Name: Rob Lorusso
Birthdate:11/01/78 and Yes I have ID to prove it.
Instrument: Guitar, Backing Vocals
Equipment: Washburn N4 Relic/ Washburn N/ 2Jackson Soloist/ Gavelstine Clear
Effects: Vox Wah, Boss Delay, MXR phaser, Heli Talk Box (yeah I own one)
Amplification: Mesa Rectoverb 50 /ADA MP1
Previous bands: Bus 2, Radio Rodeo, Dawn of Chaos,
Uforea, Some more unnamed and forgettable experiences
Favorite Bands:Extreme, Mourning Widows, Santana,
Prince, Queen, GN'R, Led Zeppelin, Dramagods
E-Mail: > rob@joburocks.com
Born August 8, 925 C.E, in Garissus, Hungary to Pudentiana of Carthage and Pliny the Elder.
Robert's early years typified those of other children born into a family of 8th century displaced,
orthodox abbots and martyrs. Says Robert, "Those were the good ol' days. I'll never forget
hangin' with the boys - Barsanuphius the Venerable, Walfrid of Tears, Hildegarde the Bloated,
Jim, Azaz the Sweater of Piety - we were true-blue friends." Although he was a model student,
Robert and his friends partook in a fair amount of tomfoolery. "Yeah, we were pretty rambunctious
teenagers," continues Robert, "But it was mostly harmless shenanigans - throwing rocks at the
eremites, tipping over panegyrics, teasing the subdeacons, hanging out at the Catacomb of
Praetextatus on the Via Appia - you know, stupid teenager stuff. And I'll never forget the time
that Azaz and I snuck out to see the skinning of St. Thethmar of Studites. We blew all our
drachmas on mead and flesh-sticks, and we even stayed for the Flaying of Blood ceremony. Man,
that was so rad." However, by 939 C.E., Robert and his friends were drifting apart. "We started
seeing less and less of each other. We were growing up, traveling, getting burned alive by a
riotous mob of Barbanites, meeting different people. And I was getting interested in anachronistic
altar sacraments, so I started hanging out with the premonstatensian canon crowd." By the time
he was twenty years old, Robert had moved from Garissus and joined the up-and-coming New
Jersey-based cover-band, Jobu.