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Rowan Robertson

Rowan Wingate Robertson (born 22 November 1971) is an English rock guitarist who currently performs in the Las Vegas production show Raiding the Rock Vault and plays for Bang Tango.[1] He also plays for DC4. Robertson also played guitar for AM Radio, Dio, Vast, and Violet's Demise. Robertson has also done work as a film composer for director Amber Moelter's Dirty Step Upstage and has filmed numerous instructional guitar videos.[2][3]

Rowan Robertson
Background information
Born (1971-11-22) 22 November 1971 (age 51)
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
GenresHard rock, heavy metal
Occupation(s)Musician, songwriter
Instrument(s)Guitar, vocals
Years active1990–present

Career Edit

Dio (1989–1991) Edit

Rowan Robertson was recruited to join the band Dio when he was only 17 years of age. The experience launched the young guitarist from obscurity to international fame nearly overnight. News that the band Dio had replaced departing guitarist Craig Goldy with an unusually young guitar player circulated in hard rock and heavy metal magazines such as Hit Parader, Rip, and Circus months before Robertson's first and only album with the band, Lock Up the Wolves, was released.[2][3]

Recruitment, audition, announcement Edit

As a Dio fan himself, Robertson became aware of Craig Goldy's departure from Dio after the band's Dream Evil album and subsequent tour. Robertson began an earnest effort to make contact with the band's management, asking for a chance to audition. His initial effort was unsuccessful. After reaching out to the band's label, Phonogram Records, (not long after seeing Dio with Craig Goldy on guitars live at the Monsters of Rock festival at Donington Castle, in the UK, in 1987), Robertson received a generic-in-nature response declining his request for a personal audition. Robertson persisted and reached out to Dio's official fan club, hoping to reach someone closer to and with stronger personal ties to the band's management. The latter effort proved successful. The band's fan club forwarded Robertson's demo, this time leading to an audition. At the beginning of 1989 Robertson was flown to Los Angeles for a formal audition with Ronnie James and Wendy Dio. A second audition led to an offer and an official announcement that Robertson was now the band's official new guitarist. Members of the press were invited to meet the new guitar player at Oliver's Pub, in New York City on 20 July 1989. Between the Oliver's Pub event and the release of Lock Up the Wolves, media focus on the promising new guitar player was significant.[4][5]

Lock Up the Wolves Edit

Lock Up the Wolves sessions initially included Jimmy Bain, Vinny Appice and Jens Johansson. This line-up had already written and recorded parts of Lock Up the Wolves[citation needed] before Bain and Appice were replaced with Teddy Cook and former AC/DC drummer Simon Wright, respectively. The album was released on 15 May 1990, and the band embarked on a tour in support of the album.

Lock Up the Wolves represented a clear evolution for Dio as a band[citation needed]. Ronnie James Dio replaced his band's entire line-up from its previous album, but only after working with them to some degree on what would eventually become Lock Up the Wolves. In this sense, the album was not an abrupt change from the band's previous work, but a protracted evolution in the band's sound that was ultimately delivered by one of the band's strongest line-ups. By 1990 and 1991 the music industry would go through a pretty dramatic shift as Grunge began to make a commercially aggressive appearance in the music scene: Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Screaming Trees, had already been signed to major labels and had performed well commercially by then.

Second album with Dio shelved Edit

Robertson's tenure in Dio was cut short by music industry persistence for a Ronnie James Dio reunion with Black Sabbath. In 1991 it was announced that the highly anticipated reunion would take place. At that time, the band, including Robertson, had been writing songs for an upcoming album that had been scheduled for a May 1991 release.[citation needed] Once a Black Sabbath reunion with Ronnie James Dio was announced, what would have been Robertson's second album with Dio was shelved. Robertson has confirmed the existence of rehearsal recordings for what would have been the follow-up to Lock Up the Wolves but he has stated these will remain archived and he does not feel comfortable releasing any of this to the public, maintaining he would have only done that with permission from Ronnie James Dio himself.[6]

Reunion with Ronnie James Dio unrealised Edit

A Robertson reunion with Dio, which many fans had hoped for[citation needed] did not materialise before the singer's health declined, and he died in May 2010.[7] A reunion nearly took place in 2001 when Robertson was scheduled to replace Craig Goldy on tour in South Africa in support of Dio's then-new album Magica after Goldy suffered an injury. However the September 11 attacks affected the band's tour plans. A second stint for Robertson in Dio never materialised.[8][9]

