My name is Roberto Iacovacci, born in Rome in 1977, but most people know me as Rob 'n Roll!

My first instrument was the guitar, and the first time I picked up a guitar in my hands, a friend pointed at me saying that I was wrong because it was upside down - I had no idea it was! So when I decided to buy my first classical guitar, I asked that friend to reverse the string. I have been lucky enough to find another left handed guitar player in my class at school and he sold me my first electric guitar. It was fun to play it but apparently there were too many guitarists in my school (and in the whole Rome) and, apparently again, most of them were better than me. So I decided to buy a bass, since there were very few bassists around: it's been quite hard to find a left handed bass, I visited the best two stores in Rome and could only choose among a too cheap Yamaha, a too expensive Warwick and a mid-price unknown korean brand that sounded good anyway - and that's the one I still have.
One month later a band called me asking if I wanted to join... as second guitarist!

But, six months later, the bassist left and of course I switched to bass, and this is the beginning of the story of my ex band Bubblegum Kiss (the name says it all), a party rock'n'roll band! We recorded a 5 tracks cd in 2001, with a very low budget. We got a lot of (surprisingly) good reviews (some of them are on our "celebrative" myspace: www.myspace.com/bubblegumkissrocks) and sold a lot of copies all over the world - including Japan, there's still some copies left in the Disk Heaven music stores in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya (I've been in Osaka last year for holydays and it was a blast to see my own cd on a shelf, lightyears far away >from Italy!).

For the "usual" reasons, we disbanded a couple of years later, and it took a couple of years for me to find a band worth naming here: in 2005 I got a call from my friends playing in a The Darkness Tribute band (called The Brightness), the first from Italy! We have a long list of shows played in Italy and Europe - highlights were a mini-tour in Holland (including the DarknessRock.nl Anniversary party), the Darkness.it Anniversary party in Milan and the successful Glamshot festival in Bologna. For more info: www.thebrightness.it (it's in italian but you can find an english section) and www.myspace.com/thebrightnessrock

We are on a hiatus at the moment since The Darkness themselves have split. Last but not least, I formed a new rock'n'roll band called The Guestz, featuring some well known musicians in the Rome area (especially guitarist Jonna, a sort of living legend in Rome's rock scene!); we are about to record our first ep, and we play shows regularly - so far we supported german rock band Soul Doctor (featuring Tommy Heart of Fair Warning) and NY guitar virtuoso Adam Bomb (and we'll do it again in October); plus we had the chance to support Rhino Bucket's european tour but unfortunately the whole tour didn't happen; for more info: www.myspace.com/theguestz and www.impossiball.it/guestz for some professional live photo galleries.

There's always more rock'n'roll to come!

Squier Vintage Modified Jazz Bass with Duncan Designed™ Pickups
Bass Collection SB-320 Honeyburst

Mark Bass - Little Mark head + Mark Bass 6x10 cabinet
Behringer BDI 21
Boss LMB-3
Boss TU-2
Boss OD-2r
AKG Wireless system
DR Strings Sunbeam (.45/.105)
Planet Waves Cables
InTuneGP Custom picks