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A Very Maddy Christmas – Single now available
My new single “A Very Maddy Christmas” is a modern, Christmas-inspired melody performed in a classic holiday style. Contemporary jazz musician, composer, and recording artist Phil Traynor calls it, “Uplifting,...
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Journey – Lights (full band cover)
Worked up “Lights” by Journey at rehearsal on July 19, 2016. Set up two cameras maybe hoping for some magic… didn’t happen. I should have just set them all up anyway because this is what we’re going...
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RUSH – The Spirit of Radio (full band cover)
Recently uploaded a cover of RUSH’s “The Spirit of Radio” to my YouTube channel. We shot the video at our rehearsal last week with my bassist friend Rick Harris and my 14yr old son Ryan on the drums. We did the...
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The Rob K Band (RKB) lives again?
Well, they say if you want something done right, do it yourself (or GROW yourself someone who can do it the way you want it done). Enter my 13-year-old son, Ryan, at the helm behind the drum kit. Ryan and I have recently been...
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RUSH 40th Anniversary Cover Contest
On May 22nd, my friend Keith Leedham mentioned that he was thinking of entering the “RUSH 40th Anniversary Cover Contest” on the indabamusic.com website. He mentioned wanting to do some kind of piano-based version of Time...
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Ryan plays The Dance of Eternity
Here’s my son’s “formal attempt” at Dream Theater’s “The Dance of Eternity”. Watch around the 2:04 mark when the gum falls out of his mouth (lol). Anyway, it’s not...
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Rob K Music on YouTube
I bought a GoPro HERO3+ Black Edition a few weeks ago and I’ve been recording shows. It’s really a great little camera. I’ve got a backlog of video to go through now but I should be posting regularly to my...
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Two new albums released this week!
I’m happy to announce that I’ve released two new albums this week, “Aspiring Eights” and “Airside C.” “Aspiring Eights” is a mix of primarily upbeat contemporary, new...
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Ryan plays Subdivisions
I got the kid to throw down again tonight… reluctantly. He’s gotten on this whole “perfectionist” thing since his last video and he “wasn’t ready yet.” I told him sometimes you just go...
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The Next Generation
This blog entry is dedicated to my son Ryan. Ever since he was a baby he would sit in the studio with me as I worked, watching me and doing things babies do. One day in 2005, when he was about 3 1/2 years old, he hopped up on the...
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RUSH Replay… replay.
Anyone that really knows me knows that I’m a huge RUSH fan. I started playing music because of RUSH. So I was perusing the RUSH concert DVD offerings on Amazon tonight looking for anything I might not already own and I came...
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Freebird – Lynyrd Skynyrd cover (video)
If you’re a working musician, you know that — without fail — there is that joker in every audience who thinks it’s LESS cliché and lame to shout out “Freebird!” than it is to actually play the...
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From the Archives #2: “Paradise” – Uphoria (video)
This video is a performance of the original song “Paradise” by a band I was in called Uphoria back in the late 80s. This was shot at one of your typically rigged battle-of-the-bands competitions. There was a great...
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From the Archives #1: “Cold Shot” – Rob K Band (video)
Since completing three stars on all the available levels of Angry Birds: Star Wars (so productive), I decided to fill my freshly available time with digitally archiving some old audio and video I found on “the...
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Merry Christmas! (video)
My interpretation of Little Drummer Boy live at The Still in Largo FL on Christmas Eve Eve. How often do I get to play it right? 😉 Video shot by fan Terre Porter...
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