After Dio (1991–present) Edit

When Dio was put on ice due to the Ronnie James Dio-Black Sabbath reunion, Rowan Robertson began pursuing two new projects: work on an instruction video for guitar players and a new band with vocalist Oni Logan (formerly of Lynch Mob) and drummer Jimmy Paxson. They began to record an album for Atlantic Records, but it was not released by the label at that time. Atlantic Records eventually released the album – titled Revisited – in 2002 under a different band name: Logan-Robertson.[10][11] After Violet's Demise, Robertson spent three years doing session work in Los Angeles, as well as some work in Japan, where he toured briefly.

Robertson then worked with the VAST (Visual Audio Sensory Theater), founded and fronted by Jon Crosby, on the tour supporting the project's first album. VAST took a theatrical approach to performances. Although Robertson played live with the band after they had released their first album and he contributed to the development of the second VAST release, Music for People, he parted ways with VAST due to creative differences. Much of the work Robertson contributed to VAST was on rhythm guitars, while Robertson is specifically known for a wide range of ability spanning strong rhythm and lead guitars.[9]

Robertson was recruited by Kevin Ridel and Weezer's Rivers Cuomo. Having relocated to Los Angeles during his Dio years, Robertson was intimately connected to the music scene that was developing and beginning to diversity the airwaves following the heavy rotation of grunge artists that began to wane following the genre's own peak in the late 1990s. Throughout this time, Robertson continued working with Violet's Demise's Oni Logan – a collaboration that would eventually pave the way for the latent release of Violet's Demise's debut album, which had been shelved years earlier.[8] The band's first full-length album, produced by Rivers Cuomo, Radioactive, was released on Elektra in 2003. It included the singles "Taken for a Ride" and "I Just Wanna Be Loved." "I Just Wanna Be Loved" was featured on the WB television series Smallville, and released on the show's soundtrack. Also in 2003, "Taken for a Ride" was featured on the video game soundtrack for EA Sports' John Madden Football 2003. The band received more support from WB when "Taken for a Ride" was featured on an episode of One Tree Hill. The song also appeared on a television trailer for the FOX feature film The Girl Next Door that same year.[12][13]

One of Robertson's more obscure projects is a band called Happy Birthday. In April 2005 Robertson embarked on a short West Coast tour with Happy Birthday, supporting Jimmy Chamberlin's band, The Jimmy Chamberlin Complex, according to Robertson's biography on a page for the firm that represents the artist legally.[14]

In 2005 Robertson also began collaboration on a project called Wicked Outlaw. "The new band, featuring guitarist Rowan Robertson and Finnish composer and bassist Marko Pukkila (formerly of Altaria)," was "writing original material" and was expected to debut and tour the United States and Europe in 2006 according to Blabbermouth.net. Initial gestures to organise Wicked Outlaw actually dated back to as early as May 2004 and was known to be looking for a singer and drummer. Although the current status of Wicked Outlaw is unknown, Robertson has never stated that work on this project has concluded.[15]

DC4 originally featured Shawn Duncan (of Odin) on drums, Matt Duncan on bass, and Jeff Duncan (of Armored Saint and Odin) on vocals and guitar. DC4 released their debut album, Volume 1, with guitarist Hyland Church in 2002. Rowan joined the band in 2006 as a replacement for Church and featured on the band's second album, Explode, in 2007. Robertson also appeared on their third album, Electric Ministry in 2011.

As of 2014, Rowan Robertson is a member of Bang Tango.

