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| occupation = Musician, singer-songwriter, producer, engineer |
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| genre = [[Folk rock]], [[jam band|jam]], [[Bluegrass music|bluegrass]], [[country rock]], [[jazz]] |
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| years_active = 1980–present |
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'''Rob Eaton''' is an American guitarist. |
'''Rob Eaton''' is an American guitarist. As a musician he is best known for his work with the renowned [[Grateful Dead]] tribute band, [[Dark Star Orchestra]], of which he has been a member since 1999. Before Dark Star Rob was a world class recording engineer/mixer who was a staff engineer at the famed Power Station Studios in NYC from 1983-1999 where he worked with artists like Madonna, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Buffett and many more. He has 3 Grammy Awards for his work with famed guitar player Pat Metheny. He is currently producing new artists on his down time from touring. |
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==Career== |
==Career== |
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Revision as of 14:44, 1 December 2019
Rob Eaton | |
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| Birth name | Robert Eaton |
| Born | Mount Kisco, New York |
| Genres | Folk rock, jam, bluegrass, country rock, jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, singer-songwriter, producer, engineer |
| Instrument(s) | guitar, vocals |
| Years active | 1980–present |
Rob Eaton is an American guitarist. As a musician he is best known for his work with the renowned Grateful Dead tribute band, Dark Star Orchestra, of which he has been a member since 1999. Before Dark Star Rob was a world class recording engineer/mixer who was a staff engineer at the famed Power Station Studios in NYC from 1983-1999 where he worked with artists like Madonna, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Buffett and many more. He has 3 Grammy Awards for his work with famed guitar player Pat Metheny. He is currently producing new artists on his down time from touring.
Career
Rob Eaton grew up in Vermont and was inspired to start playing guitar at the age of 12 after hearing the Grateful Dead's Europe '72. He joined his first band, "The Peyote Ridge," in 1975 which played a combination of originals and Dead covers.
Eaton has been a member of the Grateful Dead community since the 1970s and used to tape shows. This led to him moving to New York in 1980 and getting a job in the recording industry with the Power Station recording studio. Around the same time he began playing with the Dead cover band Border Legion. He continued gigging with them until 2001 when he was offered a permanent position in Dark Star Orchestra, playing the part of Bob Weir.[1] Since then he began putting most of his time into performing with that band as well as his new side project, "American Beauty." He has also produced albums for Pat Metheny and appeared as a guest on other albums such as Peter Wolf's Sleepless.[2]
Betty Cantor-Jackson, a longtime taper of live Grateful Dead shows in the 1970s and early 1980s made high quality reel to reel recordings of many shows. They are colloquially known as Betty Boards as many were direct feeds from the soundboard. Thousands of recodings were sold to three anonymous buyers in 1986 in a storage locker foreclosure auction. In 2014 one of those buyers asked Eaton to begin restoring and digitizing the old, sometimes moldy or disintegrating magnetic tapes. Eaton felt the work so important as, in many cases, these were the best if not the only recordings of the performances. He eventually tracked down and convinced the other two buyers to allow him to do the same [3].
