Rob Baker (guitarist)

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Rob Baker
CM
Rob Baker performing with Stripper's Union, 2006
Rob Baker performing with Stripper's Union, 2006
Background information
Also known asBobby Baker
Born (1962-04-12) April 12, 1962 (age 62)
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
GenresRock
OccupationsMusician, songwriter
InstrumentsGuitar
Years active1983–present

Rob Baker CM (born April 12, 1962) is a Canadian guitarist, best known as the lead guitarist for the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip.[1] He has also released an album with the side project Stripper's Union in 2005.

Life and career

Baker was born in

Day for Night
, he was credited in the liner notes as Bobby Baker. Baker designed many of the Hip's T-shirts and album art.

He was inducted—as a member of the Tragically Hip—to the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in April 2005 at the Juno Awards in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was also one of the winners of a 1999 Juno Award for Best Album Design, for The Tragically Hip release Phantom Power. On June 15, 2017, it was announced that Baker, along with the other members of The Tragically Hip, would be appointed to the Order of Canada for "their contribution to Canadian music and for their support of various social and environmental causes."[2][3]

In one of his first musical projects since the end of the Tragically Hip, he played guitar on much of singer-songwriter Justin Rutledge's 2019 album Passages.[4]

His son Boris Baker is a member of the rock band Kasador.[5]

Gear

Up until the mid-1990s, he used a 1970s burnt umber

Ovation Guitars, as well as a cream-coloured Fender Telecaster, and Garrison
acoustics.

Baker uses these specific guitar models on stage:

  • Garrison: G-41-CE and G-50-CE
  • Ernie Ball Music Man: Silhouette Special
  • Paul Reed Smith: Custom
  • Rickenbacker: 360/12 JG
  • Fender: early-1970s Stratocaster
  • Fender: 1963 Telecaster and mid-1980s Telecaster Custom
  • Fender: 1953 Lap Steel Double Neck (each neck has 8 strings: neck 1 has C6 tuning and neck 2 has E13 tuning)
  • Reverend: Jetstream 390

His amplifier and effects are:

  • Mesa Boogie Tremoverb
  • Pedals: Green Delay, distortion, modulation, wah-wah

References

  1. AMG
    . Retrieved May 14, 2010.
  2. ^ "Hip's Gord Downie, activist Sylvia Maracle to be honoured with Indigenous leaders Monday". CBC News. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
  3. ^ "Order of Canada Appointments". Office of the Governor General of Canada. June 15, 2017. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. Hamilton Spectator
    , March 8, 2019.
  5. Kingston Whig-Standard
    . Retrieved December 21, 2017.

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