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Rob Kleiner and the Satanics
6+ albums
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Album Prologue By Literary Author Adam Houghtaling I've known Rob for roughly 12 years now. Most of that time has been spent playing video games, eating, arguing, repeating lines from Glengarry Glen Ross, and generally just using one another's failures and embarrassments for amusement. Around 1999 ("What's an iPod?")—while Rob was listening almost exclusively to Serge Gainsbourgh and my CD player had Odessey & Oracle on infinite repeat—we actually collaborated when he produced some of my plodding Smog-meets-Galaxy 500 material, which he took from its choppy, miserable beginnings and made… well… musical. I never did anything with them… though looking back I certainly should have. We actually have a tentative plan to work together again soon and one of the reasons I've decided to take another swing at my songs has a lot to do with Rob's nature: I'd likely never say this to his face, but Rob's dogged work ethic and laser-like focus are nothing less than extraordinary and is… as schmaltzy as it sounds… inspirational. In the past year alone his band Tub Ring released their most ambitious album to date, Secret Handshakes (he also produced); another one of his groups, the Super 8 Bit Brothers, released a couple singles and a video; he co-wrote and co-produced the song "What Part of Forever," which was performed by Cee-Lo Green on the Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtrack; he composed the soundtracks to two films, one of which included his first symphony; played over 50 gigs across