Other work Edit

Since May 2011, Rowan Robertson has served as a columnist for Intense Guitar and Bass magazine. He has also teamed up with longtime Black Sabbath keyboardist Geoff Nicholls, Nils Patrik Johansson, and others in a band called The Southern Cross. The band focuses on Black Sabbath and Dio material that none of the other original members of those bands are playing any more.[16]

Discography Edit

With Dio Edit

With DC4 Edit

  • Explode (2007)
  • Electric Ministry (2011)
  • Atomic Highway (2018)

With Ian Ray Logan & Serpent's Ride Edit

  • Between Lights and Shadows (2016)

Videography Edit

  • Star Licks Master Sessions: Simon Wright (2000)
  • Star Licks: Speed Picking
  • Star Licks Master Sessions: Rowan Robertson
  • Rowan Robertson: Speed Picking

Filmography Edit

  • Dirty Step Upstage (Film Score) (2009)

References Edit

  1. ^ "Former DIO Guitarist ROWAN ROBERTSON Joins BANG TANGO". Blabbermouth.net. 17 July 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Guitarist Rowan Robertson Featured in Movie Soundtrack". Roadrunnerrecords.com. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Rowan Robertson Filmography". Fandango.com. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  4. ^ "Blogger". Accounts.google.com. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Tapio's Ronnie James Dio Pages: Rowan Robertson personal information". Dio.net. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  6. ^ . 10 October 2011. Archived from the original on 10 October 2011. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
  7. ^ "Ronnie James Dio dies at 67; legendary heavy metal singer". Los Angeles Times. 17 May 2010. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  8. ^ a b "Get Ready to ROCK! Interview with Rowan Robertson, guitarist with AM Radio and formerly with Dio". Getreadytorock.com. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  9. ^ a b . 30 March 2002. Archived from the original on 30 March 2002. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
  10. ^ "Logan-Robertson Finally Released". Melodicrock.com. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  11. ^ "Catching Up with Rowan Robertson". Metal-rules.com. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  12. ^ "About AM Radio". 100xr.com. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  13. ^ "AM Radio "Radioactive" History". Weezerpedia.com. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  14. ^ "Law Offices of Michael Work: Our Clients: Rowan Robertson". Michaelwork.com. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  15. ^ "Former Dio Guitarist, Altaria Bassist Join Forces In Wicket Outlaw". Roadrunnerecords.com. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  16. ^ "Blogger". Accounts.google.com. Retrieved 9 May 2020.

External links Edit

  • Rowan Robertson's official website
  • DC4 Official Website
  • The Official Rowan Robertson Facebook Page
  • "Dirty Step Upstage" Official Film Website

