My name is Rob Cooke. As a recording artist I am known as Rob C and I run Mojobat Studio, an online music production facility.
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And If You Are Interested – A Brief History of Rob C
Born and bred in England when pop music was real music. Top of the Pops provided the soundtrack to everyone’s life and the mainstream was cool.
As a kid in the 1970s I was into the sound of the electric guitar and the synthesizer, although I didn’t realize what they really were. I started piano lessons at age seven because it was something to do rather than something I really wanted to do. I gave that up at the age of 12 but it created a musical foundation to build upon when I got an electric guitar around the age of 18.
That was the end of the 1980’s and I spent the 1990’s learning the ropes, playing in bands and developing my style of playing. It was during this time that my obsession with rhythm developed – I’m a sucker for a groove and no matter what style of music I’m playing, I always “Funk it up” some!
I started writing songs (badly) during the 90s whilst getting heavily into recording and ran my own mobile recording studio in the back of a VW Camper Van before the DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) existed. I then studied Audio Engineering & Production in London in 1995/96, where I learned how to use a real studio with an SSL console and a 2″ tape machine.
In 1999 I stepped up my songwriting game when I started co-writing with vocalist/lyricist and invested in a small Pro Tools recording rig. When that alliance ended I was left to write songs all by myself again and the determination to do so, in order not to have to rely on anyone else to finish a song resulted in me writing some really good stuff (and some not-so-good stuff!)
Somewhere in the middle of that in 2004 I went backpacking in South East Asia and had a life-changing experience when I survived the tsunami that devastated several countries. I was in Thailand and now, since 2008 I have been living there!
Since then I have written & co-written hundreds of songs, many of my co-writers being thousands of miles away who I have never met in person. (but would like to!)
It’s been a long journey and it’s still in full swing, which is why my catchphrase has become “LIFE IS MUSIC, MUSIC IS LIFE!”