1. Rob Scallon is best known for several viral videos featuring his music, including heavy metal songs played with traditionally non-metal instruments.
17 Facts About Rob Scallon
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Rob Scallon was gifted his first guitar, a nylon-string classical, from his friend's father.
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Rob Scallon used it to write his first solo songs, and it was featured in many of his early videos.
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Rob Scallon began uploading to YouTube in February 2007, and began to develop a following in 2008.
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Rob Scallon's popularity launched as he began to cover metal songs with folk and country instruments.
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Rob Scallon's videos have featured collaborations with Andrew Huang, Boyinaband, Davie504, Doug Walker, Jared Dines, Leo Moracchioli, Mary Spender, Sarah Longfield, Michael Angelo Batio, and Alex Rudinger.
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Rob Scallon is part of two collaborative projects with Andrew Huang.
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Rob Scallon's releases have featured instrumentalists such as Jeff Loomis, Rabea Massaad, Ola Englund, and Pete Cottrell.
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Rob Scallon plays drums in the band Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers, and their debut album Incongruent peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Comedy Albums chart in 2014.
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Rob Scallon released a signature series of guitars with Chapman Guitars in 2017.
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In 2022, Rob Scallon ended his partnership with Chapman and launched a new line of guitars with Schecter.
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On January 1,2021, Rob Scallon launched GuitarQuest, a paid online course to teach people how to play guitar.
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On September 26,2024, Rob Scallon released Crowded Rooms, an album mixing heavy metal and Midwest emo.
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On June 10,2023, Rob Scallon announced that he has been working in partnership with Ritual Studios development studio to produce a pixel-art adventure video game called Fretless: The Wrath of Riffson.
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Rob Scallon left his instruments behind for Rob when leaving for college.
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Rob Scallon began dating actress, comedian, and YouTuber Tamara Chambers in 2012.
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In July 2024, Rob Scallon uploaded a video confirming that he suffers from bipolar I disorder, having been diagnosed with it the previous year.