Bob gravitated to drums at age seven and went through the usual phase of playing pots, pans, chairs and paint cans like most young drumming hopefuls. He studied drums from age fourteen through seventeen with the late, renowned teacher Carl Wolf, participated in all the musical organizations offered in high school and graduated as Assistant Squad Leader of the drum section. While a student, Bob played in a New Jersey garage rock band called Saturday’s Garbage that recorded one acetate single that was never released until it appeared in the 1980’s on two compilation albums, including Attack Of The Jersey Teens, an album for which Bob contributed liner notes and material.

As a student at Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Virginia, Bob worked with a band called Sage that included his lifelong friend, Mark Steele. After graduating from college with a Bachelor of Arts in English, Bob played local New Jersey gigs and went through a period of musical inactivity while trying to maintain a journalism career. He settled into a long stint working for The Aquarian newspaper, a fertile breeding ground for young journalists that is still published today and resumed drumming in 1978.

In 1987, Bob conceptualized wrote the book Great Rock Drummers Of The Sixties, published in 1989 by Hal Leonard, the nation’s largest producer of music books. The book eventually sold out and remained out of print for three years. Bob is currently revising it for re-publication in 2004.

In 1985, Bob organized a band called The Roosters with bassist Vern Miller of The Remains, and guitarist Garry Brandt. The Roosters was a groundbreaking roots rock, soul and blues band, one of the first to play extensively in northern New Jersey at that time, and quickly established a reputation for high-energy live shows and unprecedented musicianship. The Roosters broke up in 1998 after years working the Jersey club scene; Bob joined The Kootz, and The Mike Esposito Trio, and freelances with The Christopher Dean Band and the Son Lewis Band.

Bob has recorded over the years with Sage, Stranger, The Roosters, Dangerous Age and Son Lewis. Two cuts featuring his drumming with Son Lewis were released in 1999 on the compilation CD Standing Room Only-The Last Roadhouse on Silk City Records. Another volume, Santa Has Left The Building, featuring Bob on two tracks, was just released.

Bob has also had the opportunity and privilege to play with well-known musicians, including Rock & Roll Hall of Fame members The Yardbirds, blues guitarists Michael Hill, Johnny Charles, Bobby Kyle, Jimmy Vivino, Magic Red, Cesar Diaz and others. Bob has also played with the late British guitarist Mick Ronson, Nashville session greats Jeff Newman and Curly Chaulker, Cajun accordion player and recording artist Geno Delafose, and most of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue.

Along the way, Bob has been fortunate to obtain artist endorsement deals with DW drums, Istanbul Agop cymbals, Pro-Mark drumsticks and Evans drumheads.

In 2001, Bob founded Straight Eight Media, a public relations, promotion, and marketing company that works with musicians to create effective press kits and publicize and promote their recordings to print media and radio. Interested parties can contact Bob via this web site.

Bob is gearing up to restart his private teaching practice this spring, has plans to conduct kids drum clinics, drum circles and drumming classes, and has worked with a local Montessori school in drumming education.

As working drummer, Bob is always looking to broaden his musical contacts and work in many diverse situations. If you need a drummer for club date, corporate, jazz, rock, roots Americana, blues, country or R&B work in the metropolitan New Jersey/New York/Pennsylvania area, please contact him through this web site. Bob also sings background and occasional lead vocals and plays various hand percussion instruments and guitar.