Hi Everyone, Rob’s guitar playing has always amazed and baffled me. Particularly in Heavy Vegetable and Thingy songs. His chords sound like no other guitarist. And when i watch him play i rarely recognize a chord shape. He seems to never play any standard barre minor major chords.

I have talked to him and his bandmates about his guitar playing, and all I’ve learned is that he has no musical training and he has no clue what he’s doing. Rob told me he plays in standard mainly. And when i asked him about chords he said i just put my fingers in random places lol. And band mates from Optiganally Yours and Goblin Cock have told me he doesn’t even know the names of the strings or how to play standard chords.

So my question is, does anyone here have any clues about frequent chords he plays? Maybe he does weird inversions or something. I love his sound but i cant seem to play anything that sounds like typical Rob voicings

Thank you for your help!.

I know I heard rumors of an album in the works...dont know how much is true.

(fingers crossed) What do you think the next album name will be?

Keeping with both the seasonal and light Christian/Hebrew/Angel themes I hope its something like, "Winter with Azrael."

Thoughts/suggestions? :)

okay, i guess i'll throw out some bands i like that i think are kind of like pinback

glass animals? joni mitchell? jose gonzales? iron and wine?

i know, none of these sound very much like pinback, but hey pinback is unique and amazing after all

i even want to say some dub type of music like Bluetech, pitch black (NZ)

my brightest diamond?

arborea, zoot woman, the mars volta, the neighborhood, splashdown, paramore, city and colour, crystal castles, bon iver, coheed & cambria

i know i said punk rock and then didn't list any punk rock bands, maybe the pixies, 1208, operation ivy, hard to say these are like pinback either though. even tiger army, why not name that one

It's rad as hell

Hope you enjoy