Rob Barnes Music

Welcome to a little insight into who Rob Barnes is,and what I do. For approximately Twenty years now I have been playing guitar and performing in bands as both a guitarist and vocalist but only part time as a semi professional musician and the majority of the time as a mechanical engineer for Eighteen years. Now as the years are starting to catch up with me I have become a full time musician playing in a band called Cold Flame but played also with other bands such as Dust, who I had been with for many years. I also teach guitar and assist in a recording studio, I do session work for live performances and in the studio. Being so fond of music in general I really enjoy doing various styles and was immediately attracted to the possiblity of playing for Cold Flame in both the rock'n'blues and the Jethro Tull tribute and now along with the diversity of Davyd (keyboard player in Cold Flame) & Paul Newland on violin we are doing some folk and Irish areas as well"COOL!" I now look forward to doing as much as possible with the band and get a little better known amongst the Flame fans. Dust had been together for a good Six years, I think! Playing original songs written by me and the band we'd got about the country a fair bit and were not doin to bad we just needed some more exposure for the songs recorded.But unfortunately we've now separated. I also get hired to do the sound for many bands with my medium sized P.A system 1.5K and carry equipment to gigs as a roadie in my big van! For those of you interested in the equipment I use here's a rundown : ELECRIC GUITARS: Fender Deluxe Fat Stratocaster,Gibson Les Paul Studio(self customised),Fender Telecaster 1950's re-issue, Fender mexico stratocaster and Fenix floyd rose locking tremolo fat stat ACOUSTIC GUITARS: Breedlove AD25 SR+, Washburn Festival series EA10N, Yamaha 12 String FGX-412C-12 AMPLIFICATION: Marshall JCM 2000 TSL 100 head with Marshall 300w 1960 4x12 cabinet,Marshall 2x12 cabinet and Marshall 200w Valvestate EFFECTS: Well, this is not small!! I have a custom made(Box) board with a Boss V-Wah, Boss TU2 tuner, Boss compressor/sustainer , Roger Mayer Voodoo Vibe,Boss dual overdrive,Marshall Guv'nor,Boss Equialiser,Boss Flanger,Boss Digital delay,Boss DD20 Giga Delay,Boss RC20XL loop station and a Samson Airline Transmitter for wireless guitar playing ( BEWARE I CAN WANDER AND GET TO YOU!!!) Well thats enough from me for now, see you out there sometime, Cheers Rob.B