Robert Canovas

AKA BOBBY

Ever since Bob can remember there was music in his life. Growing up in Queens Bob says “the hifi was always on in the living room”. Throughout the house there was always the best songs from the sixties Motown playing. The bass and the drums caught Bob’s ear and right off the bat; he knew he had to play the drums. That’s right, Bob actually played the drums first. He started out with a snare drum that his parents bought him. He made fast time of it, showing that he could play it. Before he knew it they had bought him his first drum set. Music was in his blood; his mom was great jazzy/ blues singer. His Cousin Dick Garcia was a famous Jazz Guitarist for George Shearings Band. His uncles would have jam sessions in his house; they actually cut some 78 records on a record cutting machine in the house.  As a teenager living in Massapequa Bob played the drums in many bands. When he met Brian Setzer from the Stray Cats fame, in Jr. High School, they became very close friends, and were in many bands together. That’s when the guitar started to speak to Bob; he knew that he must play the guitar. He actually learned to play on other people guitars at first, because there were always guitars around in the basement, from the rehearsals that were being held at his house. Eventually Bob bought his first guitar, a Univox Les Paul and played it till he wore it out. After that guitar he bought his first good guitar, a 1972 Telecaster, he was still very much into the old Motown and Blues. Bob says “I love The Three Kings and always had a Latin feel to my drumming and guitar playing”.  Now skip to the present Bob says, “I feel like I hooked up with the best bunch of musicians, who also happen to be my best friends” Now when Bob plays he feels like he gets to relive all those good times growing up in Queens with the Motown feel in his house. Bob says “every time I write a song it has a piece of my life in it and I’m happy to share it with these guy’s”. “I call these guys’s Buttered Soul”.