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Rowan Wingate Robertson born 22 November 1971 is an English rock guitarist who currently performs in the Las Vegas production show Raiding the Rock Vault and plays for Bang Tango 1 He also plays for DC4 Robertson also played guitar for AM Radio Dio Vast and Violet s Demise Robertson has also done work as a film composer for director Amber Moelter s Dirty Step Upstage and has filmed numerous instructional guitar videos 2 3 Rowan RobertsonBackground informationBorn 1971 11 22 22 November 1971 age 51 Cambridge Cambridgeshire EnglandGenresHard rock heavy metalOccupation s Musician songwriterInstrument s Guitar vocalsYears active1990 present Contents 1 Career 1 1 Dio 1989 1991 1 1 1 Recruitment audition announcement 1 1 2 Lock Up the Wolves 1 1 3 Second album with Dio shelved 1 1 4 Reunion with Ronnie James Dio unrealised 1 2 After Dio 1991 present 2 Other work 3 Discography 3 1 With Dio 3 2 With DC4 3 3 With Ian Ray Logan amp Serpent s Ride 4 Videography 5 Filmography 6 References 7 External linksCareer EditDio 1989 1991 Edit Rowan Robertson was recruited to join the band Dio when he was only 17 years of age The experience launched the young guitarist from obscurity to international fame nearly overnight News that the band Dio had replaced departing guitarist Craig Goldy with an unusually young guitar player circulated in hard rock and heavy metal magazines such as Hit Parader Rip and Circus months before Robertson s first and only album with the band Lock Up the Wolves was released 2 3 Recruitment audition announcement Edit As a Dio fan himself Robertson became aware of Craig Goldy s departure from Dio after the band s Dream Evil album and subsequent tour Robertson began an earnest effort to make contact with the band s management asking for a chance to audition His initial effort was unsuccessful After reaching out to the band s label Phonogram Records not long after seeing Dio with Craig Goldy on guitars live at the Monsters of Rock festival at Donington Castle in the UK in 1987 Robertson received a generic in nature response declining his request for a personal audition Robertson persisted and reached out to Dio s official fan club hoping to reach someone closer to and with stronger personal ties to the band s management The latter effort proved successful The band s fan club forwarded Robertson s demo this time leading to an audition At the beginning of 1989 Robertson was flown to Los Angeles for a formal audition with Ronnie James and Wendy Dio A second audition led to an offer and an official announcement that Robertson was now the band s official new guitarist Members of the press were invited to meet the new guitar player at Oliver s Pub in New York City on 20 July 1989 Between the Oliver s Pub event and the release of Lock Up the Wolves media focus on the promising new guitar player was significant 4 5 Lock Up the Wolves Edit Lock Up the Wolves sessions initially included Jimmy Bain Vinny Appice and Jens Johansson This line up had already written and recorded parts of Lock Up the Wolves citation needed before Bain and Appice were replaced with Teddy Cook and former AC DC drummer Simon Wright respectively The album was released on 15 May 1990 and the band embarked on a tour in support of the album Lock Up the Wolves represented a clear evolution for Dio as a band citation needed Ronnie James Dio replaced his band s entire line up from its previous album but only after working with them to some degree on what would eventually become Lock Up the Wolves In this sense the album was not an abrupt change from the band s previous work but a protracted evolution in the band s sound that was ultimately delivered by one of the band s strongest line ups By 1990 and 1991 the music industry would go through a pretty dramatic shift as Grunge began to make a commercially aggressive appearance in the music scene Soundgarden Alice in Chains Screaming Trees had already been signed to major labels and had performed well commercially by then Second album with Dio shelved Edit Robertson s tenure in Dio was cut short by music industry persistence for a Ronnie James Dio reunion with Black Sabbath In 1991 it was announced that the highly anticipated reunion would take place At that time the band including Robertson had been writing songs for an upcoming album that had been scheduled for a May 1991 release citation needed Once a Black Sabbath reunion with Ronnie James Dio was announced what would have been Robertson s second album with Dio was shelved Robertson has confirmed the existence of rehearsal recordings for what would have been the follow up to Lock Up the Wolves but he has stated these will remain archived and he does not feel comfortable releasing any of this to the public maintaining he would have only done that with permission from Ronnie James Dio himself 6 Reunion with Ronnie James Dio unrealised Edit A Robertson reunion with Dio which many fans had hoped for citation needed did not materialise before the singer s health declined and he died in May 2010 7 A reunion nearly took place in 2001 when Robertson was scheduled to replace Craig Goldy on tour in South Africa in support of Dio s then new album Magica after Goldy suffered an injury However the September 11 attacks affected the band s tour plans A second stint for Robertson in Dio never materialised 8 9 After Dio 1991 present Edit When Dio was put on ice due to the Ronnie James Dio Black Sabbath reunion Rowan Robertson began pursuing two new projects work on an instruction video for guitar players and a new band with vocalist Oni Logan formerly of Lynch Mob and drummer Jimmy Paxson They began to record an album for Atlantic Records but it was not released by the label at that time Atlantic Records eventually released the album titled Revisited in 2002 under a different band name Logan Robertson 10 11 