Rowan Robertson (born November 22, 1971 in Cambridge, United Kingdom) is an English guitarist.
Rowan Robertson took up guitar at the age of five. From an early age he took an interest in the band Dio as he began learning songs from the 1984 Dio album The Last in Line.
Robertson's influences on the guitar include the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Steve Vai, Randy Rhoads, Vivian Campbell, Eddie Van Halen, Joe Satriani, Angus Young, Eric Clapton, and Stevi...
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Rowan Robertson (born November 22, 1971 in Cambridge, United Kingdom) is an English guitarist.
Rowan Robertson took up guitar at the age of five. From an early age he took an interest in the band Dio as he began learning songs from the 1984 Dio album The Last in Line.
Robertson's influences on the guitar include the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Steve Vai, Randy Rhoads, Vivian Campbell, Eddie Van Halen, Joe Satriani, Angus Young, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, as well as other contemporaries of his such as Zakk Wylde and many others.
His musical influences in general included AC/DC, The Beatles, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Dio (of course), Ozzy Osbourne, The Police, Cream, Led Zeppelin and many others.
In the late 1980s Robertson heard that Dio was looking for a new guitarist. He sent a tape to the record company Phonogram. After six months of waiting, he got a reply that stated that at that moment they were not interested in him. At the encouragement of his friend and fellow...
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