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Rob Baker
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| Rob Baker | |
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 Rob Baker performing with Stripper's Union, 2006
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | Bobby Baker |
| Born | April 12, 1962 |
| Origin | Kingston, Ontario, Canada |
| Genre(s) | Rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instrument(s) | Guitar |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Associated acts |
The Tragically Hip Stripper's Union |
Rob Baker (born April 12, 1962 in Kingston, Ontario) is a Canadian guitarist, best known as the lead guitarist for the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip. He has also released an album with the side project Stripper's Union in 2005.
Rob Baker is the son of the late conservative Judge P.E.D. Baker. Baker is a former student of Queen's University where he studied visual art. Later he designed many of the band's t-shirts and album art. Until the Tragically Hip's fifth release, Day for Night, he was credited in the liner notes as Bobby Baker.
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.
Up until the mid-1990s, he used a 1970s burnt umber Fender Stratocaster with an oversized headstock, along with Mesa Boogie amplification. He now uses a variety of guitars such as Paul Reed Smith, Ernie Ball Music Man and Ovation Guitars, as well as a cream coloured Fender Telecaster.
| The Tragically Hip | |
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| Gordon Downie • Paul Langlois • Rob Baker • Gord Sinclair • Johnny Fay | |
| Davis Manning | |
| Discography | |
| Studio albums: Up to Here • Road Apples • Fully Completely • Day for Night • Trouble at the Henhouse • Phantom Power • Music at Work • In Violet Light • In Between Evolution • World Container | |
| EPs: The Tragically Hip EP | |
| Live albums: Live Between Us | |
| Compilation albums: Hipeponymous • Yer Favourites | |
| DVDs: Heksenketel • That Night in Toronto | |
| Collaborators | |
| Managers: (past) Jake Gold • Allan Gregg | |
| Album producers: (partial list) Ken Greer • Chris Tsangarides • Steve Berlin • Hugh Padgham • Adam Kasper • Bob Rock | |
| Members' side projects | |
| Coke Machine Glow • Battle of the Nudes • Stripper's Union • Stripper's Union Local 518 | |
| Related subjects | |
| Another Roadside Attraction • Kingston, Ontario • Canadian rock • Trailer Park Boys • Made in Canada • The Sweet Hereafter | |
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