Robert Sledge
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Robert is the bass player in Ben Folds Five. Also he does backup vocals, and even leads on one song (the cover of Jimi Hendrix's Crosstown Traffic). His voice is more easily distinguished than Ben and Darren's voices. He didn't write many of the songs, but he did bring such things as the Underground 'disco diva' intro.
Here is a picture of Robert:
Name
Date of Birth
Age
Plays
- Hamer Explorer bass on the self-titled album
- Fender Jazz bass on Whatever and Ever Amen
- Emo strings
- Dunlop picks
- Electro-Harmonix Big Muff distortion pedal
- Trace Elliot amp into two stacks of four 12s with an additional 15 inside.
- also does vocals, mainly backing, although he does lead on Ben Folds Five's cover of "Crosstown Traffic" by Jimi Hendrix
- plays piano in the instrumental "For all the Pretty People"
- he plays a synthesiser on many of the tracks from "The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner", including "Narcolepsy", "Your Redneck Past", and others.
- theremin, which is that cool spacey-sound thing he has onstage that everyone always asks about.
Previous/Other
- played in a band called Toxic Popsickle
- does bass and backing vocals on the Gladhands album "La Di Da"
- plays bass for Tom Maxwell, ex-Squirrel Nut Zipper, at Maxwell's live shows
Other Instruments
- drums
- bass
- guitar
- trumpet
- piano
Wrote
- collabarated on
- the Ultimate Sacrifice
- Bad Idea
- Air
- For those of ya'll that wear fannie packs
- Satan is my Master
- Your Most Valuable Possession
Musical training
Other Stuff
- Robert helped to design the cover art for Naked Baby Photos.
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