Rob Stoner

Rob Stoner ( born April 20, 1948 in New York City ) and Robert David Rothstein is an American rock musician, songwriter and music teacher.

Even while Stoner to 1969 attended the Columbia College of his hometown, he was able to conclude a contract with writers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller with his band. In the early 1970s, he was a sought-after session guitarist, bassist and vocalist. One of the most famous pieces in which he is heard, Don McLean's American Pie. With his own rockabilly band "Rockin ' Rob and the Rebels " he took off in 1973 also in their own right for Epic Records. Bob Dylan undertook Stoner in 1975 for the recording of his album Desire and the subsequent two-year Rolling Thunder Revue. Also on Dylan's studio albums biographer and Hard Rain, and the live albums Live At Budokan 1975 and can be heard on bass and Beackgroundgesang Stoner.

Then he brought out on MCA Records and Sun Records two critically acclaimed personal picture albums. In the 1980s and 1990s Stoner remained in demand as a session and live musician whose services, among others, Link Wray, Chuck Berry, Chris Spedding, Ringo Starr, Robert Gordon, Bruce Springsteen, Emmylou Harris, Carl Perkins, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Billy idol, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton and many others use them. He also wrote three musicals, which arrived in New York to the performance.

Today, Rob Stoner lives in Rockland County and are hours in vocals, bass and guitar and teaches songwriting.