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Robert Arroyo began playing guitar around the age of 13 under the desert skies of El Paso, TX. A visiting uncle gave him a ride to school one morning, playing Van Halen on the Camaro's quadraphonic 8-track. A year later, a neighbor had a younger teenage brother, Dale Chapman, who had come to live with him after being kicked out of the parents' house for - not going to school and playing guitar all the time!! So Robert seized the opportunity to learn a few chords and licks from his new neighbor. A nightclub in Juarez, Mexico was where 15-year old Robert made his stage debut, playing "American Woman" and "Louie, Louie." At age 17, the family left El Paso and moved to a small rural Texas hick town, where the guitar was Robert's only friend. Eventually Robert found his way to Dallas/Fort Worth, where he played in several bands. In 1995, Robert teamed up with an old buddy, southpaw guitarist Keith Brown, and a co-worker drummer known as "SMASH", forming the instrumental trio NWORB. The band lasted only a short time, but was lucky enough to be part of the underground tape-trading going on in Europe and Australia. Before there was myspace, there was www.mp3.com, a forum for unsigned bands. In 2000 Robert formed Chinese Firedrill, a monster power trio, and it's instrumental alter-ego, Tres Pendejos, both of whose music on mp3.com was heard in 32 countries and all seven continents, resulting in royalties for the number of downloads and listens. After the band's breakup, Robert relocated breifly to Nashville, where every night he was taken to school by some of the best musicians in the country. Robert returned to DFW for a while then relocated to Austin. Robert felt the scene in Austin was overrated, so in the summer of 2007 Robert packed up and headed west to Albuquereque, Denver, Fort Collins, Las Vegas, San Diego, Phoenix, and El Paso before heqading back to Fort Worth. A devastating carpal tunnel injury put Robert's guitar playing on hiatus for more than four months, but after intense therapy and prayer and determination, Robert has returned to playing guitar again.