After Violet s Demise Robertson spent three years doing session work in Los Angeles as well as some work in Japan where he toured briefly Robertson then worked with the VAST Visual Audio Sensory Theater founded and fronted by Jon Crosby on the tour supporting the project s first album VAST took a theatrical approach to performances Although Robertson played live with the band after they had released their first album and he contributed to the development of the second VAST release Music for People he parted ways with VAST due to creative differences Much of the work Robertson contributed to VAST was on rhythm guitars while Robertson is specifically known for a wide range of ability spanning strong rhythm and lead guitars 9 Robertson was recruited by Kevin Ridel and Weezer s Rivers Cuomo Having relocated to Los Angeles during his Dio years Robertson was intimately connected to the music scene that was developing and beginning to diversity the airwaves following the heavy rotation of grunge artists that began to wane following the genre s own peak in the late 1990s Throughout this time Robertson continued working with Violet s Demise s Oni Logan a collaboration that would eventually pave the way for the latent release of Violet s Demise s debut album which had been shelved years earlier 8 The band s first full length album produced by Rivers Cuomo Radioactive was released on Elektra in 2003 It included the singles Taken for a Ride and I Just Wanna Be Loved I Just Wanna Be Loved was featured on the WB television series Smallville and released on the show s soundtrack Also in 2003 Taken for a Ride was featured on the video game soundtrack for EA Sports John Madden Football 2003 The band received more support from WB when Taken for a Ride was featured on an episode of One Tree Hill The song also appeared on a television trailer for the FOX feature film The Girl Next Door that same year 12 13 One of Robertson s more obscure projects is a band called Happy Birthday In April 2005 Robertson embarked on a short West Coast tour with Happy Birthday supporting Jimmy Chamberlin s band The Jimmy Chamberlin Complex according to Robertson s biography on a page for the firm that represents the artist legally 14 In 2005 Robertson also began collaboration on a project called Wicked Outlaw The new band featuring guitarist Rowan Robertson and Finnish composer and bassist Marko Pukkila formerly of Altaria was writing original material and was expected to debut and tour the United States and Europe in 2006 according to Blabbermouth net Initial gestures to organise Wicked Outlaw actually dated back to as early as May 2004 and was known to be looking for a singer and drummer Although the current status of Wicked Outlaw is unknown Robertson has never stated that work on this project has concluded 15 DC4 originally featured Shawn Duncan of Odin on drums Matt Duncan on bass and Jeff Duncan of Armored Saint and Odin on vocals and guitar DC4 released their debut album Volume 1 with guitarist Hyland Church in 2002 Rowan joined the band in 2006 as a replacement for Church and featured on the band s second album Explode in 2007 Robertson also appeared on their third album Electric Ministry in 2011 As of 2014 Rowan Robertson is a member of Bang Tango Other work EditSince May 2011 Rowan Robertson has served as a columnist for Intense Guitar and Bass magazine He has also teamed up with longtime Black Sabbath keyboardist Geoff Nicholls Nils Patrik Johansson and others in a band called The Southern Cross The band focuses on Black Sabbath and Dio material that none of the other original members of those bands are playing any more 16 Discography EditWith Dio Edit Lock Up the Wolves 1990 With DC4 Edit Explode 2007 Electric Ministry 2011 Atomic Highway 2018 With Ian Ray Logan amp Serpent s Ride Edit Between Lights and Shadows 2016 Videography EditStar Licks Master Sessions Simon Wright 2000 Star Licks Speed Picking Star Licks Master Sessions Rowan Robertson Rowan Robertson Speed PickingFilmography EditDirty Step Upstage Film Score 2009 References Edit Former DIO Guitarist ROWAN ROBERTSON Joins BANG TANGO Blabbermouth net 17 July 2014 Retrieved 9 May 2020 a b Guitarist Rowan Robertson Featured in Movie Soundtrack Roadrunnerrecords com Retrieved 9 May 2020 a b Rowan Robertson Filmography Fandango com Retrieved 9 May 2020 Blogger Accounts google com Retrieved 9 May 2020 Tapio s Ronnie James Dio Pages Rowan Robertson personal information Dio net Retrieved 9 May 2020 Rowan Robertson Says Unreleased Dio Tracks Will Remain In Archives RockStar Weekly 10 October 2011 Archived from the original on 10 October 2011 Retrieved 14 November 2020 Ronnie James Dio dies at 67 legendary heavy metal singer Los Angeles Times 17 May 2010 Retrieved 9 May 2020 a b Get Ready to ROCK Interview with Rowan Robertson guitarist with AM Radio and formerly with Dio Getreadytorock com Retrieved 9 May 2020 a b New Page 1 30 March 2002 Archived from the original on 30 March 2002 Retrieved 14 November 2020 Logan Robertson Finally Released Melodicrock com Retrieved 9 May 2020 Catching Up with Rowan Robertson Metal rules com Retrieved 9 May 2020 About AM Radio 100xr com Retrieved 9 May 2020 AM Radio Radioactive History Weezerpedia com Retrieved 9 May 2020 Law Offices of Michael Work Our Clients Rowan Robertson Michaelwork com Retrieved 9 May 2020 Former Dio Guitarist Altaria Bassist Join Forces In Wicket Outlaw Roadrunnerecords com Retrieved 9 May 2020 Blogger Accounts google com Retrieved 9 May 2020 External links EditRowan Robertson s official website DC4 Official Website The Official Rowan Robertson Facebook Page Official Dio Ronnie James Dio Website Dirty Step Upstage Official Film Website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Rowan Robertson amp oldid 1178357792, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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