Fight, Ace Frehley, Gamma Ray, Genesis, Gillan, Glinka, Heavy Metal Kids, Wolf Hoffmann, House of Lords, Glenn Hughes, Iced Earth, Iron Maiden (DiAnno), Randy Jackson, Jethro Tull, Eddie Jobson, David Johansen, Judas Priest, Kamelot, Kansas, King Crimson, King Diamond, Kiss (early), KIX, Krokus, Led Zeppelin, Lone Star, Loudness, Arjen Lucassen, Tony MacAlpine, Magnum, Mamas Boys, Max Webster, Mecano, Mercyful Fate, Joni Mitchell, Moby, Montrose, Gary Moore, Morrissey, Motorhead, N.W.O.B.H.M., Nazareth, New England, Night Ranger, Nightwish, Mike Oldfield, Opeth, Paganini, Pagan's Mind, Pantera, Ian Parry, Pete Way's Plot, Queen, Rainbow, Patrick Rondat, Roxy Music, Rush, Joaquin Sabina, Saga, Savatage, Saxon, Michael Schenker, Shadow Gallery, John Sloman, Smetana, Patti Smith, Sonata Arctica, Souls At Zero, Spock's Beard, Stream of Passion, Streets, Suicidal Tendencies, Sweet, Symphony X, Tchaikovsky, Ten Years After, Thin Lizzy, Glenn Tipton, Devin Townsend, Trapeze, Gloria Trevi, Triumvirat, Tygers of Pan Tang, UFO, UK, Ultravox, Midge Ure, Uriah Heep, Steve Vai, early Halen, Vanden Plas, Rick Wakeman, Steve Walsh, War & Peace, Waysted, The Who, The Wildhearts, Robbie Williams, Within Temptation, Wrathchild America, Xandria, Yes, Bird York, Zappa, Zebra and many more.

Television:

The Twilight Zone, The Saint

Books:

H.P. Lovecraft, Paulo Coehlo, Octavio Paz, Tolstoi, Twain, Sabines, Spinoza, Dostoevski (for the ocasional travel into the darkest corners of the mind)

Heroes:

My Son. Drummers and musicians, poets and madmen. DRUMMERS The late Mick Tucker (he started it all for me!), DIRK BRUINENBERG (the best drummer in the planet), Cozy Powell, Clive Burr, Vinny and Carmine Appice, Terry Bozzio, Ian Paice, Shannon Larkin, Casey Grillo, Neil Peart, John Bonham, Jeff Martin, Rick Allen, Virgil Donati, Jon Hiseman, Simon Phillips, Carl Palmer, Bill Bruford, Bobby Rondinelli, Vinnie Colaiuta, Brian Tichy, Philthy Animal Taylor, Barriemore Barlow, Phil Collins, Roger Taylor, Lee Kerslake, Eric Singer, Ken Mary, Jason Rullo, Guy Gelso, Hirsh Gardner, Munetaka Higuchi, Dave Weckl and many others. Also Rod Serling, Randy Rhoads, Rick Wakeman, Steve Walsh, Eddie Jobson, Pete Way, Phil Mogg, Paul Chapman, Arthur Grumiaux, David Oistrakh, Itzhak Perlman, Sviatoslav Richter, Evgeny Kissin, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Joaquín Sabina, Pete Townshend, Simon Templar, Mauricio Garcés, Damon Hill, Adrián Fernández and Ken "Snake" Stabler. Heartbreak survivors and violin players who can actually